I am playing this for the first time since shitting on it at release because it was too girly. Pure SOVL I genuinely miss games not taking things too seriously once in a while.
>Good music
>Good atmosphere
>Cheesy and knows it
>Battle system fun and not convoluted
>I really want to impregnate Yuna.
I want the PS2 era back vr bros
Yes, everything is correct but will get eventually boring and worse going forward in the game. The only very good aspect through all of it are battles.
The PS3 remaster has extra dress spheres and a whole fucking roguelike game inside it. This game had the best iteration of ATB in the whole franchise, but FF fans tend to shit on it because they don't want to play as cute girls and act like the story is worse than FFX when in actuality, both stories are shit, but this game doesn't take itself that seriously.
It's like the difference between Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. Both are stupid low budget tokusatsu franchises, but Kamen Rider takes itself 100% serious and Sentai leans into the stupidity for a more fun time.
>when in actuality, both stories are shit
Cope. X is great and the game VIII should have been
What do you mean?
>Both got water/meteorological theming
>Squall and co succeeded Laguna and co; Tidus and co succeed Jecht and co
>Succession of Sorceresses; Succession of Sin
>Sphere Grid is junctioning but good
>GF gives memory loss, Final Aeon gives death
>Big focus on the romance, down to the chick on the logo. Got some love song I'm both games too
This is exactly how I feel, X had a fantastic story with my only gripe being the last line's translation.
>Sphere grid is junctioning but too
Spot on as well
>the last line's translation
In Yuna's speech?
Yeah. Thank you Vs I love you, really changes the weight and tone of the last scene.
I was 12 anon I was horny and didn't want to admit it
Yuna's speech is given to the stadium at Luca, but actually I think "I love you" landed very well
>Spot on as well
No, he's 100% wrong. Junctioning is equipping your resources to your stats to raise them. Sphere grid is just leveling up with extra steps. Much like his water theme comparison, it's completely hollow and retarded.
Those things are all only very vaguely comparable. VIII and X are totally different games, story- and character wise.
Yeah hence X being the VIII we should have gotten. A good version of VIII would have to be totally different
I don't recall water being a theme in ff8
>Squall
>Laguna
>Raine
There's probably more but that's off the top of my head
A naming convention is not a 'theme', you stupid sack of shit.
The naming conventions are themed, fuck off art student. FFX also has a largely coastal setting and Sin is a whale
The naming convention in VIII has nothing to do with some overarching narrative theme in the game. You're grasping at straws.
>Kakarrot
>Vegeta
>Radditz
>Goku eats a lot
Oh holy shit, I guess Dragon Ball has a cooking theme now! Moron.
>has nothing to do with some overarching narrative theme
Good thing I didn't say that you illiterate gay. Do you know what the word "theme" covers?
When you said that both games have water/meteorological themes, I assumed you meant something more substantial than "three names are water puns." X has a very obvious theme in that regard, so one would think you meant that they are equal in that respect. Turns out your post was just braindead drivel.
>go to halloween party
>event says it has a western theme
>tfw they didn't even deconstruct colonialism and anarchy
Never going out ever again
He's right though, and your argument is very poor. A Halloween party isn't comparable to a work of fiction, which is the context in which you used the term "theme". You specifically said FF8 has a water theme, and when asked for details you came up with the names of three characters. That's not a narrative theme, and FF10 is not 'like FF8 but good' as you're trying to argue.
Thanks, I was at dinner. Total fucking retard he is.
Unless you were expecting me to explain how FF8's story is an allegory for the hydrolysis of carbohydrates, "FF8 has water theming" is an apt description.
Holy shit, he's still doubling down, days later.
I appreciate that you're still here too, waiting for me to deliver a dissertation about hydrolysis
>Cope. X is great and the game VIII should have been
It's 1997 you turn on the TV, suddenly you see an Ad for the new videogame called Final Fantasy VII.
You think it's the coolest shit you've ever seen, on the next days you see this game everywhere, TV, magazines, even your schoolmates are talking about it.
You ask mom to buy the game for you, you're ready to play it not before thinking ''wow never knew there were 6 games before this uh'' now you turn on your PS1, you're about to witness your first JRPG ever.
Weeks go on and you've finished the game, it's the best gaming experience you ever had.
Now Final Fantasy 8 gets announced and your heart is beating so fast, you want it.
It's 9/9/99 and your mom again gets you the game you boot it up and WTF!?
Where's Cloud? Where's Tifa? Midgar? Gaia?
What happened? You don't get it.
Yep that's FF8, it's a wonderful game but not being FF7-2 was it's biggest sin, that's why FF7 babies despise it.
Any game that came up after FF7 would've been received the same way as FF8 did.
Swap 9 for 8 and you get the same, 10 for 8 and the same and so on.
Squall and Laguna story was released at the wrong place and at wrong time.
>boot up FF7
>WTF it's the 7th one???
FF7 has no bearing on why FF8 is shit; FF8 being shit however does.
no wonder all FF8 apologists are mentally ill. the amount of mental gymnastics to justify liking this slop is absurd
>no wonder all FF8 apologists are mentally ill.
It's all because of the GFs, anon.
there's no way anyone who holds FF8 as their favorite ever had a gf
why are their necks so fucking long this shit has always bothered me
Garden's flotation ring had an effect on their physiology. Laguna didn't go to Garden, but got a mega dose of the same effect while he was at what became Lunatic Pandora. Ward actually lost his voice because of Lunatic Pandora stretching his neck too much.
this is it
the absolutely most retarded take
we can finally all stop shitposting ironically now
DELETE THIS you uncultered swine
VIII is the best game in the series though
It's a moot point anyway because 10/10-2/12 are worse than 7/8/9. The best RPGs Square made that gen are the Kingdom Hearts games and an MMO. Atlus and Namco were making better traditional RPGs that gen.
