Talk:Final Fantasy X

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Ultimania development information currently not in the article

The following sources should be translated and used to expand the current incomplete article:

Final Fantasy X Ultimania Omega

• Interview Part 1
• Creator's Salon - Scenario Part
• Creator's Salon - Sound Part
• Creator's Salon - Movie Part

Ultimania website

• Final Fantasy X Ultimania Omega Staff Comments

Anyone willing to help translate even one page is welcome! Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 07:53, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Good news, guys! Translation of the Creator's Salon HAS STARTED! Yeah!! :D Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 22:15, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Nice. Do you know from what pages are the ones translated? I already smell development not only for the game, but also for some characters.Tintor2 (talk) 00:27, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

It's p. 476 and p. 477. Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!Tintor2 (talk) 22:43, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Updated the links. Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 22:06, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Has anyone noticed Yuna repeatedly bursts into the Auroch's locker room in Luka? It's possible the locker is considered co-ed, but there certainly aren't any girls on the Auroch's team. Targetdroid; 04:23, 09 March 2013 (PST) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.133.62.41 (talk)

Self-contained information structure / touchscreen friendly (non-hover) layout.

Hi there,

I've noticed that another editor keeps reverting my edits to a sentence describing the chronology of events. The edit is an unfortunate necessity due to a badly though out article title ("in medias res"). Giving article titles non-english names isn't usually helpful, but we must assume that the other editors have their reasons for it. There are several workarounds, each with their flaws:

"Final Fantasy X begins late in the story, with the main protagonist, Tidus, waiting with his allies ..."

• Good English, but omits a link to a potentially interesting article (though the relevance to this game is debatable, as is the notion that TV Tropes is a good example of hypertext implementation.

"Final Fantasy X begins late in the story, with the main protagonist, Tidus, waiting with his allies ..."

• Incompatible with touchscreen devices
• Confusing for readers who open a tab to reference later, only to then be left looking for a tab with the non-existent title "late in the story", and additionally wondering what gave rise to a tab entitled "in medias res".

"Final Fantasy X begins in medias res, with the main protagonist, Tidus, waiting with his allies ..."

• Bad English (too complex for typical readers to comprehend; it's unreasonable to expect 90% of readers to navigate to another article for a definition of a concept easily explained in four English words.

"Final Fantasy X begins in medias res (late in the story), with the main protagonist, Tidus, waiting with his allies ..."

• Slighly verbose, but with the article in question currently entitled 'in medias res', there are no other workable alternatives.

Although I would suggest that there may be no real reason to link to an article describing a four-word concept.

InternetMeme (talk) 12:56, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I understand why you're doing this. But the reason why that's there in the first place (I imagine) is for readers to click the link and read the beginning of that article, then coming back to this one. Since both terms—in medias res and "middle of/late in the story"—means the same thing, the reader could easily make the connection, learning (if not already) something extra with the article. —017Bluefield (talk) 16:45, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I see where you're coming from, but that presents a catch 22: Although "in medias res" certainly is the same concept as "late in the story", the reader won't know that until they're read the article. This leaves us with Problem #2:

• Incompatible with touchscreen devices
• Confusing for readers who open a tab to reference later, only to then be left looking for a tab with the non-existent title "late in the story", and additionally wondering what gave rise to a tab entitled "in medias res".

Either of those problems on their own is a serious deficiency, but both together are unacceptable.

InternetMeme (talk) 17:06, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay, now I kind of understand your reasoning. Of course, there's every other platform we have to consider. —017Bluefield (talk) 17:30, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Provided that any course of action we take can't potentially decrease useability, we need to consider only platforms that account for a large percentage of users. At a guess, I'd say that at least 25% of pageviews are touchscreen (If you can find actual statistics that'd be great). That is high enough that we have to make the page work for them. Currently, the syntax is not compatible with touchscreen users (without hover, a text anchor must pretty much equal the target link). So the current syntax is failing to properly serve a large number of readers. There's also the tab problem to consider. InternetMeme (talk) 12:45, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

kitase is not director

He was producer of Final Fantasy X. Not director. That interview citation is wrong. I can post a link to a youtube video with credits if needed be.