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>That is a failure of game design and should never be praised or excused.
It absolutely should not be praised. It's trash just like 100%ing any game is. Getting 100% is actually very easy if you play the game multiple times. If you're trying to 100% your first playthrough (something a retard might do) and you're following a guide, thus ruining the game for yourself, then yes, it would be very frustrating to get 97% and then need to start the game over and play it for 30 minutes to get the remaining 100%, for the reason that you can't "get" the true ending until you actually beat the game again... but you could just watch it on YouTube. It sounds like you were a retard who went into X-2, not with the goal of attempting to enjoy a video game, but rather with the sole intention of 100%ing it on your first attempt (if you even played it at all)

>No. III and V are what underrated Final Fantasy's look like. X-2 is a mess of bullshit.
X-2 is by far the most underrated Final Fantasy game in the series. Your continued insistence that you are correct only further proves this. V is nowhere near underrated, especially in the current times. It has a small cult following and some (now) tranny fundraiser that involves playing the game. III is more underrated, and I enjoyed it more than V, but it's not as good (or as hated/shitposted/glossed over) as X-2. If people were prevented from talking about video games they have not actually played, X-2 would practically never be talked about at all.

>Then its relevancy when discussing XI is nonexistent.
No, it is quite relevant. If you have played PSO, you'd understand. Every single thing about PSO's systems are superior to every single thing about XI's systems. Doing anything in PSO's combat is infinitely easier than in XI's, yet they are both effectively "the same". Interacting with PSO's game environment is so much easier than XI's, and yet it is an even older game.

But the topic, imo, was of "masterpieces", not of MMOs