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Hi TL!
At the moment I'm unable to play games on my dying PC, so I decided to get my old PS2 out and have some fun. I picked out Final Fantasy X for some reason and I've decided to play through it again.
Now, the last time I played through this game, I got a lot of fun out of it, but I never really felt challenged. Auron and Lulu are simply way too powerful, especially later in the game where Auron is one-shotting EVERYTHING and Lulu can multi-cast Flare. I think I only died a couple of times in all the 80 hours I played, lol.
As far as I can tell, there's no way of actually setting the difficulty higher, which is a shame. Instead, I've decided to set some artificial handicaps on myself.
The problem I'm having though, is thinking of some good ones...
I love this game a lot, and I want to make this playthrough as challenging and enjoyable as possible, but I need some help thinking of some limits/handicaps... I'd really appreciate some suggestions.
Thanks!
Edit:
Heres what I've got so far. Thank you for the ideas!
No purchasing consumables
No celestial weapons
No summons
No overdrives
No sphere grid (not sure if I'll include this, I actually quite enjoy the levelling up in FFX)
ONE save every 5 hours of gameplay
Use casters as melee
Use melee as casters
 
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Would not being allowed to buy consumables be too much?
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Play Auron only. It's hard because Auron doesn't have much agi.
Another good one is Yuna only without summons.
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The game is easy to finish standard, are you saying you pwned all the dark aeons and stuff?
If you wanna be challenged, just fight the minimum amount possible so you're under leveled.
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On February 26 2012 22:00 IntoTheheart wrote:
Would not being allowed to buy consumables be too much?
I would think yes that would be too much. But suggestions are an easy one, do not get the celestial weapons, or even further, do not upgrade your weapons past basic (a la wooden sword). Do not go to the omega ruins (or the esper training place) as you would level stupidly fast. Never switch characters in a battle (so that only a few ppl get XP).
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Do a No Sphere Grid run. They're actually really fun and not TOO hard. If that's still too easy for you do something crazy like No Sphere Grid, No Summons, No Overdrives, No Items.
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There are a bunch of interesting challenges that people have completed if you look on gamefaqs. Single character, no sphere grid, no magic, no weapon upgrades, no overdrive, etc. It's a pretty well established scene.
I love single character challenges, recently did FFIX Beatrix solo (well, almost; got stuck at Ipsen's castle), then completed Freya solo (without using maxed out dragon crest, still EZPZ), gonna attempt Dagger solo at some point. Also playing FFVII Tifa solo but that's a total pain in the ass.
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Just wanna say have fun with your FF run,I started a new playthrough of FF8 yesterday to relax a bit this weekend :D
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On February 26 2012 22:12 RPR_Tempest wrote:
Do a No Sphere Grid run. They're actually really fun and not TOO hard. If that's still too easy for you do something crazy like No Sphere Grid, No Summons, No Overdrives, No Items.
wait how do you do the 2nd one? I know the no sphere grid is possible, but is no sphere grid, no summons, no overdrives, and no items even possible? you would just die lol.
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Thanks for the input from everyone, much appreciated 
On February 26 2012 22:15 Paraietta wrote:
There are a bunch of interesting challenges that people have completed if you look on gamefaqs. Single character, no sphere grid, no magic, no weapon upgrades, no overdrive, etc. It's a pretty well established scene.
I love single character challenges, recently did FFIX Beatrix solo (well, almost; got stuck at Ipsen's castle), then completed Freya solo (without using maxed out dragon crest, still EZPZ), gonna attempt Dagger solo at some point. Also playing FFVII Tifa solo but that's a total pain in the ass.
I really like the sound of those challenges Paraietta, I'm taking a look at the FFX section of gamefaq but I can't seem to find what you're talking about. Could you possibly give me a link?
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On February 26 2012 22:34 dekuschrub wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 22:12 RPR_Tempest wrote:
Do a No Sphere Grid run. They're actually really fun and not TOO hard. If that's still too easy for you do something crazy like No Sphere Grid, No Summons, No Overdrives, No Items. wait how do you do the 2nd one? I know the no sphere grid is possible, but is no sphere grid, no summons, no overdrives, and no items even possible? you would just die lol.
Yeah...that's not even all the possible challenges you can stack on. Not by a long shot.
