FFXI was and continues to be freakin' awesome.

In fact FFXII has a remarkable number of similarities with FFXI which is all great in my opinion. Well. Except those stupid elementals.
i agree the battle system is a faster version of FFXI not only that but being able to customize your characters that much and the different races it really does remind me A LOT of ffxi

when ashe has a shield and sowrd she reminds me of the girl that they always have for the advertisments of FFXI