RPGs... what ever game that has stats these days qualifies as an RPG, it's like the RP doesn't even matter.
I had a discussion once with a friend about catagorization of games, especially RPGs, I for one have yet to see a JRPG that actually does the RP part of it's lable justice.
I don't like the FF series, I have played Eternal Sonata, the world ends with you and some other JRPGs, I have been told that there are JRPGS with actual RP, your own character, choices actual character interaction, so on and so forth, but the ones I have yet encountered does not. so while I don't condemn the whole JRPG genre, I certainly condemn a big part of it.
Same goes for other similarly wierd lablings of western games like Diablo, sure a charcter with a class of your choice, but thats where the choices ends. you get some stats and kill some monsters but where is the RP?! nowhere I tell you.
I'm a pen and papre RPG fan and I hate to see the RPG lable get so easily thrown around, mixing actual RPGs like most of those made by Bioware and Bethesda, and I loved Divine divinity, sure it was limited, but it surely had RP. games don't even need to have customizable characters, look at for example the Witcher, geralt will always be the protagonist but you still affect his choices and actually take on his role as the witcher insted of just helping him transport from point a to point b with some monsters in between (FF series, I'm now talking about you).
damn it, even Fahrenheit (the indigo prophecy), which wasn't even labled as an rpg game, did a better job at being an RPG than most RPG labled games.
and in the end this losly throwing around of the RPG lable also gives th JRPGs a bad name, since you have to dig though all that muck before you actually find and J-game that deserves the RPG addon to it's lable.
ANW!
OT: my Favourite RPG would have to be Neverwinter Nights, after that I think Morrowind or Dragon Age: Origins.
