Final Fantasy X

Ah, a FF hater huh? One in every group, i see…..

yeah greg lighten up a ittle, people love these games becaues they can relate to the characters, and coz the game is so long players cant help but get really involed with there lives and there situations and the more you play the game the more the characters change, for better and for worse.

me i loved ff10 ive gotten over 30 pages of cheats and codes for the game (yes i am a ff freak) but the only thing i have to say is bad about ff10 is……….HE SHOULDNT HAVE DIED!!!!!!

FFX has a bad “GAME” and it has a bad “STORY”.  The game is bad because basically there is none.  The game is like lets say your mom told you you could watch the Matrix Reloaded but after 5 minutes she turned it off and said “okay, mow the law, wash the car, clean up your room and you can watch 5 more minutes”  So you do all that which takes you an hour and a half, then you sit down to watch and then after 5 minutes she turns it off again and says “now you have to wash the dishes, clean the bathroom, mop the floors and you can watch another 5 minutes”.

The game itself is not fun.  Watching the same 3 minute attack 20 times in a row in 1 battle and then doing a similar battle 20 times just to get to the next story point, that is not fun.

That leaves only the story, because some people enjoy the story they put up with the unfun game.  Well, come back to it in ten years when you have a little more experience with stories.

In my own life I know that I used to love a TV cartoon called Speed Racer and although I can still watch it because it’s nostalgic for me, now that I’m older I can see it really was crap.  The stories are awful, the dialog atrocious, the logic non existant. 

For my nephew that series will be the Power Rangers and Pokemon.  As a kid he thought they were the best things ever but as he gets older, someday he’s going to watch them again with all his wonderful memories and then realize how much utter crap they actually were.  Of course at least Power Rangers will always have it’s campy charm but the stories he remembers being so excited about as a kid he will finally see were actaully in his head, not in the show.

I believe the same is true for much of the FF series as well as several other game stories, MGS and MGS2 come to mind.  Their stories are as bad or worse then the Wing Commander movie.  In many games that’s okay because the game itself is fun.  MGS, Resident Evil, Even Zelda have very simple and or silly stories but the games are good.  FFX has both bad game and bad story.  Instead what it has are lots of hype from Square and lots of pretty graphics.

I was searching the net today, to see if i was the only person who saw FFX as it really was. CRAP. I read along and i noticed some people had the right idea, and some people who posted had no clue. I decided to set everyone straight:

FFX is crap, in the purest sense of the word. I have played all the final fantasies except two and three, and this is by far the worst offered from the main line of the series. There are many flaws, including:

Voice acting – It seems as though Square has created a formula for awkward dialogue. Just take a few people with horribly annoying, unfamilar voices, use them to voice some polygonal figures whose mouths move a mile a minute, and make them pause in the middle of what theyre saying at the worst moments/say “you know” all the time.

Gameplay – The battle system is unique enough, and everyone is customizable, but the battles are the SAME THING EVERY TIME. Every dungeon or area has the SAME BADDIES, just different colors! They dont even have any new attacks or anything, its just the same fight over and over. Its as though square half expected us to think that changing the element of the elemental so it matches the surrounding dungeon its in as “innovation”. The mini-games suck. Dodging lightning. Dodging balls on a chocobo. The arena. I think that speaks for itself. Nothing original, nothing even remotely fun. Wah.

Linearity – This is what kills me the most. You get to Luca, and you want to search around, but you cant. You need to play blitzball first. So you do. You dont see Luca for another thirty hours. Wtf. Then you go back once you get your map, errr…. i mean, “airship”…. and you realize there wasnt much to see anyways. One thing Ive always loved about FF was its cities giganticus. No such thing here.

Story – The story sucks ass. Plain and simple. Theres little to no backstory for the supporting characters, they just get thrown into the mix all at once. Side stories and sidequests for the supporting characters are nearly nonexistant also. The main story is lame in a thousand ways. Sin is a lame badguy. Seymour is a lame badguy. They just arent evil enough, they dont cut it. If i were to go on about all the ridiculous concepts in this game, itd take forever, and thats why i dont like it. Also, the whole “spirits” thing has been WAY overdone. The farplane = the mako green goo in ffvii = the path of souls in ffix = the spirit goo in Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within = etc….

All in all, the gameplay is boring, the voice acting sucks, its too linear, and the story is either beyond being cliched or trying too hard to be original. DONT GET ME WRONG, its not a total waste of time if  youve never played a Final Fantasy game, but its just not good enough to be Final Fantasy.

The whole point of Final Fantasy games is the storyline. You say that in FF 7 (for the record i love that game)you could choose what to do but at the end of the day the game wouldnt progress until you had gone from point A to point B. The same as FF 10 really, although there are less sub games and stuff in FF 10 there are some and it has been made well in my opinion.

