All 60h was poorly actedI wonder why people keep nitpicking a scene or two in a 60h+ game. this is not really how you judge a game or a story. FFX has a great story, and it was very emotional, and to this day few games can match its outstanding cut-scenes. Yuna's dance on the water for example was very imaginative and very powerful scene.
and the voice acting was much better than what some people say about it. it felt like the actors really cared about the characters and about portraying them.
I mean to be nice about it... I think Wakka's voice actor did great... and Auron too.
I don't think FFX is a bad game but it pales in comparison to its predecessors, or even its direct succcessor (by that I mean XII, not X-2).
FFX started a long downwards trend for Final Fantasy games that still afflict the series until this day so here's a handy list of 10 reasons why I hate FFX:
You can put a game together with the same ingredients as previous Final Fantasy games and slap the Final Fantasy branding onto it and while nothing will change the fact that X, XIII and XV are Final Fantasy games they lack the most crucial ingredient that has made the series stand out and stand the test of time. Final Fantasy X has no heart.
- It put an emphasis on presentation rather than storytelling
- While FF games have always been linear, FFX is the first that truly felt the part, from the world, to the towns and the dungeons, everything felt linear. They might as well have put rails on the game and have players hold a button to move onwards (which they kind of did for the first 10 hours of FFXIII)
- Many common-stays of the series were outright removed or altered to the point of almost complete irrelevance:
- world map
- towns
- equipment
- summons
- chocobo
- airship
- In an effort to reinvent the wheel of gameplay mechanics, which most FF games tend to do, it added a new leveling system that, in its default form, is practically as linear as previous games but is presented in a way that makes it seem as if the user has a lot of choices when in reality, most of those choices boil down to "what do I unlock first" rather than any semblance of character building
- the plot is a contrived mess and deals with mostly shallow themes and the end-boss was, to me, anti-climatic given the shoddy voice performance and writing
- one of the main antagonists of the story is a poor excuse of a villain that only becomes poorer as he keeps being brought back
- the cast is largely unremarkable and most of the characters lack, well, character. At no point did most of the characters, their ambitions, goals or personalities feel remarkable. The only exception to that would be Wakka who has a clear goal from the start of the game and manages to accomplish it partway through. Other Final Fantasy games also fail in this regard in the sense that they don't give other characters a lot of reasons for being but X does it particularly bad. I don't think there's even been a Final Fantasy game in which I was either completely indifferent or despised most of the main cast. Given that I had played FFIX just a few months prior (I was late in acquiring it), X felt particularly egregious in this regard and an almost complete opposite for how I feel for most characters in IX
- As much as it is beating on a dead horse at this point, the voice acting, not just in the "hahaha" scene ranges from mediocre to abysmal. Admittedly, the script does the actors no favor, and perhaps their director did a poor job of conveying the character motivations but that's no fault of our own. If an RPG with text-boxes is ever to convey characters' emotions better than a voice actor can then the voice-acting has failed and X fails miserably
- In an effort to make up for the long development cycle it started to become a habit for mainline Final Fantasy games to have inconclusive or open endings and "fixing" them later on with sequels, spinoffs or DLC. X has the honor being the first to embark on this dark path
- Blitzball is the worst mini-game in any Final Fantasy game I've played
The extras disc that came with early copies has cast interviews where they say his name.
The FF with the best gameplay imho. The story is decent as well, but the character designs suck. That Seymour guy looks ridiculous.
I'd rather have FFX than anything that came afterwards though (except FFXII like you said, that game is great).I don't think FFX is a bad game but it pales in comparison to its predecessors, or even its direct succcessor (by that I mean XII, not X-2).
FFX started a long downwards trend for Final Fantasy games that still afflict the series until this day so here's a handy list of 10 reasons why I hate FFX:
You can put a game together with the same ingredients as previous Final Fantasy games and slap the Final Fantasy branding onto it and while nothing will change the fact that X, XIII and XV are Final Fantasy games they lack the most crucial ingredient that has made the series stand out and stand the test of time. Final Fantasy X has no heart.
