Quote Originally Posted by Mister Adequate View Post
Another definition of ARPG, and the one I tend to use myself, is the sort of game Diablo is - often light on the role-playing elements, but where you wade through an absolute troutton of enemies to gain ever better loot.

This definition is definitely more common in the PC sphere though.
This.

I consider action-RPGs to be isometric view lootfest games a la Diablo.

I do realize and accept that this definition is largely applied to CRPGs and WRPGs (aka the ones I tend to play) whereas I'm on a JRPG forum. xD