Best Plot/Story Rpgs of recent time

Well right now i'm going through Suikoden 5. (decided to pick it up after all the praise I hear for it over here) There's something not right though. After the first forest area, I didn't do 1 battle for 6 hours. A WHOLE lot of filler. PLEASE tell me that's the only point in the game where that happens!

To stay on topic, I can't really think of any RPGs I played this generation, that really got me VERY interested with the story. Tales of Legendia did have some AMAZING character development though. The story was good, but not great. There was some really satisfying moments though. ( like the end of chapter 4) I really haven't played too many RPGs this gen though, so once I do, I hope my opinion changes.

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