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Pretending to have played Final Fantasy games doesn't exactly work.

There are hardly any CGI movies in FFXII.

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I'd hardly call FFXII's story terrible, it just wasnt presented in in a very good way and its pretty different from 99% of videogame stories out there.

I used to think it was "passable" but on further playthroughs I've decided that it's just awful. Yes it's different, but different isn't always "better." If it had been "different" and "good" then that would be something.

i think the word he was trying to say was unique (for a video game). but i think the story was good, although an easy way to put the story (not generic girly men being emo) is FF12 is practically star wars,

its all there the empire the rebels, vaan is luke, blathier is a mix of ben kenobi and han solo, ashe is the princess of course, fran is sexy version of chewy, and the judges and 'bucket heads' al look like clone soldiers. oh and gabranth is vader

FFXII is a good game with a terrible story.

[QUOTE="WilliamRLBaker"]the game has about 20 hours of gameplay alot is taken up by cgi cinema's you can rush though in 20 hours.hakanakumono

Pretending to have played Final Fantasy games doesn't exactly work.

There are hardly any CGI movies in FFXII.

the game is good depending on your taste, but i think the story isn't the best, it's third dimensional and has depth and feels very much like a movie that's what i liked, although i would say multiple play throughs do help with liking and understanding the story

geez maybe if you stop thinking about how 'bad' it is maybe you'll enjoy it. you also sound like a guy who whines alot for no reason and just like movies like gi joe and transformers because good story telling to you is like' once upon a time jim woke up and he killed a dragon, the end' where it has to be hammered into your face. and that the game isn't playing itself with it being real time would you rather you press the attack button every time you want to attack and then wait for the bar to load.

check out a little game called world of war craft and be amazed at how that games has the same magic self attacking mechanic.

thankyou i agree with every word you said. why can't people just respect the game for being different instead of critisising it.

yer the game does start out really slow but i just played the beginning bit for the third time because i deleted my save twice, it isn't that bad if you know what's happening, but even in this gen the graphics looks amazing just a bit low res but the characters look so good and the enviroment is so full of life so few games can make the worlds so booming with life

This is a bit late, but i think FF12 is really good people just need to stop hating on it because they aren't used to how different it is from the turn based system they are used to. once you get past the fact that ff12 is not ff10 you'll start to enjoy it. it takes about 20 hours or more.

why can't people stop saying they think ff12 is bad because they are stuck in the past saying how amazing 10 was, i was like everyone else thinking the real time was pointless because it felt like it was just the ATB but you could walk around while you wait, after playing mmo's like wow i realised that ff12 is a really intricate in depth game, which depends on good timing and tactics through choice of gambits.

a little note i'd highly recommend the international zodiac job system version despite being in japanese the game has a few great additions like control guests and espers, a fast forward button, quickening don't take up all your mp, and you can do more then 9999 damage all making the game a lot easier and better.

im sorry but for all those who just want ff10 battle system go play ff10, i want change, i want something new everytime. and the stupid thing is no doubt you will be the same people who will go 'booo why are you releasing the same s£$t again' if they didn't change the game much each time.

PS ff13 is awesome