As far as the face swaps go, you missed the most important detail. The reason we swap their faces for the PS2 version, the reason we care that they changed their faces at all isnt the way the model looks, or the texture resolutions The reason the old face is better is because of FACIAL EXPRESSIONS. Tidus and Yuna had very expressive faces in the PS2 version, and the HD versions made them much more rigid, cutting these details
hey we might have lost the real models and facial expressions in the remaster, but at least in return we got ruined skyboxes and botched lighting effects
I don't care if the PS2 model is low res, the HD look is so derpy to the point it makes me distracted in every cutscene. Whoever did the mod you are a GODSEND.
Great video. :) I’m the original creator for the better textures. As a small infobot: the old V1 version was done with Waifu upscaler, the last one was completely redone using a custom AI model using ESRGAN as a base. ;)
All this does is make me want a X remake with modern graphics. I would love to see everyone with modern designs. Especially when we've been getting rumors of an X-3.
You said remake, but I think you mean remaster. A remake is when you redo everything about the game from scratch, not just update the graphics. That's why you're getting some pushback that other FF games need it more.
Such an underrated game! Absolutely a contender for best FF story alongside FF6. If not just better honestly. About the followers goal... Happy to say I've been part of the family since FF versus XIII
I want a play as Yuna mod. She is playable in the underground section of Bevelle. But I wish to have her as playable outside of there too. Implementing alternate outfits, from FFX-2 could be cool, but it would probably be asking for too much to implement all of those.
Went ahead and got the Children Of Time audiobook after you talking about it. A lot of comments specify how the narration is supposedly spot on... This is why I love your Q & A section at the end of some of your videos!
Warning on the subtitles with JP VO mod, for X-2 it prevents you from getting a couple of percentage points due to the different timing/triggers so it's missed in a couple of field cut scenes. The only one I nailed down where it was, was during the massage scene, so if you're using that mod while 100%ing FFX-2 then disable it for that (and maybe the whole game after that because I think it happens again later on). Most annoying thing is you can't see you have it off in-game due to rounding until many hours later, but you could inspect your save file I suppose. funny thing is Sqenix officially stated having eng sub with jp voice was "impossible", wonder if it's because of something like that or they genuinely were dumb and thought it was impossible. X does work perfectly, and x-2's VO is less janky and has a style change anyway, so it's fine to play x in jp then x-2 in eng anyway.
You should do a ff9 version of this video, there are some really great ai upscaled pre rendered backgrounds and things that makes it look absolutely beautiful. As well as wide screen without stretching.
I was surprised you didn't mention the Farplane Memory Editor. I can't play without it just for the AP-sharing option (this makes it so everyone gains AP after a battle, regardless of who acted in it)
My first Final Fantasy game I’ve ever beaten. I really love it. I need to play the other FFs though. I have played 7 (disc 1 completed), a little bit of the beginning of 8 and 9. Beat 15, played 13 until I got to the open zone area. And saved immediately after leaving it and never came back. Played 12 a little bit too. I need to go back and finish those games. Can’t wait to try out these mods.
when i was younger, your video helped me mod FFVI. To this day, I still play a heavily modded and highly personalized mod of FFVI's defunct steam version lol
FFX Remaster is always one of the first games I buy for a new system starting with my own PS3, and always gets a new playthrough every year. But I never really got used to the cutscenes in the remaster so I always find myself going back to the PS2 version (also, always right around Mushroom Rock). First with the undub patch, the widescreen hack, and now with the HD texture upscale pack, (and custom ReShade presets) it's the best way to experience FFX again and again
also small tip, if you use lossless scaling you can also play ffx- or x-2 on 60 fps or higher while its still locked @30 yes visually/feel its 60 or more it feels so much different playing ffx on 144fps XD and no im not joking [and no its not a x2 speedup like speedmode)
I don't know, man. The face restoration for Tidus I can get behind, but the other stuff..not so much. Does the texture stuff really enhance the experience that much, if at all? I'd prefer more coherent visuals over enhancing textures for but some part of the game.
Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD Remasters HD Graphics was PS3 PS4 Nintendo Switch and can be played on PS5 backwards Compatibility RPG Turn Based Game by Square Enix.
It’s incredible how FFX still look good! The NPC models are the only thing that actualy bothers me with the low poly and animated textures for the face.
It's been a while since your last mod video! It's nice to see it come back for FF-X.🙌🏽 Although I don't think I will mod it, watching this video makes me want to revisit FF X. It's world setting and story is really unique. Thanks for your upload NSP❤😁 PS: The Cloud mod and Blitzball kid mod was hilarious and made me laugh.😂
Hey I was just talking about how I bought all of these FF games on Steam but some of the ports are bad lol so ty for posting this, wow recent uplaod too :)
Should be great o have a mod that improves the blitzball rules and mechanics, like a dinamic price of players (based on skills and competence status), some IA that generates better mach results based on players' attributes, hability to force buy an player with contract by paying fines, and watch third party games (IA vs IA)
I am super excited for this video. I wonder if there have been any good FFIX mods since you made a video for it. I think it's been quite some time. Could be a good time for an update
The biggest problem in the FFX HD ports, sans the total art-style change at times, would have to be the totally butchered character facial animations. It's outright shocking how a 2001 PS2 game can have more detailed and realistic facial movements than some recent Bethesda games. But many folks probably won't even get to see them, because the "HD" versions make everyone stiff as rock.
I feel like if I'm going to go back to Final Fantasy 10 to play it with mods, a few small changes to the cosmetics aren't gonna cut it. Tell us about mods that offer new spells, new skills, and new weapons along with some tougher baddies to bash with them.
We really need some new people to crack this game open because we need more features like proper model and animation support. None of these mods fix the root issues with the remaster
The undying FF of legend the one and only that will forever and ever be in our hearts ! 💗 That blitzball kid mod tho got me rolling 😂😂🤣 Also one additional mod I may suggest though I don't remember if I tested it on FFX is called Reshade it works with most games and gives a superb modern graphics look to any game and is a super simple 1 click install. It gives you plenty of options to download and enable/disable at will like Bloom, HDR, DoF etc. Now I don't know which leak to believe about whether they secretly working on a remake, a X-3 sequel or neither nor do I know which is a better idea in practice but we for sure crave more content about this title though if it's something that completely goes away from its root and pisses on the original like X-2 then pls no.
Great video! I just spent the last few weeks collecting and installing mods for FFX so this video came out just a tad too late to help me personally, but it's still great for people to refer to. Here's some mods I like that you didn't talk about: RUZ's face mod for Tidus is probably the best one if you want a PS2-like Tidus, but what about Yuna? Personally, I think that "PS2 Original Face" by UniCB (aka Mori-chan) is the best for her. This mod also includes a face for Tidus, but in my opinion, it's not that great. Install this mod first for Yuna's face, then overwrite Tidus's face with the one made by RUZ. Quagnog's menu mod is very nice, but if you want more options for how you can make the menus look, you can check out "6 Menu Backgrounds" by FinalMantasyX. As the name suggests, this mod gives you six different pictures you can choose from, all of them being screenshots from the game's cutscenes, to use as a background for the menu. Something I feel goes well with a menu background mod would be "PS2 Portraits" by Eprade. As the name suggests, this replaces each character's menu portrait with their original one from the PS2 version of the game. While they don't look too terribly different from the remaster's normal portraits, I feel that the white background around the PS2 portraits looks better when they're placed on top of a fancy menu background. If you want to add a little spice to a playthrough, you can't go wrong with "All Party Members Renamable" by Karifean. It does exactly what the name says. It doesn't affect voice lines, obviously, but any instance of a character's name in text (subtitles, menus, etc) will be changed. Changing the characters' names might not be something you want to do on a first playthrough, but who doesn't love giving everyone funny names on a replay? For a little more spice, how about "Swap-able Overworld Characters" by HeartlessSeph? If you don't