I'm surprised at how they managed write all that voiced dialogue in a way that they never refer to the main character by name (since you can pick his name at the start), and yet all of the interactions still feel natural. My first time playing through I never actually noticed this until that scene where Tidus listens to the sphere that Yuna had recorded back at the chocobo stable and she refers to him as "the star player of the Zanarkand Abes". Even then I think referring to him as such was fine and wasn't particularly odd, but it wasn't until she said that line that I remembered "Oh shit, no one has called me by my name this whole game".

@@ungod8741 there's that one guy in Kilika who calls you by name via text. That's the only instance I remember where the character knows your name.

And remember, that is on top of the amazing graphics. This game came out in mid 2001. It's UNREAL how good the visuals are for the time.

@@frozenfusion6072 Variables. It's very easy to take the name you've input and reuse it in text. But you can't have it voice-acted by the actor. A robot (text to speech) could do that but this option is out obviously.

I remember a few years ago finding the voice actor for Tidus' KZfaq Channel, and in one of the videos he shows off what part of the script for FFX looked like for him Now, a typical movie script might be between 120 to 180 standard 8 1/2 x 11" pages, which is pretty easy to imagine, Not even a full stack of printer paper,. maybe an OK sized book worth of thickness. What he showed was probably a 1 foot cube shaped box, with a stack of paper in it that filled the entire box. And he claimed that was just one part of the script, and there were other boxes, and he still had them all. That is a STAGGERING amount of dialog. You're talking THOUSANDS of pages. Which, makes sense, a typical movie is also only 2-3 hours, while the main story alone of this game is usually around 40 hours if you play at a reasonable pace, plus all the side quests and all the dialog associated with them.

He wanted you to have a shot at life.

thank you for both for these useful comments 🙄

Good line and delivery.

Matrix reference xD

Oh come on. Thats not deep/significant text at all! You may be impressed with some lines in Planescape Torment. Now THERE is an RPG with a couple of great lines!

I agree. A person who has lived and died teaching someone who never really lived at all.

@@UnrealisticExpectations oh he has lived, he got to play blitzball

Aren't we all just dreams being mentored by ghosts, however?

@@Keys879 even in the real world it feels that way too

Such great story-telling.

Just wait till there's a ffx remake and the new VA sounds wimpy lol

​@@Kentololable I mean... They got the Auron's VA to play him in the Kingdom Hearts games. And he sounds _way_ different. After, what, 5 years?

@@patnewbie2177 It's just a jab at Zack's new VA

A jecht shot at LIFE...

@@Rowenawhite love that comment

Cheap contrived attempt to get you to pity him. Then again, he's Susanoo.

@@raptorlewis273 Really? Explain.

Honestly. I think FF8 or Legend of Dragoon are better. But FFX is unbelievably good also.

Yea and without these npcs we wouldnt really have the lore to make lengthy videos or origin videos and i just loooove a game with this much lore especially for a game from 2001

Wait... Where is this?!

And the fayth if you go and revisit them

It's almost like every character has their own monologue

@@mikl12354 It's the entire reason why I have played this game probably every few years since it's release. I wish games were still like this, so much depth and vibrance in its story telling that a fictional place can feel like home. It's incredible.

That is the name of my loyalty

Sir Orange

3? What the fuck?

@@sharpenedsphere8345 I was born in 1999. My dad had the game on his ps2 that I would play from time to time. It was this game and Dark Cloud 2 I played the most.

@@frozenfusion6072 nah I just found it a little weird considering these games have plenty of text and I guess it kind of depends on which part you were on/how levelled you were. FF are not too hard but I've let my younger cousin try a JRPG once and he got kinda destroyed lol

FF8 is great for that also

People actually say it isn't one of the best games ever made?

Guy has like, 20 of them. XD

yea like my favorite line "STAY AWAY FROM THE SUMMONER" heh couldn't resist, for real tho this game seem to really hit the nail on the head with the dialogue

It makes you wonder what might have been going through their frantic minds as they were being enveloped by Yu Yevon?

I have so much respect for Matt McKenzie, Auron's VA, his delivery for Auron is immaculate

That line was deep asf.

The man was just 35! Talking like he's 100+...

Obtain them or beat them?

Are you referring to defeating the Dark Magus Sisters, or obtaining the summon of the standard Magus Sisters? I know I'm asking the same thing as the dude above, but I can't help but feel like you meant you wanted to get the summon by defeating DMS, which isn't the way to obtain them.

