Current Events > Anyone else find Final Fantasy X a bit boring? When does it get good?

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Probably two hours in and in terms of battles etc almost nothing has happened. Story feels really slow paced and I cant stand the characters. Is this the general opinion? When does it get good?

Mihen highroad road is when the game starts proper IMO

I'm not sure where you are so this is the basic progression through the game to that point:

Besdaid -> Kilika -> Luca -> mihen highroad

The story kicks in a bit later. It's not a 10/10 or anything but it gets better as it goes.
the gameplay is absolutely the best in the series

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Ive been debating getting this since its on sale on Switch (with X2) but ive never played it. Liked 6, 7, and 9.

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Ryven posted...

Ive been debating getting this since its on sale on Switch (with X2) but ive never played it. Liked 6, 7, and 9.

X is one of my top FF games so i would recommend it. this is coming from someone who also liked 9

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Ryven posted...

Ive been debating getting this since its on sale on Switch (with X2) but ive never played it. Liked 6, 7, and 9.

It is a very good final Fantasy imo. The story is a trip and the sphere grid is a unique leveling system.

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Its an extremely slow start but its good.

Ok well Im on be said and feel like Ive had like 5 battles total and 2 hours in.

I don't find it boring and think it is a good game from the start so probably just isn't for you.

To be honest, what you're feeling is what I felt throughout the entire play through of FFX. Let it be known that X was my LAST Final Fantasy with none of the others after that being something that I could get into.

Too much talking, and after it was all said and done I wasn't emotionally invested in anyone and just wanted people to shut up already.

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Edification posted...

Is this the general opinion?

Not at all. Try being patient. Two hours? That's the prologue.

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I played X and X-2 and got through them for the story, but looking back now I can't say I actually like either of them. I still replay the PS1 games every couple of years and I even put another 105 hours into FFXII on PC around a year ago, but when it comes to X I just can't bring myself to give it another try after nearly two decades.

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The game is a slow start, but it definitely gets better. It's the first ffx game I've played, and on switch. Ends up being one of my most favorite switch single player games ever. The story, the music, and gameplay have stood the test of time. The sphere is pretty good.

If you have any specific questions, check out the ps2 ffx board. Last time it checked, it was fairly active.

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weekoldhotdog posted...

To be honest, what you're feeling is what I felt throughout the entire play through of FFX. Let it be known that X was my LAST Final Fantasy with none of the others after that being something that I could get into.

Too much talking, and after it was all said and done I wasn't emotionally invested in anyone and just wanted people to shut up already.

imagine complaining about the game having too much talking but also expecting to be emotionally invested in the characters

like it is one thing to say the game failed to make you emotionally invested, but then the issue isn't "too much talking" but that the scenes were ineffective for you. and if they stop talking, how are you ever supposed to get emotionally connected (something apparently important for you even though you hate dialogue)

FFX is one of my favorites, but I can see why it wouldn't click with others.
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Edification posted...

and I cant stand the characters.

Yeah, you might as well just stop now.

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Aeriis posted...

The characters get worse

What.

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FFX would be a lot better if they allow us to skip cutscenes.

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If you don't like it after Luca, I don't think it's for you

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Parappa09 posted...

X is one of my top FF games so i would recommend it. this is coming from someone who also liked 9

i second this

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Ngl it's the only Final Fantasy game I ever completed.

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I always thought it sucked. Nearly every character has a terrible design, the story sucks, the characters themselves are painful to listen to, and the majority of the dungeons are boring.

The gameplay is good enough though. I did beat the game. That's more than I can say about anything that came after

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I personally still find it amazing from start to finish.

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It's incredibly linear, like literally every screen is a hallway. I enjoyed it but I was expecting a masterpiece since everyone says it's the last great FF, and it was just ok.

Also funny that people complain about 13's hallway maps but love 10.
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I truly believe it is the most overrated game of all time, and I did not play it years later or anything. I played tons of RPGs growing up before it was released including all the other final fantasies, 10 was an abomination.

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FFX was the start of SE's downfall

I remember the first half being kind of meh but the second half was pretty close to being a masterpiece. I can't remember the specific part where it gets better.

BalanceLost posted...

I personally still find it amazing from start to finish.

Same, which is why I say if TC isn't feeling the story or characters, not much point in playing further even if he's just at the beginning. I found the whole game consistent from beginning to end.

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i recently replayed it for the first time since like 02 and felt the same until i got to besaid, which is very early on. things start to get more interesting there because you start getting an idea of what's going on plus you actually start getting into some battles.

Ricemills posted...

FFX would be a lot better if they allow us to skip cutscenes.

ffx on pc has a really ugly way of doing this. one of the enhancement mods lets you speed the game up by up to 8x (or maybe more it's been a year since i've used it). it can get really wonky because the voice acting still continues at a normal pace until you finish the cutscene but it's better than the nothing that square gave us.

