Quote Originally Posted by LazarCotoron View Post
...that's what the struggle over the Nethicite is about, really. It's about two strong views vying for position over one another. And really, both of them are out not to prove that their view is right-hell, neither of them will even consider a diplomacy table. They're out to destroy the opposing view.

FFXII is the best game because its taken the things that are going on and put them into a format that makes them obvious to everyone. Being the best and being pretty though... Those are very different things, indeed.
You make some excellent points. I had not considered the "education" aspect of XII but it is there in spades and is very important. I'm still from last century where we learned those things in books :rolleyes2

And the point about not even giving diplomacy a chance is sooo current! Why I can name you a current war that started just because the guy in power was in a hurry to be a "war Pres'unit" and look cool on military fatigues... He never bothered with diplomacy, making only token efforts to pretend he did.

And that saps the fun of my afternoon, remembering that dunce is still "Pres'unit" and has a red button with access to half of the nukes in our world within inches of his itchy fingers

Meh... My mom's generation lived 50 years of cold war, hopefully we will live 50 more of "dumb war"...