Should you continue playing a game if the first hour bores you to death?

>looks like something you'd enjoy
>everyone says it's good
>but it just isn't fun or appealing beyond a winsome facade
What do you do in this situation?

  1. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Play Lost Odyssey for the 360 instead. It's what I wish FFX was rather than the slop that was released.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I wish there was an acceptable way to play it on PC

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Go on then, hit me with the arbitrary reason you've come up with for why 4K/60fps on Xenia is unacceptable.

        • 4 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Game wasn't made for those settings so enjoy looking at DOGSHIT

          • 4 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            (You)

            It's finally perfectly playable from start to finish? What about other 360 games? And is it easy to set up and come by? Is there a compability list?

            Yes. It's been playable for a good while now. Use the Canary build.
            https://github.com/xenia-canary/xenia-canary/releases
            Put this config file for the game in a folder called patches in the Xenia directory.
            https://mega.nz/file/DVkCyQJS#XMnOY2L_SurZu7-Z7H6f38J22_tjwAZI4UFSbxuqvOU
            Edit it as you see fit. Resolution is changed via draw_resolution_scale_x and draw_resolution_scale_y in the main Xenia config file, which is in your Documents folder by default, or you can create an empty file called portable.txt in the Xenia folder to have it keep everything there. You can also set render_target_path_d3d12 = "rov" there, which was necessary to fix some graphical glitches last I checked.

            As for other games, there are compatibility reports on Github, but interest in 360 emulation is low and the information is usually outdated. Xenia's a small and unloved project, but it plays Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, which covers the 360's entire library of worthwhile exclusives.

            • 4 weeks ago
              Anonymous

              virus

        • 4 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          It's finally perfectly playable from start to finish? What about other 360 games? And is it easy to set up and come by? Is there a compability list?

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      They're nothing alike and you unironically got filtered. FFX is a masterpiece that only brainlets and literal underages complain about.

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        They were both turn-based JRPGs made by Sakaguchi. FFX is a turd, and LO is superior.

  2. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    1 hour definitely is not enough, especially for a TBJRPGMBSE

    give it 70 hours, then post again for advice

  3. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It almost never looks or feels like that boxart at all. A case of boxart being better than the game

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >dumb fashion
      >water
      >pyreflies
      >tropical setting
      >odd ruins
      Nah, the boxart is pretty much spot-on

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        setting
        Cover makes it look like that's 80% the game but it's more like 20% if even

        • 4 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >all games need to take place exclusively in the location on the cover

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >I THOUGHT THE WHOLE GAME WOULD BE IN WAIST-HEIGHT WATER! WHERE THE FUCK IS MY PRUNE SKIN SIMULATOR! FIVE HOURS OF GAMEPLAY IN BEACH AND WATERY AREAS WASN'T ENOUGH!
      Okay dude...

  4. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It's a story focused game and doesn't really get challenging until the mid-point and even then it's brief encounters until you hit end/post game. If you aren't liking the story/characters it's not going to do anything for you.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty much this. The story can get convoluted at times, but the characters are the fun part of the ride. If you can't enjoy them, don't bother playing it because it's your standard JRPG otherwise. Only difference is the ATB system but if you're not a heavy JRPG combat enthusiast, it literally means nothing to you.

  5. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    FFX doesn't get good until you finally get 4 party members and get to use the swap button like 5 hours in

  6. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    This game is... not good. I played the whole thing when it was new thinking "it has to get better now" but nope. It's shit right up to the retarded ending. Even the ball game is shit.

  7. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >everyone talking about FFX
    What about the question?

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Welcome to /vr/ where nobody plays games and everyone is a retarded contrarian that pretends to hate anything and everything mentioned.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The age old mistake of posting an image more interesting than your post

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        She's 13

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        ffx's box art isn't THAT interesting...

        • 4 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          To me it is. I had a poster made to put it on my wall

  8. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I put maybe 30 hours in before dropping and I was bored to death the whole time.

  9. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    No, an hour should be plenty of time to capture your attention.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >when the game has no hard mode

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Self-imposed challenge chad

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Was the cat named Chad by any chance.

