Current Events > Did you do the 200 lightning bolt dodge in FFX?

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Reis posted...

I didn't know ff9 jump rope was in ff10

It is in response to the OP, which states

One of the worst designed mini games ever placed into a non comedy game.

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my post said in the game, meaning ff10

I remember watching my girlfriend do that. She hated it. Fuck that.

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I actually hated the butterfly game more than the lightning. The lightning ive done a couple of times.....butterfly once and said F*** this.....my eyes are bad enough without having to squint to see the things.....

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Zergrush80 posted...

I actually hated the butterfly game more than the lightning. The lightning ive done a couple of times.....butterfly once and said F*** this.....my eyes are bad enough without having to squint to see the things.....

This. I never could do the butterfly one. EVERYTHING else I've done in the original release.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

This. I never could do the butterfly one. EVERYTHING else I've done in the original release.

damn, I found that easy

Just avoid the red ones and grab the blue.

The floor around the blue ones are blue to guide you

Maybe it's a colorblind thing

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weird, butterfly was easier for me than chocobo or lightning. it has less random factor, you just need to memorize the spawn.

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Maybe I had a shit TV cause the colors looked nearly identical.

I beat all the original creations. I haven't played it since the International Release so I've never faced the Dark Aeons.

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Yeah whomever designed some of the mini games in ffx was most likely a sadist.

They probably came up with the jump rope one in ffix as well

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Absolutely fucking not lol. I never bothered with those tedious gimmicks in RPGs.

Like that dumbass 45 minute boss fight in FF15. Just dumb.

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Once on original release and again on Vita.
That's it though. Never again.
The whole game is kinda bland anyway. Yuna annoyed me and I just wanted Tidus to hook up with the much superior Lulu.

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Done it many times.

The secret is to mute the TV and pause every 20 lightning bolts for a few minutes.

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DeadlyNinjaBees posted...

The whole game is kinda bland anyway.

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RetsuZaiZen posted...

Absolutely fucking not lol. I never bothered with those tedious gimmicks in RPGs.

Like that dumbass 45 minute boss fight in FF15. Just dumb.

I never bothered with Yizmat for the same reason

long =/= fun tough challenge

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RetsuZaiZen posted...

Absolutely fucking not lol. I never bothered with those tedious gimmicks in RPGs.

Like that dumbass 45 minute boss fight in FF15. Just dumb.

Yeah, people were panicking at first when SE claimed the Adamantoise in FF15 would take 72 hours to defeat. I ended up killing it in about 15 minutes, which wasn't too bad.

In my opinion, the worst Final Fantasy boss is Yiazmat in FF12. It has 50 health bars, so it takes several hours to kill it.

Square Enix clearly likes doing crap like this to players lol.

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i didn't try it but i don't think it was necessarily poorly designed, just that such a steep requirement is a stupid and bad implementation of the idea.

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I did it successfully on the PS2 version and PS3 version. Didn't struggle with it, just found it time consuming. Back then I didn't hate it per se, but I definitely would hate to do it now.

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Chocobo Catcher is probably the most infuriating minigame I've ever committed to beating, and I can't remember whether it was that or getting jump-KO'ed by a Great Malboro in that game that caused me to crack open my first PS2 controller against the wall. Thing about Chocobo Catcher is that all that grinding imprinted a fair amount of muscle memory; when I did a fresh playthrough a couple years later and tried Catcher again, I beat it on the first or second try.

The Butterfly game never reached the peak of Chocobo Catcher's rage-induction, but I also never ever reached a point of getting good at it the way I did Catcher - differentiating the color was never the issue for me, it's that the perspective / hit detection is so out of whack you have no room for deviance / error when attempting to skirt by the little bastards.

Lightning Dodging, on the other hand, was one of the very few RPG minigames where I tried it, looked at the requirements necessary to conquer it, and said 'nope, nuh-uh, fuck that, never gonna waste my time with this.' Even though it nagged at my completionist instinct, I knew I'd never be able to maintain the required level of concentration without choking. Like I said earlier, the one and only time I ever beat it was when I stumbled home drunk one night (and thus unburdened by my usual neuroses), and for some reason it got into my head that I should fire up the PS2 and try it.

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Nah.

Lulu is benched by the time I'm gathering up the rare weapons, and I'm not a fan of completion's for completion's sake. I gave it a tepid attempt or two and then went on to focus on worthwhile crap.
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Tried it once, got hit after only a few dodges, decided it wasn't worth it.

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Oh and if we're talking about tedious, who the hell picked the trophies for the FFX HD Remaster?

Because fuck "Perfect Sphere Master". It's not hard, just time consuming and way overkill.



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I don't have the time nor the patience

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Because fuck "Perfect Sphere Master". It's not hard, just time consuming and way overkill.

did you do it
did the allure of being one of the few with the ultra rare 2.7% achievement get you

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Fluttershy posted...

