Games like Dragon Age never appealed to you I take it? I don't consider it selling out. Though you admit that the old Fallout games and probably Baldur's Gate had a good thing going. And though Dragon Age may not appeal to everyone, it did a lot of things right, and accomplished most of what it set out to do. Though what it set out to do may not have been your flavor. Some people really want to play hard fantasy Dungeons and Dragons, or Conan The Barbarian type stories. Its generally going to be darker, grittier, and more (possibly too) serious compared to extremely pretty, anime inspired backdrops with a less traditional take on fantasy, with multi-colored eternally good hair days and stuff. Unfortunately for me, a lot of JRPGs seem so middle of the road, they spent the better part of the PS1 & 2 days copying each other, and flooding the market. Now they need to go to extremes to differentiate themselves, and usually they go extremely into direction that fail to interest me. Though honestly I would not pick Fallout 3 or Mass Effect as pennicle examples of WRPGs either way. I enjoyed them, but I could never classify them as anything above merely "enjoyable". The last stellar WRPG I played was the KOTOR games. But somehow those stood out to me, because I wouldn't even put the Baldur's Gates of Fallouts up there with those two. Most of my stellar gaming experiences did happen with JRPG games. But the Xenogears & Chrono Trigger games are extremely hard to come across