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[GamingOblivion]

I laugh at the people who think that X used the ATB. X had some of the deepest gameplay mechanics with the ability to see turn order way into the future and change it depending on attacks and actions.

But hey, keep on spreading ignorance and misinformation because the gameplay is too linear lol

 

[Banzai]

It's nice to see FFX threads that are positive instead of filled with Tidus hate.

I often see people criticize its difficulty though. Which is weird to me as I think it's one of the more difficult FFs. I can't say that I remember even a single tough fight in IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX or XII but X has multiple. Maybe I'm just not abusing the Aeons (Yojimbo espc.) as much as I could be?

 

[theofficefan99]

It's nice to see FFX threads that are positive instead of filled with Tidus hate.

I often see people criticize its difficulty though. Which is weird to me as I think it's one of the more difficult FFs. I can't say that I remember even a single tough fight in IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX or XII but X has multiple. Maybe I'm just not abusing the Aeons (Yojimbo espc.) as much as I could be?

Well honestly with X you can do a sidequest about 60% through the game that literally takes 2 minutes and it'll give you 99 of an item that will make your character's health 9999 and their damage for any attack 9999.

But yeah if you don't do that sidequest some of the later bosses are absolutely infuriating.

 

[family_guy]

It's where I started disliking Final Fantasy.

 

[Banzai]

Well honestly with X you can do a sidequest about 60% through the game that literally takes 2 minutes and it'll give you 99 of an item that will make your character's health 9999 and their damage for any attack 9999.

But yeah if you don't do that sidequest some of the later bosses are absolutely infuriating.

I'm hoping that's not something people do on their first playthrough. And if they did they can't tell me they weren't using some sort of guide and shouldn't complain about difficulty anyway.

Any FF can be broken with prior knowledge of the game. That's 80% of the fun of VIII, for example.

 

[Mister Wilhelm]

It's so strange how such an amazing RPG can have so many terrible elements tacked on.

 

[aravuus]

FFX is good, even great, but I kinda feel like I like it less and less after every playthrough. I went through the modern Final Fantasies in reverse order - started with XII back when it was released, learned that it was a part of a series, played X, IX, VII and VIII. Loved them all.

And with VII, VIII, IX and XII, it's still the same. I can replay them infinitely, and I consider them all (even XII with its lackluster story and characters) more or less 5/5 games, with IX being one of my favorite games ever. But every time I start replaying X, I start feeling bored and/or annoyed earlier and earlier in the story and I end up dropping it. Even the awesome customization systems (sphere grid, gear and aeon customization) aren't enough anymore since I really dislike the rock-paper-scissors style battles.

e: I'll get the HD collection if it ever lands on PC, though, I wanna try X-2 HD

 

[Rezae]

I had fond memories of FFX, until I replayed it recently with the HD version. Love the setting, but the on-rails gameplay and poor script/dialogue really stood out. I should have left it to memories.

I platinumed FFX-2 though. Awesome gameplay and just more fun.

 

[youngplaya21]

Easily one of my favorite games of all time, and the HD remake still held it's ground. I put insane amount of hours into this game: from building the perfect team in blitzball (I'd usually go thru bouts of playing til everyone is level 50+ and I'm done with my Tidus/Brother massacre, then reset and do it all over again) to the monster collector and

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Dark Aeons

minigames, I always had a blast and something to do. The only part I hated were getting some of the Celestial weapons, and Yuna can become almost laughably OP if you train her to be like Lulu and get her easy celestial weapon

 

[Krabboss]

I had fond memories of FFX, until I replayed it recently with the HD version. Love the setting, but the on-rails gameplay and poor script/dialogue really stood out. I should have left it to memories.

I platinumed FFX-2 though. Awesome gameplay and just more fun.

Yeah, X really doesn't hold up. That's a pretty common problem for Final Fantasy games, though. X-2 is still lots of fun though, yeah.

 

[Spehornoob]

I really like X. It's got one of the better stories and world building attempts in the series. I'll always be a little salty over the removed world map and linearity, but it's still a damn good game.

Still not as good as V though, which is the secret best game in the series.

 

[Birgitte2004]

Get 1-0 up.
Stand behind the keeper.

Win.

The other half of it is when you don't need to win, don't. Put your players in terrible positions, let the enemy team score, forfeit. Saves a lot of time on unlocking stuff from Blitzball.

 

[30yearsofhurt]

Blitzball ruled.

 

[Birgitte2004]

Seymour I used my recently acquired Yojimbo who one shot him.

Yunalesca wasn't that bad. I expected more. Auron and Tidus just attacked while Yuna healed.

I guess if you get lucky enough any game will appear easy, as Yojimbo Zanmato'ing Seymour and Yunalesca not killing you with her third phase transition when you don't know it's coming are both extremely lucky.

