where are you from? they don’t have any version in your home country???

The story was important in mass effect and that is most definitely a role playing game, despite disappointing ending. I prefer my RPG’s have voiced character. it breaks immersion for me. using my own voice does nothing for making me immersed in the game.

I understand that Bethesda needs to increase profits by appealing to a wider audience of gamers, but is stripping out more and more RPG elements with each successive game and essentially giving the finger to their most loyal fanbase who have bought all their games since Morrowind really the best way to do it?
Bethesda are not Bioware. People play their RPGs for different reasons and this obsession with streamlining and cutting out the details that set their own games apart is just baffling, especially when the annoying flaws that people actually DO want removed or changed are consistently spared from this ruthless content-stripping.

Yeah, because in games like Skyrim and Fallout, the story is not very important, the great thing about those games is that you can shape what happens through your choices, and explore the world by yourself (no closed areas), without being told where to go by the developers (You don’t even have to do the Main Quest), just like a Tabletop RPG. That’s why I can’t call Final Fantasy a RPG, it’s more like an adventure game, you don’t get to play a role, you simply do what you’re told.

I don’t know, man, I believe there are two different types of RPG idea and I don’t believe any of them is the right way. Talking about J-RPG, I always loved Final Fantasy more than Dragon Quest because of the characters and the story. Fallout and Skyrim are huge games, but I can’t really get involved when it comes to the story.

Sure, it’s your way to play, but It’s not how a RPG (Videogame or Table) is supposed to be played.

If you’re talking about D&D played with your friends, sure, if you’re talking about a video game where I can’t interact with other human beings, it just kills the tension for me. I don’t feel like I am the character, I control the characters but the story is about them, not me, exactly like in a movie or a book.