Why does RPG mean a game with stats and level progression? Isn't it supposed to be roleplaying...

Why does RPG mean a game with stats and level progression? Isn't it supposed to be roleplaying, where you actually take the role of a character and try to "be" it? Many RPG games have absolutely no actual roleplaying.

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What is this anime and why does it keep being posted?

Because "RPG" is a fucking curse on video games, the sooner we forget about it, the better.

I'm guessing because pre vidya RPG was all done with paper and was all about jotting down numbers.

Because D&D literally codified the genre's mechanics and that's what vidya genres are determined by - their mechanics.

Because roleplaying is gay

this and also RPG usually stands for story-driven progression aswell

Computer RPGs are just shitty weak versions of D&D sessions because we don't have a proper Dungeon Master A.I. yet.
They focus on stats and fighting because that's easy to do.
Branching story path that can take surprising turns that weren't programed in, not so much.

True. But then isn't playing a story just another form of role-play?

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The original RPG video games were based off tabletop RPGs, which were primarily about roleplaying. However, the roleplay in TTRPGs mostly involved the interaction between the players at the table. The only thing a video game could replicate were the (mostly combat-only) mechanics, mazes, and attacking enemy strategies. This was fine early on, since people would still roleplay just as a single player experience.

Following that were the japanese RPGs, which took their inspiration from western RPG video games with no reference to the original TTRPGs. They saw the mechanics, saw ways to simplify of modify things, and ended up creating games which had the most basic RPG elements (going into dungeons and killing things) refined down into a simple presentation.

Video game reviewers were not familiar with TTRPGs. They saw the western RPGs, they saw the japanese RPGs, and they decided to make a general "RPG" category that was defined by the similarities between both. Unfortunately, the only real similarity between them - because of their wildly different focus - were menus, stats, and turn-based mechanics. And as the genre progressed, even turn-based mechanics stopped being universal.

So the reason that RPGs just mean level and stats is because it is the only thing that all "RPG" video games actually have in common. It's become detached from roleplaying because people talking about them rarely understand what roleplaying even is.

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You could also go further in time and find out that that the rules of DnD and other early so-called "RPGs" are derived from miniature wargames that certainly don't involve playing in-character.

pretty much, but the important part is that progression is tied to the story rather than, say, levels or random dungeons

Role as in how you build your character

Monster Musume and because it expands the furry fetish more than other anime

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...do you even know where you are?

Not Cred Forums.

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>implying it's gateway furry
No, it just breeds a new generation of insufferable faggots who think "monster" girls are a fetish

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RPG with stats and levels should be renamed to CP, standing for character progression

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