Warm Machine
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The first 15 minutes is like a big budget episode of JEM.
Does Final Fantasy X-2 get any less embarassing as it progresses?
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Prince of Space
Banned
Just wait till you get to the 1000 Words FMV...
SpoonyBard
Banned
I gave up after 3 hours. It didn't get any better.
Warm Machine
Member
I never played FFX. Was the girl in that a magical popstar as well?
Kobun Heat
Member
If anything, it gets more embarrassing...
Shit, I forgot about my self-imposed moratorium on FFX-2 threads.
Shit, I forgot about my self-imposed moratorium on FFX-2 threads.
keeblerdrow
Member
You can't judge Final Fantasy X-2 on just fifteen minutes.
Give it twenty.
Give it twenty.
TheGreenGiant
Banned
I want to play FFX-2. But because FFX is the worst FF ever.. I have no desire to. The Jpop cuteness I find kawaii in a demented sort of way.
Dan: its not about touching the game. Its about touching yourself
Dan: its not about touching the game. Its about touching yourself
Warm Machine
Member
I bought it for my girlfriend as she's getting into and enjoying RPGs. I think it is too 80's glam for her.
I don't know about it being a good game. Least I could do was give it a rental and it just went from bad to worse, the entire atmosphere ruined it all and even a blind man could tell you that Square were cashing in on a shitty product. Now that the masses bought it, it's led to an influx of 4 announced FFVII spin offs. Please God, why!?!?
Only people that I know who enjoyed it are the ones that went out of their way to collect the Ultimate Weapons in FFX and have save states that are over 120hours long. Personally I had a hard time eating it all by getting upto Yunalesca in just under 30 hours flat.
Only people that I know who enjoyed it are the ones that went out of their way to collect the Ultimate Weapons in FFX and have save states that are over 120hours long. Personally I had a hard time eating it all by getting upto Yunalesca in just under 30 hours flat.
Guess thankfully I'm not a part of that crowd.jiggle said:
It wasn't the fact of a female cast, it was just the entire atmosphere. I played a bit over a dozen hours on the rental and just gave up.. but spoiled it all when I downloaded the perfect ultra deluxe ending or whatever it was. Maybe it was all due to my ever-lasting smidgen of hatred towards FFX or just me having to jump in an RPG :lolbelgurdo said:
I don't want to play a ROLE PLAYING PLATFORMER!! I NEEDED DUAL ANALOGUE TOUCH SENSITIVITY FOR JUMPING.
APerfectCircle
Member
FFX-2 was is the only first final fantasy game(in the main series) where i've finished then not felt that something cool had just happened.
The end boss sucked too!
speedpop said:
Holding down X when you need to move up/down a level is "platforming?"
And the theme definitely isn't about them dressing up and being stupid (as they stop doing that very early on.) That's like saying the theme of FFVII is to dress up and be loony too (since you have to do that a lot in the beginning as well)
Bob White said:
Tidus isn't in the game. Instead, there's Shuyin, who Tidus was based off of in the original Zanarkand. Shuyin was jailed and killed for trying to awaken a superweapon, so the Aeons didn't have enough information on him to make him a complete replica. Shuyin died with his lover (I think that's the name- it's been a year). So as a copy, Tidus was subconsciously looking for someone similar (aka Yuna).
Tidus appears in a dream of Yuna's which shows how Shuyin and the other chick really died (except it's Tidus and Yuna being shot and killed). Depending on the percentage completion of the game, you can decide to bring Tidus back at the end of the game or not. If you do, the sequence with Tidus swimming to the surface after the end of FFX finishes, and the Gullwings find him. Yuna and Tidus say something to each other and they start running to the shore together. It goes kinda as follows
Tidus: You know, you've changed.
Yuna: Well, you've missed a few things.
Tidus: I want to hear all about it!
Yuna: It all began when I found this sphere of you... (repeating one of the first lines in the game)
The camera moves upward during this final exchange, and Yuna's final line is said as we have a view of a clear blue sky.
