Board 8 > Ol Pun continues to play Final Fantasy X

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Oh! SHES DEAD

I ACTUALLY did not see that coming!
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Yeah, the game drops some hints about her being unsent before you know that unsents are a thing, so you wouldn't really make the connection your first time through.
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NFUN posted...

I actually kind of love monster capturing for whatever reason.

So do I. There's really only a few monsters that are a pain.
Fuck Tonberry and the Horn monster in the Cavern.
The rest isn't bad.
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I lost to her Ifrit....but then I was allowed to keep going

seems cheap if I can use a second Aeon!
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LeonhartFour posted...

Yeah, the game drops some hints about her being unsent before you know that unsents are a thing, so you wouldn't really make the connection your first time through.

do you recall what they are?
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The most obvious one is when you first meet her, Yuna asks her if she's on a pilgrimage to defeat Sin, too, and she says something along the lines of, "I cannot. Or rather, I was not able to."

Of course, that doesn't really make much sense if you don't know people who die can still hang around, so you're prone to forget she ever said that. There are a few other instances with other characters like that, too.
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I beat her Bahamut but she doesn't do anything afterwards

I guess I'll come back
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Yeah, you need to have all the Aeons first to complete the sidequest.
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so quite a bit of things happened

since the entrance of reminem was so close to the entrance of the calm lands, so I decided to go back and capture the monsters at the Macarena woods before I go. Before I knew it, I found a family who were waiting for their dad\husband and I ended up finding him. But their dumbass son bounced, so I had to look for him too. He was a bit harder, he went off on his own pretty far despite all of the monsters here . No wonder he does what he wants, hes one certified badass

so finally I found him but he was infront of a sphere thing. My cloud mirror turned into a celestrial mirror! What the hell does this do now. I did not imagine I'd found out what the cloudy mirror was so soon.

All of THIS now brought me to the entrance of the woods...since I was so close anyways, I decided to grind the monsters of the thunder plains before I went. it keeps dragging me in! but I put my foot down because I gotta progress! This is the last place I'll backtrack to (for now) for monsters

So I'm dickin around and then i find a glowy Cactuar stone. I mash the buttons but apparently you're supposed to try to recruit it to play blitzball by pressing square because THAT does something instead of trying to examine it with X like usual. wtf

I go around and start finding more glowly ones. and then I find a fucking cactuar ghost that I can barely see. He takes me to an area that explodes and reveals a chest. I then use my celestial mirror on it and reveal a Spirit Lance. Kimari even showed up for the cutscene when I found it, so that must mean this is an important weapon. No AP....oh

but anyways
is this REALLY how the game developers set this up? I was let here....very subtlely, but it relied on the player taking things a bit too far, ya know?

The Reminem temple entrance was next to the Woods entrance, like I said, and they gave you the means to capture animals. But what if I never talked to the old man? All of this also relies on you on taking the time to train a chocobo AND defeat the summoner lady

sure, someone might to in to the woods to capture monsters. That would be the reason to back track. but what if they didn't decide to go 3 screens down and find the family? What if they grinded right at the exit?

and after doing the family retrieval arc, they REALLY expected for you to go back into the thunder plains? AND THEN randomly find these cactuar glow stones?

Some of them weren't glowing! WHAT IF THIS PLAYER THEY WERE EXPECTING TO COME HERE NEVER SAW THEM GLOW

AND ON TOP OF THAT, WHO THE FUCK WOULD GUESS TO TRY TO RECRUIT A STONE TO BLITZBALL

AND NOT ONLY THAT
THERES THE FUCKING GHOST YOU HAD TO FOLLOW

I WAS BARELY ABLE TO SEE IT, THERES ALOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH WORSE VISION THAN ME. I BET MOST PEOPLE JUST RAN BY HIM

SO IN OTHER WORDS

DID THEY REALLY EXPECT ALL OF THIS SHIT TO HAPPEN ALL AT ONCE

GRANTED

It DID work on me

BUT WHAT THE FUCK, SQUARE

IS THIS REALLY HOW YOU EXPECTED THIS TO GO DOWN?!?!?!?!

HOW WERE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO FIGURE THIS OUT?!

Were they relying on people's OCD\stubborness\determination to take them THIS far?!

I can't even IMAGINE the amount of players that didn't go all of the way with this. I can see maybe getting as far as the thunder plains, but all of the steps AFTER that are so absurd, I have to call them out of this!

I didn't have a problem with it because it went down all at once. I didn't question how dumb it all was until it all happened. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES A PLAYER DOES ALL OF THESE STEPS ON THEIR OWN? DOES THE GAME EVER HINT AT THIS CRAP?!

DID YALL FIGURE IT OUT THIS WAY?!
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Yea there's a lot of Guide Dang It in the side-stuff of FFX. The Spirit Lance is probably the biggest GDI of the Celestial weapons though.
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We all used strategy guides.
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Also you use the Sigils and Crests you find along with the Celestial Mirror to charge up those weapons. They'll be 0 AP weapons until you charge them up, and then they become really good.
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I got really really lost because on my way from the Thunder plains to the woods, I ended up at the Ice place. Ya know, where you're on the snow bikes?

....with new monsters to capture....

well, when in Zanarkand!
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That would be Macalania
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Leonhart4 posted...

We all used strategy guides.

behold, witness the moron (Me) that accidentally discovers these with SQAURE'S in game help!
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Leonhart4 posted...