The only thing I would have liked them to change would be to add more emphasis to the Tidus-Yuna relationship so that the end is more emotional. (It was def more depressing when Aeris died in FF 7)

most rpg’s claim to have a wide variety of paths, but end up at the same finish line.

I hate having the main character a sword user. Its so generic and predominant in the FF series. except for one of em… i forget. I want to see a main character that uses a scythe. scythes are the coolest.

Oh, I don’t think it really sucks – in fact, I enjoyed it a lot. Maybe I’m just not old enough to appreciate “old-skool” type games as much, so I get sucked in to these new ones, despite people shouting that they’re more movie than game. Battles were fun, difficulty was better than braindead easy games like FFVII (although I love that game, it IS damn easy.) My only problem is the storyline and the sidequests. The sidequests are just lame and annoying, plain and simple, which unfortunately means that when you’re done with the game, you’re done with the game. I did manage to fight a lot of the battle arena fights where you’re doin’ 99999 dmg to these badass looking monsters, but even that was lame and repetitive because ya gotta run around trying to catch certain monsters.

And the story…well, I liked it at first. Then I just realized that it got too complicated for its own good. The final boss isn’t even a BAD guy, for chrissakes; he’s just some soulless thing that’s been sitting in Sin for however many years. The whole storyline ended up being a transparent attack on organized religion anyhow, and while I’m not particularly religious myself, the whole conspiracy of Yevon thing was a little weird. And so many people being dead (unsent) - gimme a damn break.

Otherwise – fun game.

I have no life… but I think FFX is awesome. Or at least the first time round, then it gets a little boring… but I still play it mainly because I have one goal in that, to get my aeons to the max everything. I don’t play often anymore though but it’d be something to get them all up to max

What is rong with you final fantasy rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thats all i have to say

The game was awesome, ya? I enjoyed all of the scenes. I was playing just to find out what happens next. It what keeps me interested in the game. I’m a curious person I like to see what happens next. If you think the game is boring, you are stupid, ya? Now if you said X-2 sucked,then I could understand. X-2 is quite dissapointing. The battle style in the X-2 allows the enemies to attack you while you are still selecting your attack.

I love The way they made the Game there is alot of things side quests that are fun not to mention rikku’s ability to customize wepons and with the spear grid you can choose what kind of skills abilitys you want your characters to learn and rikku’s mix list figuering out all the diffrent items you can mix I learned all the combos with out looking at a chart as a matter of fact I kept my own journal of diffrent items and that alone gives you tons of fighting time cause you have to have the items to mix so I had to go around to diffrent areas fighting to obtain the items and BlitzBall was a challenge kind of still is but I keep trying to get better it was the best final fantasy game I ever played that and 8 are the 2 most recent games I enjoyed for the artistic beauty displayed in them my opionon of the game is it has great graphics, music a beautiful story and lots of great battles I honestly feel bad for people who can’t see a good game or who just would rather play a game with no story its like living life for no reason every thing has to have a purpose or what is the point

the people that say FFX is good are people that truly aren’t gamer critics… FFX was a big disappointment… well a better word is that it was a change, it changed a lot from its roots. For people that have played all the FF games… they’ll be disappointed because the originals were way better and more challenging and it wasen’t set with the cheezy dialogs and the shi**y voice acting. Sure, the graphics are better but that truly is a minor detail that tied the game a little bit. On the other hand if you like FFX, I’d suggest you go play the originals because they won’t waste your time, they’ll involve you in the story a LOT more than 10. In 10 you can relate somewhat, I guess. But it just wasen’t entertaining. FFX was targeted towards a smaller audiences, who would find most of this quite artisitic. In the end its just a difference of opinion in the matter… for people that say FFX was good… try the originals you won’t be disappointed.

 Geez people, chill. It’s just a game, that’s all. I have FFX and played it. Compared to a lot of other games, it’s not at all that top notch. I didnt like it very much and i dont hate it either. I thought that the story wasnt as good as some of the past FFs. I thought that there would be more. The battle system isnt that great either. But you know. It’s a video game and it’s entertainment. Nothing to get personal about. I dont care if people are dissapointed in me for not liking a certain game. It’s silly.   It’s all just enterntainment after all.