Tidus appears in a dream of Yuna's which shows how Shuyin and the other chick really died (except it's Tidus and Yuna being shot and killed). Depending on the percentage completion of the game, you can decide to bring Tidus back at the end of the game or not. If you do, the sequence with Tidus swimming to the surface after the end of FFX finishes, and the Gullwings find him. Yuna and Tidus say something to each other and they start running to the shore together. It goes kinda as follows
Tidus: You know, you've changed.
Yuna: Well, you've missed a few things.
Tidus: I want to hear all about it!
Yuna: It all began when I found this sphere of you... (repeating one of the first lines in the game)
The camera moves upward during this final exchange, and Yuna's final line is said as we have a view of a clear blue sky.
Sequence goes like this.
1000 years ago, men fought the machines. Shuyin tried to release some ultimate machine for his own agenda, but was killed. Dying by his side was Lenne, a summoner.
The summoners that died became fayths. They dreamt up Zanarkand and its population based on their own civilization from 1000 years. Tidus happens to be dreamt after Shuyin.
1000 years ago, men fought the machines. Shuyin tried to release some ultimate machine for his own agenda, but was killed. Dying by his side was Lenne, a summoner.
The summoners that died became fayths. They dreamt up Zanarkand and its population based on their own civilization from 1000 years. Tidus happens to be dreamt after Shuyin.
COCKLES said:
That's not the plot. The plot is about Spira coping with the aftermath of the defeat of Sin in the present, not what happened 1000 years ago.
As the result of the new affinity for machinas, alot of the ancient machines/technology, such as the dresssphere, were dug up, fixed up, and re-used. Including the sphere that shows Shuyin/Tidus, which jump started the whole adventure.
The Tidus/Zanarkandians are a dream of the fayth was established in FFX.
The Tidus/Zanarkandians are a dream of the fayth was established in FFX.
Prince of Space
Banned
Funny how it's never even said in the game that Tidus is a copy of Shuyin...
Prince of Space said:
mark your spoiler...
He's not a copy, recreation, blah blah. They are not the same person. Everyone in Zanarkand are a dream of the fayths.
Maybe the game didnt' specifically tell you Tidus came from Shuyin, but it's implied. Unless there's a 3rd Tidus looking guy(<----Insert Nomura joke here) running around to base Tidus on.
Maybe the game didnt' specifically tell you Tidus came from Shuyin, but it's implied. Unless there's a 3rd Tidus looking guy(<----Insert Nomura joke here) running around to base Tidus on.
FF-X-2 is about fan service, for fans that couldn't get enough of FF-X. Heh !
I bought and played it for an hour, ripped all the FMVs and it was in the cabinet since then.
And I had also bought the milking addition X-2 Int+Last mission, but never actually played it. Ha ha ha !
I bought and played it for an hour, ripped all the FMVs and it was in the cabinet since then.
And I had also bought the milking addition X-2 Int+Last mission, but never actually played it. Ha ha ha !
Agent Dormer
Dirty Drinking Smoker
No. And that's the only answer anyone needed to give.
radios shipping overview
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I enjoyed all of the ~50 hours I put into it (aside from those awful, painful minigames on the Thunder Plains and Calmlands) - and I'd like to go through it again sometime. I loved the fast-paced battles (which I could barely keep up with at first) and the costume switching, and no, I didn't play for ultimate minmaxing and system exploits; I tried to balance my ability levelling between several costumes for each character. The story was lighthearted enough that I didn't expect a masterpiece out of it, and while it didn't take the convolutions your usual FF plot does, it was nice to see for once what happens after the world is 'saved' in the FF fashion. Every new dressphere made me want to see all it had to offer, and while I usually hate Nomura, I loved seeing the costume variations by character and the wide variety of abilities. So much to see, to do, to explore in each chapter - it was candy for me.
I didn't like FFX's super-on-rails exploration or character progression, nor Tidus' corny sentimentalizing, so X-2 ended up being exactly what I'd wanted out of FFX.
Needless to say, if you don't like X-2 from the start, you won't like it at all.
I didn't like FFX's super-on-rails exploration or character progression, nor Tidus' corny sentimentalizing, so X-2 ended up being exactly what I'd wanted out of FFX.
Needless to say, if you don't like X-2 from the start, you won't like it at all.