"It's a really nice touch and reflects very well for the direction Ubisoft is going if they're trying to tackle this as an RPG with real consequences."
"A great RPG ends up being an amalgamation of many features that translate into an experience that allows you to choose a certain role in a world to play and does it well."
"The game has a bunch of brand new RPG elements in the mix."
"Player freedom and choice is incredibly important to us, and we think it is vitally important to a good Fallout game."
"I think we want to find a middle ground... where we can still have that core RPG element of permanent advancement of your character."
"This game's got its charms with the RPG elements."
"We've taken elements from things like Forza Motorsport 3 and 4 and genre-blended it with RPG progression."
"Traits were the spiciest part of character creation."
"I couldn't have taken on the hidden deadbeard boss or survive the fusion dragon without some seriously impressive gin manipulation."
"The iconic Hyde Park gig... was aware that something amazing had just happened."
"Duelists of the Roses yeah now this is what I call more of a step in the right direction at least for me not only did the game include more monsters but also expand upon the gameplay in unique way with a technical RPG mindset put into it."
"At times it reminded me more of an immersive sim than a traditional RPG - as you start turning robots against their owners and skulking through air vents it has more in common with Deus Ex."
"A combination of a classic RPG, a champion collecting game, and a beautiful painting all into one thing."
"It's the strategic side after all. Good action combat is rare outside of very action-focused genres, but an RPG should be able to make up for this by providing greater strategic depth."
"Expect classless character progression, ship customization, space and grounded combat, and uncovering of ancient secrets."
"Final Fantasy VII Rebirth embraces the concept of free exploration with compelling stories, mini-games, and powerful monsters."
"The skill tree of part one was in the weapons, but now a character is going to have their own unique sphere grid or skill tree."
"Parasite Eve 2: an exceptional survival horror game with a sprinkling of RPG elements for good measure."
"There's something good about [fetch quests], which is that they are incredibly easy production-wise."
"It's just giving players what they want: choices, consequences, Freedom."
"A game where you level up different characters, create builds, and obtain equipment to become more powerful."
"Symphony of the Night also brought RPG elements to the metroidvania formula via character stats."
"Earthbound gets right is fixing the common problem of too many random battles."
"If you have both a legendary cloak and the garish weapon... you're just going to tear through the leveling content."
"Every character has tons of different skill lines and passives they can choose to invest in and create a truly unique character to play around as."
"Fire-related perks make our fire spells burn, reduce fire resistance, and even ignite targets."
"It's got aspects of a tactical card battler, it's got kind of a combo based system, it's got RPG elements in there like equipment and stats."
"The units and abilities of your armies reflect your decisions. What your forces look like can vary wildly between playthroughs."
"There's a lot to think about when battling every enemy. Like typical JRPGs, you can upgrade your party members and customize their gear and weapons."
"Curse on hit rings can drop for example despair on hit rings without being influenced."
"In Fallout 4, there are so many perks where there are four or five tiers that you have to take just to be able to fight on a solid footing with enemies at later levels."
"Yakuza: Like a Dragon is a proper Yakuza game with a Dragon Quest-inspired twist."
"That RPG system really does help even if not all the quests are amazing but to me the one thing I can say that was really profoundly impactful through playing this entire title is I never actually got bored"
"We wanted to make it so you have your life path opportunities throughout the whole game."
"Fallout New Vegas combines the best of the Bethesda era of the games with everything that came before."
"An RPG with 108 characters. I love it. Run with it."
"The flawed RPG approach to human development."
"Side quests become this omnipresent concept that you can't make an RPG without anymore."
"The entire point of this is to turn World of Warcraft into an immersive action RPG."
"What's a good RPG without a progression system? Hogwarts Legacy promises a few, and I think they're going to play a massive role in how effective we are during some of the most chaotic moments of the game."
"It's an extreme sports game but it's so much more. It's an adventure RPG with skill-based gameplay and an engaging story."
"The game had a few good perks to it: customizable weapons, beautiful CG cutscenes, a pretty unique storyline for an RPG at the time."
"This game is actually a remarkably well put together RPG that has a lot of interesting little mechanics."
