But tehn again : WHAT exactly IS a classic rpg ? Who can describe that ?
My opinion is relatively simple : It depends on the generation.
The gaming generation that began with gaming within the last 10 years have seen nothing but Action-RPGs. "Old school"-RPGs have become more and more rare.
And to this younger generation, Action-RPGs indeed imho ARE "classics".
They will feel disturbed if a game does NOT play like with the mechnics they have learned from Action-RPGs ! - Like that moron who destroed his own game by playing Drakensang 2 as an Action-RPG and then whining about it in the forums how BAD this game was !!! (Maxing out everything combat-related, determinded to hack & slash his way through the game ... At first I couldn't believe it !)
