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Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster |OT| G - A - F in position, it's showtime gurlz!
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With those commspheres that shinra was dropping all over the place? Dang, so it's almost one giant cutscene with very little gameplay?
XJF
Member
Pretty much. Thankfully some of the 15 Gagazet Spring scenes are amusing
Question about Tidus' sphere grid path: I want to take him to Wakka's grid but the starting sphere takes me the opposite direction if I'm just following it ahead. There's a level 1 lock at the beginning of that sphere down to Kimahri's sphere that leads directly to Wakka. So should I just double back and head that way? Or take the route around that looks like it'll take me around Yuna's grid.
Haven't played this game in so long, the sphere grid is confusing me a lot. I'm constantly second guessing my choices :lol
Haven't played this game in so long, the sphere grid is confusing me a lot. I'm constantly second guessing my choices :lol
XJF
Member
After dodging all 200 lightnings all I could do is....
That's me every time I hit a perfect integer percentage in X-2 lol
SoulUnison
Banned
Al-Bhed Home:
"An annoying tongue!"
"An annoying tongue!"
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"An annoying tongue!"
"An annoying tongue!"
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"An annoying tongue!"
"An annoying tongue!"
Now I won't be able to unhear that. Dammit.
Same.
Going through the Omega Ruins for the first time ever right now capturing stuff as I go along. After I'm done here I'll go do the Don Tonberry trick. Can someone link me to something showing me how to prepare for that? Items required, where to get it, etc.
wtf -___- Fuck you Great Malboros. I had no problem battling you
but in the Omega Ruins you fucking slaughtered me. Seriously wtf. It cast Bad Breath and berserk never went away -__- It was on for like 8 turns straight until I died :l Fucking there goes an hour of progress. Gahhh I'm pissed :l
Inside Sin
First Strike -> Provoke
Well yeah I've realized that now. I wasn't expecting to get so absoultely slaughtered though since I didn't have any problems killing it
Inside Sin
Isn't the Platinum for X-2 even more difficult than X?
I think the most useful thing you can get from him is Nova for Kimahri.
PedroPanache
Member
Awww....they fixed that weird anomaly where the Tidus hi-res model would appear on the screen with the lake that Wakka pushes you into. On the original PS2 game the model would switch from the standard, crappy model to the deluxe hi-res on that screen.
PedroPanache
Member
Self-righteous bitch. She bugged the hell of out of me back in the day. I wanted her to sink into a deep depression after her beliefs were stripped bare and trampled on by Tidus and co. But, no, instead of being a disgustingly drunk and stinking hobo performing tricks for drinks on the side of the Mi'hen Highroad, they made her an obnoxiously cheery reporter in X-2. It's not the way I would have wrote it, I'll tell you that for nothing.
Wrong thread? Yeah, I totally felt that way as well, everything from the graphics (like you said) to the naming convention which is parallel to "Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII". The only thing is that there is no guarantee that the struggling Crystal Tools engine wouldn't have needed to cut even more corners visually to run on Vita hardware.
OmegaDL50
Member
Just a minor correction - you need 4 of each eye monsters, not 5. Also, having Triple overdrive on weapons helps speed up the process too.
OmegaDL50
Member
I know this.
However not many people want to do the work to capture 10 of each monster for all locations in the game to get the 99 Winning Formula to add Triple Overdrive to 3 AP weapons.
The alternative method requires to bribe Sandworms for 900,000 gil in hopes you may get 15 Winning Formula. (Triple Overdrive requires 30)
Even if you used the 99 you get for capturing 10 of every fiend for three weapons, you'd still need about 3,600,000 gil for the rest, and it's still not a guarantee you get 15 each time, also using the Bribe 10x HP trick and adding 1 gil each time until the Sandworm leaves also has it's caveats for the same reasons.
Yeah, fuck Shelinda for always wanting to help people.
PedroPanache
Member
Indeed. Fuck her until the self-righteousness of her misplaced convictions are literally dripping out of her....I should probably stop now. But, yeah, fuck Shelinda. I imagine her basement is literally full of "GOD HATES THE AL BHED" placards.
brandonh83
Banned
Yeeeaah, guess it was sorta off topic, but it's also an FF/Vita kinda thread too and I just wanted to see if anyone else thought the same.
got my FFX HD Platinum Trophy Yesterday
oh god this sphere grid trophy was sooooo boring... <.<
The main problem is smashing the x-button until it reacts to something, because the sphere grid is filled with animations which take way too long
character moving along the lines, character teleporting/warping (why does there have to be a flashy animation at the start and end of teleporting/warping?ôo) and of course deleting and placing and activating spheres, this animation is way too long and you cant press a button for ages after the animation allready finished...
I can't remember it being this tedious on PS2, but I only maxxed out Wakka and Rikku back then...
