I got my Saturn on the Christmas of 96... I asked for it over the Playstation, not because I was a Sega fanboy (I wasn't) but I didn't have faith in Sony at the time. I expected the Playstation to go out like the Jaguar and 3D0... I also wanted the three games that came with the Saturn... then a few months later FF7 was announced for the Playstation... before the generation was over, I still bought over 30 Saturn games, and had a blast with the system, so it wasn't a total loss.
It has terrible graphics (and terrible camera control) but gameplay wise, it's barely any differnet than Dark Alliance, Champions of Norrath, or X-Men Legends games.. if you enjoy those games, then it's worth checking out...
You're comparing two different styles of gameplay with each other. That is what you're missing with this arguement. There is more to RPGs than PC RPGs or Pen & Paper RPGs. Is Phantasy Star Online no longer an RPG because you have no effect on the NPC and enemies are pre-determined? You think RPGs have to play ONE way.
You sound like a History Revisionist to me. Did you live through the actual history or not? That's why I want to know your age. Are you old enough to remember any of this: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?publicUserId=5807694&bId=8965913
What makes a Zelda game an RPG is non-linearity, character growth, skill building, etc. I'm not saying it's deep. RPGs have progressed beyond the D&D rules. Just because games like WOW, Oblivion and Fallout are hot now doesn't dismiss ****c and important games like Zelda
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His age is irrelevant, he is obviously old enough to know what an RPG is. Zelda is an Action adventure game with slight RPG elements. Like I said before, if you would look at everyone's zelda saved files you would see the EXACT SAME THING, there is no actual role playing.
Age has everything to do with it because within the last, oh, 9 years Zelda went from the king of "Action RPGs", where every Action RPG was compared to Zelda or deemed a "Zelda clone" to being a "Action / Adventure" game. Because of his age (and probably yours), he has been conditioned into thinking Zelda as an Action / Adventure game. You guys are being history revisionists.
and so what if your experience is the same as everyone elses in a Zelda game? I can name 1,000s of RPGs where you have the same exact experience. Oblivion and Fallout 3 are NOT the de facto standard to RPGs.
What does age have to do with anything? A role-playing game is where you can mold the game world around your own personal character which you can specify traits and personalities. Zelda is an action adventure, every time you go through the game the experience is exactly the same, all the enemies are in the same places, all the bosses and dungeons are the same layouts, and the story concludes in the exact same way every time.
The best example of a "role-playing" would be the PnP version of Dungeons & Dragons, where the world and everything in it is entirely customizable and up to those playing. It is only limited by the players imaginations.
You sound like a History Revisionist to me. Did you live through the actual history or not? That's why I want to know your age. Are you old enough to remember any of this: http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?publicUserId=5807694&bId=8965913
What makes a Zelda game an RPG is non-linearity, character growth, skill building, etc. I'm not saying it's deep. RPGs have progressed beyond the D&D rules. Just because games like WOW, Oblivion and Fallout are hot now doesn't dismiss ****c and important games like Zelda
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