Never Again...

[Wolf Kanno]

Of all the mainline FFs (no sequels or spin-offs) which battle system could you live without ever seeing again and why?

Personally, I feel it is FFI's if only cause the Job class system has spoiled me and the idea of choosing my party and their classes (which I would technically be stuck with til the end of the game); just doesn't sound as appealing to me like it used too. Granted I love FFI but I can't see a modern story based 40+ hour FF using this system well.

EDIT: Due to its unique position, FFXI is not part of the thread. Its Job Class system is pretty awesome anyway...

[Saber]

I picked ff2 cause it takes way too long to level anything up. I mean what the hell cure 25?

[rubah]

popping rocks on your weapons. Ugh.

I'll leave you to decide if I mean ff7 or ff9.

[,,,]

I've ranted about my least favorite enough times that I'm sick of it. But I imagine and hope that no one is actually keeping track of what I say, so fine, again.

If it were really "use it or lose it" I'd be fine with that, but unfortunately it's more like "risk losing it every single time you use anything else at all," making it very frustrating to make a magic user. "I don't need to use magic here, but if I attack I might lose magic power so I'd better waste MP on a useless spell" becomes "well, now I'm halfway through the dungeon and out of MP. Now I have no choice but to lose my magic power." That would be a flaw. The fact that the one and only time I could stomach going through that game I didn't know that this would be an issue and actually had two mages made it even worse. I would have been enraged had I actually paid for the game.

If you like the game, fine, good for you. But don't sit there and try to tell me that the system was well executed. It was not.

[Cyric]

I hate FFXII's system, but FFII isn't far behind.

[blackmage_nuke]

XII, I like abit of guidance when it comes to classes and I also prefered random encounters.

[crazybayman]

heh.....looks like I voted without reading!

so I assumed it was favorite battle system, and voted for X!

Of the ones I've played the battle system I disliked most would have to be XII.

Man, I was so excited about XII.......and was severely let down by that foolish gambit system.

I wasn't that fond of IX's either. Learning abilities from equipment seemd silly to me, and some of the abilities in themselves were just foolish

[Coma]

heh.....looks like I voted without reading!

so I assumed it was favorite battle system, and voted for X!

Of the ones I've played the battle system I disliked most would have to be XII.

Man, I was so excited about XII.......and was severely let down by that foolish gambit system.

I wasn't that fond of IX's either. Learning abilities from equipment seemd silly to me, and some of the abilities in themselves were just foolish

Yeah, I was totally let down by the fact I didn't have to worry over every little thing that came up. The game would have been so much better if I had to navigate into a menu and manually cast that status cure four times. Menu navigation is the way of the future.

Prolly FF6. It was an ATB system. Unfortunately, it was a meh system. It wasn't the first game to have it, so it didn't get any points there, and it didn't really add anything unique. It was just an ATB.

[NeoTifa]

10. everything about that game sucked

[Jessweeee♪]

I've played III, IV, and VII+ of the ones listed, and I didn't really have a problem with any of them. IV's kinda bored me some because I played that last, but I could stand it.

[scrumpleberry]

eff eff tu

[crazybayman]

heh.....looks like I voted without reading!

so I assumed it was favorite battle system, and voted for X!

Of the ones I've played the battle system I disliked most would have to be XII.

Man, I was so excited about XII.......and was severely let down by that foolish gambit system.

I wasn't that fond of IX's either. Learning abilities from equipment seemd silly to me, and some of the abilities in themselves were just foolish

Yeah, I was totally let down by the fact I didn't have to worry over every little thing that came up. The game would have been so much better if I had to navigate into a menu and manually cast that status cure four times. Menu navigation is the way of the future.

Menu navigation pwns

[rubah]

Of the ones I've played the battle system I disliked most would have to be XII.
\Man, I was so excited about XII.......and was severely let down by that foolish gambit system.

Yeah, I was totally let down by the fact I didn't have to worry over every little thing that came up. The game would have been so much better if I had to navigate into a menu and manually cast that status cure four times. Menu navigation is the way of the future.

Why didn't you guys turn off gambits?

wait a minute, coma's being sarcastic. . . okay, why didn't crazybayman turn off gambits xD

[theundeadhero]

heh.....looks like I voted without reading!

so I assumed it was favorite battle system, and voted for X!

Of the ones I've played the battle system I disliked most would have to be XII.

Fixed.

[PeneloRatsbane]

i hate the sphere grid, put me right of the game. I'm sure if i'd played it now id get the grip of it, but i just don't have the time to waste with that one. the story, while it was good, just did not grip me at all.