Now on to FFX-2... I played the game on PS2, but (beginning spoiler (<2%))
oh god this sphere grid trophy was sooooo boring... <.<
The main problem is smashing the x-button until it reacts to something, because the sphere grid is filled with animations which take way too long
character moving along the lines, character teleporting/warping (why does there have to be a flashy animation at the start and end of teleporting/warping?ôo) and of course deleting and placing and activating spheres, this animation is way too long and you cant press a button for ages after the animation allready finished...
I can't remember it being this tedious on PS2, but I only maxxed out Wakka and Rikku back then...
Now on to FFX-2... I played the game on PS2, but (beginning spoiler (<2%))
I can't remember that there was a monster "side game", where you can let them join your party, catch them and do a lot more pokémon stuff with them.. weird ôo
PedroPanache
Member
There wasn't a monster catching side quest in the western editions of the game. It was added for the JP only international version. I'm really looking forward to checking out all the new additions to FFX-2. Especially the two new dress-spheres.
EDIT: So, can someone tell me exactly what the tedious sphere grid trophy is?
Jimmyfenix
Member
If I was Tidus I would have recruited omega to fight sin & yevon with.
Self-righteousness? She was following a major religion that everyone that wasn't Al Bhed followed, with good intentions and had an inferior complex. She helped the party (and others), didn't show hate toward others and never forced people on to Yevon. How about the massively corrupt Maesters? And as far as 'misplaced convictions', the entire world other than the Al Bhed are followers of Yevon, so...
But yeah, fuck her for following what she knows and is told with the best intentions. She's such a fucking terrible person.
Cornbread78
Member
so GAF, what is the best way to get lvl 3/sphere unlocks? I've hit so many brick walls...
Infinite_Daremo
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PedroPanache
Member
She's also an awful interviewer. Where the fuck did she do her media training? Did she even do media training? I doubt it, I really do. Best intentions? She's no better than Hitler or Noel Edmonds. Fucking terrible person.
If I was Tidus, I would have built a giant Seaworld, hired trainers and had Sin as the no. 1 attraction at the only Seaworld in Spira. Come see Sin jump through hoops and eat fish every week. That blackfish documentary would have nothing on the shit that would go down in Spira's Seaworld.
They are rare drops from Defender Z in the Omega Ruins, or you can bribe Demonoliths for 900,000 for 40 of them.
You have to activate every node in the entire sphere grid with every character. This also includes filling empty nodes with spheres and activating them.
Man, Alchemist is really OP for healing, at least early on (First time playing), in FFX-2. As if being able to mix Mega-Potions wasn't enough, once you learn the ability to use them from Stash it's even better. Just finished Chapter 2 and I'm probably really over levelled (lv30) since nothing has really given me any kind of challenge yet. The last fight of Chapter 2
was pretty epic at first but then I steamrolled it lol.
against Dark Bahamut
PedroPanache
Member
Oh, they can fuck right off with that. That's essentially a shitty cocktail of all the terrible war of attrition mini-games in FFX shaken up and poured right into my platinum FFX drink. I'm just not doing that. Not even entertaining the possibility of doing that. They can fuck off.
I lie. I probably will do that.
OmegaDL50
Member
Not only that, you also need to highlight every single path on the grid in a characters color. Even useless moves such as moving a character into a dead end where it's not necessary just to activate a node.
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Anyone notice in FFX-2 when you visit the Youth League headquarters those two kids running around swinging their swords and such.
At first I thought it was just a NPC pattern thing, but they actually run up to Yuna and swing at her. You can literally run in a different direction and they will change their direction and beeline to Yuna just to take a swing at her.
Just thought that was odd is all.
Urgh. I didn't know this part. I've been actively avoiding doing just that. Goddammit.
You sure about that? I've filled all the nodes and activated them with Tidus and got the trophy despite there being some paths he hasn't traveled along.
OmegaDL50
Member
i was under the same impression (that you need to walk every sphere grid path), because the trophy didn't popped up when I was pretty sure Wakka has activated every single sphere.
But it turned out 1 sphere was missing.. it's easy to overlook, so I kept 1 "super sphere" (dunno the exact english name, but it's the sphere you can activate anything with) to check if everything was activated (when it's greyed out, your done with the characteR)
You have to speak to him again in Chapter 3 and Chapter 5.
Cornbread78
Member
Ugggh, so if I just now got access to the
airship
OmegaDL50
Member
Enemy stats don't change.
The Defender Z's in the Zanarkand Dome you fought are the same Defender Z's in the Omega Ruins.
PedroPanache
Member
I'm glad I could help out in that regard.
You can force them to spawn on the second floor, provided you haven't defeated Omega Weapon. Just walk the whole floor until you have as many as you want, go back down, then right back up to the second floor. Works for Mega Tonberries too.
Cornbread78
Member
Oh well lucky me, I guess I'll take a break from continually gettign my butt kick in Blitzball and walk around a little then.