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I honestly liked FFX-2 for its gameplay, its battle system, and the 'Eternity' song. FFIX is pretty fun to play although it was a little straightforward for me and the frequency of random battles are SUPER annoying. I hate how slow the battles are, and I absolutely loathe the trance system. The story didn't really intrigue me enough, it seems like something was missing. The things I adore about IX are the graphics and Chocobo Hot and Cold. Maybe more.
I would rank the Final Fantasy games in order of: 1.VIII 2.VII 3.X 4.IX, and VII is not overrated it had the best villian and 2nd best hero, and it had a great storyline and it WAS popular enough to spawn countless spin offs, IX was good but it was less mature than I like Final Fantasy games to be, its still better than the 16 bit generation of games, sorry crossblades...
I must agree that FF9 was a horrible excuse for a Final Fantasy. It took all the things that make FF great and screwed them up. The characters were poorly designed and other than Vivi I didnt really connect with them enough to care about them because they were so uninteresting. The story was horrible,(SPOILER) i remember something about Zidane being a cyborg (i think) and i forgot the rest because it was so boring. The Trance system was a crappy rip off of 7's limits because you couldnt control when they happened and plus half of the characters Trance modes were useless anyway. The music... was good, best part of the game. Oh and they comepletly whrecked the card game, in 8 it was fun but then in 9 they added a bunch of crap that made no sense and a bad tutorial for it which lead me to never play cards except when necesary completly opposite of 8 where i tried to play everyone i could. Oh and last but not least an end boss (SPOILER)that just showed up comepletly out of the blue, i mean for the whole game you think Kuja is the big baddy like Sephiroth and Ultimecia but then you go and pawn his butt in a couple of turns and then here comes this big blue dude talking about killing everything, WHAT THE HECK!
So all in all the game was crap. It cant stand up to 7, 8, X, or even 6, and 5.
I also didnt like X-2 but i really liked The Spirits Within and if you pay attention it actually is more closely related to the FF series than you might think.
Oh and before you say i hate it because i suck at the game, I beat it and got all the weapons in the game and did all the sidequests except Ozma and did all the chocobo hot and cold stuff (which was really boring). So i didnt suck at the game it was just a bad game.
I personally like the character designs (except Steiner), but that's fair enough if they're not your cup of tea. I'm sure a lot of other people appreciate them too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
Again, it's personal preference. The characters all had their own distinct personalities which really shone through. To me, each character had more personality than anyone from f5/7/8(who all seemed to become quite dull 5 mns after joining the party)Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
That Zidane thing is only part of the story. The rest of it is pretty cool IMO. In fact, it's one of my favourites in the entire series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
Squaresoft ripped off their own game? Final Fantasy 8 and 10 had limits/overdrives too. No trances were "useless" either(except maybe Steiner end game), some just had less use than others.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
I'll give you that. The card game in 9 sucked ass. You're only forced to play it a couple of times so it doesn't really matter to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
Kuja was still the "big baddy". Hell, Necron only appeared because KUJA destroyed the crystal. Sephiroth wasn't all too tough either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
Seems like you've done a lot for someone who hates the game so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
Yeah i did do a lot because i put down 50 bucks for that game and im gonna get my moneys worth and besides i was always hoping that something cool would happen that would make the game better so i kept playing. But what you said is true most of this stuff is personal appeal and i was just throwing in my comments so that dude that started this thread wouldnt be all by himself in the FF9 haters group.
Well that's fair enough, i'd just return a game I didn't like.
I would suggest playing the older ff games to appreciate ff9 more, but it seems like you have already.
You shall burn in hell...
uh... i already played FF9 so hell will be a cakewalk.
yeah i like the early games too except 1 and 2 and 9 actually reminds me of 6 in the way that their worlds are really fantasy based but they also have this sort of emerging sense of technology.
Also another thing i hated about 9 was how your party was always being switched around, i know it was part of the story but it happened just too much.
