Adventure Genre

[Zargabaath]

Wikipedia for gaming knowledge? *shudders*.
But that said, I clicked your link anyway and the first part of the article linked has this to say:

Well, to be honest Wikipedia has fairly accurate information regarding video games and their articles are strung with citations or sometimes "Citation Needed"; wikipedia isn't all that bad. Now, on to the matter at hand: Ashelia used Wiki as her source so I decided to counter with Wiki myself.

But let me end this little conversation with your pal, wikipedia. When a person goes to the Legend of Zelda (series) page The Legend of Zelda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia you will see that the series is defined as action-adventure. Now it does go on to say it has some elements of role-playing but they are not enough to call the series an Action-Adventrue RPG. And probably the only reason why they say it has RPG elements is because of one game: Zelda II The Adventure of Link, which is the only Zelda game that wikipedia has as an Action Role-Playing game. All the other Zelda games are listed as Action-Adventure. The End.

You will see, if you read, that I did mention that the article did say that it had elements from many genres one of them being role-playing. The amount of role-playing though is very minimal. If your read/comprehended what I wrote right afterwards that the only game listed as being part RPG is Zelda II which is called an Action-Role Playing. All the other Zelda games have Action-Adventure as their "genre(s)". Therefore it would only be appropriate to call Zelda II an RPG but not any of the other games or the series as a whole.

And I mean even if the character progression isn't as simple as killing x enemies to allocate y amount of points to stats, you can still get equipment that makes your character stronger and there's often an ability to increase health/magic through various means as well as increasing the amount of an item or even upgrading an item to make your character more powerful.

Yeah, so Shadow of the Colosus has a good claim to being called an RPG too? Because, ya know, you stab lizards, eat their tales, gain some "endurance"; then, ya shoot fruit down with ya arrows and gain some health. Oh, don't forget that each time you defeat a boss your endurance & health paramters increase. Yeaaaaaah, no. Sorry. It has some elements of a RPG, but Shadow of the Colossus and Zelda (except for one game) aren't RPGs - they're action-adventure.


P.S. Wikipedia also has Action-Adventure for the "genre(s)" for Shadow of the Colossus. Gamespot has Shadow of the Colossus and most of the Zelda series as "Fantasy Action-Adventure".