This game is a joke

[Siegfried]

Then why not hate Yuna in the same way? It is not racism. Nowhere in the game does Wakka say, "I wish I could kill every Al Bhed that walks up to me right now."

Nothing to contribute other than the fact you are wrong:
Wakka became like an adopted brother to Yuna, together with Lulu, and they grew up on Besaid. He lost his parents to Sin, and tried to be like a parent to his brother Chappu. Chappu and Lulu were in love, but Chappu was killed by Sin. It is because of Chappu's death, as well as the fact that he chose to fight with an Al Bhed Machina weapon, that Wakka's hatred for the Al Bhed was shifted from religious prejudice to a more personal grudge.

[Godhand]

When Rikku joins the party Lulu tells us Wakka is too stupid to know an Al Bhed by sight and doesn't know about Yuna's heritage. It is made quite clear that they should keep the fact Rikku is Al Bhed quiet because, as I have said, Wakka is a dirty redneck racist and probably burns upsidedown symbols of Yevon in his spare time.

Did you actually play this game or what? I mean for all the "you can't have played this if you're saying this!" you guys are giving me I'm the one citing actual examples here.

[Siegfried]

The word you constantly use in this is a word you cannot use while arguing, "probably." That ass-u-mes a lot out of the characters you clearly dont know.

[ReloadPsi]

Whoops, looks like you can't aim your mouse! The FFXI section was two subforums down.

Anyway, if you hate this game so much, play FFX-2, as you'll probably appreciate it for the same reason as me: I used to see it as a complete and total insult to this game, back when I hated it myself.

[Siegfried]

Whoops, looks like you can't aim your mouse! The FFXI section was two subforums down.

I must fufill my personal vandetta! He blashpemes!

[Godhand]

I have only used "probably" in instances where I am obviously making things up.

For instance, the claim he burns upsidedown symbols and uses slurs for Al Bhed are nowhere indicated in the game and there is no support for them. I am just expanding on the image of Wakka as a filthy redneck racist by caricaturing him.

Why can't you distinguish the obvious jokes from the more serious statements?

[blackmage_nuke]

Wakka hates machina, and hey, it just so happens to be that every al bhed in the game is associated with machina.

[Old Manus]

Dude, you need to play FFX-2. If you hate this game, you will go nuclear at how awful FFX-2 is.

[4evarisha]

If you hate it dont play it easy isnt it?

[Renmiri]

And after reading your whole argument I just must say:
"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

pwned the thread

[cally777]

Godhand, u r seeing so many negatives and no real positives. I cant really b bothered to go through all yr criticisms, but of course all games no matter how good have flaws. Some people will hate certain things like random battles or whatever. Try to understand though that a lot of people liked a lot of things about FFX, hence its popularity. Don't dismiss them all as idiots because they disagree with you.

To deal with one of yr obvious mistakes though. Wakka to begin with is prejudiced against Al Bhed. Whether cos he's racist or against machina doesn't matter, its wrong. But he learns during the journey that Al Bhed aren't the real enemy, and that its Yevon that's corrupt and hypocritical. He even apologises to Cid for his previous ignorance. So he's not just a stupid "redneck", is he?

The characters in this game are excellent IMO. Wakka isn't my favourite, but he still has a lot of depth.

[Goldenboko]

I can't really comment on the whole thing... because its really long... but I'll comment on parts.

I want to stop for a moment and have you all appreciate that last sentence: at no point during the game is Sin ever shown as being capable of moving onto the land to wreck . It is depicted in almost all cases as a big and really angry fish. The place it's fought in the final battle with other summoners is a stretch of land right next to the sea. Apparently the people of Spira are retarded (like their church) and so don't just move inland to avoid this threat. Nevermind! It doesn't matter! Just a piddly little detail that we can overlook when necessary - what matters is our contrived and scarcely believable love story!

Yes he can. Its shown later on in the game when (SPOILER)you attack Sin and he flies over Bevelle. He doesn't actually get on land, he flies over it, which is potentially worse.

I want to close by talking about the gameplay. Well, more specifically, the lack of it. There is no challenge or intelligent thought involved in playing the game. If you play through every storyline battle and a decent amount of your random encounters, it is impossible to die. This is because you can't be bad at mashing X. The fact there were still random encounters in the game is also a testament to how horrible it is – any developer worth their salt would recognise it's an archaic system from a time when memory constraints stopped you from placing enemies on the overworld map. Apparently no one told Square, and we got a relic of a gameplay system to go with a poorly devised battle system. And Jesus, Blitzball. I almost forgot Blitzball. It's not possible to lose at Blitzball, either. Not unless you failed to get the Jecht Shot, which you can spam to win every game. There is no challenge to the game and there is no enjoyment to it – it's like a football game only it's crawling with pointless numbers.

Blitzball was particularly easy, but this was no way the easiest of the series. In VII very little thought was ever needed, and VIII's level as you go eliminated the need of training. As long as you didn't overlevel there was a thought process in much of the battling to manipulate the turns, which I liked very much. Also The Dark Aeons and Penance were supposedly very difficult, I don't know as I live in the US, and can't get my hands on a PAL version.

I'd comment on more, but reading your comments are painful seeing as you can't make any reaction toward the game thats really worth reading.

[cloud21zidane16]

looks like someone had a bad experience
i quite like this game, not the best ff ever but that was a funny review

[Rostum]

I skimmed through it, not really wanting to waste my time with it. My advice, from what I saw, is this: Get a life, it's just a video game.

[Bowser]

I liked it.