Did Zelda basically create RPGs?

[Skippy]

If Zelda is an RPG, then Adventure for the Atari 2600 is an RPG, and that pre-dates Zelda by more than a decade.

And actually, I think it's a stretch to call Zelda an RPG, more just an adventure game. RPGs typically involve multiple character types where your attributes change or improve over time. The line is a bit blurry though, so it's hard to give a definite category. However, even if Zelda is firmly in the RPG category, it is definitely not the first one by a long shot.

[Ads]

[ganton]

maybe with zelda 2 the adveture of link but wasn't that final fantesty

[Wii_Smurf]

Zelda is an Adventure game

FF is the BEST RPG of all time

Didn't start it all off though

[ganton]

the adventue of l;ike was an rpg of a differnt varety

[Link the Man]

Ledgend of Dragoon?

I love that game, but this is way before LoD.

[Mario Racer]

i think the final fantasys gave RPGs a big world wide appeal for RPGS outside of Japan, Zelda is not excatly an RPG,has some elements of a rpg,but its mainly an advanture game.

[Link the Man]

It's a really big emmense brain boggler too.

[Lethal]

First RPG game I ever played was a game called Adventure for the Atari 2600. I think thats the first RPG type game that I can remember. It came out in 1978. It was catagorized as an action/adventure but it was the closest thing to an RPG back then. Final Fantasy and Zelda then redefined the term RPG.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(Atari_2600)

[DBloke]

Zelda is an Adventure game

FF is the BEST RPG of all time

Didn't start it all off though

FF sucks
Disgaea 2 ftw
But lets not go on about it

[funsohng]

i thought zelda was action adventure.