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Super Tidus, stop abusing other members or you will be banned from this forum.

I greatly enjoyed FFX. The world was original and well-developed; so were plenty of the characters. The battle system had some creative innovations. The addition of voice actors was a bold move, too. Most of the cast did a great job, in my opinion. In short, FFX retained the series' renowned quality, but also tried plenty of new ideas. If anything is going to kill the FF series, it's a lack of creativity. In spite of the adverse reaction from old-school fans who can't stand change, they went ahead with tweaks and alterations, instead of just recycling the old formula.

As for X-2... I felt it was a fine game. If people were expecting another 90-hour epic RPG with a cast of a dozen new playable characters, then I'd say they were asking to be disappointed. It was made clear that the game was going to be an action RPG and a follow-up story to FFX - not a totally new and just-as-huge adventure. It's more of a continuation of Yuna's personal story and journey. Accordingly, it doesn't follow the traditional RPG format. It's more like a series of extra chapters to FFX. X-2 provided a glimpse at Spira in the post-Sin era, and a welcome revisit to characters and places from the original game. It was interesting to see just how the people and cultures had changed. Not to mention the added details about the Zanarkand-Bevelle war, and about the workings of spirit energy and the like.
When you know that a game is going to continue a story that already exists, you should also know that it's never going to feel as new and fresh as the story it continues.

...Having said all of that, I do understand why some people don't like FFX or X-2.