Was X-2 Necessary? (Warning, unmarked spoilers)

[square_is_the_best]

I haven't played X-2 but I'm getting it soon, like 1 week soon. So I hope it is good.
In regard to the topic, I think that every Final Fantasy deserves a sequel. X-2 was created in the "Age of Experimentation" of Square.
-First FF with voiceovers (FFX)
-First online FF (FFXI)
-First multiplayer FF (FF:Crystal Chronicles)
-First direct sequel (FFX-2)
-First female-led FF (FFX-2)
-First handheld FF (FFTA)
I don't blame Square. I think its good to experiment. Bubble gum was a mistake and look how popular it is now.

[Iceglow]

in a way X-2 is necessary and not necessary, see at the end of X Yuna gives her speach to Luca at the blitzball arena but if you realise the fact that although (and this is the reason why X was quite linear in story) you play through there is Narration the story only reaches the present time of the game when they get to Zanarkand for the first time as a party. The rolling intro is of them in Zanarkand looking torwards the Ebon dome and Tidus says clearly I don't know if I'll ever get a chance to tell this and listen to my story the story is his memories and then X-2 continues the present time so both needed and not needed as X really did wrap a lot up in the end and left less questions than many others did.

[blue_midget192]

well, at first i thouhgt it was needed, to see exactly what happend to tidus, but after nearly completing the game and not actually seeingtidus at all i kinda lost interest in it, i mean i still wanna complete it but its not a priority, the mini games were naff and i thouhgt that some of the things that the chareters from FFx say are actually out of charecter. but it was a good game. i dont think necciserry, but then you could say that about any of the FF seris, was it neccicery, no. but they made it any way and it was good.

[P8]

look at it the other way: are computergames necessary? are computer necessary? Is anything we call normal necessary? Or is even life necessary?

[Cloudane]

(Spoilers of X *and* X-2 ahead, as if we haven't had plenty already)


It wasn't *necessary*, but it was nice. It was one of my favourite FF games. Not because of any deep storyline (frankly it seemed to have that 'random badass pulled out of rear' feel to it) but because it was *fun*.

Never played such a light-hearted FF game before, and whilst at first the girliness was a major turn-off it soon grew on me.

The open-ended nature of FF endings doesn't satisfy everybody, and whilst it's great to imagine various follow-ups yourself (this is why the gap between the games is great IMO and they should never change this) it's also nice to have a final, all-questions-answered, closure. X-2 provides that. I'm sure FF7AC will go by the same principle.

The wonderful thing about X-2 is *choice*. If you want, you don't have to make Tidus return. You can get the normal ending and presume that she hooks up with Brother or something (all that 'faster! faster!' sexual innuendo at the end... LOL... or maybe it's just my filthy mind). Or you can have Tidus return. It's entirely up to you. I think the normal ending is more realistic and perhaps the better ending as a retult, but the good/perfect ending is *nice*.

As a sidenote, I'm sortof hoping that the whole 'not quite a DVD, perhaps a little interactive' thing suggested with FF7AC may be that you can steer the storyline in different directions and get different endings. Perhaps that would be nice, or maybe I'd prefer to see a definitive, real, solid, Square-chose-it, ending. I'm not sure.

[aeris2001x2]

look at it the other way: are computergames necessary? are computer necessary? Is anything we call normal necessary? Or is even life necessary?

nothing is nessacry...not even life...except final fantasy. final fantasy is eternal

[blue_midget192]

nothing is nessacry...not even life...except final fantasy. final fantasy is eternal

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

look at it the other way: are computergames necessary? are computer necessary? Is anything we call normal necessary? Or is even life necessary?

I meant necessary to the storyline of FFX.

[Greeneyes]

nothing is nessacry...not even life...except final fantasy. final fantasy is eternal

I like the way you said that. It sounds good

[P8]

all little ones will perish, total annihilation is inevitable

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Having just started playing X-2 I haven't really found anything that makes it necessary, but again I've just started. I AM, however, filled with a burning desire to bring back Tidus just so Yuna DOESN'T end up with Brother.

[blue_midget192]

I AM, however, filled with a burning desire to bring back Tidus just so Yuna DOESN'T end up with Brother.

LMAO yea it is kinda sick. i mean at first you think "arr brothers liked her for ages" but then u remeber that there cousins.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Them being cousins aside, he just irritates me. Quite a bit actually. I wish he'd never learned english...

[Gerbillcat]

FFX-2 ofcourse wasn't necessary but that doesn't mean it's not a good game. That's like saying that the lord of the rings movies were bad just because it wasn't necessary to make them. It's not like previous FF games it's lighthearted and alot more low key but that's what makes it good. I'm sure people would have complained if it had been made like a traditional Final Fantasy game with a great apocalyptic evil to fight, because the ultimate villain of this series was already defeated in X. That would have been a very depressing game, so instead they decided to just have a nice smaller but happier look at a world post-apocalypse kind of thing which Square has never done before. It was an experiment and i'm sure in part it was because of how much money they knew they could make but that doesn't matter really because Square is a business and making money and selling products is what business' do. In conclusion X-2 is not X and people who want to make up there own mind about what happens at the end of 10 should never buy 10-2 because that would defeat the object of what they want to do. Those who want to see the ending that Square came upwith go ahead and give the game a go, you might like it. Final Fantasy X-2 is a unique FF game that should be viewed atleast as that not necessarily as a unique and brilliant game, whether it's brilliant or not is simply for the gamer to decide.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I never said it was a bad game, quite the contrary actually. I just want to know if people thought it necessary to the storyline.