IX wasnt that bad, I mean the character designs probably would turn some people off if they were final fantasy regulars, the whole pigmy monkey was weird, also the animal people were weird, looked like something outta a Richard Scary book, all in all it was fun to me, Zidane was a cocky little theif which wasnt all that bad, and their were some alright complimentary characters like Amarant, and if you didnt like zidane you didnt have to have him in your party, unlike in X when you were stuck listening to Tidus whine, but I agree it wasnt on par with VIII and VII which had more mature themes, another drawback or a plus to some people was it was easy as hell.
I know your pissed about this game Omnislash but that is no excuse to say that spirits Within was a good movie, why make a movie and put a Final Fantasy title on it, you could say from the creators of Final fantasy but dont make people believe it is in the same universe as Final Fantasy experience. i heard somewhere that Square was reeling for a long time because of the flop of this movie.
I'm confused to whether this thread is talking about IX or X-2, considering some people are obsessively bringing it up. Seriously, I'm sure that are hundreds and hundreds of people that hate this game more than any one else here, but don't resort to bash it like some members posting in this thread. Saying that I like IX and X-2. I have no least favorite FFs. I think the only FF that sucks is Mystic Question, but that's a different story and different game.
What!? The graphics in FFIX were perfect, a little less than FFVIII's but that's because FFVIII's was beyond perfect. The gameplay was pretty good. Nit as linear as FFVII's but good. Story was great. Music was horrible compared to the other FF games. Overall a good game...
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Originally Posted by Omnislash07
1- FFIX is _not_ a horrible excuse for an FF. It is not opinion, it is a fact. Maybe FFVIII is. >_>
2- FFIX didn't screw up anything. It still has eveything that makes it an FF. What the smurf are you talking about?
3- FFIX is intentionally SD (super deformed). I like it. If you don't, bad for you. It still isn't an excuse to hate the game.
4- The story is GREAT, know your stuff. And he is not a cyborg, it is a GENOME. The story is very good, and at leats it's not full of teen angst and emo bishounens, like FFVIII and FFX. >_> And if you forgot the story, why do you say it's bad? You are so clueless about... everything -___-;
5- Great, Square rips itself off. Trance is NOT a "crappy rip off" from Limit. Limit yuou sue only once. Trance, you use until the gauge becomes empty. You can kick serious ass by having 2~4 turns of Trance. And the only useless Trance is Freya's, because it's damage looks SO random.
6- At least you amdit that the music is great. <3
7- I love Triple Triad more than Tetra Master now, but Triple triad just had a small grid. tetra Master ha sa better grid, even though the card "fight" is a little confusing. I like you can "level up" your cards.
8- I don't like Necron, but he has a lot of background. Much more than Ultimecia. I mean, Necrom may popped up out of nowhere, but Ultecia did the exactly same thing >> He just appeared because Kuja destroyed the crystal; Kuja was the bad guy 'till the end. And, hey, he actually managed to destroy Terra and the crystal. Sephiroth couldn't even destroy the planet with a meteor.
9- FFIX can stand and be better than most of the FFs you listed. And why 'even 6"? FFVI is the best FF ever. It is better than just about every RPG that I played. It has the best villain ever. o_o
10- ...why did you do all the Chocobo Hot and Cold mini-game if it was SO boring? "I want to get my money's worth" is NOT a reason, because I initially HATED this mini-game, and didn't even care about it, and still though that the game was worth of my money.
My spider sense is tingling... maybe you like Chocobo Hot and Cold after all... >DDD
People of EoFF!! Listen to this man!! He knows his stuff!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexander
OK i will reply to each of your comments in the same order you said them.Quote:
1- FFIX is _not_ a horrible excuse for an FF. It is not opinion, it is a fact. Maybe FFVIII is. >_>
2- FFIX didn't screw up anything. It still has eveything that makes it an FF. What the smurf are you talking about?
3- FFIX is intentionally SD (super deformed). I like it. If you don't, bad for you. It still isn't an excuse to hate the game.
