If you play through the game, you'll realize that FFXII is largely devoid of any main character.
If you play through the game, you'll realize that FFXII is largely devoid of any main character.
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i am only up to the forest at the moment where you have larrsa in your party
FFXII has no official main character. If it did, and you had to base it on story. It's Lady Ashe who is the actual main character IMHO but everyone gets their shining moment in the game. Especially during the ending
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
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it doesn't feel to have the magic such games as FF6 and FF7 (and wild arms 1) brought
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*take me into the limousine
draw me into the disco scene
lookin cool like a fashion queen
shining bright like a laser beam*
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Explain please. I get rather edgy when people post that and then go away.Originally Posted by six underground
it doesn't feel to have the magic such games as FF6 and FF7 (and wild arms 1) brought
Quote Renmiri on FFXII
She loves it more then X!I bitch about the game a lot, mainly for the lack of story and weak characters, but it is still the best of the series out there.
Really? I thought it had more magic. It had White, Black, Acrane, Green you get where I'm going right?
It didn't have more magic-it just categorized it into different sets of magic. The only things which were really knew to the player system was maybe the abilities.
EOFF needs a resurgence to it's former glory.
Maybe he was referring to the "magic" brought by cool characters and romantic love stories ?
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Ohhh that's actually quite true, where is the magic!!!
Most of the other FF's had it and this one doesn't, I'm kinda put off the game now...
EOFF needs a resurgence to it's former glory.
I wonder... if this game didn't have Final Fantasy as its title, would people still be complaining as they are?
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Probably not. Because it does we expect more.
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FFXII is a great game and in many ways is a lot more of a true Final Fantasy game than many of its predecessors. FF7 was a landmark title in the series, but its success set in motion a series of conventions within the series which kind of missed the point. it became more important to tell a story of ridiculous drama, no matter how contrived the circumstances, no matter how bizarre the characters motives or histories. everything became linear and the world was on rails. challenge was removed so that there was no obstruction for the gamer from getting to the next beautiful CGI. it was more important for the scenery to be quirky than remotely believable or atmospheric. by the time we got to FF9, we were having characters discover shocking revelations, JUST BECAUSE their template for storytelling dictated it needed to be done, with no thought put into why or how! FFX was even worse in this respect, it was like they knew people liked the twists from FF7, so they tried to come up with things so stupid that no one could see them coming!
FFXII has tried to turn the series into a game again, rather than an interactive storybook. besides this, i'm an adult now and i find a story about nations going to war far more interesting and believable than aliens, time witches or unsent natural disasters
Adults read books. Like the Roman Empire history or Alexandre Dumas or Hamlet or... Even watch Leonardo Di Caprio in the Man on the Iron Mask...
The political intrigue told in XII has been told many other times, a lot better and even happened in reality once or twice.
The previous FFs had an original inovative story. This one just reheated some old and tired leftovers
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nah i'm sorry, i love the final fantasy series, i've played them all... but as for stories, after 7 it was all going downhill... 8 had lots of holes and was a bit too teen drama series. 9 was just a bit random and didn't really explain itself properly, though it was also quite light hearted so it wasn't a total disaster. by 10 though it was really becoming ridiculous, every aspect of the story, dialogue, character interaction and everything else was cringeworthy.Adults read books. Like the Roman Empire history or Alexandre Dumas or Hamlet or... Even watch Leonardo Di Caprio in the Man on the Iron Mask...
The political intrigue told in XII has been told many other times, a lot better and even happened in reality once or twice.
The previous FFs had an original inovative story. This one just reheated some old and tired leftovers
each of these games had good gameplay but the stories were getting laughably bad. especially 10. the fact that FF12 has done its best to be completely different from 10 is a masterstroke for the series.
A matter of taste, to each his own.
I just reacted to your "adult" comment, because I met some FFXII fans that tend to insult anyone who doesn't love it to death with things like: It's for grownups whoever doesn't like it is immature! The story is so groundbreaking, yadda, yadda. The XII story is only groundbreakingfor someone who has never studied history or ever read a book
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