If you could change ONE thing about FFX?

[FalloutJack]

-Hiyo-

I'm aware of all of this, naturally. However, the point of 'em being weaker IS the point. Having killed Yunalesca, pretty much THE PERSON to make Aeons (keeping Anima in mind here), it is a small matter to destroy the locations in which one acquires them. Or even better, stop making summoners. As one could see in the final boss rush, compared to Jecht, the other Aeons are pathetic. The closest one is Anima, and still lacking.

Also, alluding to my second choice of chenge to the game, Yu Yevon is handled poorly. He's essentially the greatest manipulator in Spira's history and he's reduced to a parasitic soul-leech with no brain or personality. He's just a Fiend. Sin is a badass monster because Jecht is in the pilot chair, really. He makes the monster go. Yu Yevon merely prods him into action out of some instinctive lust for carnage. He is not actually smart enough to adapt his plans. What would happen if Yuna hadn't been there when Jecht was beaten? What happens when the lynch-pin to the giant monster was pulled, Sending or no Sending? Without Jecht, Sin is braindead and could probably just fall apart.

If Yu Yevon DID have a brain, he would have commanded Jecht to attack Aeon sites right after Yunalesca was defeated to birth MORE SINS, or actually stopped her death, or even EATEN the Aeon-maker so that Sin could simply NOT DIE. I have no problem with the way Sin was defeated. I think Yu Yevon himself is crap.

 

[RobotDinosaur]

My biggest issues with the game (admittedly not huge issues, I generally liked it):
-Change how XP is given out. The fact that everyone gets the same XP regardless of how many people participated in the fight annoys me, because I feel like I'm being wasteful if I don't swap in everyone in the party.
-Get rid of Kimahri. This is mostly personal preference because I hate blue mages.
-Tweak the Sphere grid. I didn't hate it in general - maybe it's overly complicated, but whatever. But characters have one path on the grid they can follow until halfway through the game, and even after that it's hard to make dramatic changes. Which means there's very few viable builds for each character.
(Maybe the last one is misplaced - I loved FF6 which had minimal character customization options - but also had no illusions that it did, and did the leveling for you. FF10 gives the illusion of choice but few real choices, so assigning XP or spheres or whatever is a chore, not a choice.)

 

[SycoMantis91]

Remove all of the characters, and replace them with FF7 characters. Then, remove the story and replace it with the FF7 story. After that, remove all of the settings and envirnoments and replace them with FF7 settings and environments. Then remove the mechanics and replace them with the FF7 mechanics.

But leave Blitzball.

I'd do the opposite, actually. Except I'd just make Blitzball less of a grind.

 

[Epona]

Also, I never understood this hate of Tidus and Vaan. Just popular to hate on them I guess. I can understand the hate on Squall though, because he was so negative that it might rub off on the player. Neither Tidus nor Vaan were negative characters.

People are just jealous cause they're pretty

Everyone's complaining about the laughing scene, butr it was SUPPOSED to be cringeworthy, wasn't it?

If memory serves it was meant to be uncomfortable as they were forcing the laugh.

 

[JohnDoey]

It would have to be Tidus's voice and some of his dialogue so he hopefully would come across less like a whiny asshole and maybe his shirt the thing looks ridiculous.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I would remove metrosexuality. All of it.

 

[waj9876]

That it made more money. So they could put more effort into Final Fantasy X-2. Which wasn't good, AT ALL, but was way better than fucking X.

 

[Khazoth]

How about getting rid of its entirely superfluous sequel?
I'd pay big money to see every copy of X-2 flung into the nearest black hole.

Ironic, I think FFX-2 was way better then FFX, mainly because I didn't have to spend the game with Tidus.

 

[DRTJR]

Auron becoming the Protagonist with Tidus' severed head on a pike as a bonus weapon.

 

[SecondPrize]

I'd remove the story and change the focus of the thing to make it a Blitzball sim with a few little story bits about winning the championship so Grandma can get an operation.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I'm not sure why everyone hates the laughing scene. In context, it's the characters forcing a laugh in a terrible situation. "Fake it til you make it" as the saying goes. Sure, it's awkward to watch, but serves a story purpose.

 

[Discordius Erisianus]

Change just about everything. Or replace it with FFVI.

That would be nice. Yet like many of the things suggested here it would take just remaking the game.
My suggestion is to substitute the sphere grid with a leveling system, have characters learn new abilities by leveling up, and rebalance the game so that the maximum power that can be achieved is much less, making the superbosses not require days of grinding. I don't know why the gap that separates the power you need for the common bosses and the power required for optional bosses like dark aeons and penace need be so deep and long but my guess is that it extends the gameply time at the expense of player's enjoyment.

For all written dialogue in the game there should be a text box, preferably one that is blue with white borders, that is opaque so the white letters needs not be read against any background color.

