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Combat oriented games that did not fall under any of these categories (such as the Icewind Dale series, which featured a tactical Real Time with Pause) were not considered action RPGs, while those that did, even when combat was just one type of gameplay they offered (such as Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, which had FPS like ranged combat and Hack and Slash like melee), were. In the early 2000s, so called “RPG Elements” started bleeding into Action Game subgenres, leaving role playing video games with a severe identity crisis: What…

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