FFXII has little replay value.

[Renmiri]

Wow, 999.99 hours?? That's amazing. On a single game or on all your playthroughs combined?

one playtrough but I ripped thousands of images for ff wiki so that increased my playtime by a lot

[MrNash]

I'm hard pressed to replay most RPGs with the exception of roguelikes, and certain titles where the story isn't overly important to the game. With Final Fantasy games, I usually just wind up maxing out my characters, and wandering around aimlessly when I want to revisit those worlds, as opposed to starting again from the beginning.

[Flying Arrow]

I've played most of the other FFs more than once and some of them three or more times. Usually I pick up the last game in the series before a new release, but in this case I don't know if I'll have the time to do XII again. It's probably a combination of the fact that I'm much older and busier for this release than previous releases and that my first play-through of XII was utterly exhausting. Don't get me wrong - it's one of the best games to bear the FF name, but it's just so big and so long that I don't know if I can (or want to) put the time and effort in again. And this coming from a guy who happily re-played III-VI in succession last summer. This isn't a knock against III-VI or XII at all, but those older entries are noticeably less taxing.

[Depression Moon]

it has ultimate replay value. I think it has the most sidequests out of any FF game and side quests are the replay value cause you don't have to do them to complete the story.

[black orb]

>>> I loved the game and I completed everything in my first playthrough, but now I dont feel like touching this game again. So yeah, this one has little replay value..

[Rad Bromance]

I kind of agree. I've replayed all of the ones I've beaten (VI through X-2) but I've yet to get the desire to replay XII. It doesn't even sound like a remotely pleasurable experience.

I can't really pinpoint why this is either, since I didn't think it was bad by any means (I actually quite liked it), and it's not like any of the others have anything new on a second playthrough, yet I still want to replay them every so often.

Maybe I just have to give it more time. I had to wait a good five years before IX made me want to replay it.

[Slothy]

I think the desire to not playthrough FFXII again can simply be a result of the time investment required. I absolutely love the game, and would even like to start another playthrough, but with a number of other games on my plate as well as other things going on in my life I simply don't have the time to dedicate to a game that is longer than any other in the series, as well as the most challenging entry in years at some points. It's a game that demands more time and attention to get through than most other entries which can be flown through easily by simply spamming attack and using some rudimentary strategy when you run into a boss.

Ironically, the reason I think FFXII has more replay value than almost any other entry i the series (a challenging and compelling battle system) is part of what makes it hard to carve out the time to do it. That said, I have still been going back to an old save file occasionally and picking away at various hunts and other quests when the urge does strike and I have the time. Perhaps next summer when game releases inevitably taper off a bit I'll pick it up again for a full playthrough.

[ANGRYWOLF]

A mod on another forum recently told me no one there cared about my opinions, including what I thought about the game or had expressed in other forums in the past about it.

I was a very big critic of the game and got into flamewars on gamefaqs and in other forums because of it...causing me to leave those forums. So I left that forum as well.
and mostly keep my views about FFXII to myself now.

Most fans have games they like or love and it's difficult for them to tolerate criticism of those games. Still I find it hard to tolerate people in forums being rude or uncivil just because I express an opinion they don't agree with.

I doubt I will ever finish playing it.