Final Fantasy XII

I spent most of last night talking about how great this game is.

It really sucks if you play it like an old-school RPG, but if you tune the fuck out of the gambits, it becomes this really cool challenge to balance attack and defense to pound monsters as fast and as hard as you can.

I hardly pay attention to the story though. It is kinda interesting, but The battle system took over that game. I'm hoping Final 13 will be a good mix of story and badass battle system.

I've been playing it with another teacher and we akined it to teaching English. You plan for a battle, give instructions, but then you have to keep careful watch to make sure those instructions are followed. Or you could say it was the same as a turn-based system, you just automatically program each turn like in American RPGs, the A lot of people talk about action games with RPG elements, and here we have an RPG that looks like an action game. It's like God of War with more commands.

I made a mistake in playing this game for the story. The characters are dead shallow. Two of the characters are just little kids and have little to do with the main story. One of them is Vaan.

I replayed (FF)7 and rocked it. I'm working on 8 now. 8 is super cool, but it's really easy to get super good magic at the beginning of the game. I think it gets harder, but right now it's fun 'cause I can test different battle styles out.

Disagea got super boring after a while, man. Mind-numbing dungeon crawlers are not for me. I can't defend FFXII as different, but with Disagea, doing really well seems more like a matter of patience not skill. Beating an RPG in less time is way more impressive than putting ridiculous amounts of hours in.

And that's this asshole's opinion.

-Lyndon's BigBig Porking Johnson