Final Fantasy 12: RPG of the year, or cheap attempt to make money?

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Originally Posted by ElfLad

Not if random encounters were never a good thing, only a necessary thing before there was the capability to show enemy sprites on the map.

That's like saying that any Shadows of the Colossus sequel would need a sub-par, uncooperative camera. It doesn't.

That makes no sense.

There has always been the ability to have the sprites on the map. Take the 16bit era and tons of RPG's had sprites on the map, but it didn't always work well. Hell even in the 8bit era they had them.

Random encounters was part of what made the original FF games good, and helped create that particular genre of RPG (the J RPG to be specific) taking them out is changing it and it no longer deserves the FF title.