Favorite JRPGs?

[an874]

I've only liked two: Chrono Trigger, and Tales of Vesperia

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Chrono Trigger, a no-brainer for anyone who's played it.
Final Fantasy IV, likewise.
Earthbound, doubly likewise if you don't mind the graphics.
Mother 3, see Earthbound, with more 'Leet could not stop crying!'
Pokemon Black and White, the best iteration of an awesome series.

Edit: Someone else also reminded me of Mardek. That's awesome too. I also fixed a typo.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Lost Odyssey, god damn great game and best JRPG I've ever played.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

FF1-X (chronologically, none of the spinoffs, but FFIV FFVI and FFIX are my top 3)
Suikoden 1,2,3
Star Ocean (all of them so far... surprisingly)
Lost Odyssey (the real FF12...)
Blue Dragon
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
KH1 and KH2

 

[Xathos]

The World Ends With You. I would totally replay it again from the start, if I hadn't already collected about 97% of the pins. Love everything about the game.

2nd best would probably be the Kingdom Hearts series, but I just don't know which one. I want to say Birth By Sleep, but I like the other games a lot too...

3rd I guess would be probably be Valkyria Chronicles(would that count as a JRPG?), but I'm not done with the game yet, so I'll probably say Nier. Such a depressing game, I love it. Now if it was only refined in a lot of other places, I would love it even more. Love the music here too.

4th might as well be one of the Persona games, probably 4. Persona 3 FES was my first game in the Persona/SMT franchise. And yes, it was good, but 4 was just so much better.

5th and final place is FFXIII I guess. Liked everything except for the side characters and the plot feeling a bit wierd near the end. Though I felt like it was missing some UMPH to make it really special.

 

[DustyDrB]

Earthbound. Seriously, those designers should have their own school which every prospective developer should be required to attend before making a game. That my friends, is how you make a world interesting.

 

[Claytor Frits]

the list goes on forever i suppose but top...5 i guess

xenogears
final fantasy 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, X
chrono trigger + cross
legend of dragoon
legend of legaia
the tales series

ok more then 5 but you get the idea oh and almost anything by NIS and atlus and working designs when they were around, like vanguard bandits

edit: earthbound as well

 

[Crimson_Dragoon]

Suikoden 2, by far. There's just something about that game that gets to me every time.

 

[Double A]

Golden Sun is the only JRPG series I have ever completed. Actually, they might be the only games too... JRPGs are long, man. I've gotten to the second disk of Baten Kaitos 1 twice, and probably halfway through (as an estimate) of Dragon Quest VI. Those were pretty fun. GS stands to be one of my favorite game series of all time.

I need to get Tales of Symphonia and Valkiria Chronicles, don't I?

 

[RooksEye]

I would go with the first two Shadow Hearts games for PS2, Shadow Hearts and SH: Covenant. You may not of heard of them, but they were amazing games. Great story, interesting characters, combat is a lot of fun, just all around good games.

 

[Jian-Li]

The Mardek RPG series.

 

[Claytor Frits]

did anyone like the shin megami series? even though its a huge thing specifically persona

 

[DarkRyter]

I'm really liking The World Ends with You.

 

[MostlyHarmless]

Eternal Sonata
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
Kingdom Hearts
Final Fantasy IV
ChronoTrigger
Pokemon
Resonance of Fate
Secret of Mana

 

[Bobby_D]

The first one I ever played is still my favorite:
Final Fantasy III (American Numbering)

and with the Super Mario RPG following VERY closely afterwards. Loved Geno when I was younger, but nowadays I think Mallow is my favorite character in any game ever.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

NieR, mostly because that is the only real JRPG I've ever played. I still enjoyed it immensely though, much more than some of the other games on my PS3 *looks disapprovingly at ME2*