Once I found out that FFX-2's battle system is active time on crack and steroids, I decided that I would never play it. Enemies can even interrupt your attack if they attack at the same time you do. What kind of crap is that?

Conditional Turn-Based Battle for life.

FFX-2 is CRAP. Sorry, but it had to be said. I felt it was more like a bunch of mini-games tacked onto a flimsy story about Yuna looking for him. The fact they still never call him Tidus irks me to no end. It was also too girly for my tastes, and I am a girl : / I didn't like anyone in the game :(

P.S. This game was made solely to sell the guides, as there is no bloody way anyone can get the perfect ending without it.

P.P.S. Despite what I just said, I won the game. I guess I just had to play it just 'cause. The final boss is so easy. I used Paine for the entire fight. Seriously.

I heard from a friend of mine who considers FF10 his favorite and FF4 his second favorite that X-2 is complete garbage.

Final Fantasy 10 is great. FFX-2 was okay(if you ignore the storyline), but it shouldn't have ever been made. But if you are looking for a Final Fantasy with light storyline, wait for FF12, because that is almost all gameplay once you get a ways into it, hours of gameplay(if you don't rush it) with 5 minutes of storyline at times. But it's a complete different type of game than the old Final Fantasy games.

But why do to you even need people's opinion about the game to play it? You basically said you've played a little bit, and just didn't like it enough to continue playing, so why even bother? To me, it is one of the greatest games I ever played, but I like newer games more than older games(although FF6 & Chrono Trigger are probably my 2 favorite games ever). But I don't think anyone can speak for you. If you have the game, I highly recommend you play it, because it one of my personal favorites. But everyone has their own opinion.

FFX had a great battle system...except the whole "Do this!" or the fact that they SHOWED the order before you cast the spell, or in other words, this is the order, go ahead and unleash all your attacks then heal at the last minute.

The Sphere Grid was unique but it would have been better if it was chara specific like one is magic, the other is melee.

I thought FFX's story and systems were somewhere between "good" and "just fine," I really liked the music, and the fact that it was mine and most people's first PS2 rpg helped some of it's features which seem average by today's standards seem quite spectacular at the time (voice overs, and some of the visual effects).

The grid system was interesting in the sense that you could, if you wanted to, have characters with every single ability (except summons), but the time invested to do that made that unlikely of course. It was nice to do something other than gain levels, having to constantly spend sphere levels was a drag though.

My favorite part of the game by far was the Celestial Weapons quests, these provided some serious challenges, unrelated to the standard combat system which I personally happened to enjoy (yes, even dodging 200 lightning bolts...), although I still occasionally wonder how I ever pulled off the chocobo race for Tidus' sigil.

Blitzball took a little too long to finish tournaments and overall I wouldn't say it rates as one of my favorite mini games... it fits into the "just fine" category as well you might say.

Overall I definitely think it's worth a playthrough... if you like side events and optional bosses the celestial weapons and monster arena will definitely keep you busy well beyond the scope of the final boss/end of the storyline.

PS: I'd love to get your opinion on Xenosaga if you think FFX had too many cutscenes... heh heh heh

For me, FF X is a good game, but still lacks the quality such as image compared to games such as Star Ocean. The gameplay itself is quite fun, but not challenging enough, seems every enemy has its weakness and you can change the person endlessly. But what trouble me the most is the side quest, it takes me roughly about 20 hours to complete the weapon, items bla bla,,,
But it is a good game to play again, if u are bored and dont have any other game to play with.

FFX is probably my least-favorite Final Fantasy game. The game provided little challenge, and I would have preferred to fight my own final battle without any help from the game. That said, I think the battle system should have resembled FFX-2's. That one felt a little more balanced than the one from FFX.

I thought FFX's final battle was the hardest of all the FFs. Maybe I was just underleveled (since I rarely do side quests in RPGs) but I had to use EVERY GF (on overdrive) and it was still a challenge to wear down his last amounts of HP. Fortunately, the ending was totally worth it.

Are you talking about Yu Yevon? Because that's just about the easiest boss ever.

The only boss I had trouble with was the Santuary Keeper due to his constant curaga spell, as well as his multiple status effect attacks.

Did you cast reflect on him?

I think it's pretty obvious the "last boss" is Sin, not Yu Yevon. It's the same as Xenogears, are you going to sit here and tell me that Urobolus was the last boss? No, it was Deus, they just threw that in for plot purposes. Impossible to lose boss fights are not really boss fights, just awkward story sequences in the form of combat imo.

It's like there isn't anything horribly wrong with FFX (aside from Blitzball), but there's nothing great about it, either. I think the setting and story are well-developed, but some of the themes seemed tired to me, like corrupt religion for crap's sake. That's got to be the most used up RPG plot, but it did seem deeper than usual. I think the story is told in maybe the most basic way possible, which bored me. Aside from a few diversions, it felt like a group tour of Spira's historical hot-spots meh-spots. The parts that came close to being interesting were predictable instead.

Maybe some of these opinions come from having played older RPGs. Maybe this was just a mediocre first generation game on a new console that looked a lot better than it played.

You mean Jecht, correct?

Same thing. Was it really necessary to clarify that? =P

Fasinating. Another old schooler who clearly likes the best game ever made (FF4) and likes the DW series, the best RPG series ever made likes FFX-2's battle system. Again, amazing. I must know..... what is the battle system of X-2??? Hell, I might like that damn game!!

Yes, because there is a battle with Sin on the outside just before that. The other battle is with Jecht personally.

It's the same old active system in FFX-2, pretty much, but you can switch jobs mid-battle and everything happens so fast that you don't really get to enjoy it much. If you can stomach Charlie's Angels, then you should play it just to fight through the optional super dungeon of ridiculous difficulty.

No, I didn't think of that, but instead I got all the Aeons to overdrive, as well as Yuna, and summoned each Aeon out one after the other to unleash their payload.

I actually liked FFX-2's battle system quite a bit. It was fast and well-balanced (mostly). It was the plot and tone of the game that stunk up the place.

And no, the final boss I'm referring to is "Braska's Final Aeon". Whatever that's supposed to mean. I never did figure it out. ;)

Hehe. Just cast reflect on him and he will heal your entire party when he uses Curaga.

That's what I thought. Just had to be sure though. "Braska's Final Aeon" means just that. Jecht became Lord Braska's Final Aeon, so that Sin could be defeated. That boss is Jecht's final Aeon form.

Eh, fair enough.

FFX wasn't bad... it just didn't make any sense... like the TV show Lost...

FFX-2 is Barbie looking for a way to revive Ken, difference is that it's 100x gayer.

The only good thing about FFX-2 was the part where they showed Yuna's panties. A good 5 seconds of it.