FF XII: True Final Fantasy?
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http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=459841&topic=31749519

Goat of Poop (yes, that's the screen name) writes a huge tl;dr rant about how FFXII isn't a true Final Fantasy game.

You know, I came to this board aeons ago with a single topic explaining to people exactly how different this game would be from the original Final Fantasy game prior, and I stated "This does not have the right to be called a Final Fantasy"

Now the release has come and gone and I feel the same way more then ever. This game is NOT a Final Fantasy. For anyone to truly understand this you would have to understand the mechanics and the type of genre that FF has come to produce. Turn based role playing games with the most incredible stories of all time.

Well I look at FFXII and I see...... action RPG with a horrible story. WAIT A MINUTE?!

You see, the fact of the matter is this. You can doll a game up and give it the most amazing graphics on a console. That doesn't make it a good game. You can add a few chocobos, moogles, and familiar tunes, but that doesn't make it a Final Fantasy. As far as I am concerned the last FF game was Final Fantasy X, which seemed to mark the end to a good era. From then it was down hill.

Final Fantasy prior and including 10 had their ups and downs, but never have I seen a Final Fantasy regurgitate so much backlash from fans as this one has


What makes this game a Final Fantasy game? Well, obviously, the letters making up the title. Oh I can do that to. Here, I'm going to make a Tetris knockoff using different colored Moogles as the "blocks" and name it "Final Fantasy: Wowsers" and I guess that makes it a Final Fantasy too?

This reasoning is insane. Compare this to any other Final Fantasy, you get CRAP

Past FF's had story, character development, ROLE PLAYING, a beautiful score, a turned based system, the awesome ability of summoning creatures, the ablity to CONTROL your characters, and did I mention story. This games lacks all of the above.

I see an action RPG game that took a system from a mediocre MMORPG, took out the online elements, and added a few NPCs. The leveling mimmicks that of a MMORPG. The difficulty in beasts is the same. The battle system... hell that is just Vagrant Story battle system recycled, but this time, you get to have a few other guys do what they want next to you. Gil is next to impossible to make and items are extremely expensive. Wonder where they got that idea from, maybe an MMORPG?

Story is boring, characters have little to no development, not to mention NO REASON to even want to take part in the main story.

Yes, we can look at this game as a stand alone game but simply put, it is not. The Final Fantasy tag on it and thus it would demand a certain expectancy from the fans. NONE of that expectancy was there. If they took Radiata Stories and named it Final Fantasy XIII would it be a FF, No.

So, this little crap fest will be thrown into the abyss with other abominations including Crystal Chronicles and Final Fantasy XI. However, as far as I am concerned, Final Fantasy X was the last FF. I am still awaiting a PROPER Final Fantasy XI and it seems I'm not going to get that.

For all the TRUE Final Fantasy fans that see past this sham and this game called "Final Fantasy" than good for you. Join my as this becomes the first Final Fantasy I refuse to buy for my collections, owning all others prior. To those who are new to the series and see this as your first awesome experience, then I pity you and suggest you pick up some prior in the series, games that are TRUE works of art. And lastly to those "true fans" who sit by idley and accept this as a REAL Final Fantasy, then shame on you. Go ahead and forget the roots that created a franchise, that created a legend, that created countless memories.

This game will hold only countless bad memories for me.

48 pages of wank and counting...

(Now if you excuse me, I need to get back to chaining.)

Edit: oxydosic points out that the entitlement fanboy continues...