Thread: Got Final Fantasy X for Christmas, it's my first FF game - what do I need to know?

Originally Posted by captain castle

that you're playing the worst of the series

Agreed. Easily the weakest entry into the series for me.

Dislikes: Most of the gameplay.
Linearity.
How fucking dumb Tidus is.
How fucking annoying Tidus is.
How fucking dumb and annoying Yuna is.
Bitch with the belt clothes.
Battle system.
Blitz-ball being incredibly stat based and involving no real game-play skill.
Chocobo fucking flag race or whatever.

Likes: Sphere grid, although it was done just as well in Rogue Galaxy, a game I enjoyed far more.
Uh...
John DiMaggio doing some of the voices, I guess. Bender is good in whatever form you can get.
I like having god-like characters.
And...
Well, hm.

FFX is nowhere near the epic fail that FFVIII was, though. FFVIII suffered the same problem Oblivion did - I never felt the sense that I was growing more powerful, as the enemies grew with me. I was salaried. Magic wasn't quite magic. The storyline confused me until I figured out Rinoa was Ultimecia. Weapons were a bitch to get.

I mean, in FFVIII, the final battle would literally be easier had you not leveled up at all in the game. Oh, hey, you want more money? Take a quiz!

In Oblivion, at least there was a shit load to do to hide the fact that goblins will, in essence, always take the same number of swings of an iron sword to kill at level 1 as they did at level 10. Guilds and shit like that. FFVIII just fell on its goddamn face. I can't stand that game. I did like the story.

I also like the story for FFX. And I wish they would have, I dunno, finished the story for FFXII. I would probably have liked it more then, although I still enjoy it.

My favorite FF games are V (I know, it's the easiest, but I have a save file on FF Chronicles for the PS1 where I have all my classes maxed) and FF IX, which was, at times, Nintendo hard.

EDIT: My favorite RPG is Chrono Cross, though. Weird leveling system, weapons that were just as difficult to get as FFVIII, but 40+ characters, ties to one of the greatest RPG's of all times, and an incredible story. Multiple play-throughs are required to get every character and every weapon and do every side-quest and get every ending. New Game + always makes games better, and I wish FF games would employ them. I mean, often times I'll shut off a game for extended periods when it gets tedious, which will make me forget chunks of story at a time. If I had the ability to, once I finished a game, go back and play through it as a powerful diety and focus on learning the story and the mythos behind the game, I would most certainly try and finish more games.

Also, Chrono Cross has the most incredible instrumental score for a video game that I have ever heard. When I have it on in my car, people can't even tell it's from a video game, which really says something.

I need to play that game again. Here's to hoping it comes out on the PSN.

Whilst I totally disagree with you on FFX Mal, I share your dislike of FF8 and Oblivion. Well, I mean I like both, however they give you no real incentive to level. I mean in FF8, what was the point of allowing you to level if they were going to essentially make the level gained redundant. It is a massive flaw engineered into the core of the game.

IX is the only one where I failed to kill the superboss. I agree with you, at times IX was hard. Did you ever fight one of those ram thingies, cannot remember their name, I think it was Yu or something, but they looked like cuddly rams and were insanely difficult to beat.

I think I will need to check out Chrono Cross, never heard of it. I love a good RPG so I will deffo check it out.

EDIT:

Anyone ever played Valkyrie Profile? I have the 2nd one on the PS2, I recommend some of you go check it out. Takes a while for it to get good but once it does it is a terrific ride. And some of the optional content offers up a real challenge, youtube for Seraphic Gate for the platformer puzzles, they are very hard.

Originally Posted by UnreasonablyReasonable

Have you played the first Final Fantasy? I haven't played FFX, but I can't see how it could be worse than that shitty ass fucking game. I can't believe they made it so you just attack air if you order one of your guys to attack a guy that ends up dying before they get a chance to attack it (that sounds a bit confusing I know, but if you've played this game you know EXACTLY the bullshit I'm talking about). That amongst other things made the game quite unplayable.

I've played all the FF games except XI and I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.