This game is far from easy

[Vayne]

Optional esper can be very challenging if you dont overlevel when fighting it. I forget about FF1-8 difficulty but i can say for sure that FF12 is way more harder than FF9

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Newer game than the previous (obviously, hence the numbering), so mechanics are less mastered by the general populous - also learning curve increase ;)

[๑乛۸乛๑]

Eh, after playing through the first version I'd say the Zodiac Age version is easier. FF12 does have different mechanics from its predecessors that most people aren't used to.

[solidap]

The people who say this game is "too easy" are the same people who chose specific characters for specific classes just because their attack animations may be 0.2 seconds faster than another character

So ya, diregard the "too easy" complaints

[Hinnyuu]

As I've said in other places, people complaining it's too easy are mostly veteran players, and those players who enjoy min/maxing in games in general. This version of the game added a number of new things, however their complaint is that many of those things served to reduce the overall difficulty - e.g. we got a new tier of ultimate weapons, but no enemy was buffed to compensate.

However, always keep in mind that difficulty is largely a subjective metric. Don't take it as absolute, or as an attack on anyone. This is a single-player only game. Nobody is competing against you. But it still would have been nice if the people who've cleared this game 50 times in the last ten years had gotten something other than Trial mode (which in itself serves to trivialize the game in some ways).

That's not to say that new or less experienced players don't have plenty to challenge them. They do. And that's a good thing nobody would want to take away.

[Inssengrimm]

Game is a joke difficulty wise.

If anyone is having a hard time with it, should seriously stop and think what they are doing. The is literally a walk in the park when you use gambits correctly and know more or less how to party.

It might come from veterans, but is a more objective truth.

If you are at the same level as the enemies you are facing, and your party is not 2-3 shoting those enemies, you are just missing something due to not reading, searching or investigating enough. If you are at the same level of a map and you are having issues with something, you are most absolutely hindering your gameplay in several possible ways.

-Not using gambits or using them uncorrectly.
-Bad party synergy.
-Not well geared.
-Not proper license build. (HP nodes > Swiftness nodes > Battle/Magick nodes > Everything else)

A game balance is measured when players plays it at its best, not its worst or average, a well balanced games takes into account players being able to learn and dominate mechanics. Any player that spends 30 minutes reading about this game mechanics OR learning them by himself, will dominate the game in a very short time.

Game balance also is made about its proper use of its combat mechanics, not the other way arround, if someone says "but i don't use gambits to increase the challenge", you are not increasing the challenge, you are just hindering yourself, might as well tie a hand to your back or use a blinder

If proper use and knowledge of mechanics used as they are supposed to (not even abusing them too much...) and the game just crumbles at your feet, the game is way too easy.

I just went to the deadlands with a level 33 party to kill the roblon, didnt even cheated skipping enemies or anything, the climb is full of enemies level 40-43 with reflectga so no healing spam on undead and Ra spells not to mention high evasion and block due to level diference. The only challenge was my patience as it took me 30 minutes to reach the roblon and another 5 or 6 to beat him.

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

Game only gets hard around before you enter the Bahamut ship. Yiazmat, Zodiark, Gilgamesh and some others will mess you up badly if you decide to do the side content which involves farming alot, Doing all the hunts, finnishing up optional areas, getting all the espers, finnishing trial to 100... But yeah, its optional stuff if you want all the achivements and bonus stuff.

[Jumpscare Myers]

The game isn't hard when you're making tons of gil and buying the next best pieces of equipment you can get your hands on as you progress through the game.

However i am trying to farm the Dead bones skeletons in the Nabreus Deadlands and i can only take on 2 at a time or i'll be overwhelmed and die. so there is a difficulty spike when heading into certain areas of the game that you're not supposed to be in until later on when you have a higher party level and better gear.

But yes the game is easy once you have the right things and the right gambits setup.

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

The areas you speak off are the optional places, some contain espers, some contain end game hunts and some contain items you need to farm for hours to get, an example is the ribbons which are required to complete the trials. After floor 50 monsters will chain negative statuses on your party so badly you will hardly have time to do anything before you perish.

[Vayne]

Every FF main story is easy. The hard one is optional stuff

[Vayne]

Originally posted by Alexander Dragonfang:

Game is a joke difficulty wise.

Fight esper in garamshite after you cleared raithwall. Tell me if its easy

[Purplefairy22]

I remember this game being harder but i just smashed Judge Bergan to bits

[Vayne]

Originally posted by Purplefairy22:

I remember this game being harder but i just smashed Judge Bergan to bits

Main story is easy. Optional esper is not

[Purplefairy22]

Zodiark was the only one that gave me grief

[ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦]

Well yeah, the story content have always been "easy" in FF.... want challange, do the optional stuff and get 100% achivements.

[Vayne]

Originally posted by Purplefairy22:

Zodiark was the only one that gave me grief

Originally posted by Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca:

Originally posted by Alexander Dragonfang:

Game is a joke difficulty wise.

Fight esper in garamshite after you cleared raithwall. Tell me if its easy