Is this game better than Final Fantasy XII?

[