I’m with wooz in that I don’t think there’s a single golden era for RPGs. There are games that I really like in various time periods, and likewise with games that didn’t click. Individually, I’d say FF had its golden age in the SNES age, SMT hit its peak on the PS2, PC RPGs were the best at the turn of the century, etc. I’d say Zelda is in its golden age now, but Zelda isn’t an RPG no matter how you slice it so