The fact of the matter is that even by the terms that you people who don't believe in the actual linguistic version of "RPG" or "Role Playing Game" go by which is that the game must have some measurable growth, it still falls into it. You develop your character, and you can gain or lose 'levels', and although the character doesn't have one all of his weapons do, and the choices shape the character.
Via Wikipedia however, which many will agree with in general: "A role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters and collaboratively create or follow stories. "
Now, I will say that the main problem was that previously when games were just coming out there weren't really RPGs, there were mostly games like pacman or snake, that didn't have 'characters' that were personified, they just had symbols that moved back and forth and little to no text, if any it was instructional with no flavor or any character development.
RPG is a majorly obsolete 'genre' and has developed into several sub-genres, and mostly any game is RPG these days besides puzzle games, as 'story telling' is so friggin' popular now.
As for the actual history of this happening, Pixel was the creator and the game was originally planned for a specific station (SNES) but came out a bit late, so was only released for PC and was never moved. People have attempted to remake it for just about every system and you'll always see someone 'attempt' it, but it has yet to come to fruition as a commercial title. PSP already has a homebrew of it which is simply a conversion of the code, and leaves a few glitches but nothing major, as for DS, I'm pretty sure they plan on going all the way with it as they've e-mailed Pixel and have gotten full permission (although it seems that there is no real trouble in getting that). Ravenworks has indeed been taking forever however, but hopefully they will have it done soon enough, seriously.
Via Wikipedia however, which many will agree with in general: "A role-playing game (RPG; often roleplaying game) is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters and collaboratively create or follow stories. "
Now, I will say that the main problem was that previously when games were just coming out there weren't really RPGs, there were mostly games like pacman or snake, that didn't have 'characters' that were personified, they just had symbols that moved back and forth and little to no text, if any it was instructional with no flavor or any character development.
RPG is a majorly obsolete 'genre' and has developed into several sub-genres, and mostly any game is RPG these days besides puzzle games, as 'story telling' is so friggin' popular now.
As for the actual history of this happening, Pixel was the creator and the game was originally planned for a specific station (SNES) but came out a bit late, so was only released for PC and was never moved. People have attempted to remake it for just about every system and you'll always see someone 'attempt' it, but it has yet to come to fruition as a commercial title. PSP already has a homebrew of it which is simply a conversion of the code, and leaves a few glitches but nothing major, as for DS, I'm pretty sure they plan on going all the way with it as they've e-mailed Pixel and have gotten full permission (although it seems that there is no real trouble in getting that). Ravenworks has indeed been taking forever however, but hopefully they will have it done soon enough, seriously.
