whats the best SRPG you have ever played ?

[Khuutra]

Torillian said:

Khuutra said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Khuutra said:

So you would say that Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics are not SRPGs, then, since the majority of your troops are not personalities of their own.

I didn't mention personality.

So the primary distinction is not anything to do with role-playing, but simply carrying units over between missions.

That's a different role, in a TBS you are a commander with a nameless army that you create anew for each battle.  In an SRPG you are the leader of a large band of adventurers of some kind.  You add new characters, but you don't just create 40 warriors for a battle you use your level 30 warrior that you created and have slowly leveled through different battles.

This is a false distiction. All "SRPGs" are turn-based strategy games, with or without story-telling elements. There has been narrative and consistent characterization in turn-based strategy games since before Dungeons and Dragons even existed.