Is Zelda an RPG or an Adventure Game?

[Vincent Valentine]

I disagree. The games I mentioned are purely adventure, not only by my definition, but by general consensus of the gaming community. Point and Click games are games like minesweeper, basic card games, blockbuster, hearts, and other such basic games. By your logic, if adventure games are point and click games, then strategy games should also be "point and click" games since I can go through all 3 World of Warcrafts, both Diablos, Age of Empires, Starcraft or any other strategy SIMPLY by POINTING AND CLICKING.

-LYCHON

Ummm... no.

1) Games like mineweeper and the other ones you listed are puzzle games and card games.

2) Point & Click GAMES, or text adventures, as they were called in their earliest forms, are a genre of game that relies on using an inventory of items to make you're way throughout the gaming, using siad items to solve rudimentory puzzles. Usually by pointing, and clicking.

Examples of the Point & Click genre:
Monkey Island
Day of the Tentacle
Beneath A Steel Sky
Gabriel Knight
Broken Sword

You're simply taking the phrase too literally Lychon.

The later games in some of those series are adventure games.
The earlier ones are not.
That's what I'm disputing here.

I know that in the past, Point and Click was preferred to 'adventure,' but it is no longer a genre when referring to games. Since many adventure games (such as the ones I mentioned) have progressed a long way from their original roots, it is more accurate to describe them as adventure rather than "point and click."

Regardless of whether (for example) the new Broken Sword is an adventure game, it does not stop the older games from being Point & Click games. It may be a genre that is largely dead, but the term still holds true regardless.