All the minigames must be removed and substituted with an apology.

Remove all of the characters, and replace them with FF7 characters. Then, remove the story and replace it with the FF7 story. After that, remove all of the settings and envirnoments and replace them with FF7 settings and environments. Then remove the mechanics and replace them with the FF7 mechanics.

But leave Blitzball.

You were goning so well until that last sentense, Plissken.

 

[00slash00]

i loved final fantasy 10. really the only thing i hated was that chocabo race thing to get the ultimate weapons. it frustrated me so much and i eventually just gave up on trying to get them

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

BLITZBALL. Not even a second of consideration there.

Change Tidus' hair so he doesn't resemble Meg Ryan.

Second place goes to the removal of this. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H47ow4_Cmk0]

Yeah, I will actually include the laughing scene in the things that can be thrown out rapidly.

I may very well be alone in this, but I found that scene kind of endearing

 

[GloatingSwine]

Maybe add in a bit more detail about why exactly...uh...

Spoiler: Well it is being re-released...

...Why the Hell did Titus have to be sent or whatever the Hell happened?! I'm sure this was explored in X-2 but I haven't played that yet and while I do plan on playing it I'd rather just know what happened with Titus. I fucking cried (a little bit: single manly tear) when Yuna ran through him on the airship in the ending video. I don't like crying unless the ending is unreasonably happy as in FFIX...although it did inspire emotion so there's always that but I want an explanation dammit! Not in another game either!

Spoiler

It tells you what's going on. When you defeat Sin the Fayth (and thereby Aeons) will disappear (In FFX-2 they are only encountered in the Farplane, there are no more summoners), and Tidus is basically just an Aeon.

Quite how he returns in FFX-2's good end is less clear, of course.

 

[RJ 17]

Glad to see I'm not the only jaded former FF fan in here. :3

I'm sure there are plenty of us around - FFX was the turning point for a lot of people, but from what I hear the games since then have been incrementally worse with each installment. I'm surprised the franchise is still limping along, honestly.

Yeah, I played 10 till the bitter end despite how much the voice acting made my ears bleed. The fact that it's literally impossible to lose against the main boss of the game unless you kill your own party twice put a REALLY foul taste in my mouth. Then I made the mistake of renting 10 part 2....and returned it two hours later. It was then that Final Fantasy was officially dead to me. But I'd argue that 10 wasn't the start of the downhill slide, I'd say it started at 8. A decent enough game except that the entire cast is a bunch of whining emos and the draw-junction system made it way too easy to make your party into gods. 9 was too childish and cartoony for my tastes, got to the 2nd disc and quit. Which, of course, leads into what I said about 10 and 10-2.

But yeah, everything I've heard about the series since I stopped playing leads me to believe that indeed, the series is dead and is just getting raped by Square-Enix like they're a bunch of necrophiliacs looking for more money.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Change one thing about FF X? Put a Persona 4 disc in it's place.

 

[Triforceformer]

None of that stupid "Enter your own name oh noes the voice acting's gone down the shitter" stuff. Your name is Tidus. Deal with it. Embrace it.

 

[gigastar]

Apart from everything thats usually wrong with a Final Fantasy game as standard, for FFX i would add the ability to skip cutscenes.

 

[LittleBlondeGoth]

Well, I think mine have already been mentioned, but...

Another vote for having everyone refer to Tidus as "Tidus". I know it was a thing to be able to name your own guys for a while, but for Final Fantasy? No. Just doesn't work for me. People are who they are.

Blitzball... I found it frustrating, but mainly because I was crap. The game in Luca I had to hand the controller to someone else to do it, since I just couldn't accomplish anything beyond random flailings. I'm aware quite a few people loved it, and in fact would be quite happy if EA Sports were to release a Blitzball game every year. But it's not for me.

200 lightning bolts can bite me.

And I always had a problem with Kimahri. Didn't like playing him, didn't bother, then had to fight the Ronso solo with him. Yeah, that went well.

Slightly off-topic, I'm going to hold my hands up and say I'm one of those freakish people who really liked XII. I found the open areas with visible mobs a refreshing change from random battles. The gambit system only "played the game for you" if you let it (I love micromanaging things, and it didn't piss me off. I just set up bog standard stuff and switched characters whenever I wanted them to change it up). Balthier was clearly awesome. The politics angle was a nice touch, but could have been taken even further. Vaan... Well yes, I'll concede that Vaan is not Square's finest hour. And Fran was brilliant too, so much so that I made her costume to go to cons in.

And I didn't hate X-2 either, though it's nowhere near my favourite. It was... Different, definitely. Not what I was expecting. I mean, the massage minigame with Leblanc was weird. But I felt that whilst it was fairly girly, I enjoyed the job system. Different strokes for different folks I guess. /shrug