KotoR 2 + Awesome fan overhaul
Planescape. I'm only halfway through but just what I've played has already rocked the socks off almost every other game ever. The place I'm in right now was pretty lame though. Someone needs to pay Obsidian to make games with lots of text again.
KotoR
And then Deus Ex:HR I liked for it's RPG aspects.
The thing is, I wasn't really enjoying the Western aspects of these games, though. If hardcore WRPGs are Skryim, Oblivion and hardcore JRPGs are things like FFXIII, FFX, what I really enjoy is the story in KotoR 2 and Planescape, the missions are great and the character building, but they aren't why I'm playing the game. At the moment with Planescape, The Nameless One is a nice helpful guy and that in my head is the actual character, I don't feel like I'm roleplaying him because that's who he is to me. When I do do (<- crud(weak extinct like pun) like this is why English is not the best language in the world) an evil playthrough it's not going to be as cool.
Exploring isn't very important to me, open-worldness is not important at all. I actually prefer the linearity of JRPGs because I lose focus otherwise. The problem solving is the only aspect unique to a WRPG that I really like. It's pretty cool trying to find an optimal solution and knowing if you don't you're going to have to fall back to a weaker one.
