Strictly speaking just about any game where you have multiple character classes to pick from as your main character COULD be considered an RPG in my book, But that's not really the point. BUNGIE SAID this wasn't supposed to be 'one of those games'. They wanted us to build 'legendary' characters. It was their reasoning for not putting a trading system of any kind in it. It's hard to 'build' something when they keep coming behind us and knocking it down.