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Has there been FFX HD impressions yet?

Atlantis said:
Ugh, Double AP on Celestials makes me sick.

Venus Sigil is annoying but it's fairly painless with the niche or No Encounters (using the pit). I remember Kimahri's being more annoying for me.



You're actually fine (technically better off) customizing a magic weapon for whoever you want. Celestial's defense ignoring perk doesn't affect spells unfortunately. :(



Preach.
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Yeah, Double AP and Gillionaire are such crap. I wish they'd done a better job of making the Celestial Weapons truly meet the specializations of each character the way that Auron/Tidus/Lulu get. Evade & Counter/Alchemy for Rikku would have been way better than what she got especially (and her lack of E&C is a real bummer against Shinryu).

If I could make any tweak to FFX apart from New Game+ and a Hard difficulty, it'd be tweaking some of those weaker Double AP Celestial Weapons, adding an Overdrive mode that equips all of them simultaneously (kinda like what Aeons have) if you've mastered every single Overdrive mode, and maybe making it easier to max out Aeon stats somehow.
 
badcrumble said:
Yeah, Double AP and Gillionaire are such crap. I wish they'd done a better job of making the Celestial Weapons truly meet the specializations of each character the way that Auron/Tidus/Lulu get. Evade & Counter/Alchemy for Rikku would have been way better than what she got especially (and her lack of E&C is a real bummer against Shinryu).

If I could make any tweak to FFX apart from New Game+ and a Hard difficulty, it'd be tweaking some of those weaker Double AP Celestial Weapons, adding an Overdrive mode that equips all of them simultaneously (kinda like what Aeons have) if you've mastered every single Overdrive mode, and maybe making it easier to max out Aeon stats somehow.
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Maxing Aeon stats is pretty easy, they just use Yuna's stats (if Yuna's are above their base stats).
 
Elaugaufein said:
Maxing Aeon stats is pretty easy, they just use Yuna's stats (if Yuna's are above their base stats).
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Nope. 255STR and 255 Luck are easy via maxing Yuna, but e.g. HP or Magic don't work that way. I've got a maxed Yuna (all non-HP/MP stats at 255) and plenty of her Aeons don't have all 255s.
 
badcrumble said:
Nope. 255STR and 255 Luck are easy via maxing Yuna, but e.g. HP or Magic don't work that way. I've got a maxed Yuna (all non-HP/MP stats at 255) and plenty of her Aeons don't have all 255s.
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Really ? I could have sworn I checked this and it worked for everything (except HP / MP) but I haven't played FFX in ... 10 years , it would seem. Wow, it's been a looong time.
 
Elaugaufein said:
Really ? I could have sworn I checked this and it worked for everything (except HP / MP) but I haven't played FFX in ... 10 years , it would seem. Wow, it's been a looong time.
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Aeons are weird, though - their stat growth is partly based on Yuna straight up leveling herself (like, just gaining S. Levels), partly based on her actual stats, and partly based on using those Aeons frequently and winning battles with them frequently (they've all got hidden affection levels, IIRC, not just Yojimbo and the Magus Sisters). It's possible that the Aeons with lower stats than Yuna's just didn't like me very much :-)
 
LOOOOOOOOOOOL I just read that in order to get the "Complete the Sphere Grids for all main characters", you need to fill every single empty node with a sphere (str, def, etc) and activate it.

So if there are 600 empty nodes in the standard grid, I need to fill everything and THEN activate them. With every character.

So basically, 4200 magic defense nodes farming. Then 4200 additional mana spheres. AND THEN, the additional sphere levels to get from node to node.

Yeaaaaaaah fuck Square in the ass, they didn't think this through. Thankfully I'm not playing this shit for trophies, but it would've at least been nice to get some acknowledgment when actually 100%ing the game. Filling every node with bullshit is NOT considered "100%" in the game, what the fuck were they thinking.
 
Yoshichan said:
LOOOOOOOOOOOL I just read that in order to get the "Complete the Sphere Grids for all main characters", you need to fill every single empty node with a sphere (str, def, etc) and activate it.

