Haha i knew someone just had to say they enjoy ff11 battle system to spite me. Man this board has a real thing about saying square made a mistake lmao. FMA was complete garbage. I am sorry and story doesnt make up for it. Its a cartoon you know(a pretty good one) so of course they can just ask the writers of the cartoon to write the story that's not too hard.
If my opinion can smite you then i wonder how are you going to deal with everyone else that has different opinions than you. :rolleyes2 You can hate it the battle system for XI, but i find it to be much better than other MMORPGs out there. I personally do not feel they made a mistake with that one. If anything the mistake is making FF Mystic Quest..that one was horrible IMO.

FMA could have been done better. However i still say the anime is very good...i never said the game was.

You had nothing to say about Samurai legend Musashi of course maybe cause you haven't played it or maybe cause you know it to is complete crap. And the reason you like magic burst is cause you only pull them off if 3 people do it perfectly. Now could you imagine doing it everytime since you know that the computer won"t mess it up?
I dont like to comment too much about games i havent played besides maybe the odd whatever rumour or detail i hear from friends and would like more information about it. Thats why i did not comment Samurai Legend of Musashi. =/

Actually Skillchains are rarely done with 3 people..it only works at lower levels, at higher levels two people usually do a skillchain, that and i never really had any computer problems. If you had lag thats your video card's fault, i can still hit just about every skillchain MB there can be as long as i am not casting something else(like a Cure in a bad situation).

That and skillchains arent that hard to do once you know how to. TP Report, you and your partner(which established which SC to do beforehand and is easy to do) have enough TP? Start Weapon Skill, then wait 3 seconds and go again. MB is only to time your cast time. Its not that hard. If its that hard then it wouldnt be worth it to do. However usually at higher levels a SC and MB can take off 50-95% of a monster's life. Excluding lvl 75 merit parties.

Hell you can just be the mage and go acordingly to whatever burst it should be. That would make it boring and solo in the game is exactly what it will be like (it is a solo game) The thing is you will be solo because those are just computer players and they will do it all perfectly.
Again if its an offline single player game, you would control every character and it wouldnt be the battle system it is now. The reason why they use this one is because its an MMO, not a single player one. Have you seen any other game besides FFXII(and FFXII pauses everything when you choose commands) use the same system? No, and theres a reason.

I own WoW and eq2 and even linage 2 also and yes thier battle systems are a bit better but nothing when compared to ff1-10. FF1-10 has a way more enjoyable battle system than 11 thats for sure, Square knows this but had no choice but to adapt the best they could for online play.
WoW to me has very little party dynamics according to my friend. Everyone does what they want, and holding hate although you can, is usually more of a hassle. Alot of people told me its a detriment to party in WoW. Which sort of destroys the point of MMOs IMO because you play with many people...that and it seems too easy to play for an extended ammount of time unless you like PvP and Instances. I cant say for EQII or L2 besides that i heard many accounts of L2 being a war zone and chaos.

The only thing I think that would make this game good is if you could play it with friends via mission servers or give us back an offline battle system. I wait 2 years or so to play ff games for the joys of thier battle system and the story now they are taking half the game from me, I am hoping I am wrong I might be but I have a feeling this is gonna stink gameplay wise.
Cant please everyone. Some people want a differnet system, a different innovative one, and some want the same old thing. Eventually you can only please those that are the majority and push on new concepts as much as you can. So while it might not cater to you or even me, if it caters to enough people, its a winner.

And Fans does not mean only you. Just becuase you are not content with what SE is comming out doesnt mean that everyone else isnt. I am fine with what they are comming out, and even if FFXII sucks, that does not mean FFXIII will. The only way that it will convince me that they suck is a consecutive releases of their games are not up to par and not just to my standards too, to alot of people's. Suck is so subjective as well..=/

Again everyone has different opinions, please dont just tout off what yours is as fact --;