Too Easy!!

[BlackMage2001]

Is it just me or is Final Fantasy X too easy! Using doublecast Ultima for 1 mp each time and Hatagea you will beat any boss in just two times running through your starting three, Including Ject. Overall you can make anyone easily invincible with all of the wepons customizing you are able to do.

Does anyone else agree with me?

[metCloud]

Yeah, it was definetly the easiest FF ive played. That doesnt make it a bad game though...I enjoyed playing it.

[Flying Mullet]

Yeah, the regular in-story bosses are easy, but try beating any of the optional super-bosses like Nemesis or Penance. They are super-tough.

That's why the in-story bosses are so easy, because they make you uber-powerful to take on the optional super-boses.

[SomethingBig]

That's what I've been saying, blackmage, but does anyone listen?

[The_Princess]

The first time I played FFX, I got a bit stuck in some parts, but that was because I didn't know the strategies. The second time I played it, I breezed through it, hardly getting any Game Overs. Leveling up is easy, too.

I don't think I realized just how easy FFX was until I played FFVIII. However, I don't think FFX is as easy as FFX-2.

[Big D]

Using doublecast Ultima for 1 mp each time and Hatagea you will beat any boss in just two times running through your starting three, Including Ject. Overall you can make anyone easily invincible with all of the wepons customizing you are able to do.
No kidding... Every game is easy if you get your characters to insanely high levels with all the most powerful abilities. However, it takes a whole lot of work to reach those abilities, they're a kind of 'bonus' for those who want to work their team up to the maximum. If you just progress through the game naturally, it's a more balanced difficulty curve.

Suppose they tried to make a game that's still hard no matter how tough your characters are... imagine how difficult it'd be to complete the game for a regular player or someone on their first time through... since a fully-maxed FFX character can deal over half a million points of damage with a single overdrive, the major enemies would need many millions of HP, and devastating attacks, in order to remain a threat. No regular character could win. That'd be pretty bad for players who don't have the time or patience to spend thirty-odd hours collecting spheres and gaining S-levels.

The FFVIII system, where enemies level up as you do, has received quite a bit of criticism, and it has loopholes, so it'd be impractical for them to use it again.

Simple fact is... if you make your characters really strong, then the fights are going to get a whole lot easier. I thought that was the point, anyway?

[SomethingBig]

I didn't level/power up and the game was still darn easy with Hastega. The whole change-your-party-during-battle thing was one of the stupidest things Square has ever done. It made the game twice as easy.

[ShivaBlizzard8]

FFX is definately the easiest out of all the FFs I've played, but I still thought it was a great game. I agree that changing your characters during battle made things wicked simple, because you no longer screwed yourself over if your enemy was weak against magic and you had no mages in your party. No problem! Just trade in Lulu for Tidus! However, I thought it was a neat concept - just as I liked that summons no longer came and went, but stayed and battled. Sure, this made things easier still, but the idea was cool, so it was at least worth a shot.

[TheAbominatrix]

"Beefing yourself up and using all the ultra spells makes the game easy!" duh! You can do this with pretty much every game out there. They're all easy once you reach a certain level, and have certain things.

And FM is right, optional bosses and the monster capture place bosses are super hard.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

That's because Yu Yevon isn't the last master, the created monsters are :D

Am I the only one who's wondered why the monster tamer says "You're my last hope" when you chat with him sometimes when he could just sic his monsters on Yu Yevon and carve it into bite-sized chunks within a few turns?

[-N-]

Play the game blindfolded. Then tell me how easy it is.

Kids these days.

[Rainecloud]

Am I the only one here who enjoys easy games? Perhaps.

I thought FFX was perfect in terms of difficulty.

[TheAbominatrix]

Am I the only one here who enjoys easy games? Perhaps.

I thought FFX was perfect in terms of difficulty.

I do as well. I dont like the bosses to be too difficult to beat, because I'd rather have story progression than a challenge. When it comes to optional bosses, then I like some serious difficulty.

[aeris2001x2]

for god sake, ffX was harder then ffVI-IX by far. you required tactics to beat some of the later bossess and how many of u were not flaterned by Seymour Fluxs cross cleave and total Anhilation moves the first time round?

its not as difficult as the first five but still the hardest post ffV ff game.

and of course the super bossess in the monster arena, the dark Aeons...penenance...how many of u forgot them from the pal version??? not easy some of them.

[Shlup]

I didn't level up because I just wanted to get through it, so it was pretty hard.

[The_Princess]

I dont like the bosses to be too difficult to beat, because I'd rather have story progression than a challenge.

I COMPLETELY agree, Abominatrix. That's WHY I play games like the 'Final Fantasy' series, because I love going through the story with the characters - kind of like an interactive movie. Sometimes challenges are fun, but when they get TOO challenging, it's just like, 'Come on, come on, I want to see what happens next !'

I can understand that some people want a story AND a challenge, though.

[SomethingBig]

how many of u were not flaterned by Seymour Fluxs cross cleave and total Anhilation moves the first time round?

