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Okay.... Let's just say I'm a little confused about Final Fantasy XII's storyline (from what I've heard).
Let's start out with the beginning of Xenogears. You've got your main character, which just so happens to have his two best friends get married the next day. For the reason to be unnamed due to spoilers, the marriage doesn't happen and and your main character eventually comes across a band of rogue pirates (led by a supposedly-dead prince). The world is set so that you're on the main continent, and on this main continent, you've got two sides fighting for sole posession of everything, in a war that has been going on for who-knows-how-long. Suddenly, you've got a 3rd country that aids the losing country to make it an even battle. Meanwhile these sand pirates have something to say about the whole way both countries are fighting and want to get in on the war on their own, and hopefully stop it.

Let's move on to what I've heard of the FFXII story. Your first main character is a chick (a princess, to boot) and she's about to get married. For whatever reason the marriage obviously doesn't happen. Your other main character is an air pirate (I think... if not it's another big character.) You're in a world in which you're on the main continent, and you've got two sides fighting a war that has been going on for an untold amount of time, seesawing back and forth. I believe I heard that a 3rd country joins the losing side (or maybe not), but I am pretty sure that your princess character comes across these pirates and they agree to help her try to A)claim the throne, or B) stop the war.

Spot me up with anything I have wrong about the FFXII story, but don't the beginnings of the games look WAY too eerily similar? Is it possible that Squaresoft liked the story from their original (and only cult-classic) Xenogears game that they'd try to rip the story off onto a Final Fantasy game so that it gets more attention? Or is it just that I've A) completely lost my mind and play WAY too many RPGs, B) think way too much, or C)it's a mere RPG-relating storyline that happens pretty often if you look at the basic structure of all RPGs? Nonetheless, I am very-much-so anticipating the release of FFXII and hope that it is a great game, and that after I play Xenogears through that I don't play FFXII and find out that I've already played through the story before, heh heh heh.

If you really want to get technical about it, the whole opening sequence of Xenogears set an entirely different tone. When the starship Eldridge is attacked from within and crash lands on the planet, only for one of the many incarnations of Miang to emerge, the story then skips to the Lahan Village.

It's not until a good halfway through the game before the intro sequence starts to make sense. And, up until then, it's looming in the back of your mind, "What did that have to do with anything?"

With the exception of the return of that ugly little kid in the Solaris colony, that part of Xenogears is a very, very minor part of the whole story. Little more than an excuse for Fei to be exiled into the Black Moon Forest where he meets the game's heroine.

That's why XG is soooo awesome.

No offense stupid, but you really butchered the XG storyline.

And chances are theres quite a lot more to FFXI's story as well. We just don't know it yet.

The only way I could have possibly butchered the storyline of XG is past the beginning (WHICH IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT)! I haven't gotten past Fei, Citan, and Bart's invasion of the Aveh capital to rescue "Margie". What I typed is completely accurate up to the point in time which I've played. Besides, the begging of FFXII's story is the only part that has been surmised so far, so there'd be no possible way for me TO go beyond what I did with XG and still compare it to FFXII. Read the post before saying I butchered anything, please. Edit: Except for the FFXII storyline, which is still basic speculation as done by those that have seen some of the larger trailers/talked to the big-giant-heads that are developing the game.

Stupid wrote:The only way I could have possibly butchered the storyline of XG is past the beginning (WHICH IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT)! I haven't gotten past Fei, Citan, and Bart's invasion of the Aveh capital to rescue "Margie".

Then you really haven't even started Xenogears' story. It may start innocuous enough, but it explodes into a rich and complex tale.