Folks, I think a lot of you are missing the point, and that is because this article is slightly misrepresented here on N4G.
First: the article is not "the 4 JRPGs every gamer should play". The article is mostly a commentary on games the every RPG FAN should play.
Secondly: the article is a COMMENTARY. If you actually read the text, and didn't just skim through it to see the "4 JRPGs every gamer should play", then you would know the reasoning behin...
I'd love to see a Lost Odyssey 2 and a Fable 4! Right on.
I'd also take another Culdcept game, or better yet, a Magic: the Gathering game for XBOX 360.