Ladies and gentlemen, I propose to you the stupidest idea to enter my mind in possibly, oh I don't know... a week? and that Idea? 
 

	1. Final Fantasy XIII
	2. Rogue Galaxy
	3. Final Fantasy XII
	4. Blue Dragon
	5. Infinite Undiscovery
	6. White Knight Chronicles: International Edition
	7. The Last Remnant
	8. Star Ocean: The Last Hope
	9. Tales of Vesperia
	10. Enchanted Arms
	11. Eternal Sonata
	12. Steambot Chronicles
	13. Resonance of Fate
	14. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES
	15. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4

Soap

If you want some extra credit, play Dragon Quest VIII.
 
Have fun with The Last Remnant.

Well, least I know you'll have a really great time with Tales of Vesperia.

I challenge you to go the gym and study more every day and let me know how much XP you'll get from that .

" I challenge you to go the gym and study more every day and let me know how much XP you'll get from that . "

you're going to wind up killing yourself, man!

Enchanted Arms... ewwwww

Play Infinite Undiscovery first. If you can even bring yourself to finish even half of that game, then you may as well just cancel playing the others, your fate will be sealed.

Hell Yea Last Remnant.  Nothing like a game that had an interesting mechanics only to end up randomizing what you are allowed to do in battle.  I enjoyed wanting to heal or revive my party teams, only to have no options to do so because the game felt like it wasn't the right situation.  Even better if it thinks that when you tried focusing every different party on the battlefield.
 
I suggest you give The Last Remnant a go Soap.

Of course you haven't lost interest in JRPGs, it's just that nearly every JRPG that's been released in the last half a decade has been poor to average quality, but games like Persona 4 and Dragon Quest IX prove that JRPGs can still be enjoyable. Honestly, I've played most of the games on your list and I'd say more than 75% of them are not the best the genre can offer. Some of them aren't even good games. By playing them you're only going to hate JRPGs even more!

I feel I can safely recommend about half of the games on your list. You also might want to consider Lost Odyssey or, depending on how far you want to stretch your definition of JRPG, Valkyria Chronicles.

Good bunch of games, should be fun.

Good luck!

"You also might want to consider Lost Odyssey"

If you've got a PS3 you could always try your shot on NIER. From what I've heard that game has a really good story.

" @StarvingGamer said:

"You also might want to consider Lost Odyssey"

 This. Lost Odyssey is one of my absolute favourite JRPGs of all time. I highly recommend it. "

You might want to add these:
 
Valkyria Chonicles - If you need a breather and a game that is easy to enjoy.
Demon's Souls - Just in case.

What about Nier? 
I've heard that it's the best game ever to ever appear in stores on this earth. 
 
'cringe'  
 
Anyways, good luck with your challenge! If you make it, I'll buy you 20 new (and old) rpg games to get through! :P

you should play the whole altier iris series

DON'T PLAY WHITE KNIGHTS CHRONICLES  OR STAR OCEAN 4
 you will commit suicide 

I'd recommend against playing FFXIII, Enchanted Arms, Infinite Undiscovery.
 
Blue Dragon,Eternal Sonata and the Last remant have some good aspects but they've got some pretty big issues to. The rest is good. Have a look at Valkyria Chronicles for the PS3. Its an excellent game.

Last Remnant is kind of good on PC. 
No really. You can't grind out of a challenge cus your BR actually makes enemies stronger. So a lot of wimps gave up on that game. Though you may find yourself Digg grinding instead, so you can get money. Its not a perfect game but people who think you have no control over the outcome just kind of never figured out how to play.

I just started Disc 3 of Final Fantasy XIII. I like it much, much more than I thought I would. As long as you know going in that there's not much exploring to do, and try not to get pissed off about it, it's pretty great.

" Good luck! "

Good LUCK! Getting to number 7 WILL be a challenge...PLAYING number 7 WILL be the straw that could break the camels back cause......FUCK that game. It's not even a good cup coaster.

You're missing both Nier and Lost Odyssey.  
 
Good luck on your endeavour. If it turns out too great of a waste of time, give it up. 

