What types of rpgs do you like best, Japanese or Western? I'll confess rpgs are not my favorite genre of games (in the sense that I play action/advanture games more often), but from the few that I've played it looks to me like Japanese games tend to tell a more involving story in terms of character relations, interactions, and development. Western games seem to be a little light on those points; for example, games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age where pretty good games (in my opinion, obviously), but a typical FF game has characters that are much deeper and better developed than any character found in those games. Did that make any sense?

It will always be a question of taste and style, but do you like your games to be more about the story and characters, or about exploration and advanture (as I felt games like Oblivion and Fall Out focus on)?