Unless my understanding of the term "role playing" is different, how are Zelda or Assassin's Creed roleplaying games. Just because you take the role of a character doesn't make it rp, it just makes it "that character is the main protagonist/antagonist". I played pong once, I took the role of a paddle, that doesn't make it an RP game. Am I missing something
Anywho, my favourite RP game is FF8, even with its plot holes and occasional JRPG stupidity, the gameplay was just exceptional