Why do people STILL bash FFX-2?

[Clunks]

Pro-tip for everyone here: if people give you shit because you say something's bad, instead of saying you don't like it, their just fanboy fuckwits and you're under no obligation to listen. We're all stating our subjective opinions here, that's blatantly obvious to everyone, and that's precisely why we don't have to preface our every fucking sentence with "well this is just my opinion, but...". People who try to force you to water down your opinion are either a) using it as a childish method of undermining everything you say or b) are incurably dumb.

But then, that's just, like, my opinion, man.

 

[Ninjamedic]

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I actually prefer the Materia System, Its just the Skill diversity combined with the freedom of Ability development needs to be taken out of X-2, Cleaned of all that "DressSphere" Shite, and used in a more conventional sense.

 

[LogicNProportion]

I actually liked X-2...to a degree. I liked the battle system, the environment, and looks (And who didn't! Me-ow!) but the story was just AWFUL.

...I also liked some of the music, the piano opening being my favorite.

 

[LogicNProportion]

In a nutshell, it was this:

Yuna: Hey, it's Tidus!
Yuna: Oh wait... nevermind, no it isn't.
END

Spoiler

But then Yuna gathers the Dragon Balls and wishes Tidus back to life.

This actually, basically, happened.

 

[Amnestic]

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I actually prefer the Materia System, Its just the Skill diversity combined with the freedom of Ability development needs to be taken out of X-2, Cleaned of all that "DressSphere" Shite, and used in a more conventional sense.

One of the advantages to the Dress Spheres was being able to change during battle. Materia had more flexibility to set up your character exactly how you wanted before the fight, but once you got in you were stuck there. Dress Spheres let you respond to enemies as you played, which (unless you were using a strategy guide) is arguably a better choice.

I just wish they gave you more incentive to switch during battle. Once you get 1xAlch, 2xDark Knight you can annihilate most every boss.

 

[Kouen]

I can understand in a strict comparison to Final Fantasy X, X-2 is a completely different game, but why do people seem to use that as their sole base of opinion and justification for deriding FFX-2?

FFX-2 "haters" never seem to try and acknowledge X-2's merits as if it were a stand-alone game, it would be like people criticising Sonic the Hedgehog for no reason other than "it's not Mario".

Imagine if you'd NEVER played Final Fantasy X, and X-2 was your first introduction to the world of Spira. Is it really such a bad game, on it's own merits?

If people's opinion of a game is based on something that isn't THAT game (regardless of whether it's supposed to be a prequel, sequel, or remake) then I consider their opinion invalid.

If you're going to criticise a game, then criticise THAT GAME, don't criticise it with the mindset of "the sequel/prequel/remake of _____".

I Understand what your saying although that being said if they intended it to be Criticized as another game they should have named it something else to be fair, Naming it like an expansion and expecting people not to compare it to what its named after is natural. just like say... comparing "Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back" to "Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped"

It's just gonna happen and there's no point getting worked up over it

 

[Ninjamedic]

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Thats what I meant with Skill diversity, its good to someone else see the good things that X-2 did for the series, shame they were buried in shite.