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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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Yuna and Kimahri are both really easy to teach Steal/Use to. (If you're doing Standard) Once they get that they can pretty much do whatever you want.
Honestly, Yuna is probably one of the least useful characters in the main-game. If she's a bit behind, you'll be okay.
TheSlySoul
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Thanks for explaining some international differences. I knew what to expect for Kingdom Hearts, but I am in the dark for FFX. Anyways, my impression of the Vita version is the colors really pop out. It is a very gorgeous game even after 10+ years. I will get my hands on the PS3 version over the weekend. I will try out cross-play and give my impressions of the console port.
Picked a copy of the PS3 Limited edition up last night at Target. Loving the nostalgia trip so far and the game looks beautiful. I'm actually excited to play through FF X-2 again because when it first came out I got to the end of the game with 98% and rage quit so I haven't actually ever seen the ending!
Also for anyone looking for limited edition, amazon has it back in stock and the Target I was at had about 10 up for grabs.
Also for anyone looking for limited edition, amazon has it back in stock and the Target I was at had about 10 up for grabs.
badcrumble
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By walking all the way back.
(I thought that all of the Jecht Spheres spawn as soon as you've fought the Sphere Eater, though? Which means that you can go back and do all that nonsense before Macalania Temple? But I guess waiting until you've bought Capture weapons would be helpful.)
It's based off the Japanese word Tida.
It was always ティーダ T ī d a.
The English translator likely added the S to make it sound more like a 'real' English name, a problem that plagues the series.
TheSlySoul
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I notice the digital version is quicker than the disc based version, but I do not have a physical copy of FFX to test if it is quicker. However, I think the digital versions of the games run faster than the physical due to less disc reading and more memory card reading. I notice the same thing when I went Dolphin for my old GC/Wii games.
Edit: The answer is probably yes because I compared Disgaea 3 PS3 to Vita and the Vita version loaded quicker. I think it is due to the format.
bigbaldwolf86
Banned
Sounds like you started to watch the Eternal Calm video. That video bridges the gap between X and X-2
BigBadShamoo
Banned
Yo I want this game so bad lol. I might just order it. I definitely enjoyed 10-2 a whole lot more though. But 10 was still awesome since it spawned the sequel.
vagabondarts
Member
Booted up FFX-2 on the Vita and it looks spectacular. Never played this game before and the animation and graphics are hugely improved from FFX.
Can't wait to jump in after I play through FFX.
Can't wait to jump in after I play through FFX.
BigBadShamoo
Banned
Sorry, yes, Wakka is 23 and Lulu is 22. They still don't look or act anything like that age though.. oh well. I'll just chalk it up to differences in Spiran culture.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It also fits the game's water theme by having his name be Tidus. I can see why the English translator did what he did.
Typomancer
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Edit: Nevermind, misread stuff.
Yes, but that missed the actual theme, which was his Sun to Yuna's Moon.
Possibly a controversial opinion here, but am I the only one who vehemently disliked blitzball back in FFX? For me, it was a combination of blitzball being too hard directly followed by being too easy, since the game was entirely based off your players stats. So initially, your team is garbage and you either lose or cheat. Then once you have good players with tons of skills, you dominate the other team.
Cheating, also a big problem I had with it. You could swim behind your own goal and if done correctly, no defenders would ever come after you, so you could run out the clock. Worked every time. You could also swim in circles on one side with an attacker then pass cross court for an open shot about 75% of the time. Between these two "strategies", I would win every game, but it made blitzball very tedious and boring to me.
The final straw was the two times blitzball was "required". My sixth grade self reset the game probably 30 times to get Wakka that final victory because I didn't get the damn Ject shot right before. And next, getting Wakka's overdrives and celestial weapon from the tournaments took altogether too many games. They never showed up as prizes. I think I did some soft reset trick and it STILL took forever.
Always see people talking about how awesome blitzball was, and always confuses me. I think it had the potential to be awesome, but was implemented really poorly, and I hated it so hard as a kid. I would dodge lighting all day and do ten 0 second chocobo races before I would do another blitzball tournament.
Cheating, also a big problem I had with it. You could swim behind your own goal and if done correctly, no defenders would ever come after you, so you could run out the clock. Worked every time. You could also swim in circles on one side with an attacker then pass cross court for an open shot about 75% of the time. Between these two "strategies", I would win every game, but it made blitzball very tedious and boring to me.
The final straw was the two times blitzball was "required". My sixth grade self reset the game probably 30 times to get Wakka that final victory because I didn't get the damn Ject shot right before. And next, getting Wakka's overdrives and celestial weapon from the tournaments took altogether too many games. They never showed up as prizes. I think I did some soft reset trick and it STILL took forever.
