I didn't do FFX, I was a little too high when I went to the 2nd hand game store and grabbed XII instead. Took me like 3 days to realize too lmao. I gave up on FF after playing XII, as they'd taken such a sharp turn away from traditional JRPG gameplay and seem to want to stick to it. It's like when dragon age geared itself towards consoles more than PC, it lost the charm for me.

Tried The Last Remnant btw? It's quite an interesting final fantasy-ish tangent, kind of like Tactics but with an emphasis on squad based skirmishes.