Re:Also boring (Score 1)

Its only boring during the first few hours. Gambits let you focus on the strategy (macromanaging) instead of micromanaging every little thing they do, though you can still micromanage when necessary. In fights where there is no strategy, as is common in the first several hours of play, when monsters don't hit hard and are spread out quite thinly across the map, that means you don't have much to do. But being able to focus on strategy will be very important during any boss encounter, or when you get surrounded by several enemies. I'm about 25 hours in and I find myself frequently adjusting gambits for each area I go in to optimize how my party behaves. I sometimes modify gambits in the middle of a fight; if I'm taking on a particularly tough monster that is weak to Fire I might set my casters to cast that every turn. But I wouldn't normally have that gambit up when wandering the countryside, since they'll burn through all their MP that way. I'm doing the same thing I was doing in FFX, only now I don't have to wade through as many menus to do it. For me, its focusing on strategy that is the fun part, not playing with a popup menu simulator, so I love gambits.