Some of the others (Final Fantasy I-XXVI
) and Xenosaga, Xenogears, were quite good - FF too often had lame mechanics though, but nice storylines. Hmm - you didn't mention the Vandal Hearts games, or Ogre Battle/Ogre Tactics, which are rather like FFTactics or Suikoden. Brigandine was another fun turn-based fantasy army game.
And other good console RPGs included the Wild Arms series, and Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast, but later ported I think), and a ... hybrid, Valkyrie Profile.
All of those have stayed in my collection, even as I moved across the country in a UHaul (sold about 50 console games though).
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Vandal hearts 1 vas simple but very good, the second disappointed me.
The FF serie has hights and lows: IV, VI, VII, IX are beautiful (the story, the mechanic is a bit boring), the V is horrible, VII and X are controversial (but have beautiful graphics).
The Ogre games are very good, and I've never played Brigandine.
I liked very much Wid Arms 1 too, but Wild arms 2 has been ruinded by the text fonts (how one can ruin a game with the fonts???).
And Valkyrie profile ... perhaps the mastrepiece of PS with Vagrant Story, a beautiful and sad poem.
If you like these I advice you on Disgaea (for PS2).
But the SNES-PS era is almost gone.