I just don't see why you would put yourself through that! Use the right weapon for each encounter!
But what determines ones are an ff lover?Well. You're not a FF lover then! You are not worthy, Thor! You can't lift my magic hammer.
@I.S.T.
You do have the option to use many other weapons tho.
I just doesn't get the urgency to change my starting weapon.
@RenegadeRocks
It have lots of variety. But it doesn't force you at all.
So you can be a boring king like me, who use starting gear and almost no new skills.
Or you can be a dragon ball z evolution king with crazy battle acrobatics and various weapons
I'd have to disagree for the weapons. Not only the element infused weapons make your life so much better, but there are other very good weapons. Unless you upgrade the Engine Blade to Ultima (and that takes a long time, still haven't managed myself), then using that the whole game is a bit stupid. And on top of that, Noctis has all those royal arms to use which can be cool (personally I don't use them as they affect your HP).
Just like in Dark Souls (even though this is nothing like Dark Souls), combat variety mostly comes from fighting different configurations of enemies. And also just like in DS (and probably even more so like in Bloodborne), your starting gear isn't exactly trash and can remain rather viable. But like London-boy said, there are rather big differences between weapons. Sure, you can just stick with your engine blade, but it takes a long-ass time to even get it to +2, and you're gonna come across plenty of gear which completely outclasses it along the way.
You have a system of upgrades, and through that you can get new abilities (called Techniques) that are special team moves, so a bar fills up and you can do a lot of damage with one of the guys. You can select which one during fight, and each guy has three or four moves to choose from. So yeah, that's fun.WOw, that turned around quickly. Now I am super interested ! So, u get new weapons and abilities and moves but I am guessing no real armour?
FFXIII is the only real FF that I have played, so thats my only main reference. I did a play a few hours of FFXII and like it a lot.
True. I beat the Level 52 boss in the mines of the first zone at level 35 just by spamming Ignis technique and elixirs.