Don't pay attention to the FFXII detractors. That game is a masterpiece and has my all time favorite gameplay+battle system amongst all the FFs I have played: from the Fifth onward (excluding XI), although it is not my favorite FF at the end, but who cares about what I like, right?
Some people were told off because the game does not have either a dramatic (new FFs) or funny (old FFs) story but instead more of a fantastic and political outlook of a story but I dig that stuff too and I know that there is more people out there that likes this too and maybe you would. Try it out, I recommend it to you. If you don't like it, feel free to come here and insult me all you want, I'll give you free pass. XD
X-2 is not that bad but the story to me was not that memorable. The best parts of the story were those were you felt nostaligic towards those moments that reminded you of the previous game. To tell the truth I somehow forgot most of the story from that game. For me it wasn't that memorable. The battle system was not bad at all.
Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=221391&page=1
