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Icyedge on 01 October 2009
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Khuutra said:
Icyedge said:
Khuutra said:

According to quite a few fans, too.

How many RPGs did you play? This kind of comment remind me of the Xbox fanboys saying lost odyssey is a masterpiece, obviously its prolly the first RPG they played. If FFXII is a masterpiece, then how can we qualify games like dragon quest 8, suikoden 5, FF VII or X??

 

If you ever try FFXI, released around 2 years prior XII, youll also prolly find lame that they use same engine and all the same names for everything. Filled the game with fetching subquest, because they didnt put enough work in it to put story instead. Dont get me wrong tho, its not bad, simply average, if you played through it all, theres no reason to say its a masterpiece if you compare it to other much better RPGs. If you had played other RPGs and still think its a masterpiece then I would say that you probably prefer action games over RPGs, and you would hate xenosaga lol.

....My profile displays this kind of information for a reason.

I started my love affair with the series with FFIV on the SNES, and thereafter with FFVI (II and III in the US, respectively).

More, many of my favorite gams are RPGs - Mother 3 is one of the greatest games ever made, and it's from a series that began as an homage to Dragon Quest. Hell, I actually love Dragon Quest.

I detail earlier in the thread why FFXII is a masterpiece. In short: it's the best-written, best-plotted, and most thematically consistent game in the series. The characters are masterful. The only respect in which other entrants in the series trump it is in terms of music, and not every other entrant even does that.

 

Ok, I respect that, but I really dont understand, for me it was really bland, I feeled nothing playing this game, and I did understand the story. Im not playing a RPG to do combat over and over for 5 hours and finally have a 5 minutes cutscene. And for someone who played FFXI a while, a big part of FFXII was copy and paste. At least in FFXI there was multiplayer interaction.