Okay, here's my opinion.

FFXII didn't suck @ss, but it wasn't as good as a final fantasy game should be, for the following reasons:

1. The battle system was fine, but they should tweak it some more to make it more diverse. Alol i did was walk around with 3 fighters and sliced everything in my way. The bows and guns don't do as much damage as swords, and i only used magic when the enemy was physically immune.

2. The flow of the story truly sucked ass cause there were huge spans of time with no cutscenes at all. I don't like it when all i do is go around dungeons killing stuff for three hours straight. Here i will compare to FFX where we had cutscenes with character interaction at least every 30 minutes. And boy, the CG's in XII were so few and far between. The longest of which was like one minute. Damn it! That's why some people didn't like the story, Alot of time there just wasn't any. No character interaction, no CG's, nothing!

3. The espers/summons. They were so weak, I summoned them once to see what they do and look like. So, I lose two good players, and all i have is an overgrown jackass who dies after like, two hits from an enemy. What's with that? Espers should be strong if I have to use them, not die after someone pokes them once. After I've summoned them once, i never did it again.

4. The main character. I thought Tidus from FFX was girly but this one is an absolute p*ssy. I wonder when did people stopped liking nice manly characters. Like ones who are more than 18 years old and have a beard or something. I'm not talking some barbarian-macho main character here, I'm just talking about a normal guy with a manly face and a goatee, not some metrosexual fruity bastard. Squall from FFVIII was closest to being a fine manly character. And the last guy i liked visually.

This is all i can think of right now. Those are the main reasons i would give the game a 7/10 at best. I've played every FF so far at least 3 times. This one I won't replay, except if I really have no other games to play.

Last, If someone doesn't like or likes the game it would be nice to give a few reasons why. That's how an answer to this topic should be.