I've been waiting for almost a decade for this moment

as someone who never played ff12, is this a remaster? the same thing that FF7 is going through atm? or a "part 3" of sorts?

HD remaster of the IZJS international version.

Ff12 was a pomegranatety title. pomegranate story, mediocre automated gameplay, and just got bland very quickly. I know it's a hate it or love it game, but just bleh. Not gonna knock ya for liking it though.

Yes, it is probably the most contested title in the series in terms of good/bad, but it's easily my favorite in the main series, and second favorite in the entirety of the franchise after type-0. The gigantic difference is due to a pretty simple thing that the people that like it are able to do that the people who don't like it are unable to get past; Vaan is the storyteller, he has no relevance to the story itself and should be disregarded beyond his storyteller role. Penelo should not be there at all. That's the crux of the disagreement. Everything clicks into place the moment you see the game in that way other than your complaint about the gameplay, which is just an opinion of yours that I happen to also disagree with, you aren't supposed to use Gambits at all on your player character, Gambits are a customizable AI system for your teammates and that sort of thing is sorely needed in most realtime RPGs, you can make AI much better than the game can generate AI, and you can even customize it for specific battles.

The reason I am so excited for this in particular is that even the emulated IZJS version still doesn't look "amazing", and I feel like this game in HD would be incredible given the scale of the world. I played through IZJS twice and the original version 3 times, so I won't mind seeing the same things over again (though if they add bonus features like new zones aside from the 100 wave boss rush I will obviously be very happy with that too).