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adjl posted...

I think that's pretty much a comprehensive list, though, and even then, Skies of Arcadia and Paper Mario are the only "traditional" JRPG's on there, and SoA was a remake. FE is strategy, BK, PSO3, and Lost Kingdoms were card battlers (weirdly ahead of the current popularity of deckbuilding RPGs, now that I think about it >.>), Lost Kingdoms and Tales are action JRPG's, and Crystal Chronicles just made pretty much everyone ask "why is this called Final Fantasy?". For people that wanted "more games like Final Fantasy," there wasn't a whole lot, whereas the PS2 had a metric ton of them (including FF itself).

The irony is that the PS2 had Symphonia (you had to import it) and the better collection of Tales games. The Gamecube just had Symphonia, which did get people into the series but I know that there were plenty of people in the community at the time that imported Destiny 2, Rebirth and Destiny Remake because they got into Tales through Abyss and Symphonia and to a lesser extent the fan translations of Phantasia and Narakiri Dungeon 3 (how I got into Tales).

It's also pretty crazy that Tales has been pretty dead relative since Xilia and I don't remember Arise being all that well received (I didn't even buy Arise after how much I disliked Berseria)