Blitzball!

[Iceglow]

Blitzball is one of the best mini-games I have played ever, in fact it was a game I spent so much time on even after I got all of Wakka's upgrades from it that I literally could still pick it up and sit back down to play league after league of Blitzball.

I loved Blitzball so much I honestly would've brought an FFX Blitzball sports game spin off and admittedly I don't like sports sims. I just don't see the point in them when you can generally speaking do the sport yourself.

So lets discuss Blitzball and how awesome it is!

[Sephex]

I didn't like it back then. In fact, I downright hated it so much that back in the day on these forums, edczxcvbnm or myself would make a "Blitzball Sucks" thread to amuse us.

Now? Well, I don't hate it. It's still not for me, but I can see why some people find it fun.

[Jiro]

It needs way more depth. I reckon you could turn it into a real time sport too. Having a 3D playing field would be an improvement too.

[Shorty]

I also was not very fond of Blitzball. If I gave it another shot, I might change my mind but in general, I remember not liking it.

But girls don't like sports, so.

[Iceglow]

It needs way more depth. I reckon you could turn it into a real time sport too. Having a 3D playing field would be an improvement too.

This is essentially how I imagined a spin off game to be, a fully functioning 3D Blitzball Sphere. It'd basically be quite challenging because of the 3D functionality and the need to know where your team is at.

I agree though that it often proved way too easy to recruit the best players though once I did recruit them I'd often reset the data for the mini-game allowing me to train them from level 1 for a challenge.

[blackmage_nuke]

I agree a real time game with 3d environment wouldve been much more enjoyable

I mainly had a poor opinion of it because the first game you get to play is very difficult to win and I assumed all games would be like that so I avoided it for a while.

[milliegoesbeep]

I used to avoid blitzball the first time around when I played it but now I really enjoy it! I think it was more the music that drove me nuts in the first place, that and I didn't really understand it well enough to enjoy it. Now, it is definitely one of the best minigames that FF has put in (except maybe chocobo related things) and I think if they ever made a remake they should create more depth and design for the game.

[Goldenboko]

Blitzball is the one thing I wish Square actually made a spinoff for, because it could quite easily be it's own game and do very well. Put in some smarter AI, an intuitive control scheme, 3rd dimension, make the game operate in real time, and you just came up with the coolest sports game. Ever.

[Jiro]

I still want to actually physically play Blitzball. But yeah, if you recruit Wedge at the beginning while you're still in Luca then you pretty much cannot ever lose.

[Agent Proto]

I'm not very good at Blitzball. It's pretty hard to understand, and the last time I made any attempt to win, I still freakin' lost!

The Abes will forever be the worst Blitzball team with me playing.

[Goldenboko]

I'm not very good at Blitzball. It's pretty hard to understand, and the last time I made any attempt to win, I still freakin' lost!

The Abes will forever be the worst Blitzball team with me playing.

Al-bhed Psych's take that one for me. smurf you Nimrook!

[Agent Proto]

Blitzball is the one thing I wish Square actually made a spinoff for, because it could quite easily be it's own game and do very well. Put in some smarter AI, an intuitive control scheme, 3rd dimension, make the game operate in real time, and you just came up with the coolest sports game. Ever.

Yeah, I actually think this would be a great idea for a game if Square went ahead with it. I do hope that the controls would be easier to understand than it currently is in FFX.

[Jiro]

I'm not very good at Blitzball. It's pretty hard to understand, and the last time I made any attempt to win, I still freakin' lost!

The Abes will forever be the worst Blitzball team with me playing.

The Abes are Tidus' Dream Zanarkand superstars. The Besaid Aurochs are the ones you're failing

[Old Manus]

Once again Iceglow, you have proven yourself to be absolutely wrong. Blitzball was horrible to the extent that getting the Jupiter Sigil was something I feared more than the Venus Sigil and the Sun Sigil. Together. The games were slow, clunky, bizarre in terms of spacial geometry, and vulnerable to the 'score once then sit behind your goal' exploit, which lucky allowed me the solace of being able to go and make a cup of tea or something while I waited for the game to end.
Jesus, the hours I put into that minigame.

[Jinx]

Blitzball sucks.