FFX replay value

[CloudySky]

It makes me so sad and even somewhat frustrated, that this game (FFX) has 0 replay value for me.
I played all FFs up to Xth several times. I consider me die hard fan of series, simply because with years I replay FFs and I immediately compare all other games with FF and no other game comes even close to FF. :mog:
Needless to say I've played FF7, FF8 countless times, these 2 are the best, still plays great even today. I wasn't very pleased with FF9, still I played it 3 times already.
I absolutely adore FFX. Unlike many of fans I have no complains about story, characters, etc. The only bad thing about FFX, I can't replay it, I tried...
You see in my best FFX save I have all chars maxed (except luck skill around 150-170 for all chars, just imagine how long it took ), penance and dark eons killed, all super monsters from arena waisted countless times, but... I don't have Cabaldog. :rolleyes2
Well I have it but I don't have sigil. After 30 hours of trying to win that stupid race (back in 2002) I finally understood I can't do it, just can't. Nor I ever would try to do lightning dodging minigame again or butterfly one too. Because that wasn't fun, that was disaster.
So I have a great game which I can't play. When I reach thunder plains, I feel the pain at once, but when I reach Calm Lands I just take the DVD from console and it's the end of game for me.
So I played FFX-2 about 5 times (saves+ I mean) but FFX only once.
If you don't cry when reading this sentence you have heart of stone.

So do you replay FFX?

[Tavrobel]

*counts his many, multiple save files*

No, of course not.

So I played FFX-2 about 5 times (saves+ I mean) but FFX only once.
If you don't cry when reading this sentence you have heart of stone.

I'd cry, but only because you subjected yourself to meaningless torture playing FFX-2. Otherwise, I would continue on and insult your intelligence. It's just this thing I do, like yelling at rubah, or telling Psychotic that he is worthless.

[Pete for President]

I played through it 3 times, the second being a collection/stat maxing one.

Once in a while when I don't have a new game to play, I just feel like I want to re-enjoy the (imo great) story again, so I pop it in. Then after a little while I feel like I'm completely wasting my time, but I manage to push through none the less. And then, from the point in Macalania Temple, I get sucked in the story again and I feel like it's all worth it.

So yeah, I do replay FFX

[Psychotic]

It's just this thing I do, like yelling at rubah, or telling Psychotic that he is worthless.

LOL YOU FUNNY MAN TAV'BEL!

I've replayed it once, and that was just before FFX-2 came out so I was fully up-to-speed on the story. I loaded up my previous saved go before taking on the final dungeon, though, because my characters were much more powerful and had their ultimate weapons, and I was too lazy to go through all that again.

[Skyblade]

A New Game+ feature would help alot. Keep all weapons/items, and keep any Sphere Grid customizations (people are back to their starting points, but any changes that you made with clear/stat spheres stay). That way you can play through the game without having to do any of the really annoying sidequests.

[Renmiri]

Don't give up, my friend just got the Chocobo Race and the Thunder dodging after 5 years trying.

Besides, there's always Blitzball!!!

[ReloadPsi]

Five years to do the Chocobo race? I've done that in a single day on each of my plays through the game (I've played through it twice). This time though, I literally needed to dismantle and repair my L1 button.

Thunder Plains is just damned annoying. I swear I dodged about 220 bolts in a row, then it decided to allege that I only dodge 185. (Stupid lightning rod towers.)

Yes, I think this game DOES have replay value, but only if you have a laptop with internet access, or several books to read during the hellishly long and poorly acted cutscenes that can't be skipped and are full of awkward pauses because of the difference in Japanese and English sentence length. Come on, the game isn't Aliens 2: It doesn't have infinite WATCHability.

[CloudySky]

Five years to do the Chocobo race? I've done that in a single day on each of my plays through the game (I've played through it twice).

I admit you have all rights to brag about it if it's true, but too much is too much. If you can do it in 1 day it doesn't mean everybody can.
I for one can't, I know a lot of people who can't and only a few who can. So, I fail to see how you beating it makes it doable for all others.

I'm not surprised about 5 years part though, but I'm not that kind of person. I play for fun, if something frustrates me too much, I don't play it, simple as that

Yes, I think this game DOES have replay value, but only if you have a laptop with internet access, or several books to read during the hellishly long and poorly acted cutscenes that can't be skipped and are full of awkward pauses because of the difference in Japanese and English sentence length. Come on, the game isn't Aliens 2: It doesn't have infinite WATCHability.

Cutscenes are great, if you call them poor, I would like to see what's not poor. And it has infinite "wathcability" IMHO

[Renmiri]

I'm not surprised about 5 years part though, but I'm not that kind of person. I play for fun, if something frustrates me too much, I don't play it, simple as that

Cutscenes are great, if you call them poor, I would like to see what's not poor. And it has infinite "wathcability" IMHO

Well it is a friend who is an FFX fanatic so she played it for 5 years to watch the scenes again, not to do the race. We are both fanatics We even do a FFX based Role Play!

[ReloadPsi]

Well it is a friend who is an FFX fanatic so she played it for 5 years to watch the scenes again, not to do the race. We are both fanatics :D We even do a FFX based Role Play!

Online or tabletop?

[Renmiri]

Well it is a friend who is an FFX fanatic so she played it for 5 years to watch the scenes again, not to do the race. We are both fanatics We even do a FFX based Role Play!

Online or tabletop?

Online. We call it "Sin's Dawn" since it takes place right after the Bevelle / Zanarkand war ends and Sin is "born".

[Setzer Gabianni]

I tried to play it for the second time..but lost interest. Same with X-2.

[KasaiDraco]

I've played this game countless times.

[No.78]

I've replayed it because.

1. I deleted a file by mistake
2. I totally messed up a file by sucking too much, and wanted to start afresh
3. Because I wanted to replay the story again
4. Because there was stuff I missed out
5. To find out stuff
6. etc
7. ?
8 WHAT

[Shiva_]

I'm fixing to begin an NSG (No Sphere Grid) challenge. It sounds challenging and a lot of fun based on few of the videos I've seen of it.