Ehhhhh I think because they are fantasy and have character progression/specialty tiers to improve they give you the illusion of actually playing the role of that character.
Turn based Pokémon-like combat games would make great RPG's if RPG stood for really poopy games
Yeah, I get where they call it that. It's just so far off from what that originally meant it's not really in the same category to me.
Never played any Pokémon games. I love me some turn based combat though. There's a certain finesse to it that the button mashing games don't have. That's why those FPS games aren't RPGs to me. More like first person adventure with RPG elements. I like the very hard boss fights with turn based combat. It's like a game of chess.


