Originally posted by Kalfireth
Why are you casting Magic Missile? There's nothing to attack here!
...I...I'm attacking the darkness!!
He needs Kazan's title.
Anyway, I play RPGs a lot, and I have been playing pen&paper RPGs too for a while.
Nomination for the best RPG ever would have to go to AmberMoon, and the Eye Of The Beholder series

As for newer games, the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series have been pretty good. And if youre looking for something quite unconventional, I can recommend Planescape Torment
Other than that, there's only been crap recently (namely FPS or hack&slay games that claim to be RPGs)