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The game does have a pretty slow start. The whole part between Zanarkand and Besaid just feels disjointed and almost unnecessary. Things start picking up as you leave Besaid and arrive in Kilika.

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Rika_Furude posted...

Mihen highroad road is when the game starts proper IMO

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Godnorgosh posted...

X was released before SE existed.

I would agree with you more if the only major complaint about XIII were its linearity. I would say XIII's story is very dull and obtuse (largely, though not entirely, thanks to its storytelling method of dishing out pages and pages of lore with weird terminology), the cast is comparatively bland, the Paradigm system is significantly worse than the traditional turn-based and ATB systems, and the Crystarium is much more restrictive than the Sphere Grid and gives you far fewer postgame options. X, despite its linearity which was perceived as a step back from the worlds of previous games, had a lot more going for it.

No, he's right. X was the start of Square's downfall as not long after that, Square and Enix joined to make one company. Separately, both companies were floundering at the time.

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Godnorgosh posted...

Pretty sure he said SE but I'm not going to split hairs if he meant Squaresoft. But still, that point doesn't make a lot of sense. FFX itself was a commercial success and doesn't exactly resemble the messes that came later. Not sure how FFX could represent the start of a decline even though Square and Enix in general were struggling at the time.

And Enix struggling wouldn't even be a factor since, again, this was before the merger.

You have to recall, to be a commercial success selling an RPG in 2002, you only needed to sell 250k copies to meet the needs of investors. Now-a-days, anything that doesn't sell 2-3m units doesn't even break even anymore.

Also, FF9 and FF8 didn't meet the success that FF7 did. X was also in this boat. You might have perceived the game well, but it didn't sell enough units to quantify itself as being in the same selling league as FF8 or FF7, which started putting pressure on Square to become more profitable. This success was reached about 3 years later, after the merger with Dragon Quest 8.

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I thought that movie did them in financially. Did 10 really sell less than 8?

Anyway I would say the beginning is incredibly slow. It gets better

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Godnorgosh posted...

FFX sold 6.6 million copies worldwide; it was a massive critical and commercial success. You have to separate X's reception from how Square was doing as a company because there were clearly other things going on that factored into their financial decline. It sold slightly better than FFVIII worldwide (contra your claim that it sold worse) and significantly better than FFIX. So to call the game the start of a decline is neither very fair nor accurate.

There is 0 chance that FFX sold 6.6 million units world wide in it's opening year and you are likely pulling that from the last time FFX was counted for world wide shipping.
This is also taking into account the number of sales of FFX after it hit Sony's "Greatest Hits" catalogue, which sold great PS2 games for $20.

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Godnorgosh posted...

Pretty sure he said SE but I'm not going to split hairs if he meant Squaresoft. But still, that point doesn't make a lot of sense. FFX itself was a commercial success and doesn't exactly resemble the messes that came later. Not sure how FFX could represent the start of a decline even though Square and Enix in general were struggling at the time.

And Enix struggling wouldn't even be a factor since, again, this was before the merger.

There is a kind of misunderstanding that both companies were in bad shape and needed each other for various reasons, when in reality if both companies were in as bad financial shape as people suggest they were it's more likely the merger wouldn't have happened at all (and at the time there was actually anxiety it wouldn't happen because of certain factors like Spirits Within)

The merger was also something hinted at being in the works long before Spirits Within and Sakaguchi leaving.

Yes Square wasn't in a hot place after those events, but because of games like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy X the merger went ahead, not the other way around. Enix also needed Square much more than Square needed Enix, since they could barely access the world market (the release of Dragon Quest VII in the west was tenuous at the time) It just made good sense all around for Square to buy Enix anyways to remove domestic competition, while capitalizing on the popularity of Enix's flagship series in the west.

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Google tells me it sold 8.5m vs 9.6m for ff8 worldwide. I dunno what that includes

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lilORANG posted...

It's incredibly linear, like literally every screen is a hallway. I enjoyed it but I was expecting a masterpiece since everyone says it's the last great FF, and it was just ok.

Also funny that people complain about 13's hallway maps but love 10.

Your post reminded me of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZMJDFe1kc

Does a pretty good job of explaining what FFX did better than XIII, despite both games essentially being hallways. Give it a watch if you've got 15 minutes to spare.
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BalanceLost posted...

I personally still find it amazing from start to finish.

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its good everytime auron is there

Kircheis posted...

Your post reminded me of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZMJDFe1kc

Does a pretty good job of explaining what FFX did better than XIII, despite both games essentially being hallways. Give it a watch if you've got 15 minutes to spare.

Nice video


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