Wow! What a beautiful nostalgia roller-coaster!

I remember that I was playing Final Fantasy and Castlevania II as my first gameplay experiences ever of my own. I remember that back in the day, RPG games were lack of technology but had a huge push for imagination. When industry started to materialize our imagination, they limited the options and we had less and less freedom over games. Like, back in Baldur's Gate days, you could randomly kill an NPC and if you'd continue like that, when you get a quest related with that NPC, you could never complete that quest and it would be a huge mystery for you. Now, you cannot even hit an NPC, you cannot play a completely evil character, you cannot deny the role game pushes you to, for following your own path of life. We mostly can get at top is extra dialogue options if you could meet some requirements, or if you could jackpot the random numbers (successful dice-roll simulation), and that's all.

I want to serve another kingdom. Nope. I want another person to be my mentor. Nein. I don't want to chase your problems because you couldn't understand basics of your own setting, instead I want to dive into my own drama. NEVER. Where is the "roleplaying" part in an RPG then? Industry thinks that spending points to improve characters numerically is RPG.

What is "your" RPG?