Seriously why?

[Entonations]

Every gamer I have ever talked to said they hated FF XII. Why? I played through the whole game and absolutely loved it. I hadn't had a gaming experience like it since I beat X.

[Ramenzilla]

I liked XII, but mostly for the battle system and balthier/fran. Obviously it was a visually stunning game and the voice acting was top notch so it's an awesome game in those respects...
but I personally felt the characters [with the exception of fran and balthier] feel flat. Like Vann and Penelo are so boring and uninteresting and nothing about them really changes throughout the game, and I feel like I don't remember Basch saying/doing much except for when you first get him and then again at the very end. It's pretty much the Ashe show. I felt like...SE wanted to make sure the protagonist was as feminine a male as possible and they were satisfied as long as they fulfilled that role!

But yeah, I didn't like it because I felt like the characters [once again with the exception of fran, balthier...and probably ashe] didn't interact much and weren't really...well developed so it was hard for me to be interested in them. They were just so boring!!

I loved the characters and their growth/development in X though [except for kimahri...but I guess they did develop him too at least!]

Also, the judges had the potential to be super cool and you barely see them, it was sad.

[Astraia]

this thread kinda reminds me of this.
http://finalfantasy-xiii.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8103

All this ffxii letdown shiz had been discussed a couple of times already.

[Entonations]

sorry, didn't know, still relatively new

[Whiplash]

Yep, plenty of threads in the FFXII forum going on and on and on about this.