So I just finished FF12 for the second time. It has been about 2 years since I played it through the first time. My first time through I remember thinking the story was kind of confusing and never really drew me in, but I thought this second time more of it would sink in. To be honest I don't think much of it has. At the end of the game I realised that I never really felt that connected with the characters. Also, there were moments where I went from one area to the next and never totally understodd why except for the game said "go here".

Don't get me wrong, I thought the game was a lot of fun. I enjoyed the enemies on  the overworld and the whole gambit system. Once I realised that it removed the need to constantly hit the X button every turn, so much of the annoying older system was removed, even if I did feel a little less involved during the battles.

So I'm just curious, did anyone else feel the same?

I COMPLETELY felt the same way

but oddly enough i liked it.

i hated final fantasy 3-11, but this one seemed just less melodramatic.

the story was nonsensical, but not overly ham fisted or anything

to me it was the best story theyve done so far easily.

A lot of people are going to feel the same, Mojo. It's the prevailing opinion in some corners of the internet, this one included.

Wherever there's a FF XII thread I'm always sure to find Khuutra.


Noob mistake #112: referring to a Final fantasy game by not using roman numerals

FF XII was the only FF I really didn't care for. I found the battle system atrocious. I was frequently forced to play healer/buffer because no matter how you configured the gambit system I could never get my support character to do exactly what I wanted. I never felt I had the level of control over the battles that I would have liked. It felt like someone thought it would be a good idea to take the online fighting system of FF XI and try to integrate it into an offline game.

Hated it. Hoping they redeem themselves with FF XIII, as SE has been releasing alot of what I would call crap RPGs lately, and as a traditionally huge S/E fan I buy and play anything they release. S/E used to be a guarantee of an epic gaming experience, what the hell happened?

i was really impressed it was a superb game, but i was stuck on the second to last dungeon, the part where you have to navigate them teleport crossroads. i couldnt even do it with a guide(text guide) and i had to give up, it was getting far to frustrating for me.

better to trade it in than snap disk. lol watched the rest on youtube.

OFCOURSe we did!

It was an FF game where I didn't care about the story towards the end

the first 19 hours are a BORE

from the 20th hour it got interesting but then too boring again!

Gameplay was fun though....for most of it.

hatmoza said: Wherever there's a FF XII thread I'm always sure to find Khuutra. Noob mistake #112: referring to a Final fantasy game by not using roman numerals

I find it better to set expectations for the rest of the topic than to defend th game

I'd be here all day

Well, I'll be the contrary voice, because I absolutely loved the history of FFXII and some of it's characters. All of the political puppeteiring, backstabbing, megalomaniac and demagogical intentions of Vayne, while on the contrast you have the honest-to-a-fault, naive queen getting entangled in all this backlash while her country suffers from the massive scale of the ensuing war of the grander nations of Ivalice.
Even the Gabranth/Basch story arc was great, IMO.

Also the battle system was one of the best in all FF, and i didn't use the gambit system once, since I love to think out and execute my own strategies.

Here we go again

I love FF but I can't understand how another fan of the series could possibly like and defend this game. The controls were crap, the lack of control over the party was disappointing, gambits made the game shallow, and the one man grinding was torture. It did everything opposite of what made previous FF games so fun.