Final Fantasy 12Follow

It never stops sucking. The storyline is probably one of the worst since the original game. I personally liked the flow of gameplay action, and I agree that some of aspects were addicting (hunting monsters and rare chest spawns and whatnot). However, I played through it once and never wanted to replay it.

Oh yes, quite a lot of hunting and basically grinding to be prepared to take down the marks. Lots and lots of grinding.

When you can play the game by putting a rubber band around the joysticks and leaving the console on for 3 DAYS, then come back to being level 99 with an enormous fortune of gil, there's a problem.

Edit: But on that note, I did enjoy playing the game with as few gambits and as low of a level as I could. Gilgamesh at level 48 was insane.. And over an hour long.

Edited, Jun 3rd 2009 5:33pm by Ehcks

Nope, not really. Considering all we have to work with is a 90 second video that shows no actual game play, I'm going to have to go right ahead and say we have no reference whatsoever to say it looks good or bad.

As to XII, my god did that game suck. It's the only FF game that I've played and not finished. I just couldn't put myself through it anymore. Horribly boring combat, constant grinding, lame story, idiotic characters, not to mention the first ten zones or so are all mostly featureless deserts. I honestly have nothing good to say about that game at all.

The water was pretty, if that counts for anything.

I liked it I replay all of them regularly

Got a friend over in Canada that just picked up this game yesterday for no reason (I guess boredom) and started playing it again. Not only has he been on it all day, going nuts about how he doesn't remember any of the game, he's getting just as pissed as he did the first time he played it.


Why..? We'll never know.

I've given up on 12. It's too...irritatingly, frustratingy, eye-gougingly, ear-bleedingly bad.


The gameplay sucks

The battle system sucks

The voiceovers are absolutely terrible

the graphics are unimpressive

the story takes way too long to get into full swing

I somewhat agree with this... but IMO the story never becomes interesting and the characters never really progress. By the end I'm still left wondering why the hell Vaan is with this group... or better yet, why they keep him around. And Spoilerwhy the heck Penelo comes along? Seriously? There is NO point. I feel like better and more important people are babysitting 1/3 of my party.

Edit: Reading on wikipedia about the reception and scores it has received, it seems like this is one of the best games in the series. I feel a lot of fans disagree with the critics, however.

Edited, Jun 30th 2009 2:12pm by LockeColeMA

Allow me to change into another of my hats.



Driftwood's Game Reviews #4(first one since 2007): Impromptu review of Final Fantasy 12


Gameplay(on a scale of 1-10): 3

To not have full control of your party worked well for Secret Of Mana, Secret Of Evermore, etc. But it has no place in a series of games that has always been turn based. The problem FInal Fantasy has always had is that the makers seem unwilling to take perfectly good systems from other FF games and integrate them into newer games along with new ideas and new systems. I think Final Fantasy 12 could have been great if it was the same, but instead of these Real Time, uncontrolled battles, the map would segway into an actual battle whenever you ran into a monster, say, like Chrono Trigger. Then you'd have control of your party, and each of them would have their different skills attached, different weapons, etc. If they wanted to be especially good to us with the battles, they could even steal the idea of hitting a certain button to make the attack stronger from Final Fantasy 8. Then, they could bring back LIMIT BREAKS. Then, they could keep the levelling system, but make it better by integrating both the currently flawed lisence system and FFX's Sphere Grid to make something unbelievably amazing.

But no, they wanted this game to be Final Fantasy 11(which is undeserving of a number): Offline.

Story: 5

It's less than amazing, but not exactly bad. It doesn;t really grab you, but it doesn't make you turn away in disgust. It's a completely average story. There';s not much I can say about it.

Voiceovers: 0

Hey Square-Enix, remember when you teamed up with Disney for KH1 and used real actors/singers(in the case of Mandy Moore as Aeris and Lance ******* Bass as Sephiroth) for voice acting, and it was amazing? Yeah, do that again. Stop trying to cut costs and give us a real ******* game.

Graphics: 7

I don;t know why everyone seemed to think that the graphics were so amazing, I've seen far better graphics in far better games for lesser consoles. The graphics were good, don't get me wrong,but they weren't as good as people said they were.

Endgame: No Clue, couldn't torture myself for that long.

Overall: 5/10

A completely mediocre game. Why not bring back the people you had working on say, FF6-9. Using new technology and **** doesn't make something good. I mean, take a look at Lunar. Focus on gameplay and storytelling. In the end, this just seems to be something that Square-Enix put out to try and keep the people who thought that FFXI was stupid(which it is) from giving up on the series altogether. It seems rushed, uninspired, and has turned out to be almost as bad as X-2.


Anyway, is it true that XIV is going to be online? That's just what someone told me.

This is me with X-2.

yes.

what? finished with XIII already? Stop being so egotistical as to think that every game they make has to cater to your wants.