User blog comment:Legionwrex/Comparing the Mass Effect Trilogy!/@comment-3492791-20120921192248/@comment-5607673-20120922045349

'''By that logic every game with a main character is an RPG. What characterizes RPGs are player choice. By Role-Playing, they don't so much mean playing a role so much as projecting yourself into a role.'''

Basically what I said/meant. But there are so many "RPGs" that are only considered so because of looting, etc. That's not what an RPG is about, and never will be.