Well there is a stronger reason why I prefer XII over others. I don't tell many others this but I used to suffer from a slight form of depression for around a year and a half or so, although it wasn't officially diagnosed, at the time I could really feel it and it lasted a really long time. Well, I think FFXII is really the thing that saved me. It was literally my escape to everything - when I was upset, or felt lonely or some other thing, I would just go to my room and play until I felt better. FFXII is also the game that led me to becoming active on youtube and EruytVillage, which soon ended and FFTogether was created. On FFTogether I met a lot of people that I could discuss FFXII with and my own problems, and after a while, I finally started to feel better, if you wanna call it that. I guess that's also why I have such a passion for the Ivalice games. For example, I really really hope that if I hopefully get to heaven when I die, that my heaven would be able to go to Ivalice. To be able to just... walk the shores of the Phon Coast, or explore the Salikawood, or something... nothing would please me more. So even though I still play other games and I'd enjoy them just as much, or even more than I do FFXII, eventually I'd stop playing them and take a break to some other game. But that's not the same with FFXII; I find no matter what else I'm playing I always find time to play FFXII(or IZJS) and still fully enjoy myself. I'll be very shocked if FFXIII can do the same to me. I think it'll be brilliant and for a time I may say or think that FFXIII is far better or anything like that, I'd still be playing XII and enjoying it just as much. It still wouldn't have gotten old. It's already been that way with a lot of other new games that have come out after XII(like Crisis Core or WotL or 358/2 Days) and in the midst of that I'm still playing FFXII as well. It's the consistency that matters - FFXII can and will always be my "escape" whenever I need it, and that's why it's so important to me. That's really why it's my favorite. :) But that's also why I love every other FF game as well, and if you did count XII out of the picture, I'm sure that FFXIII very well could be my favorite as well. I can already tell that I'll love FFXIII very much. ^^