- It put an emphasis on presentation rather than storytelling
- While FF games have always been linear, FFX is the first that truly felt the part, from the world, to the towns and the dungeons, everything felt linear. They might as well have put rails on the game and have players hold a button to move onwards (which they kind of did for the first 10 hours of FFXIII)
- Many common-stays of the series were outright removed or altered to the point of almost complete irrelevance:
- world map
- towns
- equipment
- summons
- chocobo
- airship
- In an effort to reinvent the wheel of gameplay mechanics, which most FF games tend to do, it added a new leveling system that, in its default form, is practically as linear as previous games but is presented in a way that makes it seem as if the user has a lot of choices when in reality, most of those choices boil down to "what do I unlock first" rather than any semblance of character building
- the plot is a contrived mess and deals with mostly shallow themes and the end-boss was, to me, anti-climatic given the shoddy voice performance and writing
- one of the main antagonists of the story is a poor excuse of a villain that only becomes poorer as he keeps being brought back
- the cast is largely unremarkable and most of the characters lack, well, character. At no point did most of the characters, their ambitions, goals or personalities feel remarkable. The only exception to that would be Wakka who has a clear goal from the start of the game and manages to accomplish it partway through. Other Final Fantasy games also fail in this regard in the sense that they don't give other characters a lot of reasons for being but X does it particularly bad. I don't think there's even been a Final Fantasy game in which I was either completely indifferent or despised most of the main cast. Given that I had played FFIX just a few months prior (I was late in acquiring it), X felt particularly egregious in this regard and an almost complete opposite for how I feel for most characters in IX
- As much as it is beating on a dead horse at this point, the voice acting, not just in the "hahaha" scene ranges from mediocre to abysmal. Admittedly, the script does the actors no favor, and perhaps their director did a poor job of conveying the character motivations but that's no fault of our own. If an RPG with text-boxes is ever to convey characters' emotions better than a voice actor can then the voice-acting has failed and X fails miserably
- In an effort to make up for the long development cycle it started to become a habit for mainline Final Fantasy games to have inconclusive or open endings and "fixing" them later on with sequels, spinoffs or DLC. X has the honor being the first to embark on this dark path
- Blitzball is the worst mini-game in any Final Fantasy game I've played
People really think Tidus is some peak progressive character when he is basically there so Yuna doesn't take the protagonist role. Yuna has way more relevance to the plot, personal stakes , relationships with the party members,etc. He is just a less bad Vaan and yes, this is sexist.a male main character who doesn't live up to typical western ideals of masculinity, who can actually connect with people and be in touch with their feelings. (a lot of criticism at the time, and even today, boil down to the main character being "whiny". i think if you're going to make an argument against tidus as a main character, pointing out how legitimately dumb he is many times throughout the game would be a lot more successful.)
um, who said that they thought tidus is a "peak progressive character"?People really think Tidus is some peak progressive character when he is basically there so Yuna doesn't take the protagonist role. Yuna has way more relevance to the plot, personal stakes , relationships with the party members,etc. He is just a less bad Vaan and yes, this is sexist.
Complaining about how people don't like him because he isn't some typical male character is lowkey implying he is more progressive it but I'm wasnt talking about your post specifically, I have seen people implying that or even worse, implying Squall is progressiveum, who said that they thought tidus is a "peak progressive character"?
i certainly did not
and the voice acting was much better than what some people say about it. it felt like the actors really cared about the characters and about portraying them.
DiMaggio has said it was one of the easiest voice gigs he's ever done because they had virtually zero direction, and it seemed nobody cared beyond getting the words in the script recorded. But good one, reading what you wrote gave me a nice chuckle.
I don't think FFX is a bad game but it pales in comparison to its predecessors, or even its direct succcessor (by that I mean XII, not X-2).
