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kupomogli on 24 December 2012
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It shows in your signature that you have a PS3, so I'll start there.

The only games that have truly huge worlds are the Elder Scrolls series, Oblivion and Skyrim are on PS3.  The story isn't too great with the Elder Scrolls, but it's atleast bearable and the sidequest stories are just as good as the main quest storyline so that's a plus. I would recommend these games over the Dragon Age games for sure though. Reason for this is that while some of the main quest Dragon Age Origins story is "decent," most of the storyline to Dragon Age Origins is boring. The storyline to just about every side quest in both Dragon Age series will have no problem at all putting you to sleep,

If you get Oblivion, you'll be fine with the PS3 version. Skyrim they fixed the lag issue and it should run between 25-30fps now(I'd still recommend PC.) If you get Dragon Age Origins, get the PC version. The PS3 version has horrible framerate and with how bad your ally AI is, you'll want to be able to use a mouse to easily control all your characters.

Strictly PC now. GOG is doing a good sale where there are a lot of cheap games for the PC. Might and Magic 1-6 for only $5 right now. Each game is very good. Great gameplay with huge worlds. The only thing about these games is that they're lacking in storyline. If you can get past the no story aspect of them, then I highly recommend picking these up.

On the PS2, there's Final Fantasy 12. Great storyline, huge world, a ton of content. The only problem with this game is the gambit system so you might feel as if you lack control of the characters. This game is playable in widescreen, so if you have a backwards compatible PS3 or a widescreen PC monitor, you can play the game upscaled.

There are a ton of JRPGs though, all with large worlds, good story(much better than WRPGs atleast,) and good gameplay. A few good ones you can pick up right now on PSN are Grandia, Wild ARMs, Wild ARMs 2, Xenogears, and Arc the Lad 2(TRPG.) Final Fantasy 4 Complete Collection for PSP is the best version of FF4 and has all content from every other release, including The After Years which overall sucks but an amazing 10+ hour final chapter(you need to suffer through the other chapters which range from 30 minutes to an hour each.)