1. omfg, lets be retarded SE, and stick with the same old battle system because we don't want anything new, we want to be the same old boring fans.
2. Battle system doesn't suck. There's so many new things you can do with this Battle System, it kicks arse! Quickenings, Gambits - Pretty much every other FF has not given you so much freedom to able to give your characters certain commands to do at certain times. Also, if you turn your gambits off, everything is still turn based - you can still chose attacks manually, and I have even discovered this during Gambits as well if you want to change from attacking target to another!
3. No it doesn't. You get Ashe for good, the last main character, on the leviathan - that isn't long into the game. sheesh.
4. No it isn't. It's quite easy to do so.
5. Turn your Gambits off then!
6. Please explain why you hate the characters. Don't just say blah blah blah and then not give any reasons. Granted, we can expect everyone to love them all, and even I don't think everyone is perfect, but with little reasons..
7. It isn't slow. You can kill your monsters pretty quickly. It's like X-2, in the way everyone can attack almost together at once. But at least characters move around to get attacking positions etc.
8. Magic is horrible? Why? It's the same as previous FF's. Deary me.
9. Yeah yeah. Reasons?
10. Well? Are you going to actually explain why anywhere? The License Board was good in the way you would actually surprise yourself, finding out new abilities whichever direction you went. Sometimes, you may end up learning abilities you don't want to learn when searching for a quickening, but it wasn't all bad.
11. Inability to dual wield? Tell me dear, how many FF's have incorporated the dual wield ability? How many FF characters in the past could dual wield? So if FFXII sucks in this area, it does so for other FF's.
12. Then every other storyline is generic. zomg, we save the world, good peoplez win lolz. yey! Every storyline has a generic ending, and with XII It isn't just one kid taking on a whole Empire. Sheesh. Do you seriously expect the main heroes to not win?
13. No it doesn't. What about the games that came on 4 discs? Their stories took ages to get through. XII's was a perfect length.
14. ZOMG, perfect reason to hate a game, cus Vaan is ugly.
I'm not trying to glorify XII, but when you don't even bother to explain yourself, and keep making little nit picking comments.
I'm pretty much giving the same sort of comments other people have been giving you. No flaming or anything, but people get a bit miffed when you dont explain yourself.
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