*Raises hand* I always have Auron out during boss battles because of his high HP count. Also, the first rule of every FF is to cast Protect and/or Shell on your strongest character at the beginning of every boss battle.

[-N-]

And in this game, Protect and Shell actually do something.

I see no one has responded to my blindfold challenge.
Kids are all talk and no walk these days, it seems... Hmmph.

[aeris2001x2]

*Raises hand* I always have Auron out during boss battles because of his high HP count. Also, the first rule of every FF is to cast Protect and/or Shell on your strongest character at the beginning of every boss battle.

these ffX hating bias opinions of yours lol :D

lol yeah i did and i was still flatterned because cross cleave and total anhilation were after each other and i was unprepared. the average party at this point would only have auron surviving unless u cured after cross cleave pretty fast and he kept using zombie and full life to annoying full effect. i only died three times here (once on evrae and once on a king behemoth so i died 5 times on this game first time) but seymour Flux was definitly harder then any boss after him.

seriously, why are there not ff6,ff7,ff8,ff9 topics called *too easy?*

[Ultima Shadow]

FF8 is easy as crap compared to FFX.
And if you want challange in FFX... MONSTER ARENA AND DARK AEONS+PENANCE FOR GODNESS!!!!!!

[aeris2001x2]

so true. maybe its poss to do ffX without the sphere grid, but its possible to do ffVIII without lving up! *Ultimecia, feel the wrath of my...lv7 squall! :D *

[TheAbominatrix]

Most every game's difficulty depends on the players abilities and how much they level up. Obviously if you're super leveled (VIII excluded, to a point) with all the ultimate spells/weapons/armors, you're going to breeze through most any boss in the game. In X, they at least had, like many have mentioned, the ultra-difficult optional bosses. I hate those friggin monster capture things. ARGH!

[Ultima Shadow]

so true. maybe its poss to do ffX without the sphere grid, but its possible to do ffVIII without lving up! *Ultimecia, feel the wrath of my...lv7 squall! :D *
Hmmmmmm... that I will try out after I finish FFIX (and check out the Excalibur II thing) on my second play. A solo Squall + no leveling. Oh well, this is not the FFIX or FFVIII forum...

[black orb]

>>> I just got a Gameover once fighting Sin, so yeah it was easy.

[SomethingBig]

seriously, why are there not ff6,ff7,ff8,ff9 topics called *too easy?*

Haste helped some, but not too much. The only time I ever used Haste was when casting Big Guard, which casts Haste. Kefka had those 3 bosses before him. You know, the statue things, which were female dogs. They had so much HP. I forget how Kefka was. FF7 was easy... I think. I don't know because by the time I fought Sephiroth for the first time, my party was on level 58-ish, had all of their strongest weapons, and Cloud had Omnislash. From people that I've talked to, if you don't get the things that I got, Jenova and Sephy's forms can be quite tough, especially with Bizarro Sephiroth's Sin Harvest-like attack. I thought FF8's last bosses were quite hard. Griever killed most of my GF's and he had that attack that casted 5 trillion status effects at once. I'll admit that FFIX's Trance Kuja and Necron were darn easy battles, though. Jecht was just strong. I found no problems with him. I went the wrong way with many of my characters, too, when I fought him. Yuna didn't even know Holy, yet, and Lulu didn't have Ultima, yet, either.

[TasteyPies]

Yeah, the regular in-story bosses are easy, but try beating any of the optional super-bosses like Nemesis or Penance. They are super-tough.

Penance has a buttload of HP and an attack that does like 99,999 damage if I can remember. Has anyone EVER beaten him? My best character has most of his stats between 150 and 260 and he still get whomped

[aeris2001x2]

yep, i,ve beaten him, ultimashadow has beaten him and many other ppl have. it is a surprisingly comfortable victory if u know what your doing though my stats are all max except luck which is 120. dont even think of taking him on without a high luck stat.

[Yeargdribble]

Suppose they tried to make a game that's still hard no matter how tough your characters are... imagine how difficult it'd be to complete the game for a regular player or someone on their first time through...

They did make such a game. This game is called Final Fantasy Tactics and I believe you covered the reason very few finish this game. No matter how much you level up all of the monsters level up with you. The fixed battles don't but the random battles become nigh impossible if you level up without learning decent skills to account for your enemies insane power.

We all gripe too much about the easiness but we all level up too much as well. I don't think that FF X was too easy... it was just ... user friendly in comparison to a lot of the others and especially those from FF VI and before.

With FF X there are help menus everywhere and you always know what everything does and such. The battles still require a lot of strategy and effort. There is a pretty serious jump in enemy difficulty about the time you hit Mt Gagazet and from then on you really have to know strategy.

[Trumpet Thief]

If you just fought the storyline bosses, then yes, it is really easy. But, against those amazing Super Bosses like Penance, it makes it definetly one of the hardest Final Fantasies ever!

Also, the other Final Fantasies, in comparison to this one are really easy as well.