Well nowadays my opinion is that people get the term RPG(Role-Playing Game) mixed up. Most people I know just think an RPG is where you level to get strong. Nothing to really accomplish. Like in games like EverQuest(very addictive i loved it) and other MMORPGs.

Thats why I wouldnt consider all RPGs "true RPGs". They just add some of the elements of them. They are all just genre mixers.

I love the old retro RPGs, they had great stories, but most were very linear. Going back to MMORPGs most are all nonlinear cause you can go fight anywhere. Then you got some in the middle like Diablo. Play offline for the aight singple player mission. Then play online just to get good stuff or fun with friends.

This is where the idea comes in, being in 3D or 2D, have a world totally run by PCs, theyll have the occasional NPCs to do stuff, but maybe some PCs will want to go evil and a mage creates a large beast. Someone could really need something where the beast is and hire someone to do it, and it can give them certain amt of xp gold depending on the task difficulty.

SWG(Star Wars Galaxies) I hear will be somewhat like this, but i hope its really good with the player built worlds in such.

My dream of My Ideal RPG is way more than that but i dont have time to write it all down

i think the tech now cant handle a truly Great RPG cause to make it EVERY CHARACTOR in the game needs to react to you/your party diff for every player in a realistic way e.g you find a lone man in the woods far far from town no one around you kill him and lets say you teleport back to town and BOOM guards are after you for the murder .... not real .... or BG,BG2 when you walk into a house and kill the guy inside after stealing something the gards are there in 2-3 sec HOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... not real

so for a RPG to be Great any and all actions made buy a charactor are there because the ai running the charactor desided to do that .... if i did make sence to you live withit!!!
unless theres a game out there where if theres a house the at some point the ouner gos and get food or what ever and the whole whorld is realistic the tell me

Sounds great to me! I''d like to see that!

I think it''s a great idea. I''d love to see a retro RPG, but I don''t care too much about interactivity with everything around you. I just care about the story and gameplay and battle system. Make 0 "random encounters" like in Chrono Trigger. If the story sucks monkey balls, then I''ll just forget it like millions of others would. If it rules to the extreme then let it play! All I have to say! I think.

COOLNESS!

Thanks for the replies all of you. Now my next challenge is actually programming the engine..... Well, I guess that will keep me busy for about the next 6 months, at least!