Well, in the 2000s there was no Dungeon Master or Bloodwych or so.

Not quite my first association with "traditional" either, although you do have a point in that those two are quite old and terms like "traditional" are pretty subjective and arbitrary anyway. In the vein of those titles there were games like Wizards & Warriors, Wizardry 8 or Might and Magic 8 though.

Final Fantasy IX

Another vote for Final Fantasy IX. At least disks 1-3.

Gothic

First that comes to mind? Bloodlines.
Got me hooked, but need to be very loose with the term RPG, since it just has elements? King's Bounty: The Legend.
#1 according to the ratings I gave over the years? KotOR2, despite the ending.

Trying not to actually go through the list, because I'll end up changing my mind and contradicting myself several times and ending up nowhere, so just went with some single-answer options.
That's one comparison I didn't think I'd see... Maybe some similarity in the style of humor at times, like Leroux said, but other than that...?

I've been playing the Trails in the Sky games lately and they are way better than most if not all of the popular RPGs that usually get recommended.

My wife referred to Oblivion as "the one where you have fire hands and pick mushrooms."

Isn't that Super Mario Brothers?

To be fair there are probably at least a dozen games that could be a description for.

Old Firehand, is that you?

Ahh some nice replies here !

Here's mine (from the top of my head)

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Divine Divinity
KOTOR 2
Drakensang River of Time
Arcanum (only played it for the 1st time last month though)

And probably more I can't think of right now

Is Monster Hunter considered a RPG?

The Witcher of course :)