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Originally Posted by Pragmatist
From the Wikipedia link.
"Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own Mario series."
The trading cards may not be, but it is based on a role playing game.
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It's NOT a role playing game., thought I always thought the idea of making a MMORPG version of Pokemon would rock
A ROLE playing game is where someone takes the ROLE of a character. Most RPGs aren't true RPGs. The are simply video games where someone's character can get stronger and stronger but there is no role playing involved.
RPG came from the old Pen and Paper version of Dungeons and Dragons as well as some other brands where people sat around a table, rolled dice and pretended their characters were real in a real world
Today it's nothing more than manipulating pixels on a screen
There are several genres of video games
Action
Adventure
Strategy
Role Playing
are the most popular
Generally though the line between Action/Adventure and RPG is thin but most action games are first person shooters
Most RPGs are adventure oriented with on screen dialog between characters and None Player Characters but aren't truly RPG in the sense of the word. Really what the are is Fantasy Adventure games but they are often just called fantasy RPG
I've watched kids play Pokemon on a console vs the computer and it was anything BUT RPG
But as far as RPGs go, there is nothing inheritly evil about them unless you take on the role of an evil character. Even ones I've been involved with people's characters had evil alignments but that was strictly because the alignment was necessary in order to play a certain class of character. Otherwise the person playing the game played that character like any other
In any case we were talking the card game
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