Because fuck "Perfect Sphere Master". It's not hard, just time consuming and way overkill.

did you do it
did the allure of being one of the few with the ultra rare 2.7% achievement get you

Nope lol. I started to, then I realized just how many fights I was going to have to repeat to max out everyone... Not worth it lol.

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I did it in 2016 (which was my 5th playthrough) and it took me about 2-3 weeks of just lightning dodging to get it done.

Typically people bitch about lightning dodge, chocobo race, and butterfly catch. But chocobo race you can typically get done in a few hours and butterflys are actually easy once you know the path, but when it comes to the lightning dodge you either dont fuck up for 20 mins or you start over

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NoxObscuras posted...

Nope lol. I started to, then I realized just how many fights I was going to have to repeat to max out everyone... Not worth it lol.

Don Tonberry

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Yeah I used the crater trick while taking a break halfway through.

the first time i reached calm lands i tried the chocobo mini game and got a 0 time second try. didnt even know an ultimate weapon was tied to it.

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ModLogic posted...

the first time i reached calm lands i tried the chocobo mini game and got a 0 time second try. didnt even know an ultimate weapon was tied to it.

On the plus side you need to get LESS than 0

And the first time you win the race, it doesn't count even if you get less than zero. Also you'd have needed the upgraded mirror or else it doesn't matter anyway

So you could pretend you actually got exactly 0 and saved yourself the frustration of not getting the Sigil

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I didn't struggle too much with any of the mini games for the Celestial weapons in FFX. I do recall the butterfly mini game being difficult in the PS2 days. But I played it recently on Steam and pretty sure I did it on the first or 2nd try. I'm wondering if it was just harder on a CRT TV or something, because when I was doing it, I kept thinking this isn't close to being hard. But yet I definitely remember it being somewhat difficult in the PS2 days. The chocobo mini game I could usually do within 5-10 attempts.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

On the plus side you need to get LESS than 0

And the first time you win the race, it doesn't count even if you get less than zero. Also you'd have needed the upgraded mirror or else it doesn't matter anyway

So you could pretend you actually got exactly 0 and saved yourself the frustration of not getting the Sigil

i did get the sigil on second try tho

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I did it on PS2 and again on PS3 when I got the platinum. I remember the PS3 version had a slight input delay for me so I had to mess with the TV or PS3 settings or something to make it doable.

Geez, I finished the sphere grids for at least Tidus, Rikku, and Wakka on ps2. Forget if I did the rest.

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Done it genuinely on PS2 - once to 200 with No Encounters, and a couple of times to 50 or 100 without No Encounters (in challenge runs, to get the stat spheres on the first visit). Done it with the crater trick on PS3 - I just can't reliably dodge without that trick on the HD versions.

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KainWind posted...

Geez, I finished the sphere grids for at least Tidus, Rikku, and Wakka on ps2. Forget if I did the rest.

There's really 0 point in doing it for more than 3 people

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UnfairRepresent posted...

There's really 0 point in doing it for more than 3 people

There's one. Personal satisfaction/showing off to friends who probably don't care. I'd 100% do it if I got an achievement though.

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KainWind posted...

There's one. Personal satisfaction/showing off to friends who probably don't care. I'd 100% do it if I got an achievement though.

Hey if it makes you happy
but there's no skill involved, Just means unlimited free time

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ModLogic posted...

aurons and wakkas killed by soul

Wasnt Wakkas just play blitzball? I liked blitzball...

Anyway, yeah I did it once.

farming AP for sphere grid isn't even that hard.

Overdrive-> AP + Triple Overdrive +Auto Phoenix vs Don Tonberry.

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Kami_no_Kami posted...

Wasnt Wakkas just play blitzball? I liked blitzball...

Anyway, yeah I did it once.

I definitely loved Blitzball. I actually played it for fun although every match usually ended up something ridiculous like 7-0 once you really get going or I think my best score was 9-0.

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Legato-and-Vash posted...

I definitely loved Blitzball. I actually played it for fun although every match usually ended up something ridiculous like 7-0 once you really get going or I think my best score was 9-0.

Yeah, Blitzball was one of those exceptionally rare instances in a FF game where the unholy level of grinding necessary to get / achieve something actually revolved around a fun minigame. The game itself was fairly janky, but I enjoyed the RPG aspects of recruiting and leveling my ragtag team of elite players. I also liked the free agent mechanic, and seeing how the set teams would gradually split apart and join other teams over the course of 100+ games (I also quickly learned the valuable lesson of never getting involved in Blitzball before getting the airship, lest your desired free agents get called up by another team before you've had a chance to recruit them in-world).

To be honest, I was always a slight bit melancholy whenever the Jupiter Sigil finally appeared, because it meant that I no longer had a good reason to keep playing Blitzball.

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I did with the power of save scumming.

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JustMyOpinion posted...

Never did it. I did do the chocobo and butterfly one though.

This. And the funny thing is that the lightning challenge isn't hard to do because there's and actual method to it, it's just tedious.

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