Depends. I've generally preferred Rpgs for the PC over consoles -because- of the more real-time orientation. Remember all those awesome infinity engine games? Baldur's gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment?
That's pretty old school. It's all in the execution. OH, how about Daggerfall? Heck even on consoles, there have been countless action RPGs for the SNES, NES and Genesis... This is hardly anything new. I really enjoyed the hell out of Dragon Age. Once you get the controls down and start taking advantage of the fact that you can pause the game to plan your actions out, the level of strategy skyrockets, and then you have to up the difficulty to get any challenge out of it!
The plot for PS:T spoiled me, for sure. It definitely raised the bar for what is tolerable in terms of story and characterization, and if you've never played it, you're simply not a real man.
It's one thing i've noticed though, The release of this particular iteration of the Final Fantasy franchise has definitely divided a number of gamers: Generally speaking, those in the old school have reactions ranging from ambivalence to outright hostility towards it, where it seems that the new school kids are much more enthusiastic about it. Perhaps there's a bit of raw cynicism that those of us in the old school possess towards new games and technology? It would seem that FF XIII is, more or less the epitome of the New School. It's flashy, technically and visually astounding..the characters are -fashionable- (No clunky armor here!) and the setting has the deliberate aim of being 'cool'. Transforming techno-organic summons? I'm still on the fence on whether or not that's rad or just completely lame.
Well I'm going to go play Dragon Warrior on my NES while I make that decision, and grumble about "Kids these days..."