>a whole fucking roguelike game inside it
I like how that entire thing was literally just Paine's keikaku because she missed her friends and wanted an excuse to hang out with them again. I really expected her to be a lame super serious emo edgelord but she's not, just snarky.
It's retarded but proud of it. I just can't hate the game
The story is just too shit for a full length JRPG. It's fun for a bit until you realize you have zero investment in whatever's happening on screen, then you just turn it off and never play it again. It's not about the fact that it's silly or girly, it's just not interesting as a story
I love X very much so I can't stomach this slop. All the production values are there but the story is godawful, it's like they went out of their way to shit on everyone that liked X. The combat system is indeed pretty fun but that's about it, the game also has the worst 100% completion quest I've ever seen, to the point I believe no one has ever done it without a guide.
I just want to be 100% sure on this: you can go for 100% story over multiple playthroughs right?
And on a related note is there any difference between loading a post-game save and clicking NG+ on the main menu? I've never tried either for the record, I have to assume there is and that a post-game save just takes you back to the last save point or something.
>I just want to be 100% sure on this: you can go for 100% story over multiple playthroughs right?
Yes, you can. Don't try to 100% on a single playthrough, you'll end up tearing your hair out. You're not really going to miss any side content by not getting 100%, but getting it requires talking to seemingly innocuous random characters for extra 0.1% progress who only have a bit of filler text to share
Cool thanks, I just wanted to be sure so I can take it easy and get it after a few more goes through and not feel like I have to use a guide for it. I tried to get everything I could on my first playthrough and only got about 70% I think it was.
>talking to seemingly innocuous random characters
I always do that anyway.
I'm fairly certain you can get over 100%.
For every choice if you take option A in the first playthrough and B in the second, you should have more than 100%.
Yeah, you can easily go over 100% with new game+
Doing 100% in a single playthrough is absurdly annoying to do even with a guide. I checked a bunch of guides against each other and they all miss one tiny detail that leaves you 0.1% short. Then you get stuff like the commsphere scenes in chapter 4 where you have to watch one of them 14 different times just to get 0.1%, or where one of the commsphere scenes that counts towards 100% has a 50% chance of bugging out and not working, forcing you to reload a save because the scene won't be counted.
>Good music
>renaming Trainer Rikku's monkey moron to create the most based list of RPG battle abilities ever
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Ghiki
I've been preaching X2's virtue's for years.
It's exploring a world after the final battle. A world at peace. That alone is worth the price of admission.
The story is pretty engaging too. Seeing Tidus locked in the cage in the begining is a damn good hook.
The battle system is 10/10.
There were a few 'god I hope my family doesn't see me playing this' scenes. The massage comes to mind. But that's every Final Fantasy.
Overall a solid 9.95 / 10.
>Square makes a game with the 3 main characters being girls wearing tight, revealing outfits to target the male demographic
>op doesn't play it because he's gay
This game has drained me emotionally and physically. I ended up just looking up the 100% completion-exclusive scene on youtube and it's hust a random dialogue that I'm puzzled why they choose to lock it behind so many hurdles.
I think it's funny that although this is a coomer sequel, the girls are way uglier than in FFX. Yuna and Rikku's faces are fucked up and I would much rather look at Lulu's cleavage than at some dyke version of Cloud Strife
That scene where Rikku helps Yuna masturbate but then she ends up cumming before Yuna was so good.
Good to see an OP who's not deadinside for once. X-2 is a fine game, you just gotta enjoy it for cookey fun it is. I only wish that it went even more ham and had more sexy stuff. Ironically the game is held back by it trying to be deep randomly with the tragic romance story.
>blitzballs in you're way
I know I'm being a bit of a midwit here but the whole blitzball thing is just.. fucking annoying. I don't want to even hear them talk about some stupid ass quidditch clone holy shit.
Rugby anon, Blitzball is based on rugby.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_rugby
X was by far my least favorite game in the series so far but even it didn't deserve this weird fanfic.
I ticked this garbage off my list and now I've played all mainline Final Fantasies my PC could handle, except fot XI and XII. And I don't want to play another MMO, so into the rash they both go.
you're missing out by skipping XII, the MMO meme is massively overstated
agreed, XII is great and the last mainline entry that I enjoyed
Out of all FF games this game's battle theme ranks the absolute lowest not only among FF games, but among all RPGs I've played. Other than a few select tracks like Shuyin's boss theme and the Zanarkand theme, I could not enjoy FFX-2's music.
its shit, I finished X and then later got my hands on X-2, I though this its gonna be good only to find some new retard battle system and jumping on platforms, I dropped it after first 30 minutes
>new retard battle system
It's ATB, with a flavor of FF5.
It just kind of sucks honestly. Its execution was really poor.
i busted so many nuts to yuna back in the day
Stay away from the summoner!
you're a bad man!
>i busted so many nuts to yuna back in the day
She killed millions
>shitting on it at release because it was too girly
Everyone who did this was and will always be a turbo gay.
I bought this solely because of the theme song Yuna sang
This website is being engulfed in aggressive stupidity.
>millennials saw that nonexistent ass and shit their pants cumming
>liking giant asses like a thug Black
I don't like dump truck booty but this is pathetic
To be fair FF 7 through 10 are all bad. They are fine when playing them first time, but when you try replaying them you'll find out the cutscenes can't be skipped and you are forces to watch hours of the same story you already watched, will minutes of gameplay here and there.
The 2d games' cutscenes were also unskippable, but they weren't nearly as continuous