ToriJ's Top 20 Games

[Slothy]

I enjoy X, but it's not all that groundbreaking, and definitely not the best in the series.

[Sephiroth]

That sounds good to me.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

X is great. Definitely not my favorite in the series, but it is still a great game. This was a great list!

[Ayen]

Glad you enjoyed it. Overall reception of the list went a lot better than I thought it would, but I'm always assuming the worst in things.

[Elskidor]

Your signature is an appropriate end to that post, because you should be smurfing sorry.

LOL



I like X, but would never put it that high on any list. Good thing everyone is different though. Great list Torij...I have not heard of some of those games, but I'll get around to giving them a shot sometime.

[Karifean]

Final Fantasy X is the best game, objectively speaking of course.

[Raistlin]

This list is almost as bad as Tidus's fashion sense. Hey-oh!

More seriously, I just cannot care that much for FFX, between the linear gameplay (which made a big world feel very cramped) and rather annoying characters. I would rank a good 5-6 FF games ahead of it.

[Madame Adequate]

But... Spira feels gigantic despite the very linear path?

[NeoCracker]

...No it doesn't.

[Raistlin]

But... Spira feels gigantic despite the very linear path?

Except it doesn't at all, and I honestly can't even imagine what game you were playing if you think that. It feels like Spira is supposed to be gigantic, and it's described as such, but you don't really experience that size in the game. I frequently contrast FFX with FFXII as two games without an overworld map, with only the latter really feeling massive (regardless of how one feels about the rest of FFXII). FFX is a large world shoved into a cramped path.

[Elskidor]

FFXII did feel very massive, but it was also very linear. There ia a lot of similarities, but in the end they don't feel any thing alike. I wonder why that is. If you do everything within the game they are also both the longest games in the series too. No world map. Tons of annoying side quests that should com with a strong bottle of headache meds. XII worked a lot better for me than X did. I like X more now than when it first came out, but XII, even with its bland cast, is more enjoyable to me.

[Bolivar]

So many of X's areas were anything but cramped with some of them being outright massive! X is widely acclaimed for hiding its linearity, I'm kinda surprised we're even having this conversation.

[NeoCracker]

X is widely acclaimed for hiding its linearity,

I mean... I don't....

...what?

[Pike]

ToriJ confirmed for good taste in Final Fantasy games

FFX is super linear and I have no idea why I enjoyed it but I sooooooo did and I love it so much

[Slothy]

X is widely acclaimed for hiding its linearity, I'm kinda surprised we're even having this conversation.

I have to echo NeoCracker's confusion here. I can't remember a time when it was ever acclaimed by either the gaming press or FF fans for hiding it's linearity. I don't even understand where the argument that it hid it comes from since there are very few times in the game where you get to do more than walk along the one path provided for you. And even when you have more than one path, they're mostly either short trips to a dead end with some treasure that are very few and far between, or lead to the exact same place in the end. I'm wondering if we played the same game here.