The Western Final Fantasy That Wasn’t

Dude, by the time you are lv 60 or maybe lv 50, you have fuly completed the license board on all characters, making them exactly the same.

That's why Itou made the Zodiac version with jobs included, to give some much needed variety to the characters besides the weapon equipped. Too bad it was never released outside Japan.

Dude, by the time you are lv 60 or maybe lv 50, you have fuly completed the license board on all characters, making them exactly the same.

I see. Your game must be suffering from some sort of bug that automatically learns licenses whenever it has enough license points. Instead of whining, get a new copy that doesn't have that bug.

Must I repeat myself?

Nowhere does it say that you have to pick every single license. It's not Square Enix fault that you can't handle the freedom that they've given you.

The fact that everyone could learn anything was fine... The fact that there was no way to actively choose to be a class something wasn't.

Like say if they made a black mage, or a white mage gambit setup that offered higher level magic/stats than your supposed to have in the game at the time. Would've made things more interesting.

OWND

so if u have 9999 lp free and a lot of licence left, u will not spend ur points because u only want a white mage?
-for me sound boring

so if u have 9999 lp free and a lot of licence left, u will not spend ur points because u only want a white mage?
-for me sound boring

If you want a white mage, don't make a red mage. And if you DO make a red mage, don't go QQing about it, because it was your own bloody choise.

It may sound boring to you, but why the fuck would you complain about being able to choose? If you think it's fun to have a full license board, then don't complain when all characters are exact copies of each other.

I can't for the life of me see why this is so hard for people to realize. Your incapability of handling the license board doesn't make the system itself bad. It just means that you're too immature to handle it.

Despite the logic of "if it's breakable, don't break it," it's simple human nature to find purpose in structure. The original License board, simply put, was unfulfilling for this reason alone.

This is why the Zodiac Job system in FFXII International was created in the first place, and why it was such a disappointment to everyone else when it was revealed that Square Enix had no plans to release it overseas. The ability to choose a Job Class and receive a License Board customized for that Class changed the way one approached the game and made each choice much more meaningful.

I'll have to call you on your bluff, a lolicon, and say that the FFXII was a bad system. It did not convincingly represent the process of character growth due to the vague arrangement of Licenses and it removed the value of meaningful choice from within the game structure itself. The License Board system was designed with the naive assumption that complete freedom was better for game design than purposeful limitations. This was an assumption that pen-and-paper RPG systems realized was false years ago. A limitation like a "class" system lets a player intuitively associate a character with a role or purpose. A limitation like a "level" system allows a player to gauge his and other characters' strength at a glance.

While you decry the other Anons for being "too immature" or lacking the self-discipline to play the game with self-imposed limitations, the fact of the matter is that they were working within a system that was illogical, unintuitive, and unsatisfying.

Square Enix realized the truth and that's why they made the Zodiac Job system. They didn't bring it over because, frankly, Square tends not to release any of its "special editions" outside Japan.

Get a load of this guy who thinks inflexibility is a statistically better choice.

Clue it's in the fucking title, character.
Character have characteristics.

different characters -> different characteristics -> variety.

That is one down.
The other, theoretically you do have flexibility but that comes with a catch, unbalanced weapons.
By making some types of weapons superior on almost any regard to others you indirectly affect my choice of gameplay archetype. i.e. i found that swords and spears where superior to every aspect as opposed to fists,bows, rods,guns,hand-bombs and maces. (which are all active types of weapons) So why should i equip my characters with inferior weapons?
That is why balanced gameplay is a decisive rating factor.

What they should have done is instead of creating a new board system just make it so you can only get so many points throughout the game and you wouldn't have enough to put them in everything. That is how most games that are not restricted by class work. That way you can customize your character and have to think about where you are going to use your points.

@chronomaster

Considering that the FFXII system was both unintuitive and amusing in its absurdities, perhaps it's better to say that it's almost impressive that it's worse than inflexibility.

There's a ludological concept that rings true for all games: Keep it simple, stupid. Classes and levels are just complex enough to give definition, but simple enough to be intuitive. The latter is very important for character and role identification in a game (as opposed to, say, a less interactive medium).

FFT had a Job Class system, vanilla FFXII didn't. Both are Ivalice. Which one would you rather play?

All they had to do was change the menus and subtitles cause the vocals in the international version are the English release voices. And there's a reason I sad "had" :P

That is what they are doing and they are creating a program to do it and working through all of the problems associated with it.

you are an asshole

Maybe a new game that further expands the world/history of Ivalice, with gameplay similar to, or different from FF12 & FFTA?

They really should go with the Ivalice Alliance thing they've got. It seems better than their current ideology behind FF nowadays.

"I want a new Chrono game and it doesnt have to be a sequel to Cross or Trigger, it just has to be good."

Fixed. And I wouldnt mind 40+ characters again.