Onimusha12 said:
FFXII was such a mediocre product in my eyes that the only people who even accept it as decent, I've convinced myself, are those who have no clue what it could have been. I swear if they make anything an androgynously emo FFX clone such as FFXII was, people will fall all over themselves for it on principal of the game's image and presentation alone. Sigh, you probably prefer the new character designs of FF7 Advent Children over the old ones of FF7 itself too... sigh... youngins these days... Will people buy into anything if it presents itself with a pretentiously flashy facade of stale gaudy art and is featured on a black box of some variety with the name SONY on it? I don't mean to be attacking your personal opinion dude, you've been nothing but respectful in presenting it and I appologize for not returning the favor in voicing my own opinion, but I cannot emphasize how much I loathe this standard of image/style over content in JRPGs beginning with the PS2. Everything is just a timid copy of FFX anymore, in fact it was Square-Enix's insistance of turning FFXII into FFX that drove the game's director out of the Company out of disgust and frustration resulting in a progressively delayed and mitigated end product. Van and Penello were about as extraneous to the story of FFXII as DS/PSP spin-offs were. Balthier and Fran were suppossed to be the pirate-like Han Solo and Chewbacca of the story but just ended up being a lame Robbin Hood and the toking Ass & Titty Noble Savage of the only non-human race human enough to be allowed in the main cast by the xenophobic developers. Bausch looked like he wore his sister's clothes and served little more purpose than to be eye candy for Bara Yaoi fans. And Ashe, Ashe was perhaps the most unrelateable, distant and inacessable main female character of any FF game to date, she didn't even have any romantic or emotional investment in any of your main party, the dude she was married to was dead and outside of looking exactly like Yuna, she brought nothing to the fray other than being the sole bond that connected the main party to the story that seemed to be taking place inspite of them. Seriously though, if you love these games, don't let someone like me make you feel bad for doing so, I'm just frustrated by these trends and the resulting loss of so many things that could have been. Whether I'm right or wrong, people like me will always be there in the wake of change, speaking of the golden days, that all too often, never were.
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Sorry for my bluntness, but the bolded parts are bullshit, and the underlined part is a ridiculous generalization. The bolded and underlined section is, what I believe, the complete opposite of what happens with this game. The third paragraph seems to be objective opinion (assuming you have played the game, which I somewhat doubt), so I left it alone.
Also, a word of advice, a game is a lot more enjoyable if you don't think about what it could have been, since you're playing it without an obvious bias right from the get-go.
