OOh Xander, you have some good ones. You are missing some great Blizzard titles...Diablo, Diablo II, Warcraft I, II, III, Starcraft... World of Warcraft is going to be released, you like MMORPG's?
Never tried MMORPGs. I'd probably like them if I was playing with people I knew, but playing with strangers is just....boring, to me.
I did Planetside for about a year - that's a massively-multiplayer online shooter. Kinda neat idea, actually. There is a constant war on some distant planet with a bunch of continents you fight for control of. It's really not an RPG at all - it IS a shooter, your reflexes, aim, etc are what determines how good a player you are, but there are incentives to keep playing (you get better weapons and more responsibility in your group as you gain rank). There are no quests or anything - each of the three sides are just trying to take over the world. What's neat is that, while it IS a shooter, it's one on epic scale. Having 200+ people involved in a single battle around a single base is just....breathtaking.
I gave it up because I just preferred the realism of tactical shooters when I DO play them. I think SOE just tried too hard 'balancing' the weapons and units in Planetside (seems to me real war shouldn't be "balanced" - a tank vs an infantry should be a DECIDEDLY unbalanced fight, but it itsn't so much in this game).
Anyway, I neved liked Blizzard games. Dunno why, I just think there are others that do things better. For example - the Warcraft/Starcraft games? At the same time those were out, the Age of Empires games were better RTS games. And, of course, the 'Total War' series were better true strategy games (Shogun: Total War, Medieval: Total War, and the new Rome: Total War).
Ditto with the 'Diablo' games - for a 'hack and slash' RPG, I prefer the Icewind Dale games.