4- The story is GREAT, know your stuff. And he is not a cyborg, it is a GENOME. The story is very good, and at leats it's not full of teen angst and emo bishounens, like FFVIII and FFX. >_> And if you forgot the story, why do you say it's bad? You are so clueless about... everything -___-;
5- Great, Square rips itself off. Trance is NOT a "crappy rip off" from Limit. Limit yuou sue only once. Trance, you use until the gauge becomes empty. You can kick serious ass by having 2~4 turns of Trance. And the only useless Trance is Freya's, because it's damage looks SO random.
6- At least you amdit that the music is great. <3
7- I love Triple Triad more than Tetra Master now, but Triple triad just had a small grid. tetra Master ha sa better grid, even though the card "fight" is a little confusing. I like you can "level up" your cards.
8- I don't like Necron, but he has a lot of background. Much more than Ultimecia. I mean, Necrom may popped up out of nowhere, but Ultecia did the exactly same thing >> He just appeared because Kuja destroyed the crystal; Kuja was the bad guy 'till the end. And, hey, he actually managed to destroy Terra and the crystal. Sephiroth couldn't even destroy the planet with a meteor.
9- FFIX can stand and be better than most of the FFs you listed. And why 'even 6"? FFVI is the best FF ever. It is better than just about every RPG that I played. It has the best villain ever. o_o
10- ...why did you do all the Chocobo Hot and Cold mini-game if it was SO boring? "I want to get my money's worth" is NOT a reason, because I initially HATED this mini-game, and didn't even care about it, and still though that the game was worth of my money.
My spider sense is tingling... maybe you like Chocobo Hot and Cold after all... >DDD
1. yeah i know as i stated above these are all just people opinions i know that, you don't have to tell me
2. actually in my opinion they did screw up...hardcore
3. me completely hating the look of the characters is a good reason to hate a game because if i don't like the characters then I'm not gonna be able to get into the game
4. the fact that i forgot the story is proof of how bad it is. i know the entire storyline to 6,7,8, and 10. why because they had good stories
5. i didn't mean the company ripped itself off i meant that since the games have different designers, artists,...etc. that the team from 9 ripped the trance system from the team that did 7 with the limit system. Oh and Freya's Trance is actually good the useless ones in my opinion were more like Garnets which was completely useless after you got the Pumice Piece and while it is true that limit was only used once per charge the gauge filled up way faster so sometimes you could get more than one limit in a battle if you were fighting a strong enemy. It is also true that while tranced you can kick major ass but the only time i ever tranced was against normal enemies and i can take them easy enough already. I never tranced against a boss which kind of defeats the purpose of having it in my opinion.
6. We agree...for once
7. You like the game and yet you call it confusing...if i am gonna play a card game i want to fully understand the rules before i play instead of just laying down a card and hoping it wins.
8. Necron didn't have back story. He was stuck in a crystal, the crystal broke, he tried to kill you...thats it. Ultimecia had back story, she was the one controlling Edea when she went on her rampage, she took control of Rinoa, you actually knew about her before you fought her. She didn't just pop up like Necron. The only reason Kuja succeeded in destroying Terra was because the characters in 9 were all idiots and Sephiroth failed because Cloud and company weren't retarded like Zidane.
9. Well that was my opinion, i don't think 5 and 6 can stand up to the newer RPGs but they were still way better than 9. And Kefka was retarded.
10. Doing the chocobo crap was the only way to get a lot of good weapons and items, that is why i did it...not because i actually like a game where i go around digging holes in a forest.
11. LEARN TO USE SPELL CHECK GENIUS.
Kuja succeeded in destroying Terra because he was powerful enough to, and could do it right there on the spot. At the time, the ff9 party could do nothing to stop himQuote:
Originally Posted by Omnislash07
Sephiroth needed to summon meteor in order to destroy the planet itself (which Cloud and co couldn't stop), this gave them a short while to prepare themselves and take him on. Had meteor come right there and then, the ff7 party wouldn't have been able to do much against it either.