You are confused. This is referring ti the very start of the game cinematic.

@@ElementalScepticism I plan to beat them with magus sister. Sorry for the confusion.

He looks like a 50 years. Maechen is really old instead, he is near 1000 years old.

In 35 and look NOTHING like auron….but then again he’s been dead for 10 years so maybe that’s why? lol

@TheMrCaptainStfu "Someday, [life] will end..."

@TMCS Tidus comes back in X-2, he gets his shot at life :D

@@ratburgler just wait till X-3

@@MochaZilla of they ever f*cking make it 🤣

@@oneskillpoint4669 I'd say FF15 Did it too for Noctis, by the time he has to kill himself he got to live through his Final Fantasy as well, he got to travel with his friends, save the kingdom that was left to him. Uncover the past of his ancestors and finish a battle that they couldn't.

It's available for a while iirc.

Far between at least. People were more inclined to explore back then. Now it's all hallways and instant gratification to hold their short attention span. It's sad

"I know why climbed the mountain. It wasn't for a very happy reason."

Well Elden Ring and Souls games bury 90% of their lore in optional dialogue and item descriptions - which is why I think they're so popular, its much more satisfying to get a story revelation when you discover it on your own.

They shoulda went that route with X-2 instead of the… well, where they went. 😂

@@fugoo8912 I would like a prequel set during the Machina War

@@fugoo8912 I was expecting X-2 to be different but I didn't expect them to butcher it. The opportunities for expanding the FFX world and having a very strong narrative/character-driven Braska prequel would have been great. If you assume that most people who were going to play FFX-2 are fans of the original then it's obvious that they would be really into the idea of exploring the most interesting aspects of the world in further depth. Seeing how things happened and what gave rise to situations in the original would have been really cool. Focusing on just 3 main characters would have given the story a lot of space to develop in much more depth, especially since we already know these characters and are invested in their stories, and the game could have added historical elements like going back in the past even further with flashback-style chapters to explore each aeon's original character and what motivated them, what they went through, and why they decided to become an aeon. This would flesh things out and break up some of the (potential) tedium of having too few playable characters. (This could have been done with Maester Jyscal Guado and his wife, and with the other Maesters too.) Imagine if in each of these historical chapters you could play as the characters who would become aeons and the choices you made while playing them determined the strengths and abilities of the aeon that Braska acquires. Imagine a drunken battle you have to solo as Jecht with a Shoopuff boss for the opponent lol. Such a missed opportunity 😔

I dream about this so often. Seeing all those places we visit in FFX from Jechts perspective, hin fighting the shoopuf, i want to live this dream. They could do so much with new graphics and stuff while staying true to the art design of spira and all of its places. It would be so cool. Might be hard to get the voice actors to do it but this is my greatest wish.

I've been saying this for years. Where's my Braska pilgrimage prequel

ff x-2 battle system is my favorite

@@yomi8933 The final form of the battle system was good, I was referring to how inconsistent the game is with enemy strengths, a convoluted route to 100% completion as well as other inconsistencies, that made X-2 not as good as the X, X was a masterpiece though, nothing wrong it. So that's not a bad comparison at all. Maybe by modern standards it might have it's short comings, but for the time, when it came out, it became the gold standard of JRPGs . The story was okay and the true final ending was just stellar for X-2. X was better though by a mile, even better then FFVII,

If I could only explain to you how badly me and my father loved this game, we'd both rant about how the trio needed a standalone title, R.I.P Pops, maybe one day

@@billyshorts371 a good old sake drink for him..

really ? there are people that liked the X-2 girl band, J-pop silly personality swapping Yuna etc.? That's news to me. I hated that shit. I truly despised what they did to the overall feel of the setting-world. The battle system wasnt half bad but all the other aspects of that game felt so off.

I'm not complaining but yeah it's weird. Lol

I haven’t seen anything remotely final fantasy related, but it just showed up. I did buy the game on Steam not long ago.

You should play the remastered version

@@jeremybrandt5779 there's new voice lines ?

Talking to people, whether it be your party members, or just a random NPC, is half of what makes a jrpg.

do you even final fantasy?? Lol

@@iaamara8434 no I’m just saying to the guy that he hasn’t played since the PS2

replay it in 50 years and you will resonate with Seymore summoning (Anima) :)

@@dododimitrov9657 Okay that's hilarious 😂

I totally feel that. Rikku was always my favorite too playing this as a child. But I always looked up to Auron and though he was this wise dead father figure lol. But playing it pushing 30 myself everything really has such a deeper meaning again, and every time I play it!

he's 35? jesus, he must have had a very hard life.

