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Anonymous01/27/26, 01:17No.3916082
8 is my favorite when I was a kid (I know, 8 fans know it sucks, but we like the story fuck off)
9 was my first (going to play that one next)
12 I recently replayed and very much enjoyed but didn't REALLY love it
Playing X Currently, I fogot how fucking TIGHT the design of this game is, I'm not doing broken shit, I'm switching guys in and out every battle. Just did the first Seymore Fight (Where he summons Anima) I legit had trouble with it, had to think formulate a stratagey.
I didn't appreciate it when I was a kid, but X's design is SO FREAKING TIGHT, and I get the experience of using every party member, I know people mock 10 for things (most of which are flaws there only because of the limitations of the technology of its time) but damn, this game is so freaking good and I'm having the most fun I've had with a videogame in a while
so FFX? is this slept on?
(My PS4 broke and I can't afford a PS5, so I've been going retro this past year, and this is the most fun I've had with a game so far)
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Anon01/27/26, 01:21No.3916086
yeah, it's got good combat, but the characters and plot suck.
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Anon01/27/26, 02:50No.3916139
Recently played it for the first time myself and had a completely different experience. It felt like a proto ffx13 in the sense that it was a completely linear game with boring characters. It didn't have all the glaring flaws, but all the worst design decisions I saw in 13 were already present in 10. Combat also felt like a chore as you had to swap in members every battle to get proper exp ontop of turn manipulation trumping most every other strategy for the majority of the game.
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Anon01/27/26, 03:23No.3916161
I don't like FFX. The maps are extremely linear and every fight has a very obvious solution (if an enemy is tough use Armor Break, if an enemy uses magic use Reflect, etc).
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Anon01/27/26, 04:28No.3916193
I'm about to do my first playthrough on my deck. I spent a whole day installing a cluster fuckton of mods and fixes which ended up being a huge pain in the ass, but it was worth it.
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Anon01/27/26, 07:06No.3916228
It's pretty fun. The boss AI has some minor complexity to its decisions compared to whatever the fuck they were doing prior to X.
It's probably also why people can challenge themselves in beating it without leveling up just by finding holes in enemy patterns.
That said a regural player just skips all that because the game is pretty easy and showers you with skip buttons for anything challenging but that has always been the case.
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Anon01/27/26, 09:05No.3916261
Final Fantasy 10 was the game where I felt Square went too far with the steamlining. The game is just too braindead. Good ost though.
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Anon01/27/26, 10:39No.3916281
i really hate this piece of shit
always have from the moment i saw the stupid commercials on the TV with that stupid fucking song back in the day
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Anon01/27/26, 11:51No.3916301
8's story is retarded, too. Not just the draw/junction/level scaling system.So you fuck off.
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Anon01/27/26, 12:27No.3916310
>8 fans know it sucks
You're a retard.
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Anon01/27/26, 16:12No.3916375
Playing this in Japanese and I'm noticing stuff I never did before.
Did Rikku always have a unique cry when hit by a lightning spell?
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Anon01/27/26, 16:24No.3916382
Where is that one autist who thinks that playing FFX's postgame for thousands of hours is peak game design?
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Anon01/27/26, 18:05No.3916417
I'll never get FFX hate man. I never felt like the relative nonlinearity of previous FF games ever did anything to the experience. It was never capitalized on in a meaningful way for me. The gameplay and story and characters of FFX are so well realized
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Anon01/27/26, 20:10No.3916498
X is genuinely awful and not that different from XIII. Definitely the beginning of the end
>muh VIII is bad
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Anon01/28/26, 01:36No.3916711
7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15 and 16 were fun
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Anon01/28/26, 12:01No.3917011
If your counterargument to FFX being easy and linear is "every other FF is like that," not only are you just wrong, deflecting to other games is not addressing the criticisms. If you've played them all as I have, from NES FFI to FFXV, it's pretty obvious FFX is markedly more linear, story focused, and very easy until the endgame.The story is not good, it's just melodramatic and you are easily emotionally manipulated. Still better than XIII though. The posters who recognize X as a protoXIII are accurate.
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Anon01/28/26, 13:10No.3917046
>is this slept on?
Most lists I see have it in the top 3, pretty often at the top.
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Anon01/28/26, 14:20No.3917062
FFX is one of the most well-designed and balanced turn-based RPGs ever made. It only breaks near the end of the game when it intentionally opens up. You get Quick Hit around the time you fight Yunalesca if you don't grind for it. Mix requires specific knowledge to exploit, and still isn't worth doing until endgame when you can travel around the world and catch and bribe monsters for materials. All the endgame content is designed around min-maxing and using the non-Zanmato "exploits" the game gives you. The only flaw is that the story bosses past Yunalesca are piss easy.
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Anon01/28/26, 16:09No.3917103
I don't get the problem people have with X's story and none of you are actually going into why you think its bad. Its pretty fantastically written.