I've been playing video games for over twenty years and I own hundreds of games.  I own games from pretty much every conceiveble genre: RPG, adventure, action, fighting, racing, rhythm, platformer, FPS, puzzle, and so forth, but RPGs are my absolute favorite type of games.  There is a very simple reason for this.  RPG games offer me the chance to escape from the real world, and imagine a world of fantasy, excitement, and beauty.  Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one of the finest games I've played over the last few years, but it exists as a reflection of the world we live in, rather than an imaginary world that we could only hope to live in.  As much fun as I sometimes playing GTA, Wolfenstein, or Splinter Cell on occassion, what I really crave is the impossible fantasy worlds of Fayt Leingod's Star Ocean universe, Jack Russell's world of Radiata, or Cloud Strife's Midgard.  These games tell beautiful, simple stories of marvelous worlds that are imperiled, and offer us the chance to play the hero and save them.  They're fairy tales for a modern age, and I absolutely adore them.