Okay, I understand what you mean Kein
Thank for the reply about what YOU find a real RPG and now I full understand you love such a game IF you have (the feeling) you can make many different chooices that have "indelible impacts" in the future of your hero's life.
Okay, I can indeed put this "feature" into
my list of all the
possibilities for being a RPG:
6) my hero can make chooices of indelible impact for the rest of his role playing life !
Of course, there're more elements that can make that a game IS some kind of RPG ! (but mostly with elements of other genres!)
And Kein, IF a game have ONLY 1 or 2 from the RPG elements I sum up, sure I find it NOT good enough for me to buy it (because I mostly love RPG's to buy and play!!) !
Like you said:
If only weapons and armor can be found and switched to, but NO other RPG elements that game give, I never buy it! ONLY 1 or 2 features are simply not good enough for me! It's the commination of a few rpg elements together that can take enough my attention to buy such a game
For example :
if a game have skills, quests, some weapons and gear and a story, but furthermore not that really much of rpg-elements, but it have many
puzzles to solve too, sure that game take my attention because I love it to puzzle in games, it's one of my favorite genres (adventures games) beside rpg's and some strategy - elements
.
And that's why I find Divinity II for ME more than good enough to be a very strong RPG !
Maybe one day I buy Dragon Age and try it (on xbox) ... maybe I understand you even better Kein
