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Only in a very loose sense. Aemon Send a noteboard - 14/11/2009 10:24:52 PM
Just ... just one thing. Please don't tell me you're referring to X as the "roots" of anything to do with Final Fantasy. :p


X obviously was not the beginning of Final Fantasy in any way. However, I would argue that it is a fairly traditional Final Fantasy game. It had a Fantasy setting, turn-based battle system, save-the-world emotional plot, etc. XII, on the other hand, tried a lot of new things. It had a very political storyline that was much less epic in scope, it didn't have nearly the same character emphasis, t(here were no "lead" characters at all, really), and the battle system played more like an MMO than anything else. No turn-base, introduced the tank-and-spank mentality, etc.

Anyway, I'm not sure I really argued the point successfully, but I definitely think that X was much more representative of a standard Final Fantasy game than XII was.
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FFXIII gets an official North American release date. - 14/11/2009 07:15:26 AM 687 Views
I'm not excited, because I didn't like 12 (but I'll still buy it) - 14/11/2009 07:52:04 PM 411 Views
It's not being made by the team who made 12, though. - 14/11/2009 08:29:51 PM 368 Views
It looks a lot like X. - 14/11/2009 09:19:30 PM 394 Views
Only in a very loose sense. - 14/11/2009 10:24:52 PM 383 Views
I can agree with you in general. - 15/11/2009 12:27:34 AM 401 Views
X was like that too, though. - 15/11/2009 01:29:35 AM 380 Views
Nooo, it's not the same. - 15/11/2009 03:06:07 AM 379 Views
Well, true. It doesn't have an overmap. - 15/11/2009 09:13:54 PM 376 Views
I'm with you. - 15/11/2009 07:29:09 AM 403 Views
The last FF game with a Uematsu soundtrack was Final Fantasy 9. - 15/11/2009 01:51:33 AM 399 Views
I don't remember a single track from 11, 12, or x-2, so it changes nothing - 15/11/2009 05:30:22 AM 422 Views
X-2 had one of the best Final Fantasy tunes ever, I thought. - 15/11/2009 06:47:47 AM 508 Views
Glad someone else likes that. I play that pretty regularly. - 15/11/2009 09:15:58 PM 395 Views
Who did the "Hymns?" - 15/11/2009 04:02:04 PM 354 Views
Awesome - 15/11/2009 02:19:08 AM 360 Views
I'll give it a shot...first FF game I'll have played since VIII - 15/11/2009 03:03:46 AM 378 Views
I never really enjoyed X all that much. - 16/11/2009 03:08:57 PM 362 Views
The minigame? Do you mean Blitzball? - 16/11/2009 06:40:33 PM 390 Views
Re: The minigame? Do you mean Blitzball? - 16/11/2009 07:11:27 PM 389 Views
Yes. - 16/11/2009 07:24:45 PM 381 Views
Yep... good old Blitz ball. - 16/11/2009 07:24:14 PM 395 Views

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