On February 26 2012 22:35 xsksc wrote:Thanks for the input from everyone, much appreciated Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 22:15 Paraietta wrote:
There are a bunch of interesting challenges that people have completed if you look on gamefaqs. Single character, no sphere grid, no magic, no weapon upgrades, no overdrive, etc. It's a pretty well established scene.
I love single character challenges, recently did FFIX Beatrix solo (well, almost; got stuck at Ipsen's castle), then completed Freya solo (without using maxed out dragon crest, still EZPZ), gonna attempt Dagger solo at some point. Also playing FFVII Tifa solo but that's a total pain in the ass. I really like the sound of those challenges Paraietta, I'm taking a look at the FFX section of gamefaq but I can't seem to find what you're talking about. Could you possibly give me a link?
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/197344-final-fantasy-x/faqs/16203
There's one.
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Could have the casters be melee and melee be casters, hf with that.
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On February 26 2012 22:40 lastshadow wrote:
Could have the casters be melee and melee be casters, hf with that.
Lmfao I was just about to post that.
Use the characters most weakest offensive/defensive abilities to complete the game.
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On February 26 2012 22:40 lastshadow wrote:
Could have the casters be melee and melee be casters, hf with that.
That actually sounds hilariously fun, I think I'll add this to my list.
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I found the no sphere grind challenge to be a very interesting and fun way to play the game. It is such a different experience compared to playing the game normally.
If you like grinding you could do the monster arena to max your stats out (really boring though).
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On February 27 2012 00:58 Nesserev wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On February 26 2012 23:40 xsksc wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2012 22:40 lastshadow wrote:
Could have the casters be melee and melee be casters, hf with that. That actually sounds hilariously fun, I think I'll add this to my list. The only problem with casters --> melee and melee --> casters, is that in FFX, the sphere grid system makes it so that you can build any character in any way after clearing some lvl sphere nodes and hopping on someone else's sphere track. So maybe only at the early game it'll be a challenge, but late in the game, it doesn't matter anymore.
Yeah I realise that.
I'm basically just planning a list to make the game harder for myself in general, I'm not looking to do just 1 challenge, I'm after silly handicaps like this which should make it a bit more interesting and challenging. ^^
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As others have mentioned you are describing FFX challenge games, which used to be really big on the gamefaqs community.
I think my sister pioneered the yuna only no sphere grid no summoning/overdrive XD
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Yeah i played FF8 a few days ago, and i decided to level some and get squalls final weapon before going for the kill on the last boss. I one shot all her phases, it was kinda dissapointing. FF games usualy have a story line that can be ended @ about lv 20-30ish in most games, but then have optional pparts that are way stronger, but im not sure on FF10.
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Updated my first post with a list of handicaps I'll use, thanks for all the ideas. Still open for more though!
On February 27 2012 01:53 micronesia wrote:
As others have mentioned you are describing FFX challenge games, which used to be really big on the gamefaqs community.
I think my sister pioneered the yuna only no sphere grid no summoning/overdrive XD
Haha wow that sounds pretty intense, how the hell did she do Braska's Final Aeon!?
I don't think I'll go for anything like that though. What I'm planning is a fairly normal playthrough with lots of little changes to limit myself and make it more difficult.
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On February 27 2012 01:53 micronesia wrote:
As others have mentioned you are describing FFX challenge games, which used to be really big on the gamefaqs community.
I think my sister pioneered the yuna only no sphere grid no summoning/overdrive XD
WTF LOL.
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She was recovering from a RSI in her hand. FFX lends itself to one handed play since none of the controls are time-sensitive. She also had a lot of time back then XD
No idea how she did it... just know it took an incredible amount of grinding.
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The no sphere grid is too much. You would have to take that off. When I was younger and I first started to play through the game, I didn't really know what the sphere grid was and I had never used it. I got about 14 hours into the game and since I had never used the sphere grid, it was literally impossible to go any further. You just died right away haha. (and so when I learned about the sphere grid I played for 16 hours straight and got back to where I was ;D ) but anyway, I would just take that one off the list
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Is No Sphere Grid even possible? I've seen people doing it on Youtube, but only against bosses. It seems that with a lot of assets, you can kill any boss with only Rikku's overdrive. I am not sure if those item are enough to last you through the minions as well.
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THE NOSTALGIA IS COMING TO ME T_T. I remember resetting my file before fighting yunalesca, grinding back to the mountain, and stopping x_x.
Tidus/Yuna only gogo.
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