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    Default X - 2 Rocks!

    There are some nay sayers on this site (I've met some of them) who don't like this game. I shall stake my heart on the line and dare to utter the words: "This game is better than X"
    Come and get me! Or agree with me, whichever floats ya boat.

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    You'd be echoing the sentiments of the majority of people on site. I like X-2 just fine, but I don't personally rate it above X.

    Still leap and bounds better than the stuff that came out for X later.

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    Yeah, the general consensus around these parts are FFX-2 is really really really dumb, but it's a fun game to play.

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    Final Fantasy X-2 has it's problems, but overall it's super fun to play and I really liked the music in it too.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Midgar Mist View Post
    There are some nay sayers on this site (I've met some of them) who don't like this game. I shall stake my heart on the line and dare to utter the words: "This game is better than X"
    Come and get me! Or agree with me, whichever floats ya boat.
    Erm.......in my opinion....No!

    Quote Originally Posted by Ayen View Post
    You'd be echoing the sentiments of the majority of people on site. I like X-2 just fine, but I don't personally rate it above X.

    Still leap and bounds better than the stuff that came out for X later.
    I agree with this statement.

    Quote Originally Posted by Shauna View Post
    Yeah, the general consensus around these parts are FFX-2 is really really really dumb, but it's a fun game to play.
    I also agree with this statement.

    Quote Originally Posted by Night Fury View Post
    Final Fantasy X-2 has it's problems, but overall it's super fun to play and I really liked the music in it too.
    This.

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    Yeah, FFX-2 is stupid and the story is pretty weak, but it's insanely fun.
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    Jinx you are absolutely smurfing insane. Never change.

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    havent played enough to know. but i really love stories and its the biggest incentive for me so so far ff x-2 isnt great for me. battles are cool though. but ah well. even X is low for me too. dunno why. also i was dreading the 1000 words scene. hate singy songs
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    It's an odd game where parts of it really don't work very well (the story, in general, though it does has some good spots), coupled with probably the best iteration of the ATB system in any Final Fantasy and a very good adaptation of the job system. The only thing I'd change about the job system in this game is the balancing: a good amount of dresspheres aren't really that good, while two or three dresspheres are obviously the best.

    But no, I really enjoyed it. Much less linear than FFX (despite using the same world, funnily enough) and much less grindy at the end-game sections.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jinx View Post
    Yeah, FFX-2 is stupid and the story is pretty weak, but it's insanely fun.
    I agree with this statement. Its battle system is pretty interesting and the non-linear storyline is also a nice addition.
    Although FFX is way better due to its storyline, CTB system and the Sphere Grid. :P

    Quote Originally Posted by Formalhaut View Post
    But no, I really enjoyed it. Much less linear than FFX (despite using the same world, funnily enough) and much less grindy at the end-game sections.
    FFX was focused mainly on Yuna's pilgrimage, so linearity was natural there.
    Yuna and her companions could focus on their lives after The Calm, hence the non-linearity of FFX-2.
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    Awful story. Awesome everything else. And it's the everything else that really matters.
    everything is wrapped in gray
    i'm focusing on your image
    can you hear me in the void?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    Awful story. Awesome everything else. And it's the everything else that really matters.
    The "everything else" on FFX was better that the "everything else" on FFX-2. And come to mention it, so was the story!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CactuarKing View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    Awful story. Awesome everything else. And it's the everything else that really matters.
    The "everything else" on FFX was better that the "everything else" on FFX-2. And come to mention it, so was the story!!
    Combat in FFX is stale and underwhelming with no sense of urgency. I fell asleep in boss battles from boredom. Sphere grid is a decent progression system but I've always been a sucker for job systems, like FFX-2 had. Gameplay is less linear with multiple endings possible, making for a lot more replay value.

    That said, I simply said FFX-2's "everything else" was awesome, i never compared it to FFX' everything else, because that really doesn't matter for my enjoyment of this particular game . But since you brought that up, no, I disagree.
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    Job systems are where it's at.

    And I actually liked that the story was stupid with zero of the original's pretentiousness

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
    Awful story. Awesome everything else. And it's the everything else that really matters.
    The "everything else" on FFX was better that the "everything else" on FFX-2. And come to mention it, so was the story!!
    Combat in FFX is stale and underwhelming with no sense of urgency. I fell asleep in boss battles from boredom. Sphere grid is a decent progression system but I've always been a sucker for job systems, like FFX-2 had. Gameplay is less linear with multiple endings possible, making for a lot more replay value.

    That said, I simply said FFX-2's "everything else" was awesome, i never compared it to FFX' everything else, because that really doesn't matter for my enjoyment of this particular game . But since you brought that up, no, I disagree.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
    Job systems are where it's at.

    And I actually liked that the story was stupid with zero of the original's pretentiousness
    To each their own.

    I personally thought FFX-2 was over-the-top silly. Not that I didn't enjoy it, it was just silly for silly's sake.

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    While X was silly trying to act deep

    But yeah, joking aside, X-2 is cool. And I'll forever remember how awkward the massage scene was when I had to do it in front of one of my mom's students as she was waiting for her to come home.

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