Then again, in some games you're not a "heroe just for one day", you're DA ONE! Fallout for example: there YOU have been chosen to leave the enclave, go find a whaterchip and save the day. It's not like you're the local farmer who finds a whaterchip, you're chosen to do it. Arcanum is another one (here you are a god reborn).
I feel RPG's sepaks to a different need than the Sims. I the Sims you build a family, gets a new job etc. and all the other stuff you do in real life (in it's whay really interesting, but you do it every day anywhay). In an RPG though, you are a Hero, not a normal guy who's worrying for how he's supposed to pay his bills, for once you get to be the guy who's supposed to go to Death mountain to kill the ultimate god of Evil and save the world (AND your whife, who btw looks a LOT better that the one standing in the kichen trying to make you a decent dinner, but unfortunantley failing...).
Übereil