Also you use the Sigils and Crests you find along with the Celestial Mirror to charge up those weapons. They'll be 0 AP weapons until you charge them up, and then they become really good.

ohhhhh

also I didn't know Sigils and Crests were two different things. they are two separate things and I need both

I thought because I had say, the sun sigil, and the mars crest, I was good to go for their respective things

dang

this game and its sidequests!
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ohhhhh

You take a right....at the fucking entrance of the woods >_>

woops

here I thought you had to go through the winding roads

uhhhhhhgggghghggg
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Well, the Crests are just things you find in chests. The Sigils are things you have to complete ridiculous sidequests to get.
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I went back to the arena guy and he gave me a shit load of crafting gear

3 stars, shining Gems, and chocobo wings

and said he created a new monster with the data I got

is there a way to view how many monsters you've captured?
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oh, you can view them when you choose fight monster
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*looks through monsters*

Cactuar king? How can hard can this little bitch be?

*he does 99,999 needles twice in a row*

oh
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okay i am not even remotely close to being ready to fight any of these new monsters
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I'm going over my materials for customization and I have 30 of an item called pendulum. It can give "Master thief" to someone

hmmm, I have that one solo fight with Kimari coming up where I've heard it would be a good idea to steal shit from them. And I ALREADY taught him Steal

I think I'll go with that!

I have 99 3 stars and 30 wings of discovery. They break the mp and hp limit of what a character can have, correct? I'm nowhere near max yet. and I probably need a badass piece of armor to hold theses in so I don't waste them. So better save them
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So the only good piece of armor I have for Kimari is an Onyx Armlet that has 2 empty spots and already had Magic defense 10% on it

maybe I'll put master thief on this and then put like 10 defense on it and have this be his definitive armor for a long time. HE"LL be my Thief from now on
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Looking at my sphere grid. Everybody is about to hit the end of their default path. Yea, I really need some lvl 3 spheres soon
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so I finally progress a bit and I encounter some bitch ass guado

they summon a golem on me but I beat it.

I go down to the valley, despite lulu and Wakka tellin me not to

I find a rusty sword and Durren!

he has one more game til his contract expires

I decided to look into him and, not that I didn't believe yall, but yea, hes the worst player in the game

BUT I found something else out. Apparently while on your team, nobody can learn Anti Drain. You have to purposely release them, let them get signed to another team, and THEN they randomly have a chance to learn Anti drain there.

I bring this up because apparently its part of a 100% thing..or something, to get Durren, open up his tech slots (how do you do that?) and then let him go, have him learn anti drain, THEN rerecruit and keep him forever all BEFORE he becomes missable

did yall know about this "requirement"? lol
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in all of my years of ogling Lulu

I NEVER knew she had cornrows

lol
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I found the place where Lulu's last Summoner died

I found a Magic Urn and it self desctructed. almost wiped me out, but Auron held out with a few hundred HP

wtf
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Don't attack magic urns. Give them what they ask for.
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*encounters another Magic urn*

maybe its like FFVII and I have to feed it an elixir

*gives it one*

*gets a phoenix down back as a "prize"*

http://pre10.deviantart.net/f889/th/pre/f/2010/341/1/7/wallpaper_42___zombie_cancer_by_darawnal-d34f3qd.jpg
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a...a....A TONBERRYYYYYYYYYYYY
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I'm currently making Tidus and Kimari go down Auron's sphere path

Auron is going down Wakka's to increase his accuracy

Wakka will go down Auron's as well

dat strength and hp
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Wakka has more strength and HP on his grid.
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*gets a piece of armor that has no encounters on it*

http://www.dailytrend.mx/media/bi/mediabrowser/2016/12/grinch_4.gif
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most_games_r_ok posted...

Wakka has more strength and HP on his grid.

duly noted

at least most of Auron's HP is like, right at the beginning all at once. I can break into Wakka's down the line
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So I made it back to the Thunder Plains LOL

and I saw a Soldier I've never seen before. I go talk to him, and it starts a cutscene where he yells out HEATHENS and the party starts chasing him so he doesn't narc on us

then a monk and a little kid show up and uh...apparently he was a summoner and fucking summoned Ixion WHO WAS DOING 99,999 DAMAGE ON ALL OF US AND WIPED US OUT

Wat da fawk wuz dat!
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oh hey you've met your first Dark Aeon

they were International version exclusives at first but they put them in the HD version (along with the "Expert" Sphere Grid)
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Dark Aeons

Although usually Valefor is the first one people run into.
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Mine was Besaid Missing items playing blind sucks balls.

Major cheese spoilers Couldn't get past it legitimately so Yojimbo'd its face off, never again
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Yep, dark aeons are fun. Now you may know why we got you to backtrack for Jecht Spheres earlier, as access to one is blocked off by a dark aeon if you don't.
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aaaand I dodged 200 lightning bolts

I actually got struck at around 70 but then I remembered someone telling me to mute the TV and just go for the visual effects

I took a piss, farted, made sure I was comfortable back in my game room and closed the door so m cats wouldn't come in

you have to make sure you are totally good

apparently I lost count because I actually got 222 bolts

BRING ON THE FUCKING FFIX JUMPROPE
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there aren't any prizes beyond 200, right?
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There's a prize for 1000

*rubs hands together*
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MenuWars posted...

There's a prize for 1000

*rubs hands together*

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/145/197/8bd.jpg
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MenuWars posted...

There's a prize for 1000

*rubs hands together*

not sure if you're just trying to mess with him or you're misremembering

but 200 is the max
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you do get a prize for getting struck 80 times in a row

it's just an Elixir but if you want it THAT badly
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Puns picture means my *rubs hands together* was warning enough that I was fucking with him :)
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LeonhartFour posted...

you do get a prize for getting struck 80 times in a row

it's just an Elixir but if you want it THAT badly

You can farm them later at the arena after you've unlocked the blob though unless im misremembering
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Yea, I knew you were joking haha
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but yea, fuck that dark Aeon

bitch, let me dodge lightning in peace!
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