I seriously question whether MMORPGs like Everquest should be called RPGs in the first place. [img]smile.gif[/img] It's sort of hard to role-play in a setting where there is never anything going on (except guild politics and cyber dating) and when the entire game is based on power-gaming. Then there are the hordes of people running around with the most unimaginative names possible whose idea of role-playing constitutes greeting people with "Hail", then proceeding to talk about their day at work, and what the guild is going to be "camping" on that particular evening.
That being said, the worst MMORPG I've played is Anarchy Online. Everquest might have been boring and time consuming, but at least it worked. It's pretty bad when you take the game out of the box, go to install it, have it crash halfway through installation repeatedy, and then find out that everyone else you know has had the same problem.
I won't even go into the actual gameplay issues.
The worst single-player (or not online) RPG that I've played (albeit not for long) was Magic and Mayhem (pretty sure that's what it was called). I don't know where they got their voice actors or their writers, but let's just say that there was no way I could have taken that game seriously.
[ 01-17-2002: Message edited by: Erydian ]