Dude, you literally are fighting with the objective reality.
Mass Effect clearly had RPG DNA in it, that's the fact.
I actually played Mass affect...and thats a load of dog shit. Theres like 6 choices that are completely irrelevant and some minor stat allocation. NO.
Dude go back before mass affect and try to find a game labeled as an RPG before they did EXACTLY what your doing and used the "definitions" of the genre to add the tags...which is exactly what Mass Genre did.
No matter WHAT genre you went into a store and asked for, they'd recommend that fucking game under all of them. Unless you maybe went looking for something under the 2D categories lmao.
...and next you'll say what?
That The Witcher isn't an RPG? Or CP2077?
Witcher is indeed an RPG...a good one at that (at least the newest with controller support lol), Cyberpunk I've never even looked at due to the disastrous launch but I'm well aware its not porn lol. That game I have no comment on but it looks like a shooter to me too
RPGs are Role-Playing-Games where you get absorbed into the lore and play the role of a hero or villain and 'usually' save or destroy the world or universe, Tales, Trails, YS, FF, Dragon Warrior/Quest, Destiny of an Emperor, hell pokemon is a fucking RPG, even Dragonball had a few RPG classified games albeit loosely. I'd say fucking Castlevania LOS may even classify as an RPG or DMC before those games, and neither is an RPG, they are action games, beat'em up, probably 22 other genre's today, but they are not fucking RPGs and they have more of the qualifications than Mass Effect did.
Dude, you don't buy an RPG and get a fucking GUN sold to you
Not before they started cheating genres, lay off the wiki.
Young people
I'd understand if you'd say that DMC isn't an RPG ('cause it had a level-up future for weapons, but it's not leveling up with the XP and only with souls, which's more like some store where you're buying stuff, not an RPG), but Mass Effect...dude.
No further comment lol.
EDIT:
I'm going to make this simple...is it stupidly classified as an RPG these days? Yes, it is.
Is it really what you intend to buy if you go to purchase an actual RPG game? no fucking way in hell.
and gonna go sleep like a cat
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