The first part is far more important on games like Diablo or Morrowind, while the second part is propably more impotant on Dark Souls or The WItcher 2 and 3(as long as you fight enemies appropriate to your level). The amount of how big of an impact your stats, your build and your strategic aproach on how to use these against any enemy(RPG elements) have compared to your real time manual control of the character(Action elements), vary from game to game labeled as Action RPG.

Then we have all the other games that were clasified as Clasic RPGs, like Bladur's Gate, Icewind Dale etc, which were not turn based, but since you could you the pause button to make decisions and you manual, real time actions were not as important they did qualify alot.Īction RPG keep the elements that you play a role, and you 'build' your character according to your liking, but the actual combat resembles that of an Action Game, where you manual control of the character plays an important role on wether you will succeed or not.

A turn based game does not need a strong computer at all, that's why we have had so many good RPGs in the 90s and early 2000s. On the contrary, an RPG cannot get any more clasic than being turn based, like Pen and Paper CLASIC RPGs. I find Maerds arguments to be weak from start to finish, starting with the weak computers argument. You just cannot change his appearance and a background. In TW3 you can customize Geralt into caster, alchemist, swordsman, and anything in between, you can roleplay his involvement in the world. Protagonist in DS does NOT have a CHARACTER. This is why DS are the action games with RPG elements (customization of your doll). What part of ROLE-PLAYING you cannot understand? In DS games you don't play any role, you just check your reflexes. You pick one or a group in the beginning and they are all the same till the end.īullshit. Oh, really? I've never played a game where your character could become a different character in the process of the game. Like the gear box in the car helps us to increase or decrease speed of the car smoothly but the gear box by itself is not a car.

Therefore, role-playing system is a service tool just helping to resolve ROLE-PLAYING situations but doesn't define RPG. you say that you can persuade this person to do your bidding and we, therefore, need a mechanics to find it out. Role-playing system just helps the game master (or computer) to formalize mechanics to describe a CHARACTER by numerical values and provide CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS, i.e.

Dark souls 3 vs witcher 3