wich is kind of ironic because it had the best battle scheme than any other FF! or any other rpg for that matter

All Final Fantasies are that way even XII.

I always knew that games battle system was ahead of it's time back then.

If this game's battle system is anything like Xenogears I will buy 2 copies!

Exactly. This explains why I barely grind in some RPGs. This makes the difference between "heck yeah, another fight" or "ugghh... not another enemy."

Wait, I could dodge attacks in FFXII. o_O

so it actually sounds like an FF game. good

To me it has the worst one after the first FF. FFX-2 has the best one and FFXIII improves on that.

The big difference that FFXII had was that it was impossible to give commands to each party member (only if you played strictly turn-based without gambits -> gets very boring after a while), it was like KotOR, but with the stupid gambits that took the classic party control away. I hope FFXIII lets you control each character individually and depending on the time gauge of the party execute party commands. Simply an improved Chrono Trigger battle system, that´d be awesome.

I thought the fun about Gambits was to exactly find a way to "automate" everything. Early on in the game, your Gambits don't do anything special. Later on, you get Hastega, Lifega, other awesome spells like that that can easily make your characters always buffed or you're certain someone will always revive your character without needing to press anything but the left stick to dodge a few attacks.

I liked it. I thought my Gambits were brilliantly placed. I even did those hunting quests at very early levels, even that one in the snow mountain. It took me an hour. It was pretty fun to watch, and I didn't even press anything.

I thought I was a genious! That's the kind of game that rewards you for being good and knowing what you have to do. =P

FF XII was not much different with having to wait for attacks, the main difference was that you could make the whole battle fight by itself while you ended up staring at the (large) monster's back leg and ass for the whole fight. (from a stupid 3/4 down angle to boot).

I for one, welcome battles that will allow for dynamic camera angles again. Hurray for letting us appreciate all the work the artists and animators put into these creatures again.

Gambits are the worst thing to ever happened to Final Fanasy ! XII is the only game of the series i have never finished .

OK! D: