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Just stop calling them RPGs. The term has been rendered meaningless by the inclusion of character customization and inconsequential choices in pretty much every type of game.
The Witcher 3 is a story-driven action-aventure game.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an immersive sim with significant focus on the story and many RPG mechanics.
Neither is really about playing a role of your own making, making significant choices, or having the world react to your actions. Sure they have a lot of aspects borrowed from RPGs... But that's not the core of either of them. Arguably, the Witcher games actually incarnate a lot more of the storytelling language of RPGs, but you are still playing a set role that has been written and performed ahead of time.
.. . quite literally, cyberpunk has multiple endings that are chosen by the actions of the main character…
…final fantasy games are RPG’s where there is one ending, and every character is set not only in their roles, but also their personalities.
not disagreeing that the term RPG is vague and mostly unhelpful, but arguing cyber punk is not an RPG because player choice didn’t matter is kinda nuts
Immersive sims often have multiple endings based on the choices you make, but that doesn't make them RPGs. I do agree that Cyberpunk is more of an RPG, but it feels compromised in the same way as Bethesda RPGs.