I never played persona 2 myself. I played the first persona, and while it was a pretty good game and refreshingly different, didn't stand out quite as much as persona 3, or even other SMT games.

Parasite Eve is an amazing game, I'm still tempted to pop it back in sometimes. I never played the second one though.

Grandia is probably my favourite RPG out of the Final Fantasy series,
Grandia 2 was abit disapointing but fingers crossed for number 3.

Unfortunately, i didn't use to play so much RPG back then; until i play FF8 the RPG's weren't my type of game.

PS1:
- Tales of Phantasia
- Tales of Destiny
- Xenogears
- Suikuden II
- Star Ocean: Second Story
- Valkyrie Profile
- Vagrant Story

PS2:
- Xenosaga
- Dragon Quest VIII
- Tales of the Abyss
- Star Ocean: 'Til the End of Time
- Grandia III
- Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria
- .//Hack (Series)

There were the few i could play at some time.

PSone:
Chrono Cross - the system takes some getting used to, but it's fast paced and fun, and the soundtrack is just gold.

Vagrant Story - honestly can't say much, since I don't have it, but it's by Square and it takes place in Ivalice, so what more could you want?

Xenogears - again, haven't played, but it's by Square and the soundtrack is phenomenal (as is anything else by Yasunori Mitsuda).

PS2:
Xenosaga series - just plain wins, if you don't mind sci-fi RPGs.

Dragon Quest 8 - pretty uninspired story, but the gameplay is great traditional RPG stuff and it's actually challenging.

Persona 3 - I just picked this up a couple weeks ago, and my god it's fun as hell, even though it is anime. Nice fast paced battle system and...well the story seems interesting so far, haven't gotten very far in it yet. The soundtrack is horrible though.

Odin Sphere - nice fairy tale-ish story, and it's a 2D sidescrolling action RPG. And possibly rivals Okami for most beautiful game on the PS2. Also provides quite the challenge.

The Phantasy Star games were also mostly always good, though I'm not sure of all the titles that are available for Sony Systems... I know you can get 1-4 in a compilation of Sega games on the PS2, but I cant remember what the thing is actually called. I also know that Phantasy Star Universe is on the PS2, but I've never played that one.

I used to have Phantasy Star Online on the GameCube (back when I had a GameCube) and you didn't have to play it online, which is something I wish they had done with FFXI, but anyway. Yeah... The Phantasy Star games were pretty good from what I recall. It was like the Sega Genesis' answer to Final Fantasy back when FF was a Nintendo title.

I think I'm probably repeating some games already, but...

PS1
Legend of Dragoon

Chrono Trigger: Amazing game!

Final Fantasy VI: My fave FF game from SNES times

Final Fantasy V

Final Fantasy IV

PS2
Persona 3; but don't be dumb like me, wait for PS3:FES if you can, but I am enjoying the game as it is right now

Kingdom Hearts and KHII: Awesome game; don't late the rating fool you, the story really sucks you in, and KHII gives some closure

.hack//G.U.; it has SOME references to the earlier .hack games, but you should be able to play this series without a problem.

XenoSaga

DragonQuest VIII

Shining Force Neo

Shadow Hearts 3: Cliche, but enjoyable

Originally Posted by Storm Shadow

The soundtrack is horrible though.

Blasphemy! The soundtrack is amazing! But I guess not everyone enjoys that style of music.

Xenosage I-III
Rogue Galaxy
Kingdom Hearts I & II
FF12
Dragon Quest VIII
Shadow Hearts 1-3

I'd say all of these are veryyy good games to grab ahold of. =D

Originally Posted by Ryvius

Blasphemy! The soundtrack is amazing! But I guess not everyone enjoys that style of music.

The music is fine inside Tartarus...but on school grounds and in town, it just gets so repetitive and grates on my nerves. I do not like listening to weirdass Jpop loop over and over, I want me sum nice ambient music

I really do recommend Persona 3 though, for Phyrinox and everyone else who's not played it. Like I said, I'm not that far in (because I had a horrible urge to play FF7) but I pretty much got hooked from the get go. The cutscenes are awesome, I like how you can build relationships with your classmates, the battles are really fun....and it's just plain cool aiming a gun to your head and pulling the trigger to summon your Persona

Actually Phyrinox, I'd recommend just about anything published by Atlus, they usually put out top-notch RPGs.

Originally Posted by Kamikakushi

Grandia is probably my favourite RPG out of the Final Fantasy series,
Grandia 2 was abit disapointing but fingers crossed for number 3.

Grandia II was my all time favorite. lmao.

Grandia III was a tad bit of a let-down, tbqh. =/. The graphics were amazing but, I loved II much more.