Being an RPG doesn't have anything to do with how long it takes to kill, the weapon/damage balance does. The Witcher is an RPG, and you can one-hit-behead enemies. Destiny is an RPG and you can one-hit explode the head of enemies. Mass Effect is an RPG and you can one-hit kill enemies in a variety of ways.
Being an RPG does not excuse making enemies able to take 40 shots from an SMG before dying because the only difference between an RPG and a classic shooter is that the damage from the gun, instead of being fixed, depends on the weapon, character, and enemy levels. That's what "balancing" means: adjusting the values on enemy health, base weapon damage, base player damage bonus, etc so that the average time to kill is reasonable. Right now it doesn't feel reasonable to many here, which is why we are having this conversation.
Having enemies that take 10 seconds of continuous direct fire to die is not a feature of RPGs, is a choice made by the developers. I understand that it's a choice made probably to avoid needing very large numbers of enemies to keep combat challenging, but they are compromising realism a little with this choice, which has always been a hallmark of the Tom Clancy brand.

Quinn wrote on Jan 18, 2016, 10:23:
Personally I've become crazy excited for The Division by now. I'm also 80% certain Ubi won't deliver, and we'll look back at the footage they released thinking "What. The. Fuck? Did their computers + backup burn down so they had to restart from scratch a half year ago?".

AmericanWulf wrote on Dec 21, 2015, 15:37:
It looks better in real-time when they land on the planet.

Bub wrote on Nov 8, 2015, 06:54:

Ah, the breathlessly woven tapestry of golden promises meant to keep the Whales salivating for more ship jpegs to buy.

Citizen P wrote on Oct 20, 2015, 02:38:
You're either going to shit, or get off the pot: standing in the washroom complaining about the smell makes you look stupid, or it means you like it. Do you like it?

Flatline wrote on Oct 12, 2015, 14:25:
Mark Hamill and Andy Serkis really are the only two actors in that list though that strike me as "voice actors" of any real caliber. I suspect everyone else is gonna phone it in.

descender wrote on Oct 1, 2015, 14:05:
They simply haven't spent as much as you think they have, which is the failed basis of all of these assumptions.

dsmart wrote on Oct 1, 2015, 13:13:
And the point of the comparison is without merit.

When you logout, you’ll be an NPC, but they’re going to see if that works. There is a lot of balance involved in making sure you can’t just logoff and making sure that long voyages, you can logoff and your character maintain their role. It’s something they’re still working on.

Silent Bob wrote on Jul 30, 2014, 13:19:
I've been waiting 20 years for another great space sim and so far I'm loving this game.