Soriku, that is your opninion.
I totally agree with Xen. FFX, VII and VII are my favourites but I spent countless hours in FFXII. The gameplay is great, the gambits system was one of the bests parts. Although the story was kinda... I don't know, they just made a semi-medieval star wars IV ??? Becouse if you think about the story in general terms, its the same, there's even a death star! ... Well it doesn't matter because it really, really full of sidequests... Just making the sunflower sword or getting all the summonings takes so many hours... hunts, secret objects and weapons, secret bosses, secret summonings...
If you like the battle system, then it becomes an incredible expirience.
If you don't like it, it transforms into an ordinary rpg with a weak story...
I spent 130 hours on the american version. After some time I got the spanish version (so my brother could play it) and spent nearly 200 hours...