I've always really liked JRPGs over most genres of games

Final Fantasy 4, 6 - 9
Legend of Dragoon
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Dark Cloud 1 and 2
Shadow Hearts 2

I assume you've played Skies of Arcadia. If you liked that (and you should!) you should check out Panzer Dragoon Saga. Even though it's by a different team it feels like a proto-Skies in a lot of ways (namely the flying around and the aerial combat).

>>2860362
>Final Fantasy 4, 6 - 9
Where's FF5?

>>2860362
>FF4 and 6
>No 3 and 5

That's just nostalgia talking.

>>2860367

OP here, FF5 is probably my favorite mainline FF game so I have no idea why he didn't list it.

Lunar (and Lunar 2 if you liked the first one)
Grandia
Secret of Mana
The first 5 Dragon Quest games, though if that seems daunting at least 3 and 5
Xenogears
Vagrant Story
Front Mission 3
Final Fantasy Legend
Phantasy Star IV

I dunno about essentials but I liked...

>7th Saga
>Mystic Ark
>Live-a-Live

grandia

No Suikoden II yet? Play that shit faggot. And no, you don't have to play the first one to understand the story.

>>2860360
Shiren the Wanderer (Super Fami/DS)
Live a Live (SuperFami with English translation)
Koudelka (PS1)
Larange Point (Fami with English translation)
Jade Cocoon (PS1)
Cardia (PS1)
Legend of the Ghost Lion (NES)
Destiny of an Emperor (NES)
Metal Max (Super Fami with English translation patch)
Azure Dreams (PS1)
Sword of Hope II (GB)

>>2860432
You can get Tir as a party member though, along with that OP-as-fuck rune

Anything made by Square or published by Enix

>>2860362
>suggesting FF8
FF8 plays out like a fucking checklist of how not to make an RPG. It's one of those games that made JRPGs from sprawling adventures with exploration and fun into tedious, wordy slogs with shitty, convoluted plots and anime archetypes of unlikable characters. Although I suppose that has become an important subset of the JRPG legacy.

Whatever.

>>2860360
What ones have you /played/? Do you need us to give you a rundown of entry-level stuff like FF or DQ, or you want something more obscure?

>>2860580
>>2860580
> Learning the rules of the game is bad.
> I want linear storytelling.

Nigga, when will you get off the VIII hate bandwagon? The war is over and everyone has gone home.

>>2860383

I think some of it is purely that it wasn't released in America at the same time as the others and so they have less nostalgia for it.

Also, play Paladin's Quest. Don't be a bitch OP.

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I would be interested in a definitive list.

Dragon Quest 3-9.
Final Fantasy Adventure
Final Fantasy Legend 1-3
Skies of Arcadia
Xenogears
Phantasy Star 1,2,4.
Ys
Vagrant Story
Lunar 1 and 2.
Final Fantasy Tactics
Tactics Ogre

Will expand later.

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- Final Fantasy III/IV/V/VI ignore VII and VIII if you're a FF purist. They are good but cannot even compare to IV, V and VI. Play IX if you like the general artistic direction it took

- Terranigma

- Vagrant Story

- Legend of Dragoon

- Final Fantasy Tactics

- Lunar: Eternal Blue (Sega CD version) play Lunar: Silver Star complete if you digged EB

- Xenogears

- Bahamut Lagoon (english patched)

- Paper Mario (just do it nigger)

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>>2860580
>le ff8 is le bad meme cause it isn't exactly like ff7