I started playing FFX again...

im...LOST · 12-08-2008 11:27am #1

And I know it's nothing major but I was just wondering if many people here beat the Luca Goers in the Blitzball final. I know it has nothing to do with the story really but I remember when I first played the game, I got hammered but yesterday when I was replaying the game I won, first time.

Flashweaver · 21-08-2008 11:24am

Yea I beat them, but most times it's not worth the effort. Unless you're doing the Tidus only challenge and are in dire need of a strength sphere there's no point in getting yourself worked up about it or restarting or anything. Personally, I've beaten the game 5 times and never used that kind of sphere i.e. Strength sphere, magic spere, luck sphere.

Roisin89 · 23-08-2008 7:59pm

I just started the game today, and I think I'm almost at the stage =]
guess I'll let you know how i do, but I'm a huge n00b, and it's the first time I've played anything, really, so I think I will fail =]

im...LOST · 23-08-2008 8:08pm

Yeah, it's not worth the hassle of restarting the game just to win the game. You get nothing other than an extra cut scene with Wakka giving the trophy to the Aurochs.

It doesn't matter at all.

keane2097 · 23-08-2008 8:42pm

I won the first time iirc

Bongomc · 23-08-2008 10:57pm

Its worth trying to win even if it doesnt really matter. Its probably the only time you'll find it hard to win a game of blitzball.

im...LOST · 24-08-2008 1:10am

Bongomc wrote: »

Its worth trying to win even if it doesnt really matter. Its probably the only time you'll find it hard to win a game of blitzball.

I agree. If you hire Wedge and Jumal after that match, you are sorted for everything tbh.

Kiith · 24-08-2008 7:25am

I remember restarting the game twice when i first played it, thinking that i would get something great for winning. I didnt

RedXIV · 26-08-2008 11:39am

Roisin89 wrote: »

I just started the game today, and I think I'm almost at the stage =]
guess I'll let you know how i do, but I'm a huge n00b, and it's the first time I've played anything, really, so I think I will fail =]

Thats what i love to see, confidence in a gamer

Lost the first time i played through it but won the second time. remember thinking it was the hardest game of blitzball ever.

CitizenGeek · 26-08-2008 9:23pm

I lost to them. I remember thinking that I had lost out on some side story or cool item as a result, but I'm glad to learn that I didn't.

On a related note: FFX really is one of the absolute best games ever! :]

SmileyPaul · 06-09-2008 7:52pm

second only to..... you guessed it VII
I never really enjoyed blitzball

I guess it was the fact that I was so young whilst playing.... might go back and start again

Vyse · 07-09-2008 10:46pm

I'm just playing through this for the first time.

Any tips on getting ability spheres or is it just totally random?? I seem to have a severe lack of them and can't level up any of my abilities:(

Retr0gamer · 08-09-2008 2:52pm

You get them randomly from encounters. There's no point in levelling up in FFX. The battle system is very strategic and you are basically ruining the game if you overlevel. I didn;t level at all in the game just went through every area thoroughly while not running away from battle. Every boss was manageable (but some were tough but very satisfying to beat with a good strategy) except for the last boss.

keane2097 · 08-09-2008 3:27pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

you are basically ruining the game if you overlevel.

THIS.

Tar.Aldarion · 08-09-2008 3:30pm

Yeah beat them, doesn't matter.

Vyse · 08-09-2008 6:27pm

Ah crap, was hoping that there was some way of getting them. They seem to be few and far between. I read about sphere distillers somewhere but haven't got a clue what they are.

Good game though. Really enjoying it so far.

Retr0gamer · 08-09-2008 7:02pm

You can farm them off the tougher monsters later on in the game. However doing so will make you a massive nerd.

keane2097 · 09-09-2008 12:44pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You can farm them off the tougher monsters later on in the game. However doing so will make you a massive nerd.

QFLols

Mr-P · 11-09-2008 10:12pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You can farm them off the tougher monsters later on in the game. However doing so will make you a massive nerd.

Meh.. this game was too easy anyway except for the last boss and
SPOILER(Yunalesca)highlight to see

ec18 · 21-09-2008 10:46am

I'm just about to enter the gagazet (spelling?) mountain. I should be able to use the airship now. Shouldn't I?

Retr0gamer · 21-09-2008 11:49am

Nope you won't get any airship until just before the final dungeon in the game.

You are coming up to 3 of the toughest and best bosses in the game. Hope you enjoy them, they are very tough to figure out!

ec18 · 21-09-2008 11:50am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Nope you won't get any airship until just before the final dungeon in the game.

You are coming up to 3 of the toughest and best bosses in the game. Hope you enjoy them, they are very tough to figure out!

Oh thought you could get it after bevelle.

Kiith · 21-09-2008 2:02pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You are coming up to 3 of the toughest and best bosses in the game. Hope you enjoy them, they are very tough to figure out!

Oh how i hated that first boss on Gagazet. Drove me mental with his zombie/full life combo. Great music for the area though.

neilyoung · 24-09-2008 2:44pm

Kiith wrote: »

Oh how i hated that first boss on Gagazet. Drove me mental with his zombie/full life combo. Great music for the area though.

Wait until you accidentally run into one of the Dark Aeons...now they are tough...

Retr0gamer · 24-09-2008 3:52pm

The Dark Aeons ruined the end game for me in the european version. I couldn't go back and do any sidequests because there would always be a dark aeon in the way and I have a life so could have been bothered levelling up to beat them. I could have used Yojimbo bnut even doing that took ages.

ec18 · 24-09-2008 4:37pm

dark aeons?

Retr0gamer · 24-09-2008 5:42pm

Uber bosses that were added to the european release of the game with the express intention of being the salt rubbed into the wound of a 9 month wait after the american release.

neilyoung · 24-09-2008 5:58pm

Yeah the Dark Aeons can get in the way alright, and running into them accidently when you haven't saved in a while is particularly annoying. I'm sure I've lost hours of work cause I ran into one of them by accident.

I personally used Yojimbo to handle all of them, but the ammount of gil requireds was huge! Dark Yojimbo was the worst, you've to fight him 5 times in sucession, without saving and without leaving the area. Some bonus feature...:(

truedoom · 24-09-2008 6:28pm

i did yeah, after like the third time i tried. theres no difference, other than afterwards, if you lose wakka gives the team his blitzball, if you win, he gives them the trophy. but then there is the satisfaction of winning. I never liked blitzball anyways.

ghouldaddy07 · 25-09-2008 2:17am

Lost to the luca goers the first time and was freaked then discovered the sphere shot and gave them a hammering.

If you have the ject shot its also a peice of cake.

gotta love blitzball I wish square enix would go back to introducing deep mini games such as Triple Triad,Blitzball,Tetramaster to the series

truedoom · 25-09-2008 8:19am

triple triad was awesome. i spent days going about getting all the cards.

sphere shot, or the jecht shot, yeah if u have them, u slaughter them.

also more minigames, like in ff7; there were so many in that; on the motor bike, on the snowboard, in the submarine, not to mention going to the gold saucer for the other arcadeish games, and the chocobo breeding and racing

I started playing FFX again...

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