The "new" style of FF is ruining the franchise. I went from turn base bliss to hack'n'slash? WTF? If I wanted endless hitting of the same button, I'd play Dynasty Warriors or other games like Drakengard. FF isn't about, hit the X button until it dies. It's formulating the best strategy for every battle. Not stand there and watch your party die when you're trying to fuckin CURE them. I don't know how many times I attempt to just simply cast Cure, and everyone dies right before I cast it.

FF is about diversity. Switching to an MMORPG feel is just doing what everyone else is doing. FF invented turn base, so stick with what got you to where you are. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Yea I myself think a good mix between the new and old would work wonders like someone mentioned above.

What do you think would be a good mix between old and new style that would make it refreshing?


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I think that maybe a mix between both would do fine...but I think they kinda screwed up a bit with XII I mean the battle system was fine and all but it kinda got annoying sometimes...specially because you were way too slow at the start. Kinda made me wanna quick playing.
Being able to see the armor and such on the characters would be fine, but that would mean seeing a different image of them every time you saw the. Some times I think they would even looks stupid, I think they should only stick of changing the weapons and that's all, I don't wanna see my character with a whole bunch of huge armorn on them. Thank you.

Yea a bunch of wierd looking armor bunched together would look wierd on a character, but what if they resorted back to the more simpler worlds they could free up a ton of space, and allow for them to make multiple armor, hats, helmets, boots, etc, with the same stats. of course there would be better, and worse armor, but if there was a big variety with some of the things having the same exact stats, you could pick and choose what would look best on your char. It would make it more like an RPG that way, and feel more like YOUR character. Maybe even choose the weapon type, without adding the annoying extra things. Like take FF7 for instance, if you had a special move system like that but the special moves would change depending on what type of weapon you are using.. maybe the more you use a weapon, the higher your stats for that type of weapon goes? Idk.. either way they could do alot more I think if they cut down on a few things.

I actually like the newer battle system. Loved the ATB and whatnot but the Gambit is also good. Having the World Map gone, as much as I liked them, has allowed for better environments but unlike X that made it linear and boring, XII actually did it right by making a really interesting. To get to places in XII you can chose which route to take, what routes NOT to take, and what you can do along the way....with X or the old games with the World Map you had the route almost forced on you somewhat.

XII was awesome, it just needed a better story and a few tid-bits to have been smoothed out.

In fact, turn based battle was invented before FF. At least, Dragon Quest uses it before.

Anyway; i still love the old style, but after play a lot the Tales series, and olders ones are Secret of Mana, Star Ocean, etc; i like it more the new action style.

And come on!! those random battles were kinda annoying! =P

out wiv the new in wiv the old ! i want ff back to the way we all grew to love it ! (ff7,8,9)