I've played many games, but somehow.. in all these 18years of gaming, I never managed to sit down and play one whole final fantasy, I've not played a "jRPG" either. The only experience I've had with em is Kingdom Hearts, which many consider to be a "action adventure game" more than a "RPG'. After a lot of asking around, friends suggested that I make "FF XII" (out of choices I had) the first RPG I play.

As evident from my latest status update , I'm in Vacation land and this is the place where I get to just disconnect from everything and sit down and play some games!1! and do crazy stuff, you know.. like marathons. I'm planning on sitting for ATLEAST 5 hours everyday and try to complete it before my vacation ends (till July 1st). The only thing I know is that its around 70 whole hours long, lets just hope my meandering ways dont stretch it!

I am posting this in the OT board just so that, you know, its just not me who is reading this stuff :P I'll try and sell myself here and tell you why you might be interested in checking out my posts.

• This is my first JRPG

  
  This means that I will probably have all these moments where I will be like "Why is everything so slow" and other gameplay remarks that maybe the rpg lovers out here might clear it up. Also, you can maybe see a bit of your own first experience in it :P

• I love Anime

  
  As much as I love games, I've also seen bazillion anime's out there. One of the main reasons I wanted to sit and play was that I thought "jRPGs should be ask interesting as Anime, its the same thing if you remove the gameplay, right?" Also, I think a really long, conclusive story based experience with the same set of stereotypes that animes have should be more satisfying than a 10+ year experience that never ends. 

• Stupid commentaries

  
  Also, I will be making all those "I've seen this in that anime" "This is sooo formulaic" and such comments, like the ones found in the Matirx 10th ann BluRay (Critic's audio stream) but ofcourse.. will try to make it more fun and interesting than the "Scenes with fires should be Baaannned' that they had in that thing :P
  

• I never take the right path

  
  I have this habit of never traversing through the intended path, first. When I am left with the camera facing one way after a cutscene, I always go to the other direction first and then go to the intended path. This usually leaves me wasting time trying to get impossible things done.

• I'm an Indian!

  
  Ah, the minority card! well, I am not selling myself just by saying that I am from a different country than most people or anything like that. All I know is that this thing has a good amount of references to Hindu Mythology and other stuff like that. I've heard that Shiva is supposed to be in these... he's a summon, and a she and a BIKE? INFIDEL!! Well, I dont know anything for sure, and I wont be going all N'gai and saying "Obviously, No Indian worked on this game". But I will surely have SOMETHING to say about those. So you get to hear how that Indian dude felt about calling Gods out to help everynow and then.. maybe something like a Greek dude feeling awesome that he can summon the powers of Zeus and Titans in various God of war games :P

Good luck with the whole charging aspect, I found it a game breaker.

XII kinda sucks. If i were you i'd play FFX. Even if you dont have it, its about 10 bucks used. Thats just me though.But either way good luck.

Now thinking if I should back out.. on second thought, there's no backing out now! Will play FF XII only. If actually like my X-ty hours of experience wtih this... might consider playing FF X too.. or maybe some other jrpg.. but.. vacations dont come too often, I dont know if playing such games with week long gaps on weekends is a good idea. Guess it ruins the flow or something like that.

You will fail.  You don't have what it takes boy.   Bwaaahahahahahaha.

FFXII was a lot of fun.  Don't take other people's perspective on this game into account.  Play it for yourself.  No other game in the series has more of a split opinion.  The game is great, but Final Fantasy purists hate it.

Yep, at least give it a shot for yourself, don't listen to others' opinions.  I think it was an amazing game, absolutely loved the Gambit system.

I was thinking of doing one seriously for FFX. The problem is that there's no way I'd separate it into 10 minute youtube segments. So there in lies the problem: 700 episode endurance run? Maybe I better play a shorter PS1 game like Alundra.

FFXII (Not X-2, right?) isn't really a game you should start with if you're new to the genre, seriously. I've been playing JRPGs since I was 6 (FFVII wasthe first game I ever played) and the mechanics of FFXII confused the shit out of my and pissed me off. Go with X, it's turn based and pretty easy to get the hang of.

Well, I actually, sat and played the game today.. then wrote+drew some stuff and put it here.. I associated it with the FF XII board like I said before. Will be doing the same thing, unless well,theres a better suggestion.

Read away and enjoy xD