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[Cloudane]

The FF9 characters looked like children for a reason... they *were* children (Zidane and Garnet were 16, IIRC... last I checked, adulthood was considered to be at 18)

All of the games have their pros and cons IMO, except FF7 which is all pro (Not really, there's the poor graphics and poor translation)
I'd agree that FF9's end boss was the lamest fabrication of an end boss ever - but I found the story itself to be one of the best of the series.

[Big D]

It's been said that FFXII's presentation style will have some similarities to Vagrant Story; in that game, you could rotate the camera, and zoom in a little. The screen didn't change to a different view during battle, there were merely a few more displays and indicators on-screen. It's possible that FFXII will hearken back to a few of these features.

[Lost Heretic]

FF6 was dark, the Bad Guy actually won in it...sort of.

FF12 may be good, if they can make a good battle system - something more than ATB; I want to see jobs too.

[Dune]

I think it sucks there are only 4 characters... Hopefuly there are more, but Square just hasn't released them...

[Ouch!]

Vaan, Ashe, Penelo, Fran, Balthier. That's five of the characters released. I don't think the number of characters has anything to do with its potential as a magnificent game, though. Saying it sucks because there's only four (though I doubt you knew about Penelo, the most recent to be introduced) is a little conceited.

[Cloudane]

FFX-2 only had 3 characters (playable) and is high up on the list of my favourites from the entire FF series *shrugs*

[aeris2001x2]

yes but how many characters there r does not dertimine how good a game is. ff1 rules does it not?

[Cloud_99]

I agree with Laguna. The moveable cammeras aren't required. It's just not FF.

And IX was terrible

Edit by Big D: Please use the 'edit/delete' button if you want to change something you've posted. It's better than posting twice in a row. I fixed this one for you.

[Big D]

I agree with Laguna. The moveable cammeras aren't required. It's just not FF

Simply because it's not necessary, and hasn't been done before, doesn't make it bad. After all, FFII gave names to its characters, something not seen in the original FF. As time has gone on, new ideas and techniques have been introduced to add to the gameplay. Active Time battles, summon spells, different inventory capabilties... the list is pretty endless. If they simply said "we can't do that, it wasn't in the last game" then we'd still be playing plotless, two-dimensional games with super-deformed, pixellated characters called BMAGE and FGHTR and whatnot.