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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Rank Their Top 100 Respective Video Games part 3
MrSmartGuy 02/19/21 7:55:07 PM #180:	#13 - Final Fantasy X (PS2, my GotY for 2001) If wed have begun this project as recently as 7 years ago, I wouldve told you that Final Fantasy X is in my unassailable top 3 with Resident Evil 4/Metal Gear Solid 3. Over the coming two weeks you will see if time has treated those other two games much better, but this write-up will specifically address FFXs fall from grace. Lets cut back to the summer of 2001 for a bit. I am 13, and persistent in holding out on my Nintendo fandom, because I am only allowed one new console every generation, and not quite old enough to really understand how to save up several hundred dollars yet. Sony gets the jump on Nintendo and releases the PS2 a year earlier than Nintendo can get their Cube out the door. I dont really quite have a pulse on whats big in the gaming world at this point; my only source on this kind of info is through the issues of Nintendo Power at my local library. But my friend has a new PS2 and wants me to try out this game he got with it. I head over to his house and he pops in Final Fantasy X. I start a new game, and the first thing Im treated to is this fucking badass shot of a city getting destroyed accompanied by heavy metal. If that isnt a direct hook to a couple of 13 year olds, I dont know what is. I was floored. How were these graphics even possible in a video game? I had only ever seen polygons before, and this scrawny sports man is so realistic? I dont understand, but I must own this. I would end up asking for a PS2 as a junior high graduation gift the following May, saving up enough to get a used copy of FFX, and blasting through the game in a month. I had no clue this idea of turn-based combat games even existed until Paper Mario. I actually skipped over the SNES when I was little, which was the heyday of the genre, and the N64 was severely lacking in that department, so FFX was opening an entire new world for me. Unfortunately, now we must fast-forward to late-2016. I had been aware of the remaster coming out years earlier, but Im not too into the idea, because turn-based RPGs are not what I consider great targets for remasters in general. Looking better doesnt contribute much to its overall quality. But oh my god, someone has remade the entire soundtrack into Tidus laughs and Ill be damned if Im not going to experience the game in this way. I buy it, download the mod, and get to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOzM4ClFG1o and the magic just isnt there for me at all anymore. I get to Djose and the game is just so boring. Having enemies weaknesses tied directly to your characters stats and weapons doesnt detract much from an initial playthrough but boy does it make combat ridiculously stale super fast on a second or third time through. I still really enjoy the story, the characters, even Tidus cheesy voice acting, but its easily the highest-ranked game on my list that I would actively refuse to play anymore. It also opened my eyes on turn-based RPGs, which my list has been chock full of. By the time I finish, 15 of the 17 RPGs on my full list will be turn-based, and ultimately, that is all thanks to FFX. --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif <cite>MrSmartGuy posted [p:950853392] in The Board ... [t:79281225]...</cite> <quote>#13 - Final Fantasy X (PS2, my GotY for 2001) If wed have begun this project as recently as 7 years ago, I wouldve told you that Final Fantasy X is in my unassailable top 3 with Resident Evil 4/Metal Gear Solid 3. Over the coming two weeks you will see if time has treated those other two games much better, but this write-up will specifically address FFXs fall from grace. Lets cut back to the summer of 2001 for a bit. I am 13, and persistent in holding out on my Nintendo fandom, because I am only allowed one new console every generation, and not quite old enough to really understand how to save up several hundred dollars yet. Sony gets the jump on Nintendo and releases the PS2 a year earlier than Nintendo can get their Cube out the door. I dont really quite have a pulse on whats big in the gaming world at this point; my only source on this kind of info is through the issues of Nintendo Power at my local library. But my friend has a new PS2 and wants me to try out this game he got with it. I head over to his house and he pops in Final Fantasy X. I start a new game, and the first thing Im treated to is this fucking badass shot of a city getting destroyed accompanied by heavy metal. If that isnt a direct hook to a couple of 13 year olds, I dont know what is. I was floored. How were these graphics even possible in a video game? I had only ever seen polygons before, and this scrawny sports man is so realistic? I dont understand, but I must own this. I would end up asking for a PS2 as a junior high graduation gift the following May, saving up enough to get a used copy of FFX, and blasting through the game in a month. I had no clue this idea of turn-based combat games even existed until Paper Mario. I actually skipped over the SNES when I was little, which was the heyday of the genre, and the N64 was severely lacking in that department, so FFX was opening an entire new world for me. Unfortunately, now we must fast-forward to late-2016. I had been aware of the remaster coming out years earlier, but Im not too into the idea, because turn-based RPGs are not what I consider great targets for remasters in general. Looking better doesnt contribute much to its overall quality. But oh my god, someone has remade the entire soundtrack into Tidus laughs and Ill be damned if Im not going to experience the game in this way. I buy it, download the mod, and get to work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOzM4ClFG1o and the magic just isnt there for me at all anymore. I get to Djose and the game is just so boring. Having enemies weaknesses tied directly to your characters stats and weapons doesnt detract much from an initial playthrough but boy does it make combat ridiculously stale super fast on a second or third time through. I still really enjoy the story, the characters, even Tidus cheesy voice acting, but its easily the highest-ranked game on my list that I would actively refuse to play anymore. It also opened my eyes on turn-based RPGs, which my list has been chock full of. By the time I finish, 15 of the 17 RPGs on my full list will be turn-based, and ultimately, that is all thanks to FFX. --- Xbox GT/PSN name/Nintendo ID: TatteredUniform http://www.scuffletown.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/tRBE1.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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