| selnor said: FF7 was great. after that it went downhill. As mentioned 9 saved it but its lowest point was FF12.(what a poor game). Concerned for 13. |
I agree that FFXII sucks, but not for the combat system, wich was very good IMO. I hated that they took what was one of the best elements of the series and turned it into one of the most useless elements in XII, I'm talking about the summons, FFXII's espers, I never used them because they simply don't work on any attack strategy, also they drain the bar that also gives you the oportunity to make the game's best attacks.
Also I hated that you couldn't really set characters apart, you had the abilities chessboard with the same elements for every character, so everyone could have the same abilities, weapons and strenghts, and something I love about JRPGs is that you can have very different characters with different abilities, something that just wasn't on FFXII.
The other element about FFXII that I hated was the story, it was almost like a copy from Star Wars, if you don't believe me then send me a message and I'll explain because I won't spoil it, but from start to ending the game's story is a copy of Star Wars. There is no character development at all, I wanted to know about everyone (how Balthier and the bunny got together for example) but there was just no explanation. Vaan (the main character) is uninteresting, he has no backstory, he is not important to the story and it's never explained why he can see the prince's ghost, wich really bothered me...
Now some people are saying that after FF7 the series is getting worse, but I have to disagree, FF8 wasn't very good, but FF9 was, and FF10 was a total masterpiece, I can't believe some people forget about that game...
