SRPGs (or TRPGs) you've known and loved.

[alienjesus]

Here's a list of Strategy RPGs I can think of that I've beaten. I love the genre, but actually, the list I've finished is pretty small and not very diverse:

Fire Emblem 1
Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon
Fire Emblem (7)
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
Fire Emblem Awakening
Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Jeanne D'Arc

I've also played a bunch of other games which I think could loosely fit under this category, but which might not be counted as full fledged SRPGs. Some because they're not really RPGs as such (although they have similar gameplay!), and some because they're real-time, and most people mean turn based when they talk SRPG.:

Advance Wars
Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Patapon
Faselei
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings
Inazuma Eleven (yes, I think this counts)
Sakura Wars: So Long My Love

Finally, despite the fact I love this genre, time is scarce, and I have quite the SRPG backlog. I'd appreeciate some recommendations from people on what to try sooner rather than later!:

Code Name STEAM (3DS)
Fire Emblem Fates (3DS)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars (3DS)
Game Boy Wars 2 (GB)
Fire Emblem: Fuuin No Tsurugi (GBA)
Knights in the Nightmare (DS)
Valkyria Chronicles Remastered (PS4)
Patapon 2 (PSP)
Summon Night 5 (PSP)
Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP)
Yggdra Union (PSP)
Lost Dimension (Vita)
Dragon Force (Saturn)
Fire Emblem: Mosho No Nazo (SFC)
Fire Emblem: Seisen No Keifu (SFC)
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii)

[Exhuminator]

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered (PS4)

Out of that list, I recommend playing this one the most.

So which of the SRPGs that you've beaten would you consider the overall best?

[alienjesus]

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered (PS4)

Out of that list, I recommend playing this one the most.

So which of the SRPGs that you've beaten would you consider the overall best?

I adore Fire Emblem 7 for GBA. To me, it's the perfect balance of difficulty in the series, and I like the simplicity of it a little bit more than the 'everything including the kitchen sink' apporach of some of the later entries.

I also adore Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Objectively, I think A2 is probably better, but Advance came at just the right time in my teen years that I played it to death (so did Fire Emblem 1 for that matter, I think I've beaten that game about 30 times). I really didn't like the original FFT compared to the later ones - all the story characters were so broken that it felt pointless customising your team of generics with cool set-ups. Tactics Ogre was definitely the better game of those two.

My least favourite of the ones I beat was probably Jeanne D'Arc. It never did anything wrong, it was just kinda....there. I did enjoy it, but it paled in comparison to the best the genre had to offer.

If we're going onto my 'sorta SRPGs' list, I fucking adore the Advance Wars games and Patapon. Patapon combines 2 of my favourite genres (SRPGs and Rhythm games) into one super quirky super compelling mix and I loved it.

[Sarge]

I seriously love the Growlanser games. Solid real-time strategy combat there. Give it a shot if you want something that's not Fire Emblem or Final Fantasy Tactics-styled.

I play a lot of SRPGs, but I don't finish a lot of them, for whatever reason. I think my obsession with permadeath in Fire Emblem makes me swear off of it around halfway into any of them, and for some reason the isometric ones feel too slow. I've probably put ten hours into FFT, and at least that much into Knights of Lodis as well.

My favorites skew towards simpler games in the genre, but they're still crazy fun. The Shining Force games are amazing stuff, and by extension, their cousins Arc the Lad I & II. I also enjoyed the heck out of Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits.

As mentioned, there's Growlanser, of which I've beaten the second game, almost beaten the third, and beaten the fourth games.

[Juan Aguacate]

Valkyria Chronicles is my favorite one, specially with the remaster that came out recently.

[avrame]

Fire Emblem, Growlanser, Shining Force, can't go wrong with those

I am also fond of Final Fantasy Tactics, Front Mission 3, Advance Wars, Langrisser (Warsong) and Tactics Ogre, Vandal Hearts (1, screw 2).

Any mention of SRPGs that you hated? I tried (oh have I tried...) but I couldn't find any redeeming qualities for Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth for PS1.

[Jmustang1968]

Oh man, at work now, but I can chime in on this later when J have more free time. This is perhaps my favorite genre/sub-genre.

[Exhuminator]

Oh man, at work now, but I can chime in on this later when J have more free time. This is perhaps my favorite genre/sub-genre.

Looking forward to your opinions.

[Ivo]

I haven't played as many as it is very time consuming for me, I get too into min-maxing.

My favorite so far is Tactics Ogre: Knights of Lodis, by far. That game is really good.
Ogre Battle March of the Black Queen is a bit different type of gameplay and I didn't enjoy it as much.

The old X-Com / UFO: Enemy Unknown (the battles are kind of TRPG), I probably liked better overall as a game, but note quite this genre.

Very similar to Tactics Ogre is FFTA which I finished. It is still pretty good but has several flaws.

I also really liked the GBA Fire Emblem (with Eliwood, apparently Fire Emblem 7).
Shining Force I (I played GBA remake) completed and enjoyed a lot as well. Both of these are better games than FFTA I think, but they are top view instead of isometric. I don't count Advance Wars as this genre myself, not really RPGs that I know of. But they are good games and a good kind of game as well.

Metal Gear Acid 1 and 2 also very good, a bit different with the card based thing.

[Exhuminator]

My favorite so far is Tactics Ogre: Knights of Lodis, by far.

Have you played the original Tactics Ogre (or Let Us Cling Together)? And if so, how do you think it compares?