You've just lead the argument to your dead end by saying that Diablo is an RPG. Fifth quite expertedly demonstrated the contrary.
Diablo might be a game with small RPG elements in them, but like I brought in the debate, having some small amount of elements of another genre doesn't automatically turn the game into that genre.
I think the biggest obstacle in making people realize that Diablo is not an RPG is the fact that so many people think that Diablo started a new genre of game. It wasn't the case at all. All the Rogue-like games made in the past were exactly the same thing, and done so long before...
But the main "argument" against that is more often than not: but dude! Rogue-like don't have graphics in them!
So what?
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