[quote name='defiance_17']Exploring has a sense of danger to it. I like that--in any other Final Fantasy, you don't hesitate to fight. If there was no chance you could win, the enemy wouldn't even be in the area. Now you have to be careful where you wander off to, or be ready to have your ass handed to you faster than you can blink.
I don't know what your definition of "developed" is as far as characters are concerned, but the cast in XII absolutely runs a train on the whiny, irritating, stereotypical idiots in X.
Seriously, every aspect of FFXII is making X look like it had training wheels.[/QUOTE]
Danger is fine, and I compltly agree that X needed to be ALOT harder(pretty much every FF did). However in some areas its just not cool. Im ok with having to check an enemies level, and im ok with things like the T Rex roaming around. But things like the pinnaple are just not cool. I turn a corner then BAM a lvl 45 hits my whole lvl 15 party with for 1k+ damage. THATS not acceptable.
And see you just sound biased as hell when it comes to judging on story and charcters. Most people just think ok I dont like this persons personality so im going to call them a whiney brat and say the games bad...or wow that guy has a cool sword so hes uber cool! Thats not the way charcter development works. Charcters like Tidus and Wakka had pasts....pasts we began learning about from the start of the game....and pasts they even managed to intertwine amazingly(chapu anyone?). XII on the other hand at about 20 hours in has YET to reveal anything about any of the charcters accept Vaan and Ashe who are lead male and female. Its unacceptable.
I think that alot of people didnt like the emotion of FFX, dealing with love and emotions is more then alot of us geeks can handle
and Tidus didnt have the emo hardcore coolness of cloud and squall, nor was he a pimp like Zidane or Baltheir.....thus he was hated. Again the FFX cast had real emotions and histories and I think alot of people didnt know how to deal with it.
I also think besides some people just thinking adult art style + Basch/Baltheir being pimps = instantly cool game alot of people are just happy to have the new battle system. While its nice it doesnt make up for the flaws nor should people be judging other areas more positivly just because the battles are nice.