They feature the good aspects of Japanese console RPGs - the story and characters - without the retarded gameplay.
Not a single console game can be considered as an RPG except maybe Morrowind (nof of my favorites either). In BG2 you spoke with your characters with dialogue choices and such. In Final Fantasy they showed you some cutscene where X character speaks to Y character. I prefer BG2 interaction.
Anyway, I wonder what's the party limit on RR and if it will be possible to set them to automatic mode...
