Too picky?

[Renmiri]

Oh you were talking about trolls.

Aye, they stink up the forums they get to.

[chrisfffan]

what i mean is with the first ff game you played you probably didn’t have any expectations about the game because you didn’t know about it my first ff game was 8 and i love it but with people who played 7 before they tended not to like it. I think if you played this game for the first time without playing the other games your opinions would be different.

[Renmiri]

That is a good point, my expectations were for something as good or better than my favorite (and my first) FF, so yeah, it was a letdown, any game would be.

FFXII is a good game, in spite of the weak story.

[Ko Ko]

I know I'M fairly picky about which ones I play, but you have to think of games the way the companies think of them: threat or flop.

[chrisfffan]

i dont think its a flop X-2 was a flop this is a good game.

[Wolf Kanno]

what i mean is with the first ff game you played you probably didn’t have any expectations about the game because you didn’t know about it my first ff game was 8 and i love it but with people who played 7 before they tended not to like it. I think if you played this game for the first time without playing the other games your opinions would be different.

This was my issue with FFVII, I loved FFIV and FFVI. I heard tales of FFVII being the best in the series. I finally got to play through it and was so disappointed that I hated the game for years. I replayed it a few times trying to figure out why people loved it so much and once I realized that my main gripes came from my unrealistic expectations and the annoying fanbase, I came to an "understanding" with the game. I think better of the game than I used to but I still don't like the ODF's that spawn from it.

[Xurts]

Expectations and hype are probably where a lot of the criticism of FF12 comes from. People get the game thinking that it should have all of the common story elements that FFs tend to have like love stories, a sole villain who wants power, etc, and when they play FF12 and see that it doesn't and that it's story flows a bit differently, they bash it and are disappointed. Same with the hype. People are expecting it to be greater than life and completely flawless (it's FF, of course it must be), but when they discover that it isn't, they conclude that it's not as good as past FFs.

I realize that there is a fair share of people who played the game and just didn't fancy it for whatever reasons, but it just seems to me that there are alot of people who didn't like it because of their expectations.

That's why when I play games like this, I forget about all of the hype it gets and how great or poor past games have been, and I begin playing with the simple expectations of a fun and enjoyable game. Nothing else. It's not until I've played a game for several hours and have seen most of the aspects that I develop an opinion on it.

So far, I think FF12 is a fantastic game and definitely one of my favorites.

[chrisfffan]

i think its good for a change that their wasnt a love story it was getting so predictable i havent played the game for a while now i have just got past the forest how long is left?

[Sergeant Hartman]

i have just got past the forest how long is left?

Depends on the forest.

[chrisfffan]

theirs more then one? well im at the on where the sheilds are down and i cant finally leave

[Xurts]

theirs more then one? well im at the on where the sheilds are down and i cant finally leave

That's Golmore Jungle. There's also the Salikawood and Feywood. I haven't been to the Feywood yet but I'm assuming it's also a forest.

[Renmiri]

aye it is. 3 woods in Ivalice: Golmore jungle, Feywood and Salikawood.