[quote=SorcererVictor]
Then the question is what defines an adventure level for you? Is it story and location or enemies?
The threats that you need to face if we are talking about combat...
And the same is true for RPGs - you start as a child, at level 0, in the countryside. Your village is threatened when a big nautiloid falls out of the sky. People emerge from it who claim to have been abducted. But some of them act strange and ally with Goblins to attack the villagers.
That is the most boring place to start an RPG.; Remembers me of the "every JRPG ever" from college humor. On Dark Sun : Shattered Sands, you start as a gladiator slave in a arena. On Baldur's Gate 1, you start in the candlekeep. On VtMB you start in a motel room being "sired" aka made into a vampire. On icewind dale, you start in a city investigating a "expedition". On Gothic 1, you start being send to a penal colony. On Dragon Age Origins, you start depend on your background. On FL1, you start in a vault.
As for your FPS example, on a lot of games, you start with a full arsenal. On Battlefield 1 for eg, you can start playing with LMG's and if you decide to play as a recon, you can use a fully powered scoped rifle which was very rare on WW1 times and even use K-Bullets to pierce vehicles armor.
