tl;dr

FFX is meh.

FFX is my second fav PS2 game after SSX3.

My story is boring: I discovered the PS2 in 2011 after being exclusively a PC gamer, and was checking best games of PS2. I started with Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, GTA San Andreas, God of War and then FFX which I fell in love after the first hour or so. I played it twice on PS2 and then the HD remaster on PS3 which was disappointing, they coulda/shoulda done a lot more with it imo, especially knowing how much time they took.

I've said some harsh words about FFX, but it's still a good game. I guess it was affected by the fact that it came after the amazing IX.

Yeah, go play something that is nowhere near as good as the topic at hand!

Ah VGP, your situation is very much alike mine!

I dont have a favorite game of all time, because when you have played as many games as I did(and Im sure many on this forum qualify in this), you have favorites, not a single one.Too many masterpieces have been released along the years to really just narrow it down to only one.And FFX is one of such favorites.It is actually my first RPG to fall in love with.

But alas, I also had to play the game several times in order to beat it!Took me about 10 years to beat the game.In my first playthrough, I had reached the battle against Sin in the airship, only to my brother overwrite my savefile.In my second attempt, I reached the same fight, only to lose once again the save file(At first I thought my brother had saved over yet again, but I had just saved on my second memory card and never noticed it XD)

Finally, in my third playthrough, when I was much older and knew how to play RPGs better, I finally reached the final boss, and after grinding for 5 hours, finally managed to beat him and finish the game.And all those playthroughs are split by multiple years.

FF X is such as masterpiece.Shame it went downhill after that(With exception of FF XIV, but thats an online game, so I dont really count as a mainline entry)

So it became your favorite game ever when you put it on pause. Very telling

Final fantasy X is also my favorite game of all time. I don't know why I fall in love with IT, but this is one of the few games that I can play over and over.

Hell, I even enjoyed the sequel.

Ka-pi96 said: People who skip cutscenes? ugh, I hate people like that. My Dad is one of them too, it really annoys me seeing him play games and skipping all the cutscenes... especially when a few hours later he complains that he can't understand the story. No shit... you skipped most of it Still can't believe it took you 11 years to beat your favourite game though, talk about saving the best for later! Bit different for me. I did fall in love with it at first sight. Was already an FF fan so a new FF game was a guaranteed day 1 buy for me, and it did not disappoint. Straight away it had an awesome opening with the Sin attack on the Blitzball game. IMO the best character progression system any FF game has ever used. The best minigame any game has ever had (too bad the poor AI made it way too easy). And an awesome new way to do summons really helped set it apart from other games for me

At least he finished it, to this day Ive only ever seen the ending thanks to YouTube. Stupid child me got stuck on the Seymour fight on Mt Gagazet.

Went back years later and it was super easy, never finished the game though. Even when the HD version released (which I own on 4 platforms) I never finished the game. Still I often put it at No.1 on my all time faves list though

You give too many information about the unforeseen situations that pushed you to complete it over the course of 11 years, but you give too little info of the game itself!

So what's the best character?

What's your favourite track? The Besaid one?

Do you enjoy Blitzball?

Did you avoid those 200 lightnings?

Do you have any plausible explanation as to how come Auron can age despite being dead, not to mention how fun is it to die in Spira since you can just come back and chill around with your friend's son and do all the same things you did while you were alive but now you're stronger and no one can even tell you're dead, also is that scar on his face for showing off or a dead person can legit get permanent scars, also if he's dead how come he can't be injured with healing spells?

Hardest boss?

Do you plan on taking on Penance?

Now an extra question (shamelessly stolen from somewhere else) aimed for everyone here:

What did people do in Spira before Sending was invented? How did life ever develop on Spira? Unless someone dies at peace (something so rare it's almost unheard of, if Yuna's reaction to seeing Tidus's mom in the Farplane is any indication) or they get sent, then they turn into a Fiend or an Unsent, and the huge majority of them turn into Fiends. So while people were still figuring out the whole Sending thing, what kept the world from being totally overrun with Fiends? Even during Final Fantasy X, there are schools of aquatic, voraciously predatory Fiends that would probably wreak havoc on the ocean's ecosystem, and every land environment has Fiends roaming all over the place. I'd ask why we don't see more native animals, but there seems to be a reasonable explanation... the Fiends are killing them all, just like the Chocobo Eater preys on chocobos! So what happened for those first few millions years while humanity was still banging on rocks and nobody knew what a Sending was? If Spira's overrun with fiends now, with summoners all over the place, what in the world was it like when nobody was getting sent and almost every single person who died turned into a Fiend? How is Spira not a Fiend-ruled wasteland by the time the present day rolls around?

Well, it is awkward and cheesy, but the fact that it's supposed to be awkward and cheesy seems to have gone over so many people's heads for some reason.