Final Fantasy XII

[Yessie]

wondering anyone picked it up. i picked up the $59.99 special edition version and i played about 2hrs into the game and im just getting started. i like there new fighting system you can actually control your movements during battle its awesome. its alot less of a buttton smasher then the pass versions.

if you havent checked it out this is a game i suggest you do so. many hrs of gameplay.

[cyanide]

Somebody in my class was talking about it and she thought the characters were stupid, but it was still fun.

[Yessie]

well so far the story at the start is very long. its just starting to make sense. and the battle system is alot like secret of mana from back in the day on the snes. you can have assigned orders for all in party so you can just take control of 1 of the characters in the party or you can control the whole party.

[Bang]

I have the game. Yea, the game seems longer than any of the other FFs. I'm 10 hours into the game and there isn't that much story yet. (But that could be be because I try to do all these side quests.)

I would say the game's battle system is a bit more like Secret of Mana 2 (a.k.a. Seiken Densetsu 3) not Secret of Mana. However, it's more like a turn battle system disguised as a real time system.

I'm really digging the difficulty of this game. The post FF7 Final Fantasies were way too easy for me. I think I just died once or twice in FF8 and FF9. I hear FF10 is even easier. (I haven't played it much.) FF12 however, surprises you with super strong enemies appearing at random places. I doubt anyone can play the game without running at least once.

One thing I don't like is the License system. I think it makes the characters less unique. You can make everyone super strong, which is good, but you can make everyone the same character as well. There's nothing much distinguishing the character's abilities that much.

[Yessie]

i agree on the license systyme but its also alot easier to level you players up, and theres so many choices in the system everyone doesnt have to be the same. so far im in the part where they been taken prisoner by the empire and im on the airship leviathan. im almost at the 9hr mark. fun game once you get used to the new battle system is alot of fun. ive died twice in the 9hrs of play.

[Bang]

Well already 2 of my characters are basically the same: (might be spoilers?) Vaan and Basch. With one other character Ashe definitely starting to look similar. Plus almost everyone needs a few of the same things. Such as steal (YOU NEED TO STEAL IN THIS GAME!), Libra or Level 1 White Magic. Not to mention the Passive Attributes. Every single one of my characters basically have the same passive attributes. (Like HP + 50) Maybe they'll start to vary a little later on.

[Jing]

this game is looking purely beautiful. I was watching X-Play reviewing it and was totally drooling. Once school gets less stressful (vacation!), I will defiantly pick this up.

[Yessie]

i like the side quest where you go hunt "marks" all over the place. almost makes me feel like a bounty hunter. lol just got done with the last part i was on gonna take a break to refresh. game looks like an A+ so far.