Thread: My Final Fantasy X eliteness!

Last Final Fantasy game I played all the way through was VII. Is X really any good? Aren't they online nowadays or something?

Oh yeah? The night NCAA Football came out last fall, I played an entire season the first night I had it. 14 games. The second season took about 2 days. All in all, I played 6(?) seasons in the 2-3 months I was playing the game solidly.

PS all the FF games suck

Originally Posted by Govtcheez

PS all the FF games suck

Blasphemy! FFVII was a masterpiece!

Originally Posted by jverkoey

Maybe you like the Devil May Cry series better?

Never played it.

FF is crap - real good RPGs are way less linear than any of those, that I've seen. Give me either of the Fallout games or Morrowind anytime. I want a game where I feel like I actually affect the world, besides going from point A to random combat B to point C.

Originally Posted by Perspective

I don't like turn based combat, thats what killed it for me... the only game with turn based fighting i will play is "Dragon Warrior" for NES.

I like turn based combat just fine - like I said, Fallout was one of my favorite games. It was the rest of the game that sucked, to me.

To me, it's not really an RPG if it's not turn-based combat. Then you're just playing an adventure game that keeps track of more stats.

And I really liked the fact that FFVII felt like a movie, because it felt like a really good one. I think it's good for games to allow you to decide which side you're on like KOTOR, but I hardly see the point in playing an MMORPG where you walk around aimlessly half the time or any RPG in which your goals are hazy. I either want to save the world or conquer it. I have no interest in building up wealth or forming complex relationships.

> To me, it's not really an RPG if it's not turn-based combat.

So you don't think Morrowind's an RPG? How about some of the more recent D&D games with real time combat. The only difference between turn based and real time combat is the amount of time you have to plan your next move. I don't see how that makes one an RPG or an adventure game. Hell, using your logic, turn based war games are RPGs - you're trying to save/conquer the world, they keep track of statistics, and it's turn based.

> I have no interest in building up wealth or forming complex relationships.

Then you're not "playing" much of a "role", are you? FF's pretty much as deep as a rail shooter, then.

Originally Posted by Govtcheez

> I have no interest in building up wealth or forming complex relationships.

Then you're not "playing" much of a "role", are you? FF's pretty much as deep as a rail shooter, then.

I prefer playing the role of an epic hero on an epic quest. That's what FFVII and KOTOR have to offer.

As for turn-based versus real-time, I think that real-time combat makes the game more about reaction time and button-smashing than strategy. In the original FF, I had to carefully distribute my attacks to make each and every one of my turns count, and I enjoyed that. But when I play Fable, there's little strategy other than keep swinging your hammer until everything's dead.