Topic: Final Fantasy X + X-2 HD Remaster is now listed up on Steam

[MysterD]

FF X + X-2 HD Remaster is now listed on Steam.

[Quemaqua]

Weird. You know, I really liked that game when I played it, but the more time that's gone by since that point, the more I feel like I sort of hate it. Something about the presentation and characters just annoys the hell out of me now. I don't really know why.

[MysterD]

Wow, Que - is it that hard to describe or elaborate on?

Are the characters whiny? Annoying? Complainers? Depressing? Or something else? Or what?

Granted, I've never played FFX-1+X-2, hence why I'm curious.

[Quemaqua]

It might actually be that I don't tend to like the people who really still like FFX. They're all just such ... anime people. And I like anime just fine, but not so much the people that usually do. The game just seems so juvenile to me now, though I remember it being okay when I first played it.

[Xessive]

I think that's the same stuff I disliked about FFXIII (in addition to the monotonous gameplay).

Oh and Vanille. Fackin' Vanille.

[gpw11]

You're not wrong - The characters in FFX aren't great at all.  Actually, they're kind of terrible.  I have the HD version on Vita and it's hard to play.   

[MysterD]

Picked this up for $18 from GMG yesterday ($24 on sale + 25% off coupon stacked on top).

Met this cool dude named Auron - this dude has a mixture of cool, mystery (probably b/c it's early on and b/c of the way he's presented - don't really know much about him), and total bad-assery. Can't wait to see more of this guy. Got around 3 hours with this game.

Not far into FFX here...

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...made my way to meeting a girl and her friends in some ruins; and I am now on her salvaged-type of boat.

As one would expect, I have this game maxed-out in-game at 1080p running at 30FPS always; no framerate dips, nothing. I know, some people like to complain on the PC-side about 30 FPS caps and stuff - but there are options for Turbo to speed it up (2x's and 4x's); which I have not tried. The game runs + feels fine at 30FPS, speed-wise + gameplay-wise at Normal speed for me.

For an old-as-hell PS2 game, the HD stuff looks like they did a decent job cleaning some of this stuff up. From an art-design stand-point, the art direction of this game, like many FF games, looks very unique and is out-standing. Plus, with modern graphics options galore, this only can  help (MSAA, AO, and other stuff). I will have to try enhancing the game with extra NVidia features via the NVidia Control Panel b/c this game runs like a dream for me and I want to clean-up any muddy textures as much as possible.

This seems kind of odd - You really don't have much settings to play from the game's splash-launcher; basically your resolution and what settings level (Low, Medium, High, etc). A lot of games, give you most of your graphics options on the splash-menu launcher or right at the game's main-menu right after you boot-up the game + hit the game's opening menu, you have to actually first get into the game (NEw Game, Save Game) and get the game going first - ALL of the graphical extras are in the Options menu, which you can only access when you PAUSE the game when you're in the game.  Hit ESCAPE key to open up the laundry list of of options. Plenty of them there.

Not far into the combat, but it feels like a newer version of a pseudo-turn-based and time-based system. Need more time and whatnot w/ it - but combat runs perfect (30FPS with no dips ever) and feels good.

Need more time with the game.
 

[MysterD]

PC Gamer -> Review - Score of 85 (out of 100).