False impressions

[jochirin]

the game has a week storyline if you dont do sidequests preferably all sinse almost all of the side quests are a part of the storyline, square just made them side quests to make it posible to get the sad ending thats what i think. its like saying realy play the ff games realy get involved or they will suck

[Cloudane]

Yup. In traditional FFs, if you don't spend the time to explore then you won't level up - and so you will get 0wned by the end boss.

In this one, I'm sure even if you met it in the first chapter it'd still be a pushover So it opens the possibility, if you so desire, of ripping through the storyline and seeing a 'sad' ending.

[Meatwad]

I am pretty sure that everyone had second thoughts about buying this game and some people thought it was a good line up and some thought it was bad but maybe it was or wasnt meant to be an FFX sequeal I think it was to add somethin new to the FF collection i gave it a good rating and dnt think it is a sequeal I think it is continuing from where FFX left off

[aeris2001x2]

it is definitly a sequel imho, in that it has a completly different feel to ffX. the main qualm i had with it was that it was so removed from ffX. bah i dont care it was still a fun game.

[black orb]

>>> Sound like a fun game but Im buying Suikoden 3 instead of FF X-2... :P

[aeris2001x2]

seriously i would recommenf ffX-2 for a rent but thats it. stick with sukioden 3

[TasteyPies]

I also really enoyed the parts with the Ronso and their feelings towards the Guado- a very good continuation from FFX. :moggie:

Umm....too bad seymour said himself to Kimahri in ffx "yours truely WAS a galant race. They threw themselves at me to stop me" how can they have feelings about anything if they were killed? right Pheonix downs :rolleyes2

Anyway im going to go out on a limb here and say ffx-2 sucks (checks sig) yup it does

I have removed ffx from my sig because after you play through a game 3 times you can't say it sucked, even though it had REALY REALY REALY bad voice acting. I don't think the writers and actors were on the same page.


Then in X-2 they take my favorite charicters (Auron Lulu) and give them no/minor parts (of coarse they cant use auron because he has no boobs and think of how he would look in a bikini)

Now for X-2's bad plot in a nutshell

Lets find spheres so we can find my dead boyfriend
Ok sure....OMG LEBLANC! GET HER ANGELS! erm... YRP!
SHE WANTS SPHERES TOO!! OMG WE HAVE TO GET THEM FIRST
Ok now lets hop into the airship and run around getting spheres and stuf in hard to reach places even though in ffx they would just be there on the ground
OMG this guy looks like your dead boyfriend you know who! Is he HIM!?
Nope, some crazy guy that likes death again
OMG he found an old machina! Get him!
*battle starts*
*ended .4 mins later*
Yay we saved the world Angels erm... YRP!+

Now in case anyone was wondering yes I own X-2 and no I'm not too happy with it and only finished it so i could say it sucks without someone saying "Well if you didn't finish playing it then you can't say Charl... erm.. i mean ffx-2 sucked"

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Having finally played it I'll agree that it isn't as bad as I thought, but it hasn't struck any chords in me, so to speak. Admittedly I'm not too far into the game but I haven't found too much that appeals to me. Also, running through the same places again doesn't seem all that glamorous to me, nor does the fact that Yuna is so weak compared to what I have her at in FFX. Ah well. I'll probably finish the game eventually, but it's not doing much to hold my interest.

[BatChao]

Batchao, take back your blasphemy on comparing the sounstracks.

lol i joke. i did like the j-pop songs, of a very high quality and some other pieces, particulary at the end against vegnegun and beville/trema theme were great but on the whole i,d say its the weakiest ff musically.

Haha, this is what I'm talking about. FFX-2 is like the rebel of the FF series. The music is the same. The music takes itself in a different direction, it isn't as 'sweeping' or 'deep' as other FF's, but it's damn fun and catchy. How can you NOT hum Rikku's theme after hearing it? Plus, both vocal tracks are the best ones I've ever heard in any game...period. I even like the English ones more than the Japanese ones! OMG! BURN ME AT THE STAKE! Haha. But really, this game isn't meant to be taken as a 'true' FF, it's more like FF-side story. But yea, I can see why people would think that it's totally ruined because it doesn't stick to the 'trueness' of FF, but yea, I kinda like it BECAUSE it crapped all over all that is FF.

[aeris2001x2]

Umm....too bad seymour said himself to Kimahri in ffx "yours truely WAS a galant race. They threw themselves at me to stop me" how can they have feelings about anything if they were killed? right Pheonix downs :rolleyes2

Anyway im going to go out on a limb here and say ffx-2 sucks (checks sig) yup it does

I have removed ffx from my sig because after you play through a game 3 times you can't say it sucked, even though it had REALY REALY REALY bad voice acting. I don't think the writers and actors were on the same page.


Then in X-2 they take my favorite charicters (Auron Lulu) and give them no/minor parts (of coarse they cant use auron because he has no boobs and think of how he would look in a bikini)

Now for X-2's bad plot in a nutshell

Lets find spheres so we can find my dead boyfriend
Ok sure....OMG LEBLANC! GET HER ANGELS! erm... YRP!
SHE WANTS SPHERES TOO!! OMG WE HAVE TO GET THEM FIRST
Ok now lets hop into the airship and run around getting spheres and stuf in hard to reach places even though in ffx they would just be there on the ground
OMG this guy looks like your dead boyfriend you know who! Is he HIM!?
Nope, some crazy guy that likes death again
OMG he found an old machina! Get him!
*battle starts*
*ended .4 mins later*
Yay we saved the world Angels erm... YRP!+

Now in case anyone was wondering yes I own X-2 and no I'm not too happy with it and only finished it so i could say it sucks without someone saying "Well if you didn't finish playing it then you can't say Charl... erm.. i mean ffx-2 sucked"

yes ffX-2 is not great but the ronso arguement is silly. of course some survived, seymour may have killed alot but either he didnt know that more ronso were around or he was just trying to annoy Kimarhi. we know for a fact that Elder Kelk, biran and yenke were slain by seymour.

the voice acting was much better in ffX-2 though. in ffX it did have some good moments and good actors, like Auron and seymour. but on the whole i definitly wish they did what i said all along, u should have the option 2 turn the voices off.

[Super Christ]

Now, there were things I didn't like about X-2: In particular, the rather snooty attitude that anyone over 20 is useless to this world and should either retire or die to make way for the "worthy youngsters". Nooj, at 22, is the oldest of the three world leaders, a fairly ridiculous notion when you think about it. All of the "heroes" are fairly young; "Seasoned" Leblanc and her goons are quickly overwhelmed during the final fight, and it's up to the littlies to step in and save everyone. Maechen is presented as a doddering, senile old fool, rather than the wise and venerable man he really is. Cid has gone from being the leader of his people, to merely being a grumbly old bugger trying to make money on dodgy ventures, who sulks around in the rain for weeks when his niece is mean to him. I just found it rather distasteful that age should be presented as such a 'social disease'.

Taking it from the perspective of these youngsters, you can blame them a little, but not too much. The youth of Spira were taught all about Yevon and whatnot from a young age, and now that it's been shown that Yevon was perhaps the biggest lie in Spira's history, they probably feel angry at their elders for leading them on, and angry at their ancestors for practically bringing civilization's advancement to a halt for 1,000 years.

Granted, this doesn't make them any less selfish or wrong, since their elders were duped as well, and so weren't at fault for it. The only other reason I can think of that they'd be so disrespectful of their elders is from some of their elder's stubborn refusal to move on (i.e., the New Yevon movement.)

Anyway, that's my 2 cents on the matter.