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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But it's been that way for almost a decade at this point and I no longer care to split hairs about it,

Haha, us old farts have been arguing about what constitutes an RPG at least since the days of the first Diablo.

[โ€“] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

I know It's just that the term has gotten even more overloaded and vague over time. At least in the 90s you could somewhat draw a really squiggly line where RPG-s had skills and classes and stats-boosting items and xp and all that jazz, and non-rpg games didn't really have that. But 00s has some games implementing RPG elements into itself and it kicked into full gear in the 10s with AAA non-RPG games adopting xp, levels, skills, stat sticks etc and most AAA RPG-s simplifying by dropping classes and such. Whatever thin line there was in the 90s has been completely eroded in the 10s. If someone wants to call Horizon Forgotten West an RPG I can't really say it's not