FFX2

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GAH! I need to rant!

Before I say anything I’ve beaten FF1-7, FF Legends 1 and 2, FF Adventure, FF Mystic quest, FF Tactics and tactics advance, and innumerable other Squaresoft games. I beat FFX recently and enjoyed it alot. I was really looking foward to FFX2, I had seen somereally good AMVs from it, and it follows my favorite 2 characters from FFX (Yuna and Rikku) it as a variant of the job system (which I love more than any other leveling system), I mean it’s liike they took all my favorite things and put them together.

… I made it maybe 2 hours before I couldn’t stand any more…

What was Squaresoft thinking? I am so dissapointed. Everything was wronge… Wait, no, the music was tolerable, not as good as FFX or previous titles but tolerable, but everything else was wronge. The dialoge, the villians (I mean come on were they even trying?) the direct ripoffs (Yuna’s first appearance in the game with the guns), The airship’s new look,ect. ect. and what’s with a character that was formerly cool suddenly turning into… John Travolta?

and for a game all about garment spheres why couldn’t they put on some clothes. and tell me why? Why couldn’t the translators have colled them something else? Why garment spheres? It sounds so stupid when you hear them say it out loud.

… I’m gonna ask the person I borrowed it fromfor a plot summery because I really would like to hear a happy ending for Tidus and Yuna. Also I’d like to hear the answers for all the unaswered questions from FFX.

…

I’m really crushed, and very disapionted in Squaresoft.

well thanks for listening to my rant. Maybe I’ll go play SO over again or something and try to forget about this whole event…

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Blah blah blah, give the game a chance ya panzy. It’s a fucking fanservice, don’t go into it expecting a game as well made and as epic as FFX. 'Cause you’ll be severely disappointed. It’s meant to wrap up loose ends from FFX, not wow us with it’s AMAZING storyline and AWESOME villains.

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I’m surprised you found the music tolerable. That is disputably one of the worst parts of the game. :stuck_out_tongue: It’s actually not too bad considering they were going for the Charlie’s Angels thing. :stuck_out_tongue: as for everything else…

The localization is great, I have no idea what you’re talking about. The dialogue is done well, the acting is good, there are just no really terrible things about it. If the best thing you can come up with is “Garment Spheres sounds dumb” I’d say it’s doing pretty well :stuck_out_tongue:

The story is lame. Sure. But I mean, I dunno…I can’t BELIEVE someone expected otherwise. :stuck_out_tongue: It was very obviously going to ruin the story of FFX, which ended on a perfect note. How could you possible elaborate on FFX? :stuck_out_tongue: I don’t mean it in a rude sort of way, but you should have known what you were getting into. :stuck_out_tongue:

The gameplay…let’s not even try and argue this :stuck_out_tongue: FFX-2’s combat system beats ass on pretty much every FF game. :stuck_out_tongue:

Plus, let’s look at your reasons for wanting to play the game:

  • Really good AMV’s
    Ok, you said you’d already seen them. So cool, they’re there.

  • Follows your two favorite characters
    Actually, just Yuna. Not Rikku so much.

  • Job system
    It’s there. And it’s done very well.

So, if everything you like is there, why don’t you try playing the game enough to enjoy all of THOSE aspects? :stuck_out_tongue: Because in two hours, you can’t see very many AMV’s, you don’t see much at all of what happens to Yuna, and you DEFINITELY can’t enjoy close to everything the combat system has to offer in two hours. :stuck_out_tongue:

Of course, if you don’t want to, whatever, that’s your problem :stuck_out_tongue: But, FFX-2 is definitely not bad. All the things you mentioned are just so seemingly insignificant.

Lastly, just because:

and for a game all about garment spheres why couldn’t they put on some clothes.

That’s actually explained, but the catch if you have to play more than two hours. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I didn’t say much about the battle system, I’ve always loved the job system (FF3j, FFV, FFT). It’s not the voice acting it’s the actual dialoge, the villians had such bad dialoge, the airship in FFX was IMHO the best airship design out of all the FFs I had played (I’ve only not played 8, 9, and legends 3, oh and now crystal cronicles and FFXI…) but I really don’t like the design of the new airship. Brother (another name I don’t care for) was kinda cool in the original and I don’t care for his new personality or look either.