Ngl I powerlevelled him first, so when he compares to the rest of the group, he genuinely seems like the legendary force people make him out to be because he one-hits everything (except superbosses and some monster arena enemies)

How are the novel btw ?

@@MokaReligieuse Its okay. There's an audio version for it already on KZfaq if you search it up. I believe it was written by the original scriptwriter so I guess its cannon. I don't want to give any spoilers.

8 is doodoo

Order of best to least for me is FF 10, 7, 9, 8, 12 as my top 5. I did really like 1, 2, and 6 (formerly 4?). I only played them briefly when I was younger and don't totally remember the stories but they were worthwhile

​@TheOfficialBullyMaguire based, exact same order as me, weird lol

35 yrs is not old, but he looks and act like a 50 yrs, so middleaged who has seen all in life. Maechen is great i aggree, i could hear his stories endlessy and never get tired, even Mika is not bad, he is a liar and manipulator, but it seems he care for Spira, even if in the wrong way. Trommell too is not bad written even for the small screentime he has, he is a bootlicker of Seymour and the 2nd in command of the Guado, but his actions and the ones of his master put all his people to be emarginated from Spira.

At the ripe old age of 35

@@danLyoutube Was going to say 35 ain't old and plenty who look younger than him even at 45. With all that said -- get consistent 7 to 8 hours of sleep always on time, avoid process shitty foods, drink water (lots of it) and lift weights. You'll age and look better than 70% of the population, especially in the unhealthy west.

@@Xarkom89 genes lol im 30 yet i still look 20-23

@@danLyoutube I will be 38 this month, bit sadly most my hair on top has gone. I can only go for an older Auron look now.

Would certainly be a lot more interesting. Maybe Square Sports or Square Enix Sports (SE Sportssss).

One of the greatest titles released for PS2, certainly

There is no actual 'dream world', Dream Zanarkand is just a projected location out in the middle of the ocean that nobody could ever get to because Sin would kill them if they went out that far

Like the lost City of Atlantis

Yea dream zanarkand is basically a giant summoned aeon city/people.

Jecht/Sin influence.

I believe when you fight Yunalesca, he says "Die and be free of pain, or live and fight your sorrow."

@@jpart3526 yeah I know that scene, but I think it is after Yunalesca in the airship.

@@jpart3526 i think it was a conversation splitted in 3 dialogues, where he stated, that he was impressed by Tidus' development.

During the machina war with Bevelle, the inhabitants of the original Zanarkand were converted into fayth to form a dream version of Zanarkand (as a way to preserve the city as they remember it) and creating the people who live there (Jecht and Tidus included)

@@imperialist1663 So I'm guessing the cutscenes with his mother when Tidus was a child were before the war? Because I'm also guessing that older Tidus and Jecht were dreamed up. Not their younger selves? The time frames are still baffling lol

@@cruxmind not exactly. The dream version of Zanarkand and all of its citizens never experienced the war the original Zanarkand went through. Though they're not exact copies of the citizens of the original city, everyone you see in the beginning of the game are the result of the fayth's collective memories and can function/exist like the people of Spira

@@imperialist1663 but can you see why I am so confused? Because how can they perceive memories of someone who actually lived before the war but the dream version never experiences it? I've been playing since 2002 but it still boggles my mind.

@@cruxmind it's pretty complex of a plot element, that much I can understand. After playing this game so many times, my understanding is that dream Zanarkand and all of its citizens are made in the way the original inhabitants want to remember it, as a way of preserving the city.

I believe if you take the airship and travel to Luca you can listen to all the music tracks in the game. It's in the Luca Sphere Theater

The plan was to not kill Tidus. It was for Tidus to kill Jecht and end the cycle. Yeah it ends up killing Tidus but in the span of that time he grows closer to Yuna and falls in love and believes in something beyond his arrogant but lonely sheltered life of a Blitzball star. He lived more in the time he spent with everyone then he ever could at Zanarkyand.

Farplane

@@jpart3526 He said not Gone, i miss about news story about him. Best Character I play on final fantasy series. We need more Lesson From Mr.Auron @squareenix ASAP!!!!!!

Pretty much everyone in the dream zanarkand is based on people who were alive in the original zanarkand. Everyone else outside of dream zanarkand is a real person, auron included. Only reason auron could stay in zanarkand is because he is an unsent and jecht probably took him there.