Quote Originally Posted by Chris
All the games, Jesus! You guys are nerds. I've only played these: FFI-FFX-2, Koudelka, Legend of Mana, Sword of Mana, Bahamuts Lagoon and a couple more.
Thanks, I had forgotten about Koudelka. And yeah, I'm very much a nerd. And a dork. And a geek, too. *Pride* Oh, and I remembered another one! The Granstream Saga!

At any rate, I would class Zelda as an RPG. Action RPGs, such as Zelda and Alundra, aren't the same obviously as 'proper' ones like the FF series, but they still have some significant hallmarks of the RPG genre. For example, sidequests. Upgrading equipment. Collecting pieces of equipment. Growing in power, and gaining new abilities.

To be sure, the lines between genres are becoming blurred. See Deus Ex for example. An FPS of course, but with strong traits of an RPG nonetheless. Because of the story side, and also the potential for choices and open-endedness which RPGs offer, it's very easy and reasonable for those aspects to be incorporated into pretty much every ther genre there is.