: a computer language that generates programs from the user's specifications especially to produce business reports
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rocket-propelled grenade
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role-playing game
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Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
That sense of stakes and consequences is always what made the show feel like more than a kid’s cartoon, but the playfulness that runs throughout the series and the RPG keeps it fun for everyone.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Its story is pure Final Fantasy, luxuriating in its melodrama; its systems come together like a greatest hits album of modern RPG design.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
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The Diablo series is one of the most prolific and influential video games series in history, with the first game in the series having almost single handedly pioneered the modern dungeon crawler RPG genre.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Samuel Axon Similar to Odyssey, Shadows has deep character progression, gear, and RPG systems.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Shimomura also composed the soundtracks for such games as Xenoblade Chronicles, Streets of Rage, the Mana series, Super Mario RPG, Live A Live, Radiant Historia, Parasite Eve, Breather of Fire, and Street Fighter II.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
There’s also Dungeon and Fighter: Arad — an open-world RPG that looks to be priming the series to take the fight to Genshin Impact — which was recently shown off at The Game Awards 2024.
—Scott McRae, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
There are other fantasy games supported here though many of the items can be used in whatever fantasy RPG that’s needed with a little bit of time and effort.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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For some, FromSoftware’s open-world action RPG is the pinnacle of hardcore gaming — an endless gauntlet of death and discovery that rewards heavy stat crunching and min-maxing on specific character builds to bend the game to a player’s will.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
That sense of stakes and consequences is always what made the show feel like more than a kid’s cartoon, but the playfulness that runs throughout the series and the RPG keeps it fun for everyone.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Its story is pure Final Fantasy, luxuriating in its melodrama; its systems come together like a greatest hits album of modern RPG design.
—Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2025
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors
The Diablo series is one of the most prolific and influential video games series in history, with the first game in the series having almost single handedly pioneered the modern dungeon crawler RPG genre.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Samuel Axon Similar to Odyssey, Shadows has deep character progression, gear, and RPG systems.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
Shimomura also composed the soundtracks for such games as Xenoblade Chronicles, Streets of Rage, the Mana series, Super Mario RPG, Live A Live, Radiant Historia, Parasite Eve, Breather of Fire, and Street Fighter II.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
There’s also Dungeon and Fighter: Arad — an open-world RPG that looks to be priming the series to take the fight to Genshin Impact — which was recently shown off at The Game Awards 2024.
—Scott McRae, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
There are other fantasy games supported here though many of the items can be used in whatever fantasy RPG that’s needed with a little bit of time and effort.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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“RPG.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/RPG. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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