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<blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 4433253" data-attributes="member: 2642"><p>Well, as an update to what I said before, I'm finding FFXII a lot easier to get into now. I've gotten a lot better at using gambits and status effects (positive ones, especially Decoy + obscene shield-blocking - the negative ones seem pretty useless, they never work on anything worth using them on) and gotten more willing to explore random corners of the game and go off on side quests. Now instead of being underleveled and underequipped I'm slightly overleveled if anything.</p><p></p><p>I've been having a lot more fun since I realized this is the first FF game in a long time to really reward the explorer mentality. I just returned to the main quest after finishing all the cactaur stuff and taking a stab at the secret part of Bartheim Passage (still not powerful enough for that, I couldn't win a fight without Quickenings in there!), and the only reason I'm back where the plot expects me to be is that I realized I'm so far ahead of mandatory NPC Larsa that he's actually become a liability - it's not that he makes <em>no </em>contribution, but he sucks back more still-semi-expensive Phoenix Downs than he's worth, against things my "real" characters have no trouble with. (I assume following the plot is the only way to get rid of him.)</p><p></p><p>I will always love the old-style Final Fantasy interface, but once you get used to the new MMO-like thing and become proficient with programming Gambits, it's okay. I still think the combat feedback is very poor, mostly due to the camera angles, and that's sometimes an annoyance, but I can live with it now. I do think there's too much wandering around on the world map and that the license board is inferior to the sphere grid in giving your characters individual identities and to the job system in flexibility, but I no longer want to rip the lungs out of everyone who had a hand in making it, as I did when I started posting here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeffh, post: 4433253, member: 2642"] Well, as an update to what I said before, I'm finding FFXII a lot easier to get into now. I've gotten a lot better at using gambits and status effects (positive ones, especially Decoy + obscene shield-blocking - the negative ones seem pretty useless, they never work on anything worth using them on) and gotten more willing to explore random corners of the game and go off on side quests. Now instead of being underleveled and underequipped I'm slightly overleveled if anything. I've been having a lot more fun since I realized this is the first FF game in a long time to really reward the explorer mentality. I just returned to the main quest after finishing all the cactaur stuff and taking a stab at the secret part of Bartheim Passage (still not powerful enough for that, I couldn't win a fight without Quickenings in there!), and the only reason I'm back where the plot expects me to be is that I realized I'm so far ahead of mandatory NPC Larsa that he's actually become a liability - it's not that he makes [I]no [/I]contribution, but he sucks back more still-semi-expensive Phoenix Downs than he's worth, against things my "real" characters have no trouble with. (I assume following the plot is the only way to get rid of him.) I will always love the old-style Final Fantasy interface, but once you get used to the new MMO-like thing and become proficient with programming Gambits, it's okay. I still think the combat feedback is very poor, mostly due to the camera angles, and that's sometimes an annoyance, but I can live with it now. I do think there's too much wandering around on the world map and that the license board is inferior to the sphere grid in giving your characters individual identities and to the job system in flexibility, but I no longer want to rip the lungs out of everyone who had a hand in making it, as I did when I started posting here. [/QUOTE]
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