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Syrc@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠agoI can imagine not considering the first Dragon Quest an RPG would create a lot of discussion, I canât really speak for that since I havenât played it but I guess some of the âcanonsâ mustâve been missing since it used a password system.
Would Dark Souls count as an RPG in your definition? Thereâs no definite classes but youâre definitely shaping up your character to be a Warrior, Mage, and so on.
orphiebaby@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
I added Dark Souls into the list before I saw this comment. Because usually when I talk about this subject I list it. I try to use variety in my examples, but I just forgot for a moment about listing Dark Souls ^^
Syrc@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh lol. Then yeah, I think we pretty much agree.
What about Roguelikes? Wikipedia lists it as a subgenre of RPGs but Iâm not sure if Iâd consider them as such.
orphiebaby@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wikipedia is written by humans, a.k.a. non-objective people, which is why they call it âduodecimal countingâ instead of âdozenal countingâ and used to have Talk wars on that page about it. The irrational side won.
If a game has classes like I said before, then itâs a class-playing game, a.k.a. RPG. Something can be a roguelike but not an RPG. Also âroguelikeâ is a pretty dumb name for a genre and itself causes a lot of problems, but I digress.
Syrc@lemmy.world â¨10⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs just one of many genres/subgenres that has one groundbreaking game/saga as origin and all the games that took inspiration from it, like Metroidvania or Soulslike. Just creating a new term for each of them would make initial discussions much weirder, although it would probably be clearer later on (nowadays most people that know what a Roguelike is donât even know âRogueâ is an actual game)