Sidequests & my blood pressure

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I think, sidequest -wise this game irritated me more than ANYTHING. Like with the sigils and suchlike omg if I lost my temper once, I lost it a thousand times
My PS2 nearly got annhilated when I was attempting to dodge lightning/race chocobos & capture butterflies, my control pad got launched & bitten on more than one occassion I even screamed when I got to 175 lightning bolts & got struck
Admittedly, once I had FINALLY managed to complete the above I did the biggest victory dance round my room ever
I loved the monster capturing & battling in the arena - that kept me entertained for hours
Blitzball seriously bored me once I'd played if for like 30 odd hours & I never want to see another blitzball again
Then there are the Dark Aeons ....never again (& Im still only up to Dark Anima)

What where your experiences of them? Did they get you as riled as they got me? I mean I really love this game but I think my blood pressure must of been through the roof for the most part - no other fantasy has wound me up as much (nor gave me as much satisfaction mind)
 
Blitzball is a never ending sidequest. Once you complete a lot it gets too easy-too boring. I fall asleep playing that.

Dark Aeons are a pain in the ass. No other comment there.
 
I quite liked blitzball. But the al bhed primers were a waste of my time. the chocobo thing was hard and the monster capturers/ breeders baffled me to the max.
 
*found a Dark Aeon comment*
I thought that the Dark Aeon's were a good idea for the story but fighting them didn't have a reason. It was too much of a competition. I got really annoyed when I begged Yojimbo to do his Zanmato move.
 
Finding the sigils and crests was what bothered me the most, particulary Lulus sigil. The lightning mini game was horrible.

I didn't mind the Al Bhed primers though, I collected them as I went through the game, so I didn't have to backtrack to get them all :)

I never bothered with Blitzball either. I found it was a terrible minigame, and since I never used Wakka, there really was no point in it.
 
I enjoyed Blitzball for the first little bit until i started to win 8-0 everygame and it started to become a bore.

THe Sigils and Crest were the worst. I ended up only getting Tidus's and Yuna'a. Yuna''s was easy and Tidus's took me over 100 times to get it.. I got so chocked cause i had 0.8 seconds... and i needed 0.0.. I didnt even bother getting Lulu's cause all i heard was that it was to hard so i didnt bother xD

I ended up getting all the al bhed primers becasue i got them on the way (seeing as i had a strategy guide). I finally could understand what Brother was blabbing about
 
I must admit that FFX has some of the most challenging yet rewarding sidequests, in a way. Chocobo racing at first was a nightmare but then I started to like it. Same with all the other sigil sidequests. While blitzball isn't the best minigame it was still fairly enjoyable. Plus, powering up Wakka has it's rewards and now I'm the proud owner of the Mark of Conquest of the Moster Arena and 100% completion file in FFX. :)
 
I honestly enjoyed Blitzball and didn't find it boring at all. It can be a bit of a challenge, but so worth it.

Now, I must say that the whole dodging lightning part stressed me out a bit, especially when you're dodged so many consecutive lightnings, and poof, you get hit...

It's annoying. -_-
 
the al bhed primers didn't really bother me as i've been sad anough to read al bhed as it is. i'm shit at writing it though.

The blizball was ok but the chocobo and thunder dodge mini game was fuckin frustrating. Bu i still ust managed it...i share your pain

Zanmato...legend. Greatest thing i've ever used
 
yojimbo was evil. He rinsed out my wallet and then never does the good move.
 
I think FFX had some of the hardest side quests. I never did that butterfly sidequest. The chocobo sidequest was a pain in the arse but I eventually did it after spending days trying and for the dark aeons I think I spent weeks beating all of them. I still havent beat penance.
 
The side quest in FFX were great, there were so many and they were so diverse in style.

I didn't find the chocobo racing to difficult, It took me a couple of attempts but I guess I got lucky. The most anoying quest was either dodging the lightning bolts on Thunder Plain, mainly because of the time requierd to complete it. Or Penance as unless you use Zamato it took hours as well.

Blitzball I found to be a fun side game, more then a major quest. It was nice to be able to take a break from killing monsters to indulge in a little sport.
 
Ugh, I tell you Dodging the thunderbolts were quite annoying. It was like..."WTF! OMG! I cannot DO THIS SHIT!" and then you throw your controller down and storm off. =/.

That was the most annoying for me. Oh, and capturing the different variety of fiends were a tad frustrating as well.
 
Hah yup, that was exactly it with me too >_< My ex boyfriend told me to not get so wound up & to stop stressing out - The control pad very nearly got inserted where the sun don't shine :dry:

But when HE tried dodging the lightning, it was a different story. Iv never wanted to punch someone so much as I did with that....
 
Some were ok, some were pure horrid. Blitzball was naff, the Lightning Bolt thing was irritating and the Chocobo race to get Tidus Sigil was just.......there is no word for what it was....all in all its definitely a low point in the game overall.
 
Blitzball was pretty decent although it did get dull when your team like Arsenal and the others were like Cowdenbeath in comparison.

The minigames in FFX were complete shit, they were not fun in the slightest which is the point of them in the first place. They're meant to be fun distractions from the main game, they aren't meant to feel like chores.
 
The Chocobo racing was so tedious! Ughhh! I was getting really frustrated with that as well.

I loved Blitzball. Fun game. I played even after I got all the legendary weapons and beat the game.
 
I enjoyed blitzball, even though it got way too easy when my stats ran ahead of any other team. There was only one team that beat me on occasion: the Psyches.

The chocobo racing was alright, but I hated the butterflies. And I'm not even touching the lightning quest.
 
The tasks set for some of the Sigils were ridiculous, whoever came up with them deserves to be shot. Getting up to about 130 dodges and then get struck was really hard to take, it would've been madness had that occurred in the 190s.

Fights with Dark Aeons were devoid of challenge after building the character's stats up and getting Auto-Phoenix. There wasn't any real strategy you had to confront them with other than Quick Hit/Dodge With Aeon. In the end, the time spent doing it felt like a waste.

Blitzball was fun while it lasted just like all FF minigames.
 
haha Some of the side-quests and mini-games were very very frustrating, but one's I just HAD to finish. I would not power off the console once I had started one of these until I had completed the side-quest I was working on.

Probably the most nose-grinding mini-game of them all for me was the Butterfly Catcher one because of how careful you had to be when avoiding the red butterflies. I had the maps printed out fully so I knew the route I had to take to get the Saturn Sigil, but it took forever for me to finally navigate all the way through the forest on my way to the treasure chest.
 
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