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Riachu said:

I don't mind if an RPG(or any game for that matter) is an interactive movie, just as long as the story is decent enough, if not fantasic. Not all real time battle systems in RPGs are mindless button mashers.

 

Then you don't really like RPGs, you like interactive movies.   RPGs are defined by battle systems and character/enviroment interaction.  And since a video rpg can't truly encompass all the roleplaying (interaction) possibilities of pen and paper, that leaves the battle system as the defining element. 

And I'm not singling out real time battle systems, but recent RPGs in general