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Final Fantasy X
- Thread starter MrDawn
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How far did you get with it?
Not really far as I wanted to. I plan to replay it sometime.
Aside from 7. I felt that X was one of the easier games to beat. It took me a while to figure out the sphere grid when I played the game 20 years ago. Once I figured it out, I grinded stats to beat the game.
I remember when the PS3 came out, X still looked good for a PS2 game.
Looks decent by todays standards as well.
It was ahead of it's time. I've been playing through the remaster and getting re-acquainted with the lore. I'm surprised I've made it half way through the game because I've been taking my time and just sphere leveling the characters one at a time on each map before moving on.
I didn't like FFX-2. I didn't see the point in it. I felt the story was just filler and the game itself felt like a chore to play. What's more aggravating is that it's a mandatory buy with the remaster if you just want X on the X-Box Series S/X.
That is understandable, I was the same with it myself. Back on the PS2 I didn't get very far into the game at all. I think I might it not much further than the blitzball tournament. It wasn't until a few years ago when I played through the remake that I finished the story. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I do still need to go back and finish X-2 at some point though, as I got sidetracked with other games.
That surprises me quite a bit I wouldn't say it is one of the easier ones. Although that could be because I didn't spend much time grinding. I would probably consider it one of the more difficult Final Fantasy games I have played. I think with a lot of them grinding can make the games a lot easier.
These days I have no patience for grinding. It ruins the game for me. I don't like doing something that is over repetitive.
I am quite similar to you with that. I think that is why I found X to be one of the harder entries, as I played a lot of the other games when I still enjoyed spending lots of hours grinding. Whereas I did very little of that in my playthrough of X. A few of the bosses I ended up limping through hahaha. I must admit it did make for a more exciting, and at times frustrating, experience. I appreciated in XVI that no grinding was needed at all.
I just felt like I was wasting my time and not getting anything out of it and that's the part that was really discouraging. I like a game that I can go on and just play and enjoy. Not a game where the developer forces you to do same thing over 400 times before you're allowed to enjoy the game.
I think if I am doing repetitive stuff in a game like that, then I need to be doing something else at the same time. Usually streaming a show, watching videos on YouTube or listening to podcasts. Sometimes I would even be studying while gaming. I was actually doing my research for an assignment years ago listening to podcasts while getting the platinum trophy for Far Cry Primal since it was so tedious.
It helps if I take a break and come back to an FF game later. I got towards the end and was trying to max my characters out to where they were doing the damage limit and I got burned out. I put the FFX remaster on a 6 month long hiatus and recently started playing it again. It was pretty refreshing. I was 15 when I started playing FFX and I honestly felt it was the best game on PS2 and nothing seemed to measure up. All in all, I put over a hundred hours tops into my first play through.
