Im still going to try FF12 i feel it worth at lest trying since Square has allways been good with RPG's but i guess what has me the most worryed is the fact that it will play like ffXI from what i here. THis isent so great MMORPG's are Completly deferent games from RPG's. I play FFXI and I find the way Combat works to be extremly tedeus at times. I allso hate how they force you to party becouse your Charicter is never powerfull enof to Solo but thats another story. As far as Some FF games Like FF7 haveing the problem of every charicter being the same thats simply not true. Yeah you can set up there skills or matera to give them all the same ablitys but each charicters stats are slightly different and there weapons add more to each charicter and to what they can do. They dont all have the same HP and MP even at the same level wth the same Gear. If any FF game had an issue with charicters being exactly the same it's FFX. If you spend the time to Complet the entire Grind with all of the Charicters then they end up allmost exactly the same with the Exception of weapons and a small diference Due to starting stats,but again thats another story for another thread. Im allso worryed about the fact that the guy in charge of FFXII is the one who created Vagrint story. I know thats awsome news to come fans but Personaly i hated the game. Then again I have allways been into the hardcore tradition RPG style of game play and i guess thats a huge facter as to why im so nitpicky about FFXII. It will come out, I will buy it, I will most likely hate it becouse it seems to be following in the path started by X and XI but i can allways hope I'll like it. And it may or may not kill Final fantasy for the Traditional RPG fans. I just hope it doesent end up like another FFX-2. I will cry big girly tears if FFXII kills final fantasy with it's "uniqe" and "fun filled romp" into Offline MMORPG failure.Inovation=good PLaying mad Scientist and warping the game beyond recagnition=bad.
If you take Dragon warrior and stuff some Moggles a few Chocobos and an Airship inside it wont make it Final fantasy. Final fantasy is allso a style, a standerd and a kind of feel to the games. FF1-7 had it even 2 and 2 sucked. ff8 and ff9 Had plunty of it to even when they were very deferent they were both good and still fall into the group of wich i speak. FF10-11 including 10-2 however lost alot of what im talking about, FFXI even more so. Yes FFXI is a good MMORPG but it's in no way anything like Final fantasy since it's not an RPG and it's story kinda sucks. IMO it should never have been asigned a number, final fantasy Online would have been a better name. FFT has more of that FF feel to it then XI does lol. Not to say FFT doesent count ether but it is a spin off and technicly so is FFXI it falls into the same group as Mystic Quest, and Legend of Mana ect.
And thats it for my little rant i'll just cut it off here since I know Some fans are going to spend at lest 5-10 minits tearing it apart.
