final fantasy XII is going to be underrated

[LunarWeaver]

I like Nomura's, Yoshida's, and Amano's designs

I doubt XII will be underrated... In fact, years from now, I could see people looking back at XII as a pivotal moment for the series in the same regard as IV's introduction of the ATB bar or VII going fully 3-D.

And I love IX They're all good pretty. Games are there to have fun, people need to lighten up with the personal politics on everything. I go by a "like it" or "don't like it" policy, and I don't pay attention to any other factor then that. Though I guess that's not commonplace thought, so Nomura's designs probably do cator to the masses and reel in the teenie crowd much better.

But XII has already sold plenty of copies, so even without Nomura's designs it's not like the game bombed or something. In fact, some of the designs are completely different, but some seem rather similar to me... Add a zipper to Vaan's vest, another belt to Ashe, and give Vayne silver hair and you'd pretty much have it.

Anyway, I don't see the Ps3's existence stealing this game's place within the series' history.

[the_sandman]

The original post does not make any sense to me. People who like the game right now aren't suddenly gonna stop liking it once ps3 comes out. To think that is kinda absurd. And there are a lot of people who like this game. As far as I can see, FFXII has been embraced with open arms.

ps. I loooved FFIX. It had Vivi!

i'm not saying people dont like FFIX. its just that its not as popular. FFXII is very popular right now, but like i said..wait til XIII comes out. it will be forgotton (just incase people take "forgotton" literally, heres a better word...ignored), while games such as FFX and FFVII will be making appearances everywhere such as kingdom hearts game, those weapon websites that only sell squall's gunblade, tidus's water sword, and clouds buster sword. i'm sorry, but vaan isnt going to be no squall or tidus, or cloud. balthier will be more popular than vaan. just like vivi is more popular than zidane.

[LunarWeaver]

You talk like Tidus is more popular than Auron.

And VII, VIII, and X's characters are specifically pulled for the Kingdom Hearts series because Nomura designed those characters and he was hesitant to use Amano's designs such as Vivi and Setzer.

I don't really think it will happen with this one...IX gets most of its slack from art-style alone (for some reason). XII is full of realistic people for players to goggle, and XIII won't even be around until 2008.

Even when it does hit shelves, I firmly believe that XII will still have its spotlight shining just fine. VI was the last title for the Super Nintendo, and it doesn't look like anybody forgot about that.