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All Hail the Job System

crafted by: Alex

Final Fantasy V has a terrible generic story.  But it has a redeeming factor, the job system.  Final Fantasy III also had a job system, but FFV brought something unique to the table: secondary jobs.  It is probably my favorite character development system of all time.

Other games have done similar things, I believe Dragon Quest VII had a job system, and Guild Wars had a dual class system that was also pretty similar.  The ability to create a custom team, each person built from 2 completely different jobs/classes is immensely exciting to me, and fills my head with thoughts of all the interesting combination one could make.

I Ever since i played FFV back in early high school roughly 8 years ago, I've been waiting for a new RPG to come along with a similar job system... at least one that doesn't have a concept worse than FFV (I'm looking at you FFX-2.)

I was upset when I heard DQIX changed from an action RPG to a standard JRPG, and so I haven't bothered reading up on it until it was recently announced.  First thing to catch my eye was a job system very faithful to FFV, actually it sounds pretty much identical, and not only is that okay, I'm really excited about that!  If no one can do a great job system, than steal from the best.

But there's more!  Every characters physical looks, gender, clothes can be customized.  From what I am hearing about this game, is that instead of trying to be a western game (and failing), it plays to the strengths of what makes JRPGs great, and adds a little flair of customization that has become so popular with western games.

I'm officially excited.  Bring it on!