"It's like a Final Fantasy game with the RPG, it's like I swear to God a bunch of gamers are about to punch me in my face."
"Tied as the game's fastest job, excluding Beastmaster, the Thief stands on two solid pillars of stealing MP and spamming among the game's strongest single target attacks, Godspeed Strike."
"Let's jump over here into the classes...and we're gonna select Barbarian at level one."
"You're gonna get to have almost RPG-like effect on these characters and on who you choose to align with."
"Genshin Impact is by far the latest and greatest craze right now, a Breath of the Wild-like RPG that blitzes the competition with its graphics and gameplay."
"Your ascendancy choice is not permanent and can be changed if you wish."
"Mario Golf and Tennis on Game Boy: RPG modes and nostalgia."
"What makes RPGs fun: leveling up, rewards, and gold."
"In the most plainest sense, Deus Ex is a first-person adventure game with stealth RPG and shooter elements."
"The fact you can just kill somebody outside of town for whatever reason is definitely very cool feeling that you don't get a lot of in RPGs."
"I like that thought. Let's throw everything into here other than Prod 7 and put the Prod 7 on our leggings."
"They could take this style of game and again do either of those things, either go all in on the ARPG aspects or make a full-blown RPG out of it."
"Attack skills are all about scaling your weapon, while spell gems scale from the gem itself, your skill tree, and there are stats that increase the gem level."
"Dark knights could use absorb hp, which would see hp drained when landing attacks, and final thrust, which increased its chance of success."
"Character customization... we want people to build their own identities."
"RPG elements and then in the same place space the same campaigns we're going to be able to roam around and servers like in Destiny with twenty thirty other players."
"It's a cooperative shooter RPG, a little bit of a cover based, a little bit of high-mobility RPG, and a lot of awesome combat and gun feel."
"For sure, having a much more action RPG-oriented game also made sense. So it was more like the stars who are aligning on that idea."
"Exploring for upgrades, getting stronger and stronger while doing so thanks to the RPG elements."
"Triangle Strategy had some of the most poignant and relatable themes of any RPG I've played."
"Life steal to work, guys, I have one more slot flat sword."
"Mahokanshi has you playing as a samurai mage in an adventure tactics game with some light RPG mechanics."
"Every new party member acquired didn't just mean one more list of abilities to choose from every new party member meant more pet powers more equipment to forge more synergies to uncover and more skill points to spend."
"The Lost Child captures the charm that made the Devil Summoner game so great."
"When you equip the Warfare vocation, you're going to see that you have access to every weapon skill in the game."
"More loot, including this reflection necklace that accumulates charges."
"Sea of Stars through and through is one of the greatest games that I've ever completed."
"Paper Mario 64: A great RPG with a Mario cast and some really neat ideas around the paper theme."
"Octopath Traveler is more than its art style, it's a love letter to everything players love about the role-playing genre."
"This system has essentially let us add hundreds of powerful new notable passives that you can access from all over the tree."
"As long as you take one step forward, that's a step in the right direction."
"So for me on the whole, if we could just end up with the Azeroth plot being more important, more RPG mechanics, a different feeling world with a bit more in the way of story content, I think that could be a great thing."
"Symphony of the Night doesn't just copy Metroid whole-hog... its greatest contribution to the metroidvania formula is its RPG elements."
"The Stick of Truth is what happens when you take classic RPG mechanics tweaked a bit for the sake of accessibility."
"We still think of Cyberpunk as a true and proper RPG and we actually want to show that a lot."
"Can we infuse, like, a strategic component into our action RPG mix?"
"There are a bunch of fun ways to play this RPG including campaign, giant boss fights, and PvP battles."
"Kazuha is one of the strongest characters in all of genshin impact."
"Even if they just had something such as Choice consequence... would have satisfied a lot of RPG lovers."
"You can choose to go for a min/max stat build for hyper-specialization but you could also do a generalist playthrough."
"It feels a bit more like an RPG, you've got this open world, they have the watchtowers."
"Sonic Battle is like a fighting RPG game, and you can't go wrong with that."
"As long as your characters have an arc and character change, that to me is the most absolute important thing about an RPG."
"The amount of choices that we have makes this RPG stand out."
