| lestatdark said: @perpride I know that, Final Fantasy XII is my second favourite Final Fantasy, I loved the plot, the character developments, the battle system, the Hunt system, the addition of a compendium, everything ;) But people hate it, mainly for two reasons, from what I gathered from comments around this site: Story (Too complex for them, most of the times), Battle System (Too easy or too boring, because most people played always with Gambits on, never knowing that you could turn them off and control the entire party yourself, adding a huge amount of challenge in the most complex battles of the game) |
I'm actually pretty middle-ground on FFXII. I did like the story, but I wasn't big on some of the characters (Vaan Penelo and Ashe just annoyed me whenever they opened their mouths, everyone else was cool though).
As for the combat system, yeah it was too easy, and yeah I had gambits on, and I knew I could turn them off at any point, but I don't agree with self-imposing limits when playing a game. To me, game difficulty should be set by things like the combat system, maybe an scaleable internal difficulty setting, etc.
But even with all that, I liked the combat system, I wasn't bored, I enjoyed chaining kills and just running around. My problem was the attempt to simulate MMO style play. As an MMO player, I like the difference between my single-player and MMO games. Mixing the two was a disaster to me. Essentially, the entire time I felt like I was playing a very good MMO alone. All I could think about the whole time was 'Wow, I wish I was playing this with other people'.
I always hate when people say this, but this is the one time I would agree, this game would have been AWESOME to me if it were multiplayer. Unfortunately it isn't, so it's part of my 'Not good, Not bad' list of FF games (or RPGS in general).
My favorties are FF4 (for my memories of that game, met one of my best friends back in the day, we were both playing this game and we were both at the Asura fight), FF6 (my number 1), FF7, and FF10.
Never speak directly to me of FF8 or FF9 =P I think I've mostly blocked those 2 out by now anyways.
As for FFXIII, I'm officially excited! I've been looking forward to it for like 17 years since they started the development, but the original excitement wore off (read as FFXI and FFXII dulled my FF frenzy). Give it a 30/40, I don't care, I still want it.
Edit: On gambits, I never had them on for whatever character I was using. But you mentioned how you could control the whole party with no gambits on, I would never do that.
