If you could change ONE thing about FFX?
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Mega shame they didn't pick, idk, any Final Fantasy 'before' X, virtually couldn't have gone wrong, but oh well *sigh*.
clunky controls, slow movement, irritating characters, slow story line, I mean, its so hard to pick just one thing to improve upon out of all of the faults. Maybe the swimming european handball game stuff, that was just way too hard and annoying. If they refined the entire game, it is possible for the underlying final fantasy to 'possibly' shine as a good game, anything is possible really, so many niggling things about this particular game though (could be worse, could be FFXII).
clunky controls, slow movement, irritating characters, slow story line, I mean, its so hard to pick just one thing to improve upon out of all of the faults. Maybe the swimming european handball game stuff, that was just way too hard and annoying. If they refined the entire game, it is possible for the underlying final fantasy to 'possibly' shine as a good game, anything is possible really, so many niggling things about this particular game though (could be worse, could be FFXII).
Considering that FFX is my favorite game in the series, I'm tempted to say 'nothing', but as is the case with any older game, improvements could of course be made. Can't think of anything off the top of my head, though. Maybe a few extra areas to explore? Fixing Blitzball (hated that minigame)?
Swap out Tidus. Entirely. Most Square rpgs already have effeminate looking men, I don't need an effeminate acting one as well.
Given 2 options I'd make his final sword look better. And/or take the highest damage in game move away from Waka.
Given 2 options I'd make his final sword look better. And/or take the highest damage in game move away from Waka.
Well... maybe actually give it a world to explore? Most of that game is on a rail, which was really disappointing after playing FF7 and FF8.
True. But you have the glory of kicking the crap out of him. Several times. With Tidus, you see his head, constantly.HardkorSB said:Tidus has bad hair?Broady Brio said:
Have you seen this dude?
as someone who got into the FF series because of FFX, i wouldn't change much.
1) make all of the monsters you fight before the Calm Lands count.
2) make it a little less ridiculous to get the celestial weapons
i actually loved the CTB system. rewarded planning every move (and you could see how it would effect the turn order) without that annoying 'i just inputted everyone's moves, but i have no idea if the monster will hit in between those turns' that the ATB system has (i still like ATB though).
the character designs were actually pretty awesome - and uniquely FFX. sorry to your definitions of masculinity, especially when it comes to teenage boys, but Tidus was fine (is it because he's a teenager or because just the design of a teenager - which outside of hair color, sounds like a typical emo kid to me).
1) make all of the monsters you fight before the Calm Lands count.
2) make it a little less ridiculous to get the celestial weapons
i actually loved the CTB system. rewarded planning every move (and you could see how it would effect the turn order) without that annoying 'i just inputted everyone's moves, but i have no idea if the monster will hit in between those turns' that the ATB system has (i still like ATB though).
the character designs were actually pretty awesome - and uniquely FFX. sorry to your definitions of masculinity, especially when it comes to teenage boys, but Tidus was fine (is it because he's a teenager or because just the design of a teenager - which outside of hair color, sounds like a typical emo kid to me).
Actually, it is said in the story later on that the 'Final Aeon' you'd get from Yunalesca is in fact not needed for Sin to resurrect. Any Aeon would work, it'd just be weaker due to not being made from a fresh sacrifice and instead just the dream of the Fayth. Remember how you have to fight all of your Aeons in the end? That is when Yu Yevon takes over them and tries to make the new Sin out of them. That is when you realize that in order to win you must sacrifice all of your past friends, the Aeons. The only thing Sin/Yu Yevon would've had to do even if the pilgrimages did stop, was to attack and devour summoners that still had their Aeons and take over the Aeons.FalloutJack said:
My thoughts exactly, they should make them pick-up items like the crests. Also another problem is where some of the collectables are. The Sun Crest for example is all too easy to miss and if you do, you have to fight one of the toughest Dark Aeons in the game to go back for it. Another Dark Aeon also blocks one of the Jecht Spheres for Auron's Overdrive.WhiteFangofWar said:
Personally, make status effects worth a damn!Sieg Firebrand said:
On small enemies you might as well 1 hit the fuckers or just spam attack 'cos the fight wont last long enough to be worth putting them on. On boss type creatures they are immune to about 99% of them and the ones they aren't immune to are pathetic, like moving them down 1 attack turn.
I mean of course you can't cast death on Seymore but let me petrify him or something.
All I remember was the story progression stopping dead until I'd farmed a billion AP and learned almost every sphere for every character, I'd make it so you can actually finish the game while you still have your own natural hair and teeth left.
Okay, did any of you whining about the laughing scene EVER play the game? In-story, THE WHOLE POINT is that the laugh sounds fake. He's actively trying to laugh to try and cheer himself up, and he's terrible at it. Wakka even says, "we thought you'd gone crazy!"
Change the graphics so tha the entire game looks like it does in the really good cutscenes. I would also make it possible to travel to more specific save points from Cid's ship so that I don't have to walk so far every time I feel like fighting Jecht.
I don't think I could fix FFX with a single change.
I mean let's face it, basically every piece of hardship and strife the party goes through happens because Yuna won't tell them what she's planning to do at any stage. If she'd just up and said "hey guys, i'ma go save the world properly this time, here's the plan" then basically the only resistance might have come from Wakka, but then you wouldn't be losing much there...
But that basically requires you to rewrite the game from the Mi'hen Highroad onwards.
FFX annoyed me more than any other Final Fantasy game, and very nearly killed my love of the series.
I totally didn't mind FFX-2. The battle system was fun (it took how many goes to get to variable length ATB bars as the best visual representation of varying speed?) and the progression system matched it well, the fact that you could explore the world relatively completely early on, and the way the myriad of sidequests progressed alongside the main quest ticked all the required boxes for me.
(I think, actually, X-2 is the only one I'd be interested in a remake of, as long as it was on the Vita, because JRPG fits much better on handhelds in my life)
I mean let's face it, basically every piece of hardship and strife the party goes through happens because Yuna won't tell them what she's planning to do at any stage. If she'd just up and said "hey guys, i'ma go save the world properly this time, here's the plan" then basically the only resistance might have come from Wakka, but then you wouldn't be losing much there...
But that basically requires you to rewrite the game from the Mi'hen Highroad onwards.
FFX annoyed me more than any other Final Fantasy game, and very nearly killed my love of the series.
I totally didn't mind FFX-2. The battle system was fun (it took how many goes to get to variable length ATB bars as the best visual representation of varying speed?) and the progression system matched it well, the fact that you could explore the world relatively completely early on, and the way the myriad of sidequests progressed alongside the main quest ticked all the required boxes for me.
(I think, actually, X-2 is the only one I'd be interested in a remake of, as long as it was on the Vita, because JRPG fits much better on handhelds in my life)
I actually liked the sphere grid system, for whatever reason. I enjoyed planning things out and working to get the characters on the skill paths I wanted.
I would make Blitzball more fun, or more optional, or both. I spent the beginning of the game all excited to play some Blitzball, since the cutscene made it look awesome, but then the actual minigame was incredibly tedious for me. Since it doesn't seem to matter whether you win the game or not, I just mashed buttons for fifteen minutes until that stupid tournament was finally over.
I would make Blitzball more fun, or more optional, or both. I spent the beginning of the game all excited to play some Blitzball, since the cutscene made it look awesome, but then the actual minigame was incredibly tedious for me. Since it doesn't seem to matter whether you win the game or not, I just mashed buttons for fifteen minutes until that stupid tournament was finally over.