"It feels like more immersive this system of armoring is, it feels more exciting when you track down a matching piece of the set that you've been slowly assembling."
"2k22 had the best story mode in 2k history and it was carried heavily by the surprisingly good RPG."
"The only thing it's missing now is RPG mechanics and it really will be the most generic [ __ ] game ever made."
"Character progression includes over 15 disciplines and 300 skills."
"Golden Sun is a game that expands on proven traditions of the RPG genre to deliver an experience that both pays tribute to and refines the formula."
"This is kind of World of Warcraft playing less like WoW and more like an action RPG."
"A reactive world is something a lot of us love from RPGs."
"Elden Ring features both asynchronous and direct multiplayer elements."
"It also has all the features that you'd expect from a brand new RPG type: amazing storyline, awesome 3D graphics, giant boss fights, PvP battles, and hundreds of champions to collect."
"It's like the Deathcap for mages. When you see it, you know they're actually strong."
"Enter Ring Fit Adventure, a fitness based game that aims to make exercising fun by combining a diverse array of exercises with the trappings of an action RPG."
"By crafting an RPG-like experience around fitness, you’re rewarded constantly with gains--both virtually in the form of XP and story progress, but also, in reality."
"All your favorite builds from previous ARPG titles, they're here on one of these characters somewhere."
"Calling Starfield an RPG feels generous, and the number of narrative choices you get to make are pretty slim."
"Not to mention just some good old from soft RPG stuff with unique character builds."
"I would say the best part about completing this quest is that you can get Silver Shroud dialogue options."
"Nothing since Morrowind has had the real crpg feel."
"Once the Player Characters all regroup, it saves us all the time of the PCs catching each other up on what all it was that they did."
"If you like board games and if you like zombies and if you like light RPG and camp building mechanics and you like building a mercenary company, you'll probably have a good time with this one."
"Neo is such an interesting title because... it's this really great mix of souls like and Diablo systems."
"Batsugun: a bullet hell game with unique RPG-esque elements."
"AFK Journey isn't your run-of-the-mill idle RPG, it's packed with innovative new features."
"Red Mage confirmed job 4 4.0 it will be a ranged magical DPS."
"Freedom of actions... what makes the game one of the best RPGs ever made."
"Persona 5 doesn't have like a relic system, it doesn't have a talent system."
"Stats beat sets. If I've got this stun pair of boots with the right amount of speed, accuracy, crit damage, and HP, it doesn't mean I'm building out a stun set."
"Completing Wrestle Quest is less like a wrestling storyline and more like a traditional epic RPG Saga."
"Possessing valuable traits, unique bloodlines, impressive mechanics, and considerably higher skills than average."
"Not only is this entire game a love letter to role playing games, it’s a more perfect fit for Yakuza than I could’ve imagined."
"If there's one thing new players are especially prone to doing it's making a super dark backstory."
"Banking Karma sometimes rewards rare skill points in strength, dexterity, charm, and intellect."
"It's a very old school RPG and a very polished modern shell."
"Fallout's detailed graphics, compelling plot, and intuitive gameplay should deservedly broaden its appeal beyond the hard-core role-playing game audience."
"Here, talents offer progression while managing complexity to a certain extent. This approach allows us to explore deeper class fantasy while focusing on the essence of our classes."
"Rangers are a mishmash of like five different concepts, whereas the other classes tend to be one very straightforward idea."
"This was the birth of one of the most beloved and also populist species within the Forgotten Realms: the half-elf."
"If you’re a fan of Action RPGs with robust boss fights, intricate level design, and a vast array of equipment to craft, customize, and upgrade, then The Surge 2 is a must buy."
"The Division 2 is a cross between a shooting game and an RPG and at times it's an addictive and satisfying game."
"World of Light ended up feeling like a genuine mini RPG."
"The benefit of a fighter though is that we get so many feats."
"Literally like an RPG video game, like Skyrim all over again, except your inventory doesn't get full."
"Wuthering Waves: This game is being called a Genshin Impact killer."
"The good parts of New Vegas are the level in world design and the RPG mechanics."
"...we're going to fade to white. So this will have the effect of the music starting, but we're fading to white right away, which is very sort of similar to how most RPGs do it."