A chart i made about the 3 subgenres of RPGs

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  1. West-Medicine-2408

    Pretty sure the cyan circle should envelope the whole chart

  2. sgcpaulo

    Zelda games are not technically RPGs. They are adventure games.

  3. lyriktom

    Started replaying Disco Elysium yesterday. It’s so damn good…

  4. nekosake2

    these are not subgenres of RPGs.

    this chart are just some aspects (that you like) of them.

    this chart would be better displayed as a radar chart or multiple sliders for specific games rather than a venn diagram

  5. Th3Banzaii

    I don’t know if i’d put Elden Ring into the heavy story department. Most of the stuff already happened and any kind of story ends with “and then everyone involved died lol”

  6. MaleficentSeaweed911

    Would have put Skyrim slap in the middle bucket too. Unless you’re saying there’s no combat choice as stealth archer is always the way to play haha

  7. mrhippoj

    I’m not sure I’d put Elden Ring in the middle, I don’t think the story is particularly flexible, or at least no more so than Bloodborne. You have impact over the final cutscene, but for the most part quests are either done or not done, but the general narrative remains the same.

  8. Demurrzbz

    Man, I really need to play New Vegas one of these days

  9. KomradJurij-TheFool

    oh yeah dude undertale had such a crazy build variety…

  10. I mean, you clearly made up these “sub-genres”

    I think you might want to look up the 8 types of fun since that is what you are essentially referring to:

    * Sensation
    * Fantasy
    * Narrative
    * Challenge
    * Fellowship
    * Discovery
    * Expression
    * Submission

    so your “exploration” would be Discovery, “flexible story” would be narrative, and “combat choice” would be Challenge

    also yea zelda isn’t an rpg, it only has like 2 statistical aspects being stamina and health, and even those have really no “role” factor to how a player plays the game. it’s straight up action/adventure

  11. LightmanHUN

    If anything ME1 should be in combat-story

  12. LightmanHUN

    If anything ME1 should be in combat-story

  13. LightmanHUN

    If anything ME1 should be in combat-story

  14. Simmerblingbling

    looking at this directly drains IQ points

  15. Simmerblingbling

    looking at this directly drains IQ points

  16. Simmerblingbling

    looking at this directly drains IQ points

  17. Kitakitakita

    You’re missing a lot. “Combat Choice is a meaningless category. You really put Pokemon right next to Monster Hunter World.

  18. Kitakitakita

    You’re missing a lot. “Combat Choice is a meaningless category. You really put Pokemon right next to Monster Hunter World.

  19. StressfulCourtier

    Why is mass effect 2 in exploration overlap?

  20. markusfenix75

    ???

    Games like God of War Ragnarok, GTA V and RDR2 are not RPG’s

    Period.

  21. Greywolf979

    Today I learned that every game is an RPG.

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