Its Epic!

Role Playing Game. The RPG. Any self respecting gamer cannot call him/her/itself truly a gamer until one has spent an entire day running around and talking to people. (In the digital world, I mean. Anyone can talk to "normals", but it takes skill to talk to NPCs.)

Back on topic, you may be one of those people who bought an RPG (your first) and on the back of its cover it promised that "the story is epic!" It was epic alright, an epic failure as you couldn't get into the story one bit. Not even a blip. This is called "the sucky RPG syndrome." Seriously though, RPGs have all ways been a hit or miss. Unlike shooters for instance, which can have a totally f---ed up story line; but if it has good shooting mechanics then it still can be cool. RPGs however, are driven by the story. And if the story sucks...the game sucks. On the flip side, if the story rocks you can have some of the coolest game memories ever. For instance: I still remember play KotOR for the first time and at one particular scene I was like "Holy Shit!" (All you star wars junkies out there know what scene I mean)

So, your only experience with RPGs was a disaster; pick up an new one and try again. You'll thank me later.(I recommend KotOR and KotOR II for the people with out a lot of time on their hands and the Elder Scrolls series for people with a lot of time on their hands)