I have read that post where Gamepro chose their best RPG's and well there are tons of people complaining/agreeing..which is fine but personally I could never, ever understood RPG's. I know, you may say is a matter of taste but I don't think so. I think that the problem is in me more than nothing.

My experience with RPG'S have been terrible:I could never pass the character that disable your controllers in Super Mario RPG, I fell asleep in Chrono Trigger,The turn based battles from Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9 founded very tedious,I never get to the 2d part of FF6 because I ran out of time in the part where kefka mad ethe big disaster....and so on.

As you see I haven't palyed many but I dunno what's wrong, Maybe I started with the wrong games? Need to be more patient? are WRPG's better/different? Or maybe I need to get used? I dunno. Many people talk about RPG's and I feel that I am missing something great. I can play technically any genre but I feel like intimidated by the huge numbers and long battles from RPG's.

What do you think?

Try earthbound out it is a quirky satirical play on western culture, its very different from other rpgs

Well, Some genres just aren't for some people. Nothing wrong with that.

I think you need to give Earthbound a try, maybe the humor and such would keep you interested. Maybe not, but it'd be worth a shot. (It's for the SNES, just in case you didn't know)

Edit: My, I was beat, and by someone saying pretty much the same thing, go figure.

Well you should try a WRPG once. WRPG's =/= JRPG's.

Earthbound may be unique in its story and art style, but the gameplay is as standard as the genre gets.

You seem to have a few Mario games in your collection, maybe you could start into something like Paper Mario (N64) or Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GC). The portable Mario & Luigi games are also excellent.

ARPG? o_O

How much are that different? besides the artwork

Also Fallout 3 which is out right now is a WRPG and could ease you into the RPG transition. I don't know which way is the best to start as I started out playing Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy when I was 4, so I couldn't tell you if WRPG's would lead to you liking RPGs. I don't enjoy WRPGs as much as a good RPG, (i still enjoy them though) i don't even consider them in the same genre at all.

Earthbound? Hmm...I'll check it out..and Paper Mario..hey I forgot about them! ^^

That's for PC, right?