But What is an RPG Though?
Everyone is going on about RPGs. IGN recently posted their list of the 25 Best JRPGs and we all had an opinion about it, because it was very wrong. Over the last few weeks, it has been impossible to avoid Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 online discourse and the praise has been effusive. I'm told it is the best thing since Lost Odyssey, a seven-out-of-ten that no one played, or perhaps Final Fantasy XIII, a game that got good in the amount of time it takes to finish Uncharted 2 - a great game - twice. I've also noticed an increase in social media users attempting to define what exactly makes an RPG an RPG. Even our greatest thinkers - people on Bluesky - have failed to capture the true essence of the genre. It is a thankless task and one that I will now attempt! Here is my criteria. RPGs are spread over multiple discs The Legend of Dragoon (4 discs) is an RPG. Madden '99 (1 disc) is not. Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360 (3 discs) is an RPG while the PS3 version isn't (1 di...