If even one of you gets a post removed during one of these bit struggle sessions you failed the bit and should feel immense shame. Doing a bit successfully is Praxis.
Find things to struggle about that doesn’t get out of hand. It’s important to let off some steam now and again but do it in a way that doesn’t harm your fellow comrades or add work to the mod team.
I’ll start: Some beans are better than other beans. Like kidney beans are bad nasty icky beans but black beans are actually amazing.
My copy of X-2 is older than some Hexbears
I remember buying X-2 used back in the day and it would always crash after the opening FMV :(
Traded it back for Viewtiful Joe, a game which worked great for about a week before breaking completely.
Never bought a used game again after that.
I feel this in my bones
lol remember disc resurfacers?
You better believe I bought one and it didn’t work, what a rip off.
I’ve tried 3 times and never managed to get more than a couple hours into it. If Dark Souls 2 is like a fan-game that misses the point of the original, FFX-2 is like one of those bizarre total conversion mods that misses not only the point but also fundamentally fucks up the gameplay loop and is written by a 16 year old with a really sick fanfiction idea
To me X and X-2 are a pair. The former is one of my favorite games, but you are on rails the whole time. At least with X-2 goofing off in the world is the point. Mechanically X-2’s Job system delivers on the flexibility that X’s sphere grid only promised. Existentially it was a fun way to explore After The End of a favorite game, or what does the protagonist do after they saved the world.
I also see part of X-2's "weirdness" as a coping mechanism for Yuna's loss in the first game, and the rest of everybody trying their best to distract or support her as she works through that.
I also deliberately ignore the “secret” ending in X-2 because that’s like Reviving Aerith levels of heresy.