@Anwar said:
" @Parkingtigers: ffx wasn't that hard, it's just a grind, I stopped before the last bosses to do some sidestuff, I had Yojinbo(sp?) and all kind of shit for the last hours of the game ;P "
Oh I never said it was hard. Hence me putting it in the "Most simple games you rage quit" thread. The FF games are never much more than spam attack, occasionally heal, spam specials when charged. It wasn't the game that made me quit at all.
It was the fact that I was never allowed to play the damn game. Cutscene, after cutscene, after cutscene. I walk around the environment looking for trouble, I triggered a 5 minute cutscene and I'm sitting there waiting and waiting for it to end and the game itself to start. Then it ends, I start walking again and "whoops" another cutscene. I put the controller down again and sit there grinding my teeth waiting to be allowed back in. Rinse and repeat. And repeat. And repeat.
I actually stopped playing the first day in anger, and returned to it fresh the next morning in a better mood. Didn't last long, still it made me want to throw the controller though the screen just so that I could claim to be interacting with it in some way. And here's the thing, I wouldn't have minded the cutscenes if they had made any sense, or if they had actually been about characters that I actually cared about. It tried to go for the mysterious setup, with lots of cryptic comments and foreshadowing that it clearly wanted to only come back to many hours later. It was bad storytelling of the worst kind, and I was being forced to watch it rather than actually playing through the story.
Plus the actual times I did get to control the game it found other ways to piss me off. I was on a boat, and it made me sit through a tediously long and unskippable instructions on how to do something. I read it all, then explore the rest of the boat. I accidentally click on the dude who gave me the instructions, and it made me sit through it all again! Without being able to skip! Again! *rage* So I swim down underwater, discovering that I'm basically in an invisible corridor as I can't swim to left or right, so any illusion that I'm actually playing now is gone because they might just as well have made that a cutscene if I can't do anything than push forward on the stick. I get to a simple combat, and out of sheer boredom I decide to see if I can use a special move rather than spam the basic attack. Just wanted to experiment on this early, easy fight. Logical right? Got to make your own fun at times, right? Well I get killed, as expected, and reload the save to go and play it the traditional (spam attack to win) way. Only to find that I'm not allowed down into the water until I read the instructions on how to go down again. Yes, those unskippable, "I've already read these two times stop fucking with me" instructions.
Oh and even the title screen of that game pissed me off. First time I play, I sit and watch the opening cinematic as I wanted to soak up story in the way that they want to show it to me. So I watched it, thought it looked kind of cool, and hit start to play. What's the first thing the game makes me do after hitting start? It makes me watch that entire cinematic again. Unskippable. Fucksocks. And the most insulting part of that, was that the cinematic isn't even linked to the start of the story, it's just a "Here's something you'll get to later on in the game, hope you enjoy watching it (twice) now though just to confuse the fuck out of you".
TL;DR - Fuck FFX.
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