FFX started a long downwards trend for Final Fantasy games that still afflict the series until this day so here's a handy list of 10 reasons why I hate FFX:
You can put a game together with the same ingredients as previous Final Fantasy games and slap the Final Fantasy branding onto it and while nothing will change the fact that X, XIII and XV are Final Fantasy games they lack the most crucial ingredient that has made the series stand out and stand the test of time. Final Fantasy X has no heart.
- It put an emphasis on presentation rather than storytelling
- While FF games have always been linear, FFX is the first that truly felt the part, from the world, to the towns and the dungeons, everything felt linear. They might as well have put rails on the game and have players hold a button to move onwards (which they kind of did for the first 10 hours of FFXIII)
- Many common-stays of the series were outright removed or altered to the point of almost complete irrelevance:
- world map
- towns
- equipment
- summons
- chocobo
- airship
- In an effort to reinvent the wheel of gameplay mechanics, which most FF games tend to do, it added a new leveling system that, in its default form, is practically as linear as previous games but is presented in a way that makes it seem as if the user has a lot of choices when in reality, most of those choices boil down to "what do I unlock first" rather than any semblance of character building
- the plot is a contrived mess and deals with mostly shallow themes and the end-boss was, to me, anti-climatic given the shoddy voice performance and writing
- one of the main antagonists of the story is a poor excuse of a villain that only becomes poorer as he keeps being brought back
- the cast is largely unremarkable and most of the characters lack, well, character. At no point did most of the characters, their ambitions, goals or personalities feel remarkable. The only exception to that would be Wakka who has a clear goal from the start of the game and manages to accomplish it partway through. Other Final Fantasy games also fail in this regard in the sense that they don't give other characters a lot of reasons for being but X does it particularly bad. I don't think there's even been a Final Fantasy game in which I was either completely indifferent or despised most of the main cast. Given that I had played FFIX just a few months prior (I was late in acquiring it), X felt particularly egregious in this regard and an almost complete opposite for how I feel for most characters in IX
- As much as it is beating on a dead horse at this point, the voice acting, not just in the "hahaha" scene ranges from mediocre to abysmal. Admittedly, the script does the actors no favor, and perhaps their director did a poor job of conveying the character motivations but that's no fault of our own. If an RPG with text-boxes is ever to convey characters' emotions better than a voice actor can then the voice-acting has failed and X fails miserably
- In an effort to make up for the long development cycle it started to become a habit for mainline Final Fantasy games to have inconclusive or open endings and "fixing" them later on with sequels, spinoffs or DLC. X has the honor being the first to embark on this dark path
- Blitzball is the worst mini-game in any Final Fantasy game I've played
1 is false as it still has one of the better ff story to date,
2: ffx is linear but it opens up a lot more later on, after calm lands and after the airship, where you can travel where ever you want really
4: expert grid allows you to choose whatever you want and actually build any character how you want them ( not in the original western ps2 release, but its there in the remaster.)
I dont know how you can call the story a "mess', it makes sense, is not too complicate, its easy to follow (see shit like ff13 if you want a mess)
9: bullshit, FFX has a great ending that holds perfectly on its own, just because they tried to make quick cash with X-2 doesnt mean FFX's ending isnt good, or open, or incomplete.
seriously, most of your points are just you bashing on the game for no reason.. well, because you didn't like it. But you dont have to make shit up to bash on a game.
I'd rather have FFX than anything that came afterwards though (except FFXII like you said, that game is great).
The FF with the best gameplay imho. The story is decent as well, but the character designs suck. That Seymour guy looks ridiculous.
You are free to believe what you want. Tidus actor recorded a video before and explained how invested he was in his role.DiMaggio has said it was one of the easiest voice gigs he's ever done because they had virtually zero direction, and it seemed nobody cared beyond getting the words in the script recorded. But good one, reading what you wrote gave me a nice chuckle.