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Final Fantasy X
Mai-Kero
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So, since I just got a PS2, I was thinking of going back and getting some of the RPGs that I missed out on. I never really played FFX before, should I get it, or just skip it and go for XII. So, should I bother with 10 at all or just go for 12 since it's supposed to be awesome?
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Well, that's my belief.
FFXII was bleh! Don't believe all the hype!
most of all, most of all
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This is true. It's bags of awesome. Get X-2 as well. It gets even more flack than X, but it's still a lot of fun.
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Really? I found it one of the more "fun" Final Fantasies. I think it had a good mix of interesting characters as well as mini-games to play. It wasn’t overly convoluted or deep in it’s meaning and storyline. Just a good mix as far as I could tell.
But, to answer the OP's original question, I would definitely give it a spin.
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And either buy the guide, or print one from GameFaqs. Seriously, you will miss out on a LOT of stuff otherwise.
Also, I played it through without any guides or anything. I probably did miss stuff, but I don't feel like I did. It isn't like a lot of games these days, where you need a guide for everything.
And Blitzball was fun as hell.
Blitzball was a rotting sore on the nether regions of the RPG industry.
Final Fantasy X was an awesome game though! :^::^:
I loved it, anyway. It just seemed as such a natural execution of a sport-jrpg hybrid. And it was always exciting finding a new player in towns.
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Listen to this man. X has a better battle system, the sphere grid kicks the liscence board's ass, and it has a better story/characters (including character development). Characters you actually care about.
XII has the best writing and voice acting in any video game that I've played, but it's wasted on ho-hum characters and a very ho-hum story. Also the liscence board is fail.
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The graphics look fine.. good even. I replay the game every year and I've never once thought, "this could look better". It does the job well.
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Kinda like FF8 in that sense. I personally do prefer the FFs with more solid 'classes', but I know a lot of people prefer the opposite so..eh. Horses for courses.
FFX does get a lot of flak from fans, but not without cause. There's lots of niggling little things; everything from the lack of a world map (while there isn't one in XII either, it feels far more disjointed in X) to really terrible voice acting adds up to get under a lot of people's skin.
I will outright say that as a huge FF fan I think that, yeah... FFX gets a lot of unfair criticizm and it is a great game. But you know what gets even more and is an even better game? FFX-2.
One of the best Job systems in the entire series, written off because it has a girly 'slumber party' atmosphere and because SE went a bit crazy on the skimpy clothes.
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Meh. It takes a lot of work to make Yuna and Lulu fighters. A lot of work that, probably, will never happen in a normal playthrough.
Besides, the only character that has to go into someone else's grid to not be useless is Kimarhi.
Definitely. X-2 is one of my favorites in the series, actually, which always gets me lots of funny looks and "olol play 7"s.
The skimpy clothes argument always confused me because all of five people in Spira wore clothes.
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As for X-2... I loved what I played of the battle system, but I just couldn't get into it. The mission based system was too much for me. There wasn't enough story holding it all together. I tried playing through twice, but I've yet to get past about 9 hours in.
Great bad guys too, with insane and devious plots of absurdly contrived complexity. Just like FF villains should have.
Great cinematics too, and fantastic spell effects and animations.
The combat was good, though and it was very pretty.
Still at that price point, it's still worth giving a shot.
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Regardless of the little things, X is a hell of a lot better than XII. XII is all flash and high-production value, but the game has no soul.
And when you revisit Zanarkand is awesome.
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Lies. They're very similar in many, many ways, and are both a part of the same franchise. We must compare them, and choose.
We must!
Final Fantasy XII had less story, but that also meant less grueling cutscenes and pointless dialog. Less fluff, more to the point. The gameplay was a lot better too. I was skeptical about the gambit system, but in the end I loved it. My one gripe is that you can't set up the more complex gambits until near the end of the game (charge when MP < 10% for example), but oh well.
Personally I place FFXII above FFX as being the better game. FFX was more like a movie you played, and hardly like a game at all.
Beyond that, it's not really anything special to me. Not a bad game by any sense, just nothing particularly epic in my opinion. The battles are fun, and it has good music.
I also liked the voice acting.
X-2 is more of the same, just a sillier plot and with the same fun gameplay. It's still worth playing if you even liked X just a little.
If you've got the right party, it's completely possible in both games to slaughter enemies without them even getting a turn.
Also, having direct control over summons was nice.
FFX-2 requires your strict attention as well. Best job-system game out there, nice light and fluffy story, and a battle system that actually makes choosing when to attack a strategy. Have your characters hit in quick succession--we're talking split seconds here--and build up more and more damage, or save your attack until the enemy is casting a spell or skill and interrupt that person, giving your healer that extra second they needed to whip out a hi-potion.
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He could do that, right?
It is generally a great game.
Anyway, FFX is a good game. I also liked it better than FFXII, particularly the combat system. FFX-2 has a ditzy plot but it's still a fun game, at least worth a playthrough.
FFX however is amazing. It's full of awesome battles and awesome characters. Collecting primers is amazing.
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And then Magna Carta.
Especially Magna Carta.
It's like they weren't even trying.
Magna Carta was really bad but the voice acting in it wasn't nearly as bad as the battle system. couldnt finish that turd.
Zek is right. No game ever made even comes close to how bad Baten Kaitos was. FFX by comparison should have won an Oscar.
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X-2 is worth trying out at least. It's a great game in it's own right, however the storyline makes you feel like your watching some rejected barbies cartoon from the 80s and is a little hard to swallow.