i understand what you're sayin, but i dont necessarily agree. The way I see it, the only requirement for an RPG should be that it is immersive and involve decisions that affect a range of factors in the storyline, opposed to just character stats, regardless of the game mechanic used. Adding a hand-eye factor to the gameplay simply makes it more involving.

in a sense, a pure action game with branching paths, like starfox, is more of an rpg than most rpgs.