Final Fantasy XII sucks. Period. Fact.

[Gladius Legis]

- No character development. Half the characters make you wonder why they're even tagging along. The other half are just boring or ripoffs of Star Wars characters.

- Sparse to no story, and what little story there is, which is a Star Wars ripoff minus any plot movement, it doesn't bother to tell it. I wasn't fond of the stories from some past FF games (namely FFVIII) but at least those games bothered to tell them. FFXII moves on like it knows it has no substance and is trying to be dishonest about it.

- I was expecting License Grid to be a refinement of FFX's excellent Sphere Grid. What I got was a system that was even more abuseable and broken and made characters even more samey than FFVII's Materia and FFVIII's Junction.

 

[Blackrat]

Kinda haf'ta agree with you here. I really didn't like the game as much I'd have wanted to. Unfortunatily, the last one I really enjoyed was IX, though as a big fan I had to buy the later ones too. I'm not sure I'll pick up 13 anymore .

 

[frankthedm]

The more I found out about 12, the less I wanted to play it.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=215 was the coffin nail

FFX I played for a while, but I did not think it was a great game. SOOO P.O.ed when FFX-2 replaced Lulu with Payne it went on my 'never play' list.

FF9 was alright, though the load times before battles wore out my patience.

FF8's 'Your random enemies gain levels because you did' pissed me off. Not a fan of the draw magic system either.

I put my 99+ hours into FF7 seven and had fun doing so, but i won't disagree with some of it's detractors.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I never got to play FFXII. Guess I am not missing much.

I am on and off again playing FFVI. The sheer amount of level grinding I have to do makes me abandon it for stretches of time though.

 

[Orius]

Whatever. I still want to play it. I haven't played a game in the series yet that I actively hated.

 

[drothgery]

Eh. I liked it. The characters were kind of flat (especially Vann and Penelo, but I didn't use them much), but the game played pretty well, and the world was interesting.

 

[Alzrius]

But...but it has bunnygirls! How can anyone hate anything with bunnygirls?

 

[DonTadow]

I have to agree with you too. It's not the worst one, that title goes to 8, but it was the most boring one. I really felt like i was at a job when i played it. I never got into any of the characters, I can't even remember their names.

Thats sad too because I really liked the gameplay. And with the look of 13 it appears that 12 will be the last ff i ever play. I hope they import that enternal game to the ps3. It seems like its closer to the original final fantasys.

 

[drothgery]

Thats sad too because I really liked the gameplay. And with the look of 13 it appears that 12 will be the last ff i ever play. I hope they import that enternal game to the ps3. It seems like its closer to the original final fantasys.

The closest thing to the PS1 FF games (no non-portable game looks much like the NES and SNES games) that I've seen in a long time was Lost Odyssey on Xbox 360, actually.

 

[John Crichton]

- No character development. Half the characters make you wonder why they're even tagging along. The other half are just boring or ripoffs of Star Wars characters.

You act as if any of the characters from Star Wars were original to begin with.

- Sparse to no story, and what little story there is, which is a Star Wars ripoff minus any plot movement, it doesn't bother to tell it. I wasn't fond of the stories from some past FF games (namely FFVIII) but at least those games bothered to tell them. FFXII moves on like it knows it has no substance and is trying to be dishonest about it.

One may wonder why you are even playing a FF game considering how much you hate other games from the franchise.

- I was expecting License Grid to be a refinement of FFX's excellent Sphere Grid. What I got was a system that was even more abuseable and broken and made characters even more samey than FFVII's Materia and FFVIII's Junction.

Sounds like you had some expectations that were unrealistic.