like running around outside of battle as Tidus all the time, this mod lets you control whoever you want on the overworld. You can pick any of the game's party members, as well as Seymour. This mod also supports X-2, and has a lot more options in that game, allowing you to run around as any of X-1 or X-2's party members, as well as a number of major NPCs. Speaking of X-2, it doesn't have nearly as many mods, but here's a few I'd like to highlight: "Better UI Texture" by Drogean recolors the menu in X-2. You can choose from blue, purple, or a brighter version of the menu's normal colors. There are no alternate backgrounds available like there are for FFX, but being able to pick the menu's color scheme is still a nice bit of customization. "Readable Sphere Break Coins", also by Drogean, is a quality of life update for the Sphere Break minigame. Sphere Break is a game that requires you to do math very quickly, and the heavily-stylized font used in this minigame can be very hard to read. This mod changes the font to make the numbers significantly more legible. "Replace FFX-2 Music with FFX Music" by Gohito is another mod that does exactly what the name says. X-2's soundtrack is rather divisive, and if you're one of the people who just can't stand it, then this mod may be for you. Though, do note that this mod does make a few questionable choices in regards to what song goes where, and the music may not always suit the situations it plays in (for example, Yuna's peaceful and serene X-1 theme playing during the first fight with Logos and Ormi). The last mod I want to talk about is "The Sight of Spira" by Tommymav. This mod retextures almost every returning location from X-1 in X-2 to look different. Changes include things like the Mi'hen Highroad being paved now that more people are travelling down it, Seymour's old mansion being redecorated to suit its new owner, Zanarkand being vandalized with grafitti and litter by disrespectful tourists, and more. X-2 heavily reuses assets from X-1, and many areas looking exactly the same as they did in X-1 doesn't always make sense. This mod helps with that by giving the game's various locales a bit of a fresher look that reflects how Spira has changed since X-1.
I thought I was the only one that preferred the old ps2 face models as all my friends preferred the new faces and even they are bigger ffx fans than I am.
Skipping cutscenes you say?!?! In all seriousness the inability to skip cutscenes is a big reason why I haven't replayed this game much, despite it being one of my favorite entries in the series.
This arrived at the best and the worst time. On one hand I literally just bought ffx on pc for the first time, on the other hand my pc is in another country.
Honestly if you want to play the characters with the original faces look AND animations, just emulate, pretty sure you can play the international version in english. The newest mod are a nice thing but not only is just for Tidus and Yuna and still dont look quite right (yet at least)
Yes PS2 version emulated is a great option. Of course you can upscale it to higher resolutions. You can also use save states! Lost a battle and have to rematch cutscene again? No worries just load the save state!
Does Persona 5 Royal have mods? I would like to see a video on that because while I absolutely love Royal it's a bit too easy and I miss the first voice for Takemi.
Hmmm...didnt seem too bad when I was playing on my crappy laptop...maybe i figured it was due to the limitations of my PC. Although the xbox one version didnt seem terrible. The only thing is its missing the 2x,4x speed hack that was included in the PC version, it only has the combat buffs. I can definitely see square remaking FFX, but I honestly feel like it shouldn't be.
how do i explain this, wakka realistic face makes him even more asian than he already is. and i love it. also i love the restor tidus model, he looks asian again.
Slim pickings, this list probably shouldn't be made into a video titled "Create the Best Final Fantasy X Experience" when only a couple actually improve the game, the last two are total meme mods that go against the spirit of the video title and most of them are just the same mod done a different way.
Mod by Elise's facial change is little too dark in shadow areas like around the eyes while the texture is crisp but too perfectly smooth. Overall, kinda imbalance. Definitely the 4K/8K mod has best graphical look. Grinding to get everything in old days was painful in FF10, so the playing of PC version I applied the necessary game cheats to help out most frustrating side quests, for example, dodging the lightning strikes.
Are you sponsored by that face texture mod or something? It looks as if they flayed faces from corpses and stretched onto those models. And Wakka is now possessed by Takeshi!
