Zelda isnt an rpg? (Its a dungeon crawler isnt it?)

[Breetai]

Career, actually. And I hate to break it to you, but statii is never correct.

http://www.englishforums.com/English/Th ... p/post.htm

The problem is that second declension Latin nouns and 1/2 adjectives in the masculine ending in -us in the nominative have the plural in -i (thus, e.g. servus to servi, bonus to boni). However, neither status nor octopus (nor any Latin noun ending in -is) are second declension. The plural of status in Latin is statūs, which is proper in British English, although in America we add our Anglicized plural ending -es to the end. Likewise, the Greek ending for octopus or platypus is to change the pus (from Greek pous, foot) to podes. There is yet another noun in Latin ending in -us, which is in the third declension and neuter. Words like opus change their stem and because it's neuter, ends in -a, thus opus becomes opera. But in no way can it ever be statii.

I feel like I'm working on my CELTA certificate with some smart-ass in class who is showing off his high-level knowledge to everyone who doesn't really care. Or I'm back in Greek class. I never want to see the word "declension" or "nominative" again.

[Cronozilla]

I'm a little more curious about the people who said only turn based games can be RPGs in the poll

[Breetai]

I'm a little more curious about the people who said only turn based games can be RPGs in the poll

Two people don't consider Elder Scroll games, newer Fallout games and the like to be RPGs.

[garrett123]

A major flaw is also the word RPG itself. Face it, it doesn't say shit. If you just look at the term, anything could be an RPG. A game, in which you play the role of someone or something...

So from now on Virtua Tennis should be referred to as a Sports RPG...

Now you have me wondering if there's ever been a sports RPG.

What about Mario Tennis on the gba? That game is most certainly a sports rpg.

Also I thought Zelda was a girl. That option isn't in the poll.

um...thats the name of the game. I dont beleive there was ever the legend of link, but zelda 1, and 2 had that at the beginning of the game name. zelda is a girl, link is a boy, zelda is a princess, except in skyward sword, your goal is to rescue her.

[Cronozilla]

Two people don't consider Elder Scroll games, newer Fallout games and the like to be RPGs.

I figured as much, I just don't understand how that logic works.

[o.pwuaioc]

Honestly I didn't expect to run into such a brilliant argument on a gaming forum. Consider myself corrected. So I take it that you deal in English based linguistics?

Classical languages as a profession, although English linguistics as only something tangential to my main research. I chose once between Classics properly and historical linguistics, although technically the latter is not outside the former's purview.

I feel like I'm working on my CELTA certificate with some smart-ass in class who is showing off his high-level knowledge to everyone who doesn't really care. Or I'm back in Greek class. I never want to see the word "declension" or "nominative" again.

Definitely back in Greek class! What didn't you like about it? And heck, the conjugations, moods, and duals were so much worse than the rather simply declensions. Latin too has more cases than Greek does.

[flex wood]

I'm a little more curious about the people who said only turn based games can be RPGs in the poll

Two people don't consider Elder Scroll games, newer Fallout games and the like to be RPGs.

So Borderlands would be an rpg too then?

I haven't voted butt I honestly don't really consider games like the newer elder scrolls or fallouts rpgs. Sure they have a leveling system but what good is a leveling system when every enemy gets stronger as you do? It makes the levels meaningless and puts more emphasis on your equipment in battles and makes grinding a bad thing. By doing that and making it about equipment it seems to me to fall more into Zelda territory then rpg.

[AppleQueso]

^Final Fantasy 8 has level scaling as well, and pretty much every RPG on the planet has enemies getting stronger the more you progress through the game.

[flex wood]

^Final Fantasy 8 has level scaling as well, and pretty much every RPG on the planet has enemies getting stronger the more you progress through the game.

Yes the enemies get stronger as you progress in a normal rpg but you can go back to the starting areas and breeze through any battles. Fallout and elder scrolls you can't, the enemies always level up when you do so there is no going back to a starting area and being able to mop the floor with enemies. doesn't matter what level you are you will always be given the same amount of trouble with a rat at level 1 as you would at level 15 so it makes the leveling pointless and about the equipment you have.

555!

[MrPopo]

I thought in Fallout the enemies would level lock once you reached the area, or was that only introduced in Skyrim?