Where the heck are you looking, because you can find just as large of a fanbase for FFXII as any other FF game.
Personally, the game is so very mediorc to me that I skipped a lot of the sidequests because I wanted to be done with the game. And I've played every FF game as well, including FFT (<3 this game so much!) and FFTA, and a bit of FFXI. Vaan is about as interesting as dried toast, he's probably one of the worst FF main characters because he simply does nothing to the story. He had very few moments where I thought he would actually, you know, be interesting, but... nothing.
And don't use the arguement for FFX, 'Well, Yuna is the MC of there!' because Tidus at least contributes to the story. Vaan does... nearly nothing.
And the game runs like FFXI offline. Even my sister, who played FFXI obsessively, said so and while I didn't play FFXI nearly as much as her (I mainly played WoW), it did feel a lot like the battle system in the game. If I wanted to grind, I could hop onto WoW and do it there.
The only thing I can say is that the game is beautiful and I liked the track as much as I liked FFVI's. But then again, so was Valkyrie Profile 2, and that not only was a hard game, but the characters weren't as dull as dirt. The plot could've been interesting, but it suffered from dry dull characters. Maybe only half of them were remotely interesting among the main cast, you could toss Vaan and Penelo out and not realize they were missing.
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Personally, the game is so very mediorc to me that I skipped a lot of the sidequests because I wanted to be done with the game. And I've played every FF game as well, including FFT (<3 this game so much!) and FFTA, and a bit of FFXI. Vaan is about as interesting as dried toast, he's probably one of the worst FF main characters because he simply does nothing to the story. He had very few moments where I thought he would actually, you know, be interesting, but... nothing.
And don't use the arguement for FFX, 'Well, Yuna is the MC of there!' because Tidus at least contributes to the story. Vaan does... nearly nothing.
And the game runs like FFXI offline. Even my sister, who played FFXI obsessively, said so and while I didn't play FFXI nearly as much as her (I mainly played WoW), it did feel a lot like the battle system in the game. If I wanted to grind, I could hop onto WoW and do it there.
The only thing I can say is that the game is beautiful and I liked the track as much as I liked FFVI's. But then again, so was Valkyrie Profile 2, and that not only was a hard game, but the characters weren't as dull as dirt. The plot could've been interesting, but it suffered from dry dull characters. Maybe only half of them were remotely interesting among the main cast, you could toss Vaan and Penelo out and not realize they were missing.