/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3099670
Did you completely miss the point that badly?

>gets more powerful
>does not require xp

Of course there are games where you get more powerful in ways other than gaining XP. It's when one of the main ways your character gets more power is by the number of enemies you have killed that it changes gameplay.

It's that interaction that has become one of the defining characteristics of the video game RPG genre.

>worse, definitely. you proved it nicely

And this is why genres are useful. Even though you may like tabletop roleplaying games, the video game "RPG" genre clearly doesn't appeal to you. So on almost any game, you can bet that if it's listed as an RPG it will have an XP based leveling system and you probably don't want to waste your time with it.

That "RPG" is a poor descriptor for the genre is just par for the course. "Puzzle" is a pretty poor descriptor for Tetris as well. Same with Shmup/ shoot 'em up which refers to a very specific kind of game, despite the actual name fitting far more types of games.