So if there are 600 empty nodes in the standard grid, I need to fill everything and THEN activate them. With every character.

So basically, 4200 magic defense nodes farming. Then 4200 additional mana spheres. AND THEN, the additional sphere levels to get from node to node.

Yeaaaaaaah fuck Square in the ass, they didn't think this through. Thankfully I'm not playing this shit for trophies, but it would've at least been nice to get some acknowledgment when actually 100%ing the game. Filling every node with bullshit is NOT considered "100%" in the game, what the fuck were they thinking.
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Slow down. Your math doesn't make sense. If there are 600 nodes, why are you trying to get 600x7chars=4200 spheres per stat? You're misunderstanding something. You only need to have all 600 nodes filled with any stat and activated. That's 4200 of any sphere, total. Since you're close to max stats, you shouldn't be that far off.

Expert Grid Master Race has less work to do for this one.
 
Lumination said:
Slow down. Your math doesn't make sense. If there are 600 nodes, why are you trying to get 600x7chars=4200 spheres per stat? You're misunderstanding something. You only need to have all 600 nodes filled with any stat and activated. That's 4200 of any sphere, total. Since you're close to max stats, you shouldn't be that far off.

Expert Grid Master Race has less work to do for this one.
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Should've gone expert, ffs.

It's still a shit ton of work.
Lin Siniang said:
If it is fill the whole sphere grid with every character, what did you expect the trophy to encompass? Seems self explanatory to me.
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The trophy says COMPLETE the sphere grid, which if it would make any sense, it would mean that I'm supposed to activate every node on the grid.

Now what they want you to do is create new nodes in the empty ones and activate them as well. Now THAT is bullshit, fuck that shit.
 
Yoshichan said:
Should've gone expert, ffs.

It's still a shit ton of work.

The trophy says COMPLETE the sphere grid, which if it would make any sense, it would mean that I'm supposed to activate every node on the grid.

Now what they want you to do is create new nodes in the empty ones and activate them as well. Now THAT is bullshit, fuck that shit.
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If you want 255 in every stat (and you should!), you'll need to do most of that work anyway. Fill in the rest with HP nodes (more for the sake of your Aeons than for anything else, I guess, since there are a lot of advantages to playing the game with only 9999 HP).

If you're trying to optimize stuff pretty well you'll want to do a lot of, for example, deleting MP+20 spheres and replacing them with MP+40 spheres, or replacing HP+200 spheres with HP+300 spheres.
 
AwShucks said:
Seriously? After listening to the old and new of this I feel this MUST be a joke post. The song is barely a song in the first place. Sure there is a major difference in the "tingy" sound going on in the new one, but that changing affects your decision?

Well, to each their own I guess.
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Come on now, Wandering Flame doesn't even sound similar, that strange sound that can be heard at times totally kills the mood of this song. There are so many instruments playing together all over the place that it doesn't make any sense at all.

And its not a joke post, i loved FFX's OST and they completely ruined it for me. I don't think the experience will remain the same, not with these horrible remastered songs.
I was so looking forward to getting this but so far this is seems like Silent Hill HD fiasco all over again, and i'm not up for that kind of crap.

The last hope for this HD collection to be saved, is to release an update that allow users to play with the original OST.
 
ChapaNDJ said:
this is seems like Silent Hill HD fiasco all over again
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Because you didn't like some of the remastered soundtrack, you want to equate one of the best and most thorough remasters in recent memory with one of the all-time worst? Please.


ChapaNDJ said:
The last hope for this HD collection to be saved, is to release an update that allow users to play with the original OST.
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This thing is ten thousand miles from needing to be "saved", in any shape or form. Original soundtrack DLC would be neat, but the music that's here is by no means a dealbreaker. Hell, quite a few tunes are a lot better than they were.

The "last hope"...lol. Such drama!
 
:'( I'll just crop this image because I look like shit (imagine a week straight gaming), but here are the remaining of my tears after beating the game... god, I had forgotten how good that was.. but now I'm so sad...

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Why and when would you fake your tears and why wouldn't you just use water instead of your own spit X_X?
 