Are you avoiding handhelds?  Because there are some good ones on handhelds, at least in comparison to Star Ocean, Infinite Undiscovery, White Knight and The Last Remnant.  Crystal Gem Saga is decent, Radiant Historia supposed to be good, a new Golden Sun, Dragon Quest IX. 
 
And hey NISA has 2 new games coming out, Hyperdimension Neptunia and the third Ar Tonelico they may actually make it the UK! 
 
And if you want SRPGs, there are a bunch that would be better than some of those bad, bad games on your list. 
 
EDIT:You could also add Recettear for the PC.  And there are also rogue-likes like ZHP.

Wait, JRPGs aren't modern games? Why didn't I get the memo? Is it because I'm old school as shit?

The Last Remnant has some really uninspired level designs. Have fun capturing castles 1 till 5 (the devs didn't bother naming them).
 
On topic: you will have fun! I can't imagine playing JRPGs being such an annoying thing to do.

That's quite a list.  Though, if you have a PSP or DS, there are a number of RPGs for both that would be worthwhile additions to the challenge.

I'm pretty sure I would kill myself (figuratively) if I had to do that challenge. I wish you luck in your foolish endeavor, while I'll be playing a JRPG that is at least presumably better than half of what you are going through in Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne, which actually wouldn't be a bad thing to play before either of the Persona games. Kind of expensive though. It cost me $34 for what is a 6 year old game.

Yeah, try Nier (GOTY 2010 baby); and if you haven't yet, I would definitely recommend SMT: Nocturne, Digital Devil Saga (that one's actually pretty short) also Resonance of Fate is also amazing, but it can be hard to figure out.

Good luck! At least Tales of Vesperia and Persona 3/4 are all good, so it shouldn't be that dire an experience.

Are you really going to play 2 persona games in 2 months? Those games are hella long...

" @eroticfishcake:  I actually thought about Nier but didn't know how much of a JRPG it was, I will look into it.  
 
@StarvingGamer:  @eroticfishcake:  @Cramsy:  @RVonE: Thanks for the suggestion guys, the only reason Lost Odyssey isn't on the list is because I played it to 100% when it came out and loved it, I thought this would be a better challenge if it was all games that I either hadn't played or in the case of Enchanted Arms Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, Steambot Chronicles, Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata games that I hadn't finished. (only got about 30% through most of them, except FFXIII and Encharted Arms were both I got minutes away from the final boss before losing all my data D:) "

This prospect horrifies me. RPG's are long man, and usually slow as heck. I'd be completely burnt out after about 2 and a half I reckon.

" @endaround: Hadn't actually thought of handhelds! Thanks :D Probably a better way to get through a game as well as I'm on the move a fair bit.  I will probably update this list in a few hours with all the suggestions then before making my final list on monday! "

Soap, if you complete this I'll build you a shrine. 
 
this will take guts. 
 
and intelligence. 
 
and stamina.
 
maybe some wisdom too. 
 
TAKE SOME OF THESE WITH YOU 
 

Handheld RPGs I'd suggest off the top of my head:
 

• Final Fantasy III
• Final Fantasy IV
• Shin Megami Tensei:  Strange Journey
• The World Ends With You
• Glory of Heracles (not the best or most exciting example that the genre has to offer on the DS, but it has its unique aspects.)
• Dragon Quest IX
  

Godspeed, Soap.

/salute

You know, I think I'm in the same situation. I used to love JRPGs, but all these new ones with their boring cutscenes and their campy voice acting and their crazy battle systems suck. On that note, you should play Dragon Quest 8! It's really good!

Best of luck with your endeavour, Soap. I understand how you feel - I too play nowhere near as many JRPGs as I used to. Be sure to keep us updated with how this goes, along with your thoughts on the games as you play and (hopefully) beat them. Any praise is very likely to influence which games I end up deciding to pick up :)

I think you should space out P3 and P4 as they are VERY similar games. Also, you should add Yakuza 3 to this list if you have a PS3. It definitely deserves a spot over a lot of those other games.

" I think you should space out P3 and P4 as they are VERY similar games. Also, you should add Yakuza 3 to this list if you have a PS3. It definitely deserves a spot over a lot of those other games. "