What is the point?

[Slothy]

I don't mind the added challenge, but when you finally get to the end, after doing all the optional bosses, the end poses no challenge at all. That is what I'm referring to. It is one thing to make more challenging bosses before the end, but to have as many as FFXII seems to have, you become so ridiculously overpowered that the end boss is no longer a challenge.

Have you ever considered beating the final boss before doing a lot of the optional bosses? By simple virtue of the fact that they're optional and can be done at any time you can always wait. I never beat all the optional bosses before finishing the story, usually because they're harder than the final boss, and I'd rather finish the story as soon as I can.This means I get a fairly challenging final boss (as challenging as I can expect from an FF anyway), and still go and fight optional bosses if I choose to after the fact.

[JAS4Yeshua]

FFXII was the first one where I didn't do that. It wasn't necessarily purposeful, either. I was doing side quests in order to increase strength as I went along, not to become overpowered, but to try to keep a balance. It didn't quite work out that way becuase of how integrated the side quests were to the game play, which was a bit different from other games in the series.

[Shattered Dreamer]

Have you ever considered beating the final boss before doing a lot of the optional bosses? By simple virtue of the fact that they're optional and can be done at any time you can always wait. I never beat all the optional bosses before finishing the story, usually because they're harder than the final boss, and I'd rather finish the story as soon as I can.This means I get a fairly challenging final boss (as challenging as I can expect from an FF anyway), and still go and fight optional bosses if I choose to after the fact.

Thats exactly what I did. Curiosity got the better of me so I went to the Bahamut & in doing so kicked Vayne's a$$. I really do hope the optional bosses are a decent bit harder than the Undying I really do.

[Mercen-X]

It's in cases like these that Final Fantasy should follow the .hack format. Putting uber-hard non-story bosses and sidequests and the END OF THE DAMN GAME!!!!!!!! (after the credits)

There. It solves everything.

[JAS4Yeshua]

I can definately agree with that concept.

[Slothy]

It's in cases like these that Final Fantasy should follow the .hack format. Putting uber-hard non-story bosses and sidequests and the END OF THE DAMN GAME!!!!!!!! (after the credits)

There. It solves everything.

Some people like doing some sidequests as a diversion from the main story every now and then though.

[Serapy]

Ok, if the 'last boss' was very very very hard then people will have to spend more time leveling and such in order to beat the last boss. I would like that to happen but the problem is that not all people like us don't want to spend thier times on leveling for a longer time, that's why they made the last boss easier and added optional bosses (which are harder than the last boss) to FF games that are not necessairily needed to beat the game. Just my opinion :P