I enjoy both WRPGs and JRPGs for their relative strengths and several of my all-time favourite series are in your list. In general I slightly preferred the grit and grime of western fantasy settings rather than the sentimentality of Japanese ones, but I think the era of that great western rpg feel is mostly gone, due to slipping western standards and feminist propaganda contaminating everything. The peaks aren't as high, but I think the hit rate of JRPGs have caught up in the last 10 years. It's a lifetime since I was able to eg. randomly find a life-changing PC game on some shop shelf, whereas casual plays of games like Ys8 and Berseria in recent years have given me more enjoyable scenes and characters than almost any western game in the same period. Sexy characters which I would have regarded as evidence of mindless pandering 20 years ago now comes across more like a bold commitment to a game's art and themes, uncowed by screeching Twitter crusaders.

Your list is conspicuously missing Kingdom Come: Deliverance, though. I didn't find the chars or story great myself (and would have liked there to be an authentic Czech audio option), but the feel of the world and exploration is second to none, other than my memories of being blown away by Baldur's Gate 1 back in the day.

I enjoy both WRPGs and JRPGs for their relative strengths and several of my all-time favourite series are in your list. In general I slightly preferred the grit and grime of western fantasy settings rather than the sentimentality of Japanese ones, but in general I think the era of that great western rpg feel is mostly gone, due to slipping western standards and feminist propaganda contaminating everything. The peaks aren't as high, but I think the hit rate of JRPGs have caught up in the last 10 years. It's a lifetime since I was able to eg. randomly find a life-changing PC game on some shop shelf, whereas casual plays of games like Ys8 and Berseria in recent years have given me more enjoyable scenes and characters than almost any western game in the same period. Sexy characters which I would have regarded as evidence of mindless pandering 20 years ago now comes across more like a bold commitment to a game's art and themes, uncowed by screeching Twitter crusaders.

Your list is conspicuously missing Kingdom Come: Deliverance, though. I didn't find the chars or story great myself (and would have liked there to be an authentic Czech audio option), but the feel of the world and exploration is second to none, other than my memories of being blown away by Baldur's Gate 1 back in the day.