I always found the FFX ending funny.

It's mainly because of the body language of everybody in the last CG cutscene.

It's so damn awkward.
 
I've enjoyed this thread immensely. I really have.

But when exactly are we getting an import OT?
B.K. said:
Too bad it isn't the end.
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Oh, it is. My TV is shut off and so is my PS3. There's nothing more on that disc.
 
NOT A HATER

I SWEAR

I JUST DON'T WANT TO RUIN THE FEELS
 
badcrumble said:
You haven't played FFX-2? It's harder than FFX to 100% (and I'm not talking 100% story completion), but probably more fun/less tedious to do so with.
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Lumination said:
You never played X-2???
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Oh I've played it allright! Quite a bit of it, actually. But the combination of knowing that I lost the ability to 100% the game when I skipped a cutscene, and the fact that I hated what they had done to Rikku and especially Yuna... yeah, I rage quit :lol
 
Yoshichan said:
Oh I've played it allright! Quite a bit of it, actually. But the combination of knowing that I lost the ability to 100% the game when I skipped a cutscene, and the fact that I hated what they had done to Rikku and especially Yuna... yeah, I rage quit :lol
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Yeah, the 100%ing is a bit brutual. I figured Rikku had pretty much always been like that... As for Yuna, I liked letting her be a bit more carefree after being repressed all her life. She was still pretty conservative lol.
Grivenger said:
So FFX's HD remaster outsold Lightning Returns in the first week. Interesting.
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Source please?
 
Grivenger said:
So FFX's HD remaster outsold Lightning Returns in the first week. Interesting.
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Holy shit, I basically haven't even browsed anything other than this thread for the past week so I'm gonna have to check this out... got a link?
 
Ah, apparently Lightning Returns still sold 301,181 so that's really good! Not Perfo-good-numbers, but good nonetheless! How much did XIII-2 do in its first week?
 
Quoting myself from the (formerly) Vita thread:

Here's what I got.

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The box is smaller than I thought, but it is just GORGEOUS. So are the individual packages.

I'll be posting some impressions in the next few hours for all VitaGAF and anyone interested in the Vita version.
 
That's the prettiest game cover + VITA-case I've ever seen in my entire life.

WOW.

I really shouldn't bought a PS4 instead of a VITA :(
 
Lin Siniang said:
Yoshi, it is still under 500k. It won't sell even 1 million in Japan life time. That's fucking terrible. Why? Because it's a Final Fantasy. Those are Musou numbers.
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All right I guess I'm just ignorant :( I thought only 3DS games and Monster Hunter sold over 1mil in Japan. Am I right or completely wrong?
 
ohlawd said:
afaik, FFXIII is the only PS3 game to sell a million in Japan.
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See! See! So I AM right about 300k being a good number for a PS3 game AND being part of a (horrid) trilogy! Lightning Returns, based on what I read on GAF, should be selling like 250 copies - and 244 of them are Lyukuuk and Perfo (and me, of course).
 
Yoshichan said:
I JUST DON'T WANT TO RUIN THE FEELS
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Stick with it. If you actually care about the characters and the world created in FFX, X-2 provides closure for practically every character. Which is especially important given the consequences of your victory in the first game.
If you don't feel for the forest musicians in the fading woods of Macalania... you have no heart. ; ;

100%ing X-2 is a lot harder and lengthier than X, but its far more valuable and meaningful an experience. Winning the peace, is more important than winning the war; X-2 is about more than Yuna getting her boyf back.
 
Also, this is an old, OLD discussion but why did (FFX ENDING SPOILERS) (Lin Siniang, help me out here!)
they translate "arigatou", "I love you"
?
 
Clear said:
Stick with it. If you actually care about the characters and the world created in FFX, X-2 provides closure for practically every character. Which is especially important given the consequences of your victory in the first game.
If you don't feel for the forest musicians in the fading woods of Macalania... you have no heart. ; ;
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"...these woods grow lonely day by day."

:(

:((((((((((((((
 
What are we talking about here, guys?

Guys......?

GUYS?! :(
 
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