Thanks for the feedback. By the way, I'm 2 hours in and I freakin love this game already. The battle system is really fun and something different for a change.
i played through the game, with nearly all of the sidequests, plus beating the 1,000,000 hit point dragon, and beating most of that final optional dungeon in about 90 hours. A lot of that extra time was grinding to get strong enough to fight in that last dungeon, though
FF XII has a lot of grinding requirements. You always had to grind a little bit to get through a Final Fantasy title but FF XII takes too far. I'm playing the game at the moment, i've been doing sidequests when I find them and moving ahead with the story when I have nothing else to do or can't beat any of the available marks. I'm currently at 92 hours and I'm thinking I have another ten to twenty before I put the game down. But if your just playing the story through I'd say you can probably breeze through the main game in forty to sixty hours.
I did enough of the hunts to get the good items from them. I did not beat the insanely difficult dragon at the end since I didn't see any point to it. I did all the sidequests (except for the last 20 or so hunts) and I did a decent amount of grinding (I have being without spending $$ in RPGs!) and I spent about 70 hours on it. While I found FFVII had a more enthralling, gripping experience, I was definitely entertained more playing FFXII.
I have over 200 hours and I'm still not done with EVERYTHING. I recommended the game to a friend and he shot through it in a couple of weeks. I wouldn't be surprised if he did it in under 40. He kept asking me why he didn't have any good equipment :).
I topped 100 hours getting everything I could, only to be frustrated that I couldn't get some spear or something unless I skipped certain random chests through out the game :|.
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