Villians really are a huge element to a modern RPG, the ones they have are just so… lame…

I think really what the problem is for me is I expected so much more. I really expected the game to start as well as FFX did. FFX almost surpassed FFV (my favorite FF). I was really looking forward to it and was so dissapionted. So much so I just had to rant, first time I’ve ever done that…

Anyway, I’ve had time to cool off and I probably should give it a second chance, though I’ve also got a stack of untouched games sitting over there (sigh, I remember the days I lemented not having any new games, now I have games and I don’t have the time to play them…)

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I enjoyed the game quite a bit, aside from the battles themselves. I liked the gathering 100% idea, but the actual battles were so devoid of strategy that they got really tedious after awhile. I’ll spare you from hearing my rant about the Job System because I’m in a good mood today. :hahaha;

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FFX-2 is a very girly, and personal game. It was NEVER meant to be epic, spectacular and something new. I actually delayed for a few days after I rented it, and then finally picked it up one night because I was bored. I was so hyped after seeing the opening that I didn’t put it down for weeks. I eventually, got bored of it, but not because it was incredibly different or everything. FFX-2 is a light and humorous game, no more. I find it awesome, and the different music (which was upbeat and kinky at times) really added to that. It’s meant to tie up loose ends, and stray a little bit from the generic template that FF is usually stuck on. If you can’t realize all of these things, then yeah, the game isn’t for you. But it’s centered around all females, the world-saving saga has been done already, so how can you not expect a little tongue in cheek, non-serious matter? Personally, I think it’s a way to “relax”, after playing FFX.

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I wasn’t too impressed with the game when I played it about halfway through a year ago. The battles were fun, but it seemed like the game went 50/50 with long stretches of nothing but fighting, which wore out some of the fun of the fights, followed with long stretches of a little bit of good story and a lot of stupid filler. I returned to the game a few weeks back to finish it up. Looking back on it now, I have to say that the main draw to it for me is how it does tie up FFX nicely. The main story would’ve been a great deal better if it was a larger part of the game. As it was, there was too much of Rikku acting like an idiot and random side characters that you really didn’t care about.

Until chapters 4 and 5.

This is where the good stuff happened. You had Yuna guided out of the Farplane by an unknown whistler, who you KNEW who it had to be. You had the Yuna/Lenne parallel, and the history of Vegnagun. I especially like how they explained Maechen in the end - I’d been wondering about that guy since FFX, why he’d known so much compared to everyone else. That might just be a personal thing on my part, but I did find touches like that very important. The whole Paine/Baralai/Gippal/Nooj thing FINALLY made some sense with the last scene of chapter 3 (inside Be…something. The big temple). And lastly, the “good” ending was the happiest ending Square’s ever given a game, as far as i can tell. Besides the obvious, there was also the nice little touch of Yuna saying “this is my story,” which kinda brought the two games of this world full circle.

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FFVIII? FFIX? :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m with Pierson in this, I yet have to see a better happy ending than FFIX’s.

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God, would people stop ranting?! This game was ment to be more fun, and still go through a story-line that helps wrap up FFX’s! K? -_-

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FFX-2’s ending makes prison movie shower scenes with FFVIII and FFIX’s. 'Nuff said.

(Yes, I have seen them both. The difference is, EVERYONE in FFX-2 is happy, far as I can tell. Sheesh, even the villains got nice happy endings.)

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This isn’t the place to bitch about it.

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FFX2? What is this you speak of?

I know of no such thing.

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points to the FFC forum

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I’ll say it again, Mudcap…the localization (Which includes the dialogue :P) is definitely one of the best I’ve ever seen in an RPG. If you don’t like it, go gripe at the japanese scriptwriters :stuck_out_tongue:

Also, you got like what, 2 hours in? :stuck_out_tongue: You haven’t even seen the villains yet. You’ve see LeBlanc, Ormi, and Logos. THat’s like saying FF6 has lame villains cos of ULTROS :stuck_out_tongue: They just happened to introduce the Ultros villain(s) first.

Oh well. I hope you’ve learned an important lesson: Don’t make expectations for a game. They will fail to meet them almost every single time.

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Halo 2 and most of the harcore Halo fans