Quote Originally Posted by Dan558 View Post
I have a somewhat unclear answer for the battle system, i do play active (why would i ever not...) and the battles still seem slow. The argument about "people don't like it because they do not stay still" seems weak because most of the moves hit you no matter where you stand and the few that you can dodge aren't that hard. The other characters that arn't your party leader pace around slowly changing nothing for me from the "stand in a line" approach most other rpgs have. A better way to make battles less "stand an take turns"-like would be to make the battle system more like Kingdom Hearts or Legend of Mana.
Complaints about battle system in Final Fantasy XII is something I'll never understand, especially those coming from fellow FF fans. As I said many times before, the battle system is almost the same as in many previous tittles, the ATB is still there with exception of characters moving around during the battle. Slow, I beg to differ, without opening and ending animation, being able to give commands faster and not having to repeat them every turn, the battles are going in faster pace than the ones in previous tittles, why you consider battles to be slow is something I cannot explain.

Again, like most things, it boils down to my opinion. I don't consider myself to be a close-minded person and I can see that people are saying that they like it for certain reasons but I still find it hard to believe how they actually like those things... I should have learned by now that most reviewers just like anything thats "new" rather than good/meaningful/powerful/exciting and especially deep and FFXII had some game-changing new things so I think that clouded their minds.

Anyways I should probably just suffer through the rest of the game just to say i beat it then probably reward myself with a playthrough of FFVI, FFVII, FFT, KH1, KH2, legend of mana or a MGS (games on the opposite end of the spectrum)
The same way I can't believe how someone could love Final Fantasy V, but they do. It's their cup of tea, simple as that.

Also, I really don't think reviewers were blinded by "new shiny things" Final Fantasy XII has to offer as most of them take all in consideration before giving the final score, some of them even rate every part of the game separately, like on IGN, then draw the score based on all parts of the game. Also, keep in mind that most reviews were written by one guy who may or may not have the same opinion as you, and as you can see the final score varies from review to review as many of them have different opinion on the same game, thus Famitsu gave Final Fantasy XII a perfect score while Gamespot on the other hand didn't.