Come Anticipate "Final Fantasy X-2" With Me

yeah, she's in the game, too

and here

note: GIS for 'rikku' turns up...interesting results. RUN AWAY.

Yuna is also a pop star in this one, mic & everything.

unfortunately, Lulu is knocked up in this game, so she can't bring along her air of overvoluptuous goth trampishness.

I can't decide between Yuffie and Selphie!

Dig the costume page. I was complete incredulous of all this, then...i...saw...the Black Mage outfits.

BEST CHARACTERS EVAR

I spent wayyyyy too much time playing ffx. Wont be picking this thing up until its 'greatest hits' worthy and costs 20 bucks.

I like final fantasy. iv'e been a fan since the nes days. but i hadn't played any of the games in the series since ff3 for the snes until a couple months back when I played (and finished, after way too many nerdy hours) ffx. obviously the graphics and sound and scope of the games are a million times bigger and better since ff3, but way too often I found myself cringing as the story unfolded.

The cheese factor was definitely present in the older series, but I don't think it was allowed to develop as much since the hardware resources were so much more limited. I think it was also more palatable for me back then because I kinda wrote it off as just "well, the due to the limitations of the hardware, they just don't have the ability to make the type of story one would expect an rpg to have."

But I now see that I was only half-right. The story WAS limited by the hardware, but now that they have a 128-bit platform, they're using the expanded power to expand the hokeyness into the stratosphere.

Not that hokeyness is a bad thing, necessarily. Sometimes extreme intentional hokeyness can be great (or on the other hand, sometimes it can be Carrot Top). But it seems like the FF people are trying to make it a serious drama and it tends to play out like a corny soap opera. I don't know if I'll be able to play FFX-2.

But then again, you can see Yuna's ass cheeks!!!!!!!!!

and with the advance ads for FFXII already out, let's just say that the female leads will continue to be backing that up, as(azz?) it were.

I haven't played an FF game since IX. The last one I thought was brilliant was VII.

(You know I didn't even hear about this game until two days ago)

side note: I had no idea Scarlett Johansson is only 18! Jeepers creepers!

hmm. possibly symbolic, possibly just more weird imported japanese-ness.

Also, does anybody recognize any of the voice cast? i think that the english Rikku also does "Bubbles" in "Powerpuff Girls", the actress who does Shinra is also "Bobby Hill", and the voice of "Kevin" from "Mission Hill" shows up in random places.

oh yeah, Dwight Schultz("Murdoch"), John Di Maggio("Bender"), and Gwendoline Yao are on here, too.
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/HH/1290102/gwen1.jpg
(does the voice for the goth chick)

(Sorry, I know this is a thread for the sequel.)

I'm playing through X for the first time. It's pretty good (best battle system, the graphics & FMVs are great) but the voice acting on Tidus can get too grating. Plus the voice acting for Seymour just doesn't sound like a professional voice actor to me. Lulu's is great. In fact, she's my favorite character. For some weird reason I got confused on the Bender voice acting and for a while was convinced it was the guy who does Fry voicing Tidus. I found a copy of the Japanese voiced FFX and it sounded way better and if I hadn't already sunk way too much time into it already I would have started the game over with that.

The battle system is great, probably the best in the series! Switching out at will between all of the characters and doing things by turns is definitely the way to go. Just imagine any other FF game with this system, it would be a massive improvement.

The music.....eh, it may have one of the weakest soundtracks out of everything I've played so far, though the battle music is great as always. The language decoding thing I really do not care about. I played about 6 blitzball games until I realized it's a complete waste of time. At least with Triple Triad a came can be over in under 2 minutes. Once you start a game of blitzball you are locked in for 10+ minutes, most of which you have absolutely no control over!

The story is ok, I mean there are probably plot holes but there are enough Lovecraftian monsters tearing apart space and time for that to be forgivable. I don't really miss the overworld, because the last time it was useful was VII. Plus I have been to the Calm Lands, which I sort of think is a punchline of an inside joke about overworld maps. It's the first area in the game that is just a giant, open, grassy plain with 2 or 3 destinations in it and a ton of random monsters in-between all those destinations. At that point I realized that I was glad I didn't have to deal with that sort of thing during most of the game.

The lightning field was funny, because after one or two futile attempts at dodging lightning (!) I just decided to walk around and see what would happen because, hey this is a Final Fantasy game, they wouldn't let it kill you outside of a battle would they? So Tidus just ran around getting shocked by lightning hundreds of times, and every time it happened, it was funny.

did u skip ff9

I started playing 9 but something happened and I never made it past the first couple of hours. I definitely plan on going back to it after this. Or should I play X-2? X is alright, but the thought of fighting all the same monsters and playing the same areas again..... did they really re-use all that stuff in X-2?

Btw I'm playing using PCSX2 at 3x native resolution with all kind of graphics tweaks added on and it looks pretty damn amazing.

I played FFX for a while last year. I just felt like if it got to the point in 50% of the time, all the time, I'd have enjoyed it. I dug the techno FF theme from the opening, though.

X-2 is a pretty different game from FFX, though it's been ten years since I played either so my memory might be hazy. The story is silly and lighthearted despite having a lot of the same characters, and it focuses more on combat and special attacks, which are usually not my favorite aspects of RPGs. You don't play through any of the same areas or monsters as X iirc. I found it really boring and stopping playing after a few hours.

your female character has to massage another female character to get her "satisfaction level" to a certain spot

Yeah this about sums up the whole game