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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9582839" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, you can be wrong if you like but you're still wrong.That is not how CRPG is used today, nor how it's been used for over a decade at this point.This is correct, though the distinction between ARPG and Action RPG is clumsily used. Specifically ARPG stands for Action RPG, and whilst it more traditionally refers specifically to Diablo-inspired looter games, it's sometimes used for stuff like Elden Ring just to shorten &quot;Action RPG&quot;. Also just &quot;RPG&quot; is often used for things like Elden Ring, Mass Effect, Witcher and so on.Note there's also SRPG and TRPG or &quot;tactics RPG&quot;, all three of which refer to basically same subset of games - Final Fantasy Tactics, Fire Emblem, Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre, Triangle Strategy, etc. - largely to mostly-Japanese RPGs focused on strategy/tactics and often on battlefields (or at least fairly large combat areas) rather than a single party progressing through a dungeon. There are some Western examples like Fallout: Tactics or Fell Seal.Re: TTRPG, as you point out, it's been used for quite a long time, but it really took off in usage after 5E became a big hit - i.e. not in 2014/2015, but when it went bigger than that, and a lot of people who'd never played a TTRPG before, but had played videogames that were RPGs were needing to explain/differentiate it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9582839, member: 18"] I mean, you can be wrong if you like but you're still wrong. That is not how CRPG is used today, nor how it's been used for over a decade at this point. This is correct, though the distinction between ARPG and Action RPG is clumsily used. Specifically ARPG stands for Action RPG, and whilst it more traditionally refers specifically to Diablo-inspired looter games, it's sometimes used for stuff like Elden Ring just to shorten "Action RPG". Also just "RPG" is often used for things like Elden Ring, Mass Effect, Witcher and so on. Note there's also SRPG and TRPG or "tactics RPG", all three of which refer to basically same subset of games - Final Fantasy Tactics, Fire Emblem, Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre, Triangle Strategy, etc. - largely to mostly-Japanese RPGs focused on strategy/tactics and often on battlefields (or at least fairly large combat areas) rather than a single party progressing through a dungeon. There are some Western examples like Fallout: Tactics or Fell Seal. Re: TTRPG, as you point out, it's been used for quite a long time, but it really took off in usage after 5E became a big hit - i.e. not in 2014/2015, but when it went bigger than that, and a lot of people who'd never played a TTRPG before, but had played videogames that were RPGs were needing to explain/differentiate it. [/QUOTE]

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