Help me pick out a new game or two

[Dark Jaguar]

It's more like "I am sticking with the PC game definition of the genre and think that the console one is wrong". The same applies to "adventure" games, a debate we have had here before... (adventure game means graphic/text adventure, not action/adventure like Tomb Raider or Zelda-style game!)

Part of it is also 'genre creep'... if TBSes are RPGs, what next? Next adventure games are RPGs too? I just find it annoying when people start talking about RPGs and then strategy games, some action games or platformers, etc, etc all get dragged in as if they were all RPGs, while a lot of them really aren't...

They are tactics/tactical combat games and TBSes, not SRPGs. :)

Slippery slope fallacy? Do you really think anyone's going to end up calling Mortal Kombat a puzzler, ever? We'll always have distinct catagories. Languages change over time, it happens. I don't think you actually have to worry about everything blending into a single genre. New terms will come out to take up the slack perhaps, like the innane "shmup" for example (used to just call them action games actually, then it was subdivided out of the rest of them).