You people are all so funny, you want the actual truth. What ever the majority of people call an RPG is an RPG. We all know shrubs and trees are closily related, A lot of trees are called shrubs and the same for shrubs being called trees. Because people find similiar characteristics. Magnolia is a bush not a tree, so you going to stop calling it a Magnolia tree. An even better example is a tomato, we all know definition wise its a fruit but we will always call it a vegatable. If a game is called an RPG by the majority of gamers, then it is an rpg and zelda is called an rpg by more than its not. Words definitions mean nothing when people use them to describe things unintended. Thats how vocabulary grows and why new definitions pop up everyday and old definitions fade away.
Who here doesn't call Pluto a planet anymore? Soon nobody will call it a planet, your kids, kids will grow up living in an 8 planet solar system. Your previous defintion of what pluto is will die.
And on the metal thing Slayer themselfs said their early albums were hard rock not metal. So are all of you going to refer to there early works as hard rock. You can go a step further where brutal and extreme metal bands don't consider bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Preist Metal. They also think they were not influenced by their music. Almost any band in the 80's will say Kiss and AC/DC got them into metal.
This site list every metal band, if they aren't on there they are not metal, and yes kiss, ac/dc, led zepplin, jimi hendrix aren't listed.
http://metal-archives.com/index.phpWhere's my chippy? There's my chippy.
