What's an adventure? What's a Quest?

[Private Hudson]

Originally posted by A Black Falcon
I'll take that Squaresoft comment as a joke... it looks like one.
Why RPG? Well, Zelda isn't an action-adventure... its more than that. The gameplay style is VERY different from most games that you think of as Action-Adventure (namely 3d Tomb Raider-type action-adventure games, mostly), so its got to have more to it than that... and it has RPG influence. Quests (Link does FedEx quests just like any good RPG hero), story, gameplay style (you don't exactly 'level up', but sorta do when you get more hearts and items as you complete dungeons)... its more than just a Action-Adventure, and RPG is really the only genre that would fit (and, IMO, it does... even if Zelda has little in common with standard RPGs. RPG isn't a static genre after all... it includes everything from Final Fantasy to Diablo...)

Zelda is an action adventure just like Tomb Raider is. Only a more advanced form. The possible difference being the upgrade system, and the talking to numerous townsfolk. But the interaction with people is hardly an RPG exclusive system, and the health upgrade is hardly that of Experience points. It's more akin to buying an upgrade in armor, as you don't really 'level up'.

Like I said, these are INCREDIBLY light RPG elements that are so diluted it's not even worth mentioning that the game is an Action/Adventure/RPG.

Oh, and Diablo is an Action/RPG :p Although it could be argued that it is more of a traditional RPG than the standard Japanese RPG that we have become associated with. After all, you actually get to CHOOSE your role, not to mention have full control over the customisation of your character, whereas Japanese RPG's have kind of forsaken these traditional styles in the name of storyline (instead of choosing your characters, you are given them through storyline), and fun (I still prefer Materia/Sphere/Item based magic/levelling systems over that found in PC RPG's).

And no, DJ, I was not attacking Zelda 2.. you twit.