It's an old game so it has issues, but why do you care what people think so much? They're idiots if they don't appreciate this anyway.

That sounds very silly and self conscious for playing a video game.

Am I seriously the only person who feels that the reactions and animations during conversations doesn't look natural? In most cases, they're fine, but occasionally, the animation is so exaggerated or over the top, it just looks ridiculous and is embarrassing to watch.

Despite this, I still love the game and the HD overhaul is great. I mean, even the song that plays during the game selection is awesome.

FFXII was not better than FFX!

I constantly have to remind myself of this when I play it. With the HD remasters, I'm playing FFX for the first time (I've played a bit of FFX-2 before, but an accidentally deleted save meant I gave up on it and didn't return to it). It's clear to see how awesome it would've been for its time, especially gameplay-wise, but the (mostly) higher definition textures on the still clearly early ps2 models and animations makes it a visually weird experience, but that's not a huge issue.

What I still can't get over is the voice acting. I've already been through the intentionally terrible laughing part which I heard was in there (though I didn't know it happened that early in the game) and it honestly wasn't that bad. Like people said, context is everything. No, my problem with the voice acting is almost every other line, especially from Tidus and Yuna (the leading pair of the game!). It sounds like the actors performed those lines in isolation instead of actual conversations in each others' presence. All while sounding bewilderingly cheesy (not the good kind, either).

Basically, my biggest gripe is the Sargento-produced voice acting. All the other flaws I totally accept as being inherent of the gen it comes from* (like unskippable cutscenes). The battles are quite fun, the sphere grid leveling is cool and the story so far hasn't gone to pot. The voice acting just takes it down two or so notches for me.

*Kingdom Hearts came out a year after FFX and had great voice acting, so being from that era of games is no excuse, especially for their main franchise at the time.

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

Auto Modellista will always be one of my favorite racers of all time..

yes and yes

Shame isn't it. I thought we'd be at a point of destructible backgrounds, objects, pyrotechnics etc in shooters. I sold many a copy in the demo unit when I managed a franchise Game Crazy back then. But I stopped playing shooters because they didn't evolve. Heavy weapon. Shoot a wall or glass. Nothing happens. Lol. Except for Killzone 2. I enjoyed that.

But then I woke and remembered it's EA. EA didn't care really. They just wanted to kill competition from Criterion and Burnout. And own Renderware to profit from as many developers used that engine. Only thing was that developers ran as fast as they could away from EA to Unreal Engine and its pop in and Vaseline graphics. Shame on EA. And then they bought Dice for Frostbite. Evil busters.

Anyway, too many PS2 games to count. Some of my personal faves being DMC, Genji, Bujingai, Blood Will Tell, Onimusha, Way of the Samurai, Japanese Berserk, Japanese Macross game that blew away the US Robotech game, RAD, Castlevania Lament of Innocence.... there's just too many. Let me stop. Lol

I've always Saud I'm not a fan of fps much , there's been some I really like and thought were really dope. Black falls into that category.