Adventure Genre

[Jin]

You shouldn't ask that question. You'll get a response along the lines of "A game in which you play the role of someone," which will then lead into the ridiculous "isn't every game an RPG?" debate and then the thread's lost.

Instead of trying to figure out what "role playing game" means, people try to define it by figuring out what "role," "playing," and "game," mean and then see what definition they get when they combine all three together. This is a faulty way to deal with semantics of course, as it completely ignores that the words combined together are not the sum of their parts and that the term itself has a history which cannot be determined just by looking at its parts, but trying telling them that.

[Zargabaath]

You shouldn't ask that question. You'll get a response along the lines of "A game in which you play the role of someone," which will then lead into the ridiculous "isn't every game an RPG?" debate and then the thread's lost.

Instead of trying to figure out what "role playing game" means, people try to define it by figuring out what "role," "playing," and "game," mean and then see what definition they get when they combine all three together. This is a faulty way to deal with semantics of course, as it completely ignores that the words combined together are not the sum of their parts and that the term itself has a history which cannot be determined just by looking at its parts, but trying telling them that.

Well, I did say in the other thread that it appeared to me that people think just taking the "role" of Snake, Link, Mario, Kratos, Sam Fisher, etc. is what qualifies as a RPG. I then said that, that "idea" of a RPG is not what constitutes as a RPG and that they need to learn what actually is a RPG.