Do you like the storyline

[Flare_Star]

Personally, i thought the storyline was pretty crap. The only time i found my lower jaw detatched from my upper was when you find out that Yevon are a load of dead men who want to destroy the world and betray their own teachings.

And some people's involvement in the story was nil. eg wakka and lulu.

(Warning spoilers ahead.)

Unlike other games where everyone had their own mini-adventure so to speak. Take FF9,

Zidane wants to find out what his relationship with Kuja is,

Dagger wants to find out who her real mother is and stop kuja from taking advantage of Brahne.

Vivi wants to know who he is and where he came from.

Steiner wants to protect the princess and finds himself betraying his queen.

Freya returns to her homeland to protect her king after deciding not to return. (also her love with sir fratley)

Eiko fancies Zidane and finds dagger as another summoner but without no horn.

The others i'll give, but i hope you see what i mean.

[Big D]

All of the games since FFVII neglect the secondary characters pretty well. Sure, they each have their own 'stories', but they get virtually no time in the spotlight compared to the characters in VI and VII, who each get to take centre-stage at some time or another.

X is no different from VIII and IX in that regard, in spite of having some very impressive and intriguing characters.

However, they weren't all totally marginalised. There were some great scenes surrounding the secondary leads, like Auron's scenes, and the conversation between Wakka and Lulu on the ferry to Luca, to name but two.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Thought the storyline was pretty good, as was the ending, though perhaps not as good as it could have been. I really would have liked to have seen more on the other characters. Auron, Yuna and Tidus are pretty well covered, Khimari marginally well, and Wakka, Rikku, and Lulu barely enough to satisfy your desire to know more.

[Tidus45]

Heres the way i see it

X-Awesome
7- very good
8&9- Sucked badly. so badly i can't believe i actually bought them

[Silent Warrior]

The story itself I found alright, but some of the dialogue and voice-acting... not quite as alright (very rarely to the point of sucking, don't you go get any ideas about me hating FF altogether). Hey, I HAVE played Torment and Wing Commander, you bet I'm choosy!

[xenapan]

a wing commander fan! *cheers*

the storyline was ok... just that tidus and jecht being dreams was just stupid tho.

[SomethingBig]

Meh, FFX's story was the best, next to 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9's stories. As Bahamut2000X said, most of the villains didn't even have reasons for being in the game. The only real villain was Seymour, who just incessantly (SPOILER)comes back, which got extremely annoying after the second time you fight him. Throughout most of the game, I was thinking, "Ugh, when am I gonna get to the next boss?" What kept me playing was the fun boss battles. Whereas in the other FFs, I contemplated what was going to happen, what happened, and what was currently happening. This was especially true for FF7 with its thousands of plot-twists. That's another problem with FFX's plot; it was just way too linear. The game spoon fed you the plot. You knew exactly what was going to happen and when. I like to try and figure out the future and I like the game even more if it does something totally contrary to my predictions. FFX get a 6/10 in the plot category, IMO.

[Kirobaito]

There couldn't have been a better storyline and character development than what occurred in FF6.

But X, the biggest problem was how linear the game was. It was either extremely boring, going from place to place, walking eight feet and getting a cutscene, and then suddenly having all of this information poured onto you. It wasn't fun playing it, to me, at least.

[SomethingBig]

Exactly. Again with the spoon feeding. Instead of having you actually uncover the plot through actions, Square poured the plot on you through hundreds of cut-scenes.