Too Short?

[atlanteay]

Is it just me or is this game a little too short? Like just when everyone is getting better developed especially (SPOILER)before fighting cid, the game is at its final dungeon. There were far less conversations as well. Also, i don't even get WHY Vaan is the main character when the game focuses more on balthier, basch, and ashe more than anyone else.

Today, i told my friend that i finished the game and told her it took about 54 hours. She was surprised at how short that was. Actually, it took me 55 hours to beat Kingdom Hearts 2 (guess i left the TV on too often XD since i rush off to somewhere else) and despite that FFX wasn't that much of a great game, at least it had it's character development and everyone got a good amount of attention. FF12 is much like FF8 when half of the party gets thoroughly ignored after a single event involving them. It's just so disappointing. I beat the game yesterday and i'm still thinking about continue playing, only to realize that i'm ALREADY done!

[Ashley Schovitz]

It's just you I'm 73 hours into the game and still not finished.

[GuitarGuy1181]

Is it just me or is this game a little too short? Like just when everyone is getting better developed especially (SPOILER)before fighting cid, the game is at its final dungeon. There were far less conversations as well. Also, i don't even get WHY Vaan is the main character when the game focuses more on balthier, basch, and ashe more than anyone else.

Today, i told my friend that i finished the game and told her it took about 54 hours. She was surprised at how short that was. Actually, it took me 55 hours to beat Kingdom Hearts 2 (guess i left the TV on too often XD since i rush off to somewhere else) and despite that FFX wasn't that much of a great game, at least it had it's character development and everyone got a good amount of attention. FF12 is much like FF8 when half of the party gets thoroughly ignored after a single event involving them. It's just so disappointing. I beat the game yesterday and i'm still thinking about continue playing, only to realize that i'm ALREADY done!

My theory is that you never truly beat a Final Fantasy until you beat the optional fights (Ozma, Nemesis, Weapons, etc.).....have you done all of the hunts?

[Timerk]

It's not that...overall, I think the length is comparable to that of recent FF games.

In FFXII you spend more time fighting things than you do watching cut scenes.

How you feel about that statement prolly determines how you feel about the game.

:twocents:

[Tavrobel]

This game is short? Since when? Since hell froze over?

[atlanteay]

finishing the hunts are not exactly part of the storyline. The plot doesn't change just because you beat Ultima or Gilgamesh. If i had done all those sidequests, then yes, i would've taken over hundreds of hours into it but FFX took 90 hours for me just to beat the game itself without any sidequests. And yet, i understand the characters really well. I feel for those characters but in FF12, the only people i feel for are Ashe, Basch, and Balthier because they're actually part of the events in the game. There's nothing special for Penelo except for the fact that she wants to come with Vaan. Fran is just there because Balthier is. Vaan is there because he wants to be a sky pirate.

Everything was so exciting and all of a sudden (SPOILER)i have to go to Bahamut and a little bit later, the game ends. The sudden change is surprising.

[LunarWeaver]

I found this game to be hella long.

[atlanteay]

it is VERY long if you went ahead and did all the hunts. Just like any game. If you did every single thing there can be done, then it can last over hundreds of hours. However, of all the final fantasies i've played: 3,4,6,7,8,9, and 10, when this one ended, i just feel so surprised. It's like, "It's over? already?" and with the others it's a satisfying ending that is expected and with 10 it's like "Finally, it's over "

[Tavrobel]

This game is by far the longest one, and that doesn't even count optional events.

[LunarWeaver]

I think it's hella long without hunts. It sounds to me like you were left wanting more plot and character development, and so the hour count comes off feeling thin. Maybe, I dunno . But XII is more play and less watchy, which will be good for some and bad for others I suppose.

[atlanteay]

who cares about hour counts? I'm just using the hour counts as a reference to the shortage of this game compared to others. Besides, i just want longer storyline and more character development. It's just that everything was going so well: (SPOILER)ashe finally realizes about Dalmasca and her people so she grew stronger by destroying Rasler's ghost. Before all that, it was just a wild goose chase to get the shards and etc... crazy chases going on. Now, the characters are getting more involved. Vaan is becoming more heroic and then final boss fight..THE END everything is so sudden...

[LunarWeaver]

who cares about hour counts?

When you say a game is "too short", you pretty much imply that, well, you do. "Too short" and "thin plot" have nothing to do with each other.

[atlanteay]

actually, i never just said it had a thin plot. The whole time, i was saying that it needed more to it. Longer plot, more conflicts, more dialogues between characters, and main party development. I was implying all of that. The hour count was just a statement to enforce the lackage of story in the game. If you think about it, the whole game, you're chasing after either a sword, shard, wise help about the shards, and then what to do with the shards. Everything is about the shards and then suddenly, war rages on. It just doesn't fit.

[Timerk]

I agree with Lunar, it sounds like you have more of a problem with the plot itself than the length of the storyline.

[atlanteay]

I agree with Lunar, it sounds like you have more of a problem with the plot itself than the length of the storyline.

how about combining both problems together?