FFXII combat system

I definitely miss the old style, but I do like that there's no interruption from the flow of walking to get into a battle, you actually walk up to the monsters.

It doesn't "feel" as much like a Final Fantasy game because of the system, another reason why I would have preferred they kept it.

But, besides the issues of tradition, it's a good system. It allows multiple characters to be managed in real time, and it takes a bit of thought and skill to make it work well.

it FINALLY rocks, i dont have to worry about being attacked every 2 seconds, it kills the game when youre going somewhere and OH NO YOU HAVE TO FIGHT NOW.

i have not used the old style ever, as this is the first one i am using and i like it a lot. It is quite different from the others

I agree with you on the older style. It is nice.. but it's also a lot like kingdom hearts. helps you prepare for what you see is coming.^_^

ye it ain't bad

i mean ya the old system was cool too but for FF VII, anything after was whatever. But did anyone notice the change of names of the magics?? Like in FF7, they had fire1,fire2,fire3,thunder1,thunder2....from ff8 and on they went to fire,fira,firaga, etc.. i didnt like it at 1st but now its kool

I love the Gambit system of FFXII this is where you test your strategy skill. You can defeat higher level monster by just having a good gambit and thinking. In my expirience I defeated Yiazmat with this character level w/o going to the save crystal

Vaan - 85
Basch -83
Ashe - 84

I took me hard a time when he use threatening Growth which doubles his level because he can wipe out my character with his cyclone.

I think it's awesome. I myself would want to move out of enemy range and dodge attacks sometimes. It also is close to reality even though it's just a game.

I miss the turn based battle system previous FF titles used. But the new is not that bad, after you've set the gambits you can just leave it. It's also what I don't like about it you miss the interactivity of giving commands every now and then.

to me real time means fast action.
FFXII doesn't have that, every time you want to hit, you have to wait.
It really looks like the battle system in dot hack serie 1.
In dot hack serie 2 they added a combo system and skills making the game quite fast though there aren't enough skills.

the reason of turn base battle was to give tons of skills and magics and to make them really mind blowing,over the top overkill effects, FFXII lost it.

The magics are really small and unimpressif contrary to any other FF.It is the same magic for any elements just with different colors, lvl 1 and 3 are pretty much identical too and magics area just make the char launch the magic over and over again, instead of doing one big screen blowing attack.

Even the summoning are the same, they just attack every 5 secs,it would have been better to make them dash toward a monster and bash them with a combo.
even their last attack are boring,it doesn't even look like they are hitting anything.
It remind me of the summoning in wild arms 1 on ps1.

if they improve this, the battle system can become the best one ever but right now it's very disappointing.