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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 666 Views
I'm not excited, because I didn't like 12 (but I'll still buy it) - 14/11/2009 07:52:04 PM 390 Views
It's not being made by the team who made 12, though. - 14/11/2009 08:29:51 PM 353 Views
It looks a lot like X. - 14/11/2009 09:19:30 PM 381 Views
Only in a very loose sense. - 14/11/2009 10:24:52 PM 367 Views
I can agree with you in general. - 15/11/2009 12:27:34 AM 363 Views
X was like that too, though. - 15/11/2009 01:29:35 AM 362 Views
Nooo, it's not the same. - 15/11/2009 03:06:07 AM 364 Views
Well, true. It doesn't have an overmap. - 15/11/2009 09:13:54 PM 361 Views
I'm with you. - 15/11/2009 07:29:09 AM 380 Views
The last FF game with a Uematsu soundtrack was Final Fantasy 9. - 15/11/2009 01:51:33 AM 383 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 402 Views
X-2 had one of the best Final Fantasy tunes ever, I thought. - 15/11/2009 06:47:47 AM 488 Views
Glad someone else likes that. I play that pretty regularly. - 15/11/2009 09:15:58 PM 378 Views
Who did the "Hymns?" - 15/11/2009 04:02:04 PM 335 Views
Awesome - 15/11/2009 02:19:08 AM 338 Views
I'll give it a shot...first FF game I'll have played since VIII - 15/11/2009 03:03:46 AM 366 Views
I never really enjoyed X all that much. - 16/11/2009 03:08:57 PM 348 Views
The minigame? Do you mean Blitzball? - 16/11/2009 06:40:33 PM 373 Views
Re: The minigame? Do you mean Blitzball? - 16/11/2009 07:11:27 PM 373 Views
Yes. - 16/11/2009 07:24:45 PM 364 Views
Yep... good old Blitz ball. - 16/11/2009 07:24:14 PM 374 Views

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