I liked it because of the characters and the story. Some people may hate the story and think it’s crap but that’s the reason I liked it. And the voice acting compared to some of the other games out there is good. The whole thing about playing and then seeing 5 more minutes of the story is how I feel about a lot of RPGs that I’ve played. Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9, etc. I really don’t enjoy the battles and leveling up becuase it feels like a chore so I can understand. I like games where you’re more involved in the battles like Kingdom Hearts but also games where you’re not just pushing the X button. I played this one game and I could literally read a book while I was in the battle, that’s not good. But back on FFX. I really got attached to the characters especially Yuna and her selflessness. So that’s the reason for me. I was disapointed that once you get their special weapons and you get all the Aeons the final battles seemed too easy. I guess even though the game wasn’t perfect I still found that most of the time I enjoyed the game so I can’t say that’s it’s crap. There are some other games I could gladly call crap that don’t put any effort at all or at least don’t seem to into it but I can’t for this one. It just sounds too harsh.

your right, it does suck, it started going down hill from there! As for final fantasy 7, they’re going to remake it. I hope to god that its not going to be like 10

I still can’t fathom how anyone can say that FFX had a good story, that was the most boring story and characters of all the FF games. All it really had going for it was graphics. It was a game that was made to suck in a larger audience in my opinion by having the linear path and graphics and basically having a simplified boring story that you could figure out the ending and the identity of the main boss after the first 3 minutes. Last thing was just how easy it was, that game didn’t take any extra leveling or skill in beating, maybe has something to do with the character switching in battle i dunno, but it didn’t take any thought on strategy to beat any boss. Its nice to see that people agree on how bad it was considering when u check any review of the game and it had such high ratings. To the people that say the story was good, explain why exactly. To me the story was as much a waste of money as the FF movie spirits within.

I’ll admit, the final fantasy series ARE NOT the best RPG games. In my opinion the best role playing game is Baldurs Gate II Shadows of Amn for the pc its a beast everybody should buy it if you dont have it as soon as you go out of your house, or if you already have it play it again and dont rest for 72 hours, just keep playing. If you havent heard of it before go search it on the internet, IF ITS CHOICE you want….it has it. you literally get to choose EVERYTHING (obviously there has to be a general goal and a main mission to complete otherwise it would be random and inchoherant) but you get to choose your characters abilities, race, style of fighting, weapons it can use. You can literally KILL anybody that you dont like the look or sound of there are literally no restrictions if you want to attack a city and its guardsmen and its mayor then do it, dont hold back, i have honestly completed the game about 23 times now and everytime it has been different, i have chosen different people to play the game with (different party members there are lots to choose from) and different party members have different quests and objectives and there are so many ways you can achieve those goals you can choose to ally with a character and help them or you can choose to take a reward from the council for killing them for example.

Ok so back to my main point, although the FF style of gaming i have problems with, i will still maintain that FF is incredible, it isnt sophisticated wheras baldurs gate is the most sophisticated RPG i have ever played, but it doesnt need to be sophisticated. IT IS FANTASY it has so much random, radical ideas and concepts i mean a CHOCOBO a racing bird lol, final fantasy x i thought was awesome 7 is my favourite, i can appreciate that X has a very rigid plan to the game, it is all set out and you have literally no impact on how the game is played…and imagine what thats like for me when im used to Baldurs Gate where you can literally play God and decide how problems are resolved…well i get over it because the environments of FFX are amasing and the story is so crazy and imaginative a summoning girl who goes to these awesome and rare temples to pray for a new aeon…..its only FF that can get away with such crazy ideas, the sound track is brilliant, the graphics for its time were brilliant, the cut scenes are imense the first ‘Blitzball’ scene, that outdoes alot of xbox 360 graphics. 

YES there are flaws in the gameplay, yes it is Rigid, yes it is quite basic as a game….However FF is always Unique, it is always for me amising to play because it allows you to imagine (i dont agree with the ‘you feel like your part of the game’ because i never feel like im part of a single player game only a multiplayer game) but i definitely think its the power of imagination and emotions in FF that make them awesome.  So fine, if you dislike FF or just dont like FFX thats fine, have your opinion, but understand that it is JUST an opinion because the game has made millions so there must be alot of people that find it enjoyable wether you think it shoud be or not.

Not really, but glad im not the only one who hates this game. I didnt mind their unique attempt make their game interesting. but once i was playing the game for a few good hours, i just wouldnt want to fight the final boss.

I went in grueling minutes listening to terrible voice actors (especially the girl protagonist, remember the lame and untimely “ok” in some parts in the game?) and couldnt take it no more.

oh yeah, lame story too

FFX is a linear action game and hardly the type of RPG I was used to playing before X was released. The games feels nothing like any RPG I’ve played and the whole thing Final Fantasy’s devs are doing is just making pretty games and not awesome stories like they used to in FF1, 2/4, 3/5, 7,8,and 9.

X just fell out of the Traditional RPG class I grew up to and loved very much. Make X the way preX was and I may enjoy it.

I lost interest in the FF series after X has been released and most likely will never buy another FF game again.

I still have all my PRE X titles. Heck, I am playing FF2/4 for the snes atm.