ugh kingdom hearts i really liked the first one but after the second one and various spins offs it just got meh
That one on the DDS was dope I thought...
Anyway, I'm surprised no one mentioned the following"
Shadow Hearts (any of them including Koudelka) - My favorite was SH2
Blue Dragon
Eternal Arms
Lost Odyssey
White Knight Chronicles (the offline mode)
Grandia 2 & 3
Mass Effect 1 (not so much part 2, and I'll eventually explain why)
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross (I liked it, despite how the story kinda didn't truly follow the first one)
Legend of Dragoon (very linear, but still worth mentioning)
Eternal Eyes
...sigh... If I have to mention a FF game, I guess FFIV (Yes the one with Cecil) and FFVIII... Both I thought were better than VII. VII only really got jizzed over because it was the first 3d FF game, and because of Aeris (or Aerith if you had the glitch thing happen to you). The materia system was good, but once you found the strongest materia in the game, you could run through the game easy. The only real challenge imo were the Emerald and Ruby Weapons...
I can't think of anything else right now... My list is actually longer than that, but I got beats in my head right now...