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RPGs are about choosing your own adventure, not about combat.
That's why The Age of Decadence is the best RPG of the year for sure, and one of the bests ever in my opinion.
If it's just about combat and level ups, than StarCraft 2 is an RPG. Far Cry 3 is an RPG. Final Fantasy is an RPG.
(ahah)
If you think RPGs are just about combat and level-up then it's hopeless even debating with you, because you've completely lost the plot. You don't 'completely' choose your own adventure in AoD, you navigate a finite set of paths laid down by the developer to which you learn how to navigate each path, like a robot. The use of the word 'choose' is so inept as to be laughable, that is, however, the name of the genre and I'm happy for it to have that name.
Just because derivative games pick and choose what elements of cRPGs they fancy for their gameplay does not mean the original cRPG concept "is like" the derivatives. That's like saying a cat is like a dog because it has four legs and a tail, so they should both be called the same thing - utterly moronic and if your next post is equally flaccid I'll be putting you straight to ignore as I don't waste time on hyperbole.
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