What do you think?
For me, I have a hard time calling it an RPG because you technically can't grind your character to be stronger. You have to "git gud" else you will simply be stuck.
There's a similar game in this regard for the PSP called Gladiator Begins. Wikipedia classifies it as a "fighting game" but really it plays closer to Monster Hunter. You can't upgrade your character without winning fights and the fights are always lengthy and exhausting missions. Well, one aspect that makes the game easier is that you don't technically have to win specific fights to upgrade you character the way you have to in Monster Hunter albeit certain strong weapons and armor are locked behind certain boss fights (you pick them off after winning, if you managed to knock them off).
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let's tone it down with the redefinitions, shall we? if you have to ask "is X an RPG?" then the answer is no.
Let me ask this question, since I brought it up. What makes Gladiator Begins not an RPG?
It's an RPG because you play the role of a monster hunter.
>technically can't grind your character to be stronger
Gear is what replaces level in mh
Yeah but if you can't beat the monster to get the gear you are stuck.
>Can't beat monster
>Go beat lesser monster until you complete a set that helps you against said monster
Not an RPG
Not the same. Argument doesn't work
>Not the same
I agree
>not an rpg
There's lots of games discussed here that also aren't by that metric.
True.
>There's lots of games discussed here that also aren't by that metric.
Which games?
No. If stats = RPG for you then you welcome COD as an RPG too.
And that's why you remind people about it.
Nope.
The main idea behind RPGs is to abstract skill. As in, less actual player skill is involved and systems take over.
Monster Hunter is very skill dependant and action focused, so no.
Fair arguments. Looking up how Japan defines Gladiator Begins (since it is a Japanese game) it is dubbed an "action game" too.
>Glad I Ate Her
What a sexy and great genre, we need more of this type of RPG fellow anons.
Queen's Blade games, do they count?
https://www.monsterhunter.com/ja/about/
Capcom themselves just call Monster Hunter an action game. It's not even a Souls or Dragon's Dogma situation where the devs call it Action RPG.
Even setting that aside, there is no intrinsic character progression, stats or levels. Gameplay persists entirely on player skill and the weapons they pick up. At that point you may as well call Devil May Cry an RPG.
no one cares
I suppose its an Action RPG which isn't actually a true RPG. The only true RPGs are turn-based.
You don't really role-play. Everything is linear and pre-defined. So no.
The only RPG aspect is the gear and "numbers go up".