Its funny, I used to always think of myself as an RPG guy when I was younger.
However, I think what it was, was that the high quality of RPGs back then outpaced other genres, so I would tend to perfer them over lower quality games of the genre I actually liked the most, Action games.
Also, I was young and had little gamming experience, so RPGs being mostly turn based back then were the only games I could actually keep up with (and not get so frustrated with) APM wise...since it waited for the player's input.








