/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5593767
It has no stats or experience when fighting monsters. It seems trivial, but character growth through combat and the player's ability to strategically alter that growth in some way is the real core gameplay element that the called RPGs took from tabletop games. In most games (especially then) an enemy is just an obstacle that you have to get through either by avoiding or attacking. In an RPG however engaging enemies is how you progress and be able to fight bigger enemies later on. It gives rise to a risk reward system of engaging enemies even though it's dangerous. The player having control over some elements of that growth is usually very important as well since that's the basis of the RPG tabletop games they're replicating.

Now Adventure games and RPGs do have similar elements because they're both interpretations of tabletop games. But where as RPGs take the combat mechanics and growth, Adventure games focused more on the adventure aspect. Talking to people to get clues about puzzles and using items to solve them.

That's why when you look at Zelda, which is at it's base an action game but it has Adventure and RPG inspiration. But when you look at it's structure and gameplay elements they're all much more close to Adventure games than RPGs. And that's why even though Nintendo themselves put "RPG" on the box, the world at large labeled it an Action-Adventure because it's clearly the best description of it's gameplay. And that's the whole point of a genre label, to describe the kind of gameplay something has.

Also note that like many such as fighter/beat em up, the actual names are pretty arbitrary and could be swapped and still make as much sense. But it is what it is.

>>5550623
What baffles me about these threads is why is OP so invested in LoZ being lumped in with RPGs when the gameplay has almost nothing in common with actual games of the type. Does he want to say he plays RPGs hoping for some kind of internet street cred? Is he insecure about the action adventure genre? Is he legitimately too stupid to tell the difference? Is it all just a long game troll? He puts a ton of effort into these and it's hard to tell why.