Flak Magazine: Baking a Progress Quest, 12-17-02 is an article about the game Progress Quest which satirizes RPGs. You run it, you chose your character, and then it just runs a story that never ends.
What is amazing about this is that there seems to be all the paraphenelia of a cult game from the web sites to forums.
The game is supposed to be a response to EverQuest the MMORPG.
In some ways it is a story telling machine that you can run and occaisionally check in on the quests completed and inventory acquired.