Final Fantasy 12: RPG of the year, or cheap attempt to make money?
 

With new ideas like the licensce board, gambits, and the deletion of random battles, how do you think people will react to it?

Yes, I am aware it isnt out yet, but it's good to have an idea of what people already think of it.

I personally am looking foward to the new FF, but I worry they are trying to change it too much. So lets discuss it!

After games like Chrono Trigger and SMRPG, random encounters shoudl have been a thing of the past, IMO. That's a good thing.

I do agree that Random Battles were a getting a little boring definetly. I just don't think they should Drift TOO far apart from there roots.

I dunno... the new battle system is interesting, but the characters leave much to be desired. There's a blonde Yuna-lookalike, a Rikku, and a Tidus, along with a Cid Highwind with a shotgun and.... a bunny girl. I probably could have dealt with most of the ripoff characters if I tried hard enough, but Square's losing me with the bunny girl.

That's the one thing that irked me about Dragon Quest 8, too. One of my very few qualms with DQ8.

I SAID FUCK YEAH!

About time someone agrees with me...Fuck random encounters. They should be in DND, where they belong.

After going through the import all I can say is that I can never go back to random encounters. Its a brilliant game. One word of advice, the bosses are actually challenging again! Some of these guys will wipe the floor with you if your not prepared. As for the gambit system its very enjoyable. Theres even an option that eliminates it completely for those that fear change!

Secret Bosses are humorous but they will god damn rape you.

I am quite looking forward to FF12. I think it's good that they are trying new things with their series and the demo I played was rather fun too. I haven't seen too much of the characters as far as their personalities go, so I can't say if they are ripoff characters or not, but even if they are, I think I will thoroughly enjoy FF12. It's been too long since there's been a Final Fantasy with some kind of (substancial) plot. *coughFFX-2cough*

Personally I'm glad they are changing things. I'm sick of people who complain that FF games these days are no longer set in the rudimentary Medievil settings with crappy random encounters every few steps you take. Get over the bloody random encounters already! They are outdated and annoying and they never made sense to begin with.

I don't know exactly how the Licence board works, but hopefully it will be better than certain upgrade systems that have been used before.

And hooray for hard bosses! At least now I will have to level up to progress and not end up suddenly coming up against one uber hard boss and not be strong enough to kill him!

Also this game will act like a test run for FFXIII, so will have time to fine tune the ideas they are going to be using in that and make XIII even better than it already looks!

All of your expectations and hopes mean nothing. I'm such a loser, I'll go out and buy it even if people think it's going to suck. Obviously that's not the case but mainly since it's a Final Fantasy, I'd get it.

For example, I own 7-9, beat all three except 8, which I got to the last boss on. Beat 10. Twice. Beat FF1 on FF1&2: DoS. FF2, I haven't beaten yet. FFTA I thought was awesome, but I guess that's because I enver played the first.

Well, the point I'm getting at is, all of the FFs that people think are half-assed or not very good, I like. Note: Not all of the games I mentioned go in that category.

This is the first game that I prepaid for. So if it isn't good, there will be an Orgy of Violence at Square Enix!

And Hawk, which upgrade system were you referring to?