 

[BigDes]

Really disliked it when it came out

Currently replaying it on the Vita and I don't dislike it as much now I am purely playing it for the combat

But its still not a great game

 

[Lothar]

Really disliked it when it came out

Currently replaying it on the Vita and I don't dislike it as much now I am purely playing it for the combat

But its still not a great game

Oh, it is a great game. And the combat is far from the best thing about it. Combat is passable. The battles get monotonous at times. The combat is actually better in X-2, even though that isn't worth playing.

 

[gfxtwin]

Played the OG version on PS2 and recently got the HD one. Still an amazing world to spend time in with a wonderful art style.

FF12 kinda has better gameplay (although the sphere grid in FF10 is great), but slightly blander world and much blander story and characters.

The backlash to FF13 has always been interesting to me because based on what I've seen and played it isn't really any more linear than the highly-praised FFX *shrug*

 

[Comet]

If you think X is that great you really should go back and play IV, V, VI (beat it), VII, and IX.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Blitzball is awesome.

 

[manzoman96]

We need blitzball with online play

 

[Thicc Enigma]

FFX introduced me to the PS2 and it is my favorite in the series. Such a great game. You'll have a lot of upcoming surprises OP, enjoy!

 

[Pasta_Soup]

My favorite Final Fantasy and probably one of my favorite games. I love the world design and the unique color scheme used for everything. And that OST... so great.

This game just felt like real journey to me, going from location to location, almost like site seeing alongside Tidus - trying to process everything he discovers.

Not the biggest fan of how grindy most of the end-game stuff is, but I usually just ignore.

 

[corrosivefrost]

Final Fantasy X is probably my least favorite Final Fantasy game of recent years and ranks pretty low on the list of quality entries in the series for me.

It's the installment I found to be most disappointing and hangs out on the bottom when I rank the games in the series, barely above Final Fantasy II. I'm not a huge fan of job systems, but if I ever give FFV another chance now that it's on Steam and has a different translation from the horrific initial translation Square provided when it came to NA as part of the Final Fantasy Anthology on PSX, it could be very lonely at the bottom for II and X.

 

[Krabboss]

Played the OG version on PS2 and recently got the HD one. Still an amazing world to spend time in with a wonderful art style.

FF12 kinda has better gameplay (although the sphere grid in FF10 is great), but slightly blander world and much blander story and characters.

The backlash to FF13 has always been interesting to me because based on what I've seen and played it isn't really any more linear than the highly-praised FFX *shrug*

FF12 has a much more interesting world and far less cringey/melodramatic characters. It depends on what you're looking for, but 12 definitely isn't bland. It's a fantastic game and easily my favourite in the series.

 

[pancakesandsex]

There's no time meter on FFX.

There is the overdrive meter.
But at the top right, there's the turn sequence.
It may say
-Tidus
-Yuna
-Boss
-Yuna
-Auron


It uses "CTB": "Conditional Turned Based Battle"

It's actually Charge Turn/Time Battle. I don't have the manual to look up which one it was exactly

The original was count time battle but they changed it in localization to what you said, nevermind.

 

[Lothar]

FF12 has a much more interesting world and far less cringey/melodramatic characters. It depends on what you're looking for, but 12 definitely isn't bland. It's a fantastic game and easily my favourite in the series.

When does FF12 get good? I'm playing it now for the first time. The first 7 hours is really bland. Almost nothing happened.

 

[ZangBa]

To be fair, OP, that first Blitzball game is kinda bullshit. You have terrible, garbage ass teammates with garbage stats. It's pretty much down to luck or using an exploit to beat them. Maybe try it later when you can hire the better free agents, and can actually have a chance at winning.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

The battle system is basically the the same as FFT but without the movement aspect. (In FFT, you had to go in a specific menu to see turn order though, which was awfully inconvenient and basically made that feature useless.)

 

[Hikami]

So.. I finally finished the game.

I got stuck at

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Seymour Flux

months ago and pretty much just gave up.

I got the urge to play it again out of nowhere and beat him on my second try somehow. After that though, every boss started being a pain in the ass so I had to look up a guide. That's when I realized I fucked up and was way under leveled. I didn't even know you could backtrack.. or that the game had sidequests.

The minigames still suck by the way. The chocobo ones are especially infuriating since the controls are bad.

Still, I really liked the game and I can see myself replaying it at some to point to do all the sidequests I missed. The OST is great, the characters were great, the story was decent, and the battles were challenging.

If only the game actually looked like this. Loved every time one of these cutscenes popped up.

The ending.. I guess that's why X-2 exists? Is that worth playing? All I've seen about it is people saying to avoid it.

I really want to play another FF game after this though. Thinking of VI or IX.

 

[Wolf Akela]

X-2 is good though. People just don't like the Charlie's Angels theme, although it does kinda ruin the ending of FFX.