This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
BT The P: Thanks for picking this one up, unidentified individual. I linked the phrase in the buffs page intending to write it that night, but this is almost exactly what I would have said if I had not blown it off to sleep. Kudos.
Eric DVH: Removed TES: Oblivion, since it's actually marketed as an RPG, its listing here is just blatant criticism. While I've never played any TES games (and generally dislike actual 1st-person RPGs in the first place, although good FP Ss with RPG elements like DX and SS are great), I'm pretty horrified at what they're doing to poor Fallout, but we should stick to above-the-belt blows here.
Rebochan: I took off the spoiler tag on Dark Link. It's just not a spoiler more than 20 years after the fact, especially when its been referenced for 20 years after the fact with no spoilers whatsoever.
Should Fire Emblem be on this list at all? It's usually listed under the Strategy/Tactical RPG subgenre, more than Turn Based Strategy.
Eric DVH: Removed the following. Deus Ex was already mentioned higher up, and as the entry says, those two Shadow Run games are Action RPGs, so they don't belong here:
- Deus Ex is quite hard to classify. It plays like a FPS with RPG and Adventure Game elements thrown in, but is defined as an "RPG from an FPS perspective"
- The Shadowrun games for the Sega Genesis and SNES were both realtime RPG games, where certain actions gave the player karma points to be spent on improving the character's skills and physical ability.
slb: Removed the following from the Warcraft III section for Justifying Edit. I decided not to delete the second Warcraft III sub-section since it gave a look into the game's development, but it was just a judgment call.
- Though, admittedly, Blizzard noted that they couldn't figure out a way to work the Orcs into the main storyline of the expansion.
