Pretty much all of you guys are confirming my suspicions, so I think I will:
1. Read the rest of the plot of X on the interwebz.
2. Stay as far away as I can from X-2.
3. Dive into XII.
Thanks everyone!
The thing is each game has things that make each of them different. I played FFX just this year, and yeah it's story is kind of crazy in a dumb way. If your really not feeling up to it try another one. 12 didn't really tickle my fancy when it came out, but I was thinking about giving it another go. Some really like it because it's story is a bit more grounded and mature in ways. It's combat is interesting, and the world, structurally seems so much more coherent and alive that any other FF game. Also I need to finish X-2; does anyone know how to beat Shinra?
@Galiant said:
@killacam said:
@Galiant: not really.. it should be pretty obvious what i mean to anyone who played the first ten
I did play the first ten games (although I haven't completed them all, but that's besides the point), so how would I know what you mean when you say that the tenth game "feels like the last true part of the series"?
I don't know anything about what you feel about anything, so no, it's not obvious. Don't act like your opinion is a well known fact or something.
If you can't actually explain what you mean by that statement then I will just dismiss it as nonsense.
Yeah, how can there be a "true part of the series" when they are all kind of different, including the first 10.
yes, the first ten are different, insofar that each new game works to progress the series and what it has strived to do since its inception. tweaks/updates/level-ups are not the same thing as complete and utter dismemberment of the very systems which define the series (aka interesting narratives that are accomplished concurrently with gameplay, battle mechanics/systems). the former of these is just not present in most recent titles, and, on top of their disjointed methods of storytelling, they are the only ff games with radically different battle systems. bad thing, good thing, to each their own. but the point i'm making is that if they were released under titles other than final fantasy, i think significantly fewer gamers would be so quick to relate them to the series compared to how many would if one of the preceding ten were released under another brand.
@Galiant: not really.. it should be pretty obvious what i mean to anyone who played the first ten
I did play the first ten games (although I haven't completed them all, but that's besides the point), so how would I know what you mean when you say that the tenth game "feels like the last true part of the series"?
I don't know anything about what you feel about anything, so no, it's not obvious. Don't act like your opinion is a well known fact or something.
If you can't actually explain what you mean by that statement then I will just dismiss it as nonsense.
are you just blindly playing through these games? do you stop to consider what about them is different, what is new, what works, what doesn't? the vehicles through which a story is told? these details are not constants, nor are they to be mindlessly accepted!
i think the main reason people think highly of it is because it's the last final fantasy game that actually feels like a true part of the series. it was also really cool at the time to have an ff game with voice acting and such dazzling cutscenes, and, thought a lot of the game is laughable, in the end the game touts an interesting storyline and an epic (enough) adventure.
@SuperCycle: I can't wait until the current generation of mindless reagan-loving politicians are dead and gone so that some fresh and forward-thinking ideas can be put into action.
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