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Post edited 8:32 pm – October 1, 2014 by flautist

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I don't mind it as I regularly replay V, VI, and CT. With the advances in hardware, they're able to do much more now – if they opt for a turn-based system, there needs to be an interesting twist/gimmick system in place. I see no reason hy they can't up the ante and provide a twist to turn-based.

Yeah, it's a fairly simple if-then state system rreducing the monotony of selecting basic commands you shouldn't have to do (or would do). If know I'm going to use Echo Herbs or Esuna to remove Silence, then just do it. Actually pressing buttons and sifting through sub-menus for common obvious shit doesn't make me anymore strategically involved than the guy who is doing the former (unless it's a part of the mechanic itself).
And if you so chose, you could play it without ADB – (i.e. ATB style with enemies still hacking away at you). People  say it might play itself, but you have to actually set up Gambits (there is no perfect Gambit setup however) in a very particular manner for most battles. You could make the same argument for any of the early FFs where you issue all your party's commands at once and watch it play out (no matter the order).

For every command issued in these types of FFs, there will most likely be a Gambit or turn you'd want to cancel/manually override in XII as well. Just to even the field here…

I do enjoy some turn based combat. I'd have a hard time pinning down my favorite turn based system though.

I really really tried to like FFXII, it was a solid game but it never felt like Final Fantasy to me. I've been pretty vocal in saying that I always thought it was more like Vagrant Story 2 than it was Final Fantasy. I was really impressed with the world design, I will say that.

Indifferent towards this game until its release.
Yeah, as I said on another forum I'd be cautious of the combat fluidity and battle durations. Outside of that, I didn't find myself overhwlemed with joy or excitment by most things.

Ramuh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3HNm6wH0c&feature=player_detailpage#t=90

Apparently the demo is out now, with Type-0 HD (which I'd like to play actually)

I think I'm just gonna grab it for the psp, I'm not ready to grab a new console anytime soon, not enough reason to. I probably should have played it already, considering it's been released for the PSP since 2011. I saw some video of the demo though, I still don't know how I feel about it but the Behemoth bits looked pretty badass.