As far as the harcore Fans thing goes i said "some" not all.
Your are Correct in japan there are meny meny RPG's that are very good however Im not talking about Japan im only adressing Amarica and Europe and other areas were Final Fantasy has a heavy Influence on the way poeple veiw RPG's.
My complant about not haveing Control over your party is a valid one. you can swich and control then one at a time in live combat but you cannot control them all at once so you dont have total party control. you are only in control of one person at a time.
I am going to Continue to miss the overworld map, much like i am going to miss more of the traditional RPG elements that are fadeing from final fantasy games the turn based combat I hope will return in later games.
Your right we have no garentee we wont see Cid and the summons as well as Chocobos mOg's ect. I was only useing Cid and the Sumons as an example. What they have removed from the game is it's turnbased game play it's overworld map and it's total party control. Allso I know it realy doesent matter to the actual game play but the charicter designs kinda bug me.....alot. the Femal lead is Ok but the male lead i dont even want to get started on. Im not saying every Final Fantasy Hero need to have spiky hair and carry around a masively oversized weapon But i do wish they would not base the haricter design off of a real live pop star. I meen How meny of you guys want to see Britny Spears Summon Bahamut?
Over All Im worryed about the story and gameplay But that cannot be taken into acount at this time since the game is in limbo and we dont even have a estamated release date yet.
Like i said im not trying to bash ff12 but i am voiceing my conserns for it. maybe it will be great and heck if they continue going in this direction or in th direction they whent with ff10 then im sure meny gamers will be happy. I only wish they would leave more of the basic old school elements in tact. Thats not to saw they shouldent try new things but there are plunty of old things i have grown to love and I dont to see the game without. Like the overworld map and turn based combat I keep talking about. Im not trying to say OMG nobody buy ff12 it's going to suck I just wanted to see how other board members felt about what he know so far. The best way to start was to voice my own thoughts. I must admit however that Im rather pleased by this debate were haveing as it's civil and brings to light meny points on both sides.
