By all means play Fallout 1 if you haven't already. More of the same goodness. Most of my more recent RPGs tend to be FPS style, like Deus Ex. Well worth playing today for the RPG elements asnd story and expansive universe even with the dated graphics (as long as it is the first and not the console-based sequel that sucked) They are making some hybrid RPG with a FPS type perspective but traditional top-down elements under the Fallout brand but it doesn't look all that promising.
The best RPG type experience I've had recently but without the leveling/abilities aspects was the FPS Stalker. You and the wasteland with a fairly open ended universe. Trade and barter, etc. The upcoming Stalker: Clear Sky prequel might have my buying a new PC just to play given the DX 10 graphics, even if I have to settle for a dead-end platform LGA775 to get the horsepower and Vista given the timing of things now. Don't know if I can wait a year for the next generation Intel socket/chip to mature and my Opteron 185 and 2GB ddr has reached its limits. Clear Sky is supposed to be an even larger universe and even less linear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxg9rK086SU
Charon
Played Fallout 1 to death too, the second was just such an improvement. I found the disc for Fallout2 and might reinstall. hmmmm
