Originally Posted by Wormerine
Scratched games that I would personally not consider an RPG.

Underlined what I would consider hybrids - games that adopted some aspects of RPG, but do/focus on something else. Like Mass Effect has some light RPG stuff, but is mostly clunky space gears of war (especially starting with ME2). Diablo is lazer focused on one specific aspect of D&D - loot aquisition and progression.

I didn't play Inquisition so can't comment on it.

Two that I would feel comfortable discussing as RPGs:
KOTOR1&2 were stripped down Baldur's Gates for consoles.
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is what I would consider a very solid RPG pick, and ideed doesn't have neither. Personally, I am not as fond of it as other people are but it is a good game nonetheless. An example, of an RPG that doesn't have neither and is still good.

You could have added that diablo 2 has a D/N cycle.
That many creatures respawn in DA:I (somewhere between time flow and random encounter).
That the Mass Effect Trilogy is full of "random events" (not ideal exemples but not totally off topic).

Being immersed in living worlds without even realizing it !
Good job !

Last edited by Maximuuus; 01/06/22 06:12 PM.

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