Always see people talking about how awesome blitzball was, and always confuses me. I think it had the potential to be awesome, but was implemented really poorly, and I hated it so hard as a kid. I would dodge lighting all day and do ten 0 second chocobo races before I would do another blitzball tournament.
Unknown Soldier
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The Ultimate Weapons part names still reflect that theme.
Honestly him being named 'Tida' would have made no sense to Western audiences, which is what prompted the change. The whole business of themes was entirely secondary when translating the game.
The other unusual thing about FFX is it's the last mainline FF title where you can name the main character. This created a whole host of problems when voicing it because the voice actors in both languages had to talk in circles when referring to Tidus to avoid actually saying his name throughout both X and X-2.
SoraanTribal
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I would say the more controversial opinion would be actually liking Blitzball.
Any time a thread pops up about worst minigames, blitzball is one of the first ones listed by a ton of people (myself included). xDIf I recall you don't get the prompts on the real challenge, you just have to press the button based on where the words are, you don't get actual button inputs on screen. But yea, if you fail you can't do it again until later in the game. What you described is what led me to hating blitzball, because I didn't have the Jecht shot but really wanted to win that first game.
Is that the reason for the whole Aeris/Aerith thing? I know it's supposed to be Aerith, but I can't get Aeris out of my head, it's ingrained now.
I'm already driving to return the game because I failed. I'm done with this.
lolno. It's not a big deal to me, but they did never mention anything about words and I just thought there'd be prompts like the tutorial said. Weird, wish they'd clarified it a bit more. Oh well. Does anything particularly special happen if you succeed the first time?
Oh let me clarify what I said, it led me to hate blitzball when I played in the sixth grade haha. Definitely wouldn't bother me now, but it is a poorly designed game event. All that happens is you get the Jecht shot for blitzball, which is basically the only way to score during the first game or when your team is terrible. You can get it later in the game still even if you fail, but you just wont have it for the event coming up next.
Also, I swear I saw a bunch of people mention blitzball in "best minigames" thread, but I am glad to know other people found it awful also.
pretty done
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Anyone selling their X-2 code for around $15?
Unknown Soldier
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I would say the more controversial opinion would be actually liking Blitzball.
In other words, a vocal minority hates it. Most people who enjoyed Blitzball don't go on Internet forums hating on it all the time, this is true of all silent majorities on every subject ever.
I'm sure I'll hate Blitzball too *grumble*
That's because originally X and X-2 Vita were not a collection, but sold as two separate titles (possibly because of space limitations, possibly because SE deliberately was trying ot push the PS3 version over the Vita version, possibly because they're greedy.). That's how it was in Japan.
The quick and dirty solution to this in NA and Europe is to essentially sell FFX Vita, and bundle FFX-2 Vita with it for free.
I would have skipped the collection. I own a vita but don't own a PS3, couldn't justify paying 2x as much for the Vita version, or the same amount for half of the content (in case I just settled for FFX or FFX-2, but not both).
Will download later today.
PS: Triple Triad >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Blitzball
Sir Griffith
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I hated blitzball back when I first played this when I was 15 or 16. Having replayed this game a few years back and retrying it though, it's actually quite fun. Just need to learn and practice.
No, I wager that one was just the sloppy translation of FF7. Aerith is supposed to, obviously, reference her Earthy nature and such.
Aeris...doesn't. I guess you could argue it sounds like Air, but, again, that wasn't the intent.
It's a bit of an oddity in the FF community; people will feverishly defend the messages and themes and stories and imagery that the original artists had...but names? Forget whatever the writers intended, we go with what names sound better in our heads/we were used to as kids.
Weird, that.
ss_lemonade
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I'll do it once I'm able to do no encounters. I never finished it before, got really close after like 30mins but lost concentration. I won't fail now lol.
Any comparisons by the way between vita and ps3? I only have the vita version but I'm interested to see if there are noticeable differences other than resolution.
DownLikeBCPowder
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It's right.
So why would the Vita version be better? I want to play it on the television.
I call him Teedor. Everyone wins.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Did you catch the IGN Top 20 Final Fantasy Weapons video? The narrator used Aeris. It made my skin crawl, considering SE essentially retconned the name when they released Crisis Core.
/nerdrant
Sorry. Had to get that out of my system.
Lol, that's ok, your rant is fine with me.
Although i'm more interested in how Aerith's weapon was in the top 20, i'm going to have to look this up. I'm going to guess the the Buster Sword is number 1?
Edit: I think I found it, she was talking about the Masamune, not Aerith's Staff thankfully.
I've always been partial to Edgar's chainsaw myself.