I absolutly HATE the battle system in this game - Page 3

November 13, 2007, 9:33 PM

Yeah with IX you can always run back through that game. Its classic.

As far as XII if you play it long enough the battle system is great. I think that true FF fans first start to play it and don't like the differences in the old school to XII. But I liked it. GAMBITS ARE GREAT. for non-main character people.

November 18, 2007, 1:58 PM

I personally liked the battle system myself, its one of the best aspects of the game imo. I sure as hell don't miss random battles thats for cert.

November 18, 2007, 6:38 PM

Eh...I could take it or leave it. It's unremarkable. The elimination of random enemy encounters is nice, though.

November 20, 2007, 11:51 AM

I really liked the battle system. It was fast paced, but not too insane. In addition, the battle chain made item gathering rather nice, though I could have done with a gil system for victory...buying everything gets EXPENSIVE! Other than that, though, I enjoyed the refreshing change of pace. Square changes something every time it puts a game out, and this was one change for the better in my opinion.

November 21, 2007, 5:29 PM

I for one hated the battle system and the fact that the leveling up process took too long i found out near the end of the game that the more people you have in battle the lower the amount of experience gained if that had been made clear near the beginning of the game i would have only used one character in battle at any given time.

November 21, 2007, 5:39 PM

It didn't seem to take any longer to level up than in any other FF games to me. I was able to level fairly quickly. I only used 3 characters though and didn't bother to level my other 3.

November 21, 2007, 5:44 PM

I actually really liked the battle system in this game. I liked the fact there was so much action in the fightning and the battles were no longer random. That was one thing that irritated the hell out of me back in the older FF games. You'd be running along and one fucking random battle right after the other. You'd take two steps and you're in another battle. I like the fact that you could actually move your own weapons in this one instead of just hitting a button and waiting for the prolonged attack...

; So yeah, I don't know why people are complaining, but I love this battle system and it was time to get away from the random battles. I'm also half asleep so if this post sounds like shit, my apologies.

November 21, 2007, 9:13 PM

It was much more lifelike...

It took me a while to get used to it, because with random battles I always felt I was in control (esp FFX), the idea of pre-setting moves was a big hurdle to get over. But once I allowed myself to trust my gambits, and therefore my characters, it just seemed to click with me.

I really liked how much you could personalise the abilities of the characters, you can have them learn anything you want. And swapping weapons was a lot of fun- I had Fran running around like a maniac with a huge axe!!

I must admit I still love the random battles, but I think this is a good system in its own right.

November 22, 2007, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by littlechesney

I for one hated the battle system and the fact that the leveling up process took too long i found out near the end of the game that the more people you have in battle the lower the amount of experience gained if that had been made clear near the beginning of the game i would have only used one character in battle at any given time.

Wouldnt that take just as long? You'd just be working on chars individually.....unless you were planning on solo-ing all the way thru then I think that would be really pointless

Can't say I thought it took too long to level up myself, if it did then maybe it FELT quicker because there was no brak in play you just bashed summat then moved on. Nice and flowy like.
Altho I'm still not keen on it, but that's prolly cause it took me so long to get used to it. Willing to give it another go soon, hopefully i'll come back saying I finally love it

November 22, 2007, 6:47 AM

I kinda got used to the new battle system. It dosent bother me anymore.