I ought to play X-2. I hear it's pretty fun, though the story sucks.
A buddy of mine played it, and apparently the combat system was actually fairly good.
That was pretty much the only good thing about it.
To be honest, the main issue with JPRGs tends to be the combat system, so that's a pretty significant plus.
I can take a dull story with fun gameplay. I can't take a good story with boring gameplay.
I take it you didn't like VIII? 
VIII had fun gameplay, VERY fun gameplay that was capable of blazing fast dynamic fights that never quit on the action and you never needed to grind or even properly prepare your characters, you could just make shit up as you went along and still squeak out awesome victories. It was just that the stat system was naturally confusing and the design of the game world and combat lended itself to players trying to exploit the wrong parts, leading to frustration when they'd grind for extended periods and receive only marginal benefit from it. Or worse, because of the rubberband leveling nature of monsters in the game, you'd wind up worse off after grinding.
That, and I swear I get red in the face furious when I hear about someone complaining about having to grind the draw command to stock up on 100 of each magic, it's just not how the game's meant to be played.
But I'll stop now, I'm having PTSD-esque flashbacks to my resounding hatred for Squall and my many self-imposed challenge runs of the game. I fly into rants too easily about VIII.
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