  10. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Im 2hrs in and I keep thinking "its just sins toxin, the game will get good soon" so far its false nostalgia for a game I never played when it was biiig. I do like the ongoing everyone prays to Football angle, kinda cute. I dont know I guess I got some toxins from sin.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Sin's toxins are just superstition in the game's world. Even Tidus starts feeling stupid for using it as an excuse all the time. It's just used to make it so Tidus doesn't look completely out of place while still giving the characters a reason to explain the world to the player. Not the best way to do it, but better than straight up amnesia.

  11. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    If that blitzball intro doesn’t captivate you then your a brain dead retard.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >but muh cringy cutscenes I am so captivated
      Average FF tard

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >cringy
        Zoom zoom!

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I wish the game was like the opening cut, I've tried to play X twice, the first time I got as far as them seeing Sin in the ocean, the second time I didn't get out of the starting city.
      still, it's a great opening, but not the game you're playing.

  12. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I love /vr/ because I don't see so many Final Fag threads here. This series is the best example of emperor without clothes. So annoying

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >I DON'T LIKE IT SO IT BAD AND YOU SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT IT!
      Just hide the fuking thread

  13. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >zoomer who can't focus on turn based combat
    >or coping millennial who missed the boat the first time

  14. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  15. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    yes, very slow to take off

  16. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    An hour is certainly enough for an arcade game but it isn't really enough for a long RPG.
    Games like Metal Slug and games like Final Fantasy require a different set of expectations. If I called Metal Slug a bad game because it lacked an emotionally moving narrative I would be rightly derided as an idiot for expecting the game to be something that it clearly isn't. The same is true of FFX; if you're surprised when it isn't fun yet at the one or even ten hour mark then you've expected it to be something it is not.
    I probably started enjoying FFX about twenty hours into it. For many people that alone is enough for them to consider it a bad game, and those people should not play it. But FFX makes up for that by being very good in its later segments, and good in ways that a shorter, more immediately gratifying game can't really hope to be.
    It's only really fair to judge something like a Final Fantasy game by the way it has made you feel when you've gotten all the way to the end. Anything before that is premature.
    Starting an RPG often means committing to investing dozens or even hundreds of hours into a game that you may not end up enjoying. For a lot of people this will never make sense. That's okay. Not everyone has that much free time.
    For the type of person who is willing to commit to that investment though, Final Fantasy X is a good RPG. The gameplay is challenging enough to be interesting while still offering the freedom to try lots of different strategies. Developing your characters feels like a fun puzzle that you solve through the whole course of the game. The story has weak and strong moments, but the strong moments are very strong. I'm not too proud to admit I teared up several times.
    It's a good game, but you have to meet it on its level. If you already want to give up on it after the first hour it probably isn't for you.

  17. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    no. play games you enjoy and see them through. dont bullshit yourself with semantics.

  18. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    99% of games you can tell after 2 minutes if it's shit

  19. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I played Skyrim (first time a year or so ago) and only managed thru the first hour tutorial and never continued past that. Granted, another game I was waiting was just arriving and it was more interesting. I wonder when I'll finish Skyrim, it's one of the only physical games I have (on console) which I just gave up. Another one on PS2 is something like True Crime Streets of LA, it felt like GTA but considerably worse. Both of those games have been said to be excellent I guess.

  20. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Of all FF I would say this is probably one of the quickest to get you interested in the world because it just throws you into Spira and you're as clueless as Tidus is

  21. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I keep going because I just paid 40-50 bucks for this PS2 game in the early to mid 2000s so damnit I'm going to get my money's worth.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I remember getting this on release date, I think it was like a weekend or something, getting off school, then playing it all weekend and beating it that same weekend.

    • 4 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I remember getting this on release date, I think it was like a weekend or something, getting off school, then playing it all weekend and beating it that same weekend.

      I dont get how I ever had the literal time to do this stuff. I think iphones literally distract me from higher level distractions that require more focus. I used to be able to play minecraft, ff8, pokemon, gran turismo, mass effect for hours and hours in a matter of days.

      • 4 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, it's pretty well known that smart phones have shortened the average attention span.

  22. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >What do you do in this situation?
    Make a thread of /vr/ obviously!

  23. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >What do you do in this situation?
    Quit the game literally forever because life is short, so I'm just playing good games or at least games so shitty that they're great for it, like Frankenstein The Monster Returns on the NES.

  24. 4 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i only ever give up on a game if after 20 hours is still boring and or annoying, like when i gave up on ff6 and hollow knight

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