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Was FFXII all that great?
clayhillpeak
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So i was just curious, now that the hype for this game is completely dead and everything, is FFXII any good? i really have only played 7, 10, and most of 9. i loved all three of those ones but i just really havent heard to much about 12. Any thoughts?
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it is amazing
i must have it
I see what you did there
And yes it is amazing
why, what did i do
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You just described every game ever. Every single one.
XII is great, I'm playing it right now and having a blast.
It did do some things that I loved though, in particular the lack of a love story, the translation, the voice overs and the non-linearity (well, it was pretty non-linear compared to FFX anyway).
Edit: But if you're sure you're hankering for some FF-ish goodness, by all means go for it.
Edit: I think Darlan just summed up my problem.
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But on the other hand, I played it for 150 hours and loved almost every minute of it.
Except Gears of War. Gears is just as good as it was on day one.
Edit: I never do anything besides attack in RPG games, thats where this opinion comes from. MP = Overrated
Whenever anyone complains that the gambit system makes things too easy, I always wonder why they don't just turn it off.
But yeah. Great game. Fantastic battle engine, really makes games with random encounters look primitive. Many of the sidequests are maddening (did anyone get to Hell Wyrm without a guide?), but hey, that's what GameFAQs is for. The boss and mark fights are enormously cool. And the gambit system is a fantastic way to alleviate the tedium of the average JRPG.
For the bad, characters aren't heavily developed. Anyone can do anything with enough license points-- that irritates some people. The later dungeons are too damn long, and the puzzles vary between inexplicable and obvious. Still, the fantastic fighting engine carries it. Highly recommended.
Oh please. Gears of War was one of the most (if not THE most) overtalked games of last year. Having played it and finding it good, I can say that it's basically RE4 + cover + shitty dialogue + rubbish level design.
But I digress, personally I save all my MP (and good items) for boss fights. I very rarely have to use all of it, but it's nice to have just in case the boss is insanely hard (or I'm under-levelled).
if i were you, though, id wait for the inevitable Greatest Hits version and pick it up on the cheap. It was worth my $50 easily, but $20 would make it a no-brainer.
Why isn't it Greatest Hits already?
But FFXII? Badass. I only hope other JRPGs can learn from it and stop doing so much stupid shit.
edit: As for why it's not greatest hits, IIRC, GH is usually something like a year after initial release, it's not even been 6 months.
I'm a sucker for stories that involve all aspects of a narrative, not just characters.
Has to sell X number of copies over a nine month period. Then, after the profit dies off, it drops suddenly.
Yeah, it'd suck to have interactive games where all battles aren't identical like the Makai series, the Tales series, the Grandia series, the Baten Kaitos series, the Star Ocean series, the Valkyrie Profiles...
I mean, all you ever do in all of those is sit there and press X. They're all identical games.
And I hardly say spending 5 minutes to set up gambits that then last you for the next 40 hours of the game is particularly special effort.
Ahh, I thought it was a total sales sort of thing. That's what I've always hated about Greatest Hits/Platinum/Player's Choice. They always wait until the last conceivable second to drop the price. I understand why, but it doesn't mae it any less annoying.
It was extremely refreshing. It was the Nestea of Final Fantasy, if you will.
Overall it was a pretty great game. I miss the turn based combat system, but it was still pretty great.
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