You're changing the meaning again, but either way, you're contradicting yourself right there since it's precisely about the point you're trying to make, whether you or the Codex doesn't think it's an RPG - because, frankly, your posts seem very confusing about this.
Not that it matters; what other people post don't all necessarily need to be relevant to your particular point. I wasn't making any reference to that part nor quoting you, was I?
Structurally, your post directly followed Konjad's, who's final paragraph mentioned how JA3 is barely an RPG. Konjad was replying to a quote by me. And I couldn't see much else from anybody else about this topic, so I think most people in my situation would infer you were joining in on that particular point. I apologise if that wasn't the case.
Regarding your post, it is a very difficult post to reply to. Assuming you even wanted to be replied to. To which apologies if you didn't.
If you don't want to be replied to, never, ever start a post with "I don't understand why". That's one of the biggest red rags to a bull you can possibly make on a forum.
If you did want to be replied to and you were genuinely curious as to why games such as JA3 or Elden Ring get discussed more than other games in this context, then you really shouldn't have concluded with a definitive exclamation of "who cares.".
The "who cares" at the end completely upends the post. It's a statement that you've already decided what the position should be on the topic and that you not understanding is irrelevant to your interests and that you don't really care for anyone to even try to explain why said games get discussed more.
And this is often the case around here whenever anyone passes any slither of discussion about the RPG'ness of any game - one is suddenly confronted by about half a dozen users who post posts of this kind - seemingly curious, but, in fact, actually already stuck in their view so much that any response is crowded out with extremely aggressive "who cares" posts.
Hence my reply. The clue as to why these discussions come up is in the title of the forum. The extreme hysteria this topic swells in the same half a dozen users every time, I find to be quite astonishing, precisely because it's a "well, duh" thing. The clue's in the title of the forum.
It's like if you were a member of a romance novel forum, primarily for Mills and Boon and similar type novels, and suddenly someone started talking about and promoting how great James Herbert books are at romance. Like, sure, James Herbert books have relationships and sex, and therefore romance elements, but they're not really in the spirit of the forum.
So someone says, erm, can we discuss how this James Herbert thing is getting a bit out of hand please? And then a bunch of people start shouting "oh, who fuckin CARES" at them for saying that. You know what I mean.
If you don't understand, ok, let someone explain. If you don't care, then don't incite people to think you want an explanation due to lack of understanding.
Hence my reply which truncated the games you mentioned and just focused on the parts of the post that seemed most relevant to your post - the bookends, of not understanding and not caring.
