Yay BioWare. I'm glad you said that, 'cause I was just about to tell KoShiatar that the KOTOR games have none of that crap. Hence them being my favorites. And yeah, Square generally avoids that crap too. But I don't mind fetch-quests quite as much as a massive amount of random encounters with crap experience, where you HAVE to spend hours just fighting to level up, and I've heard DQ8 is horrid about this, which is the main reason I've avoided it.

Edit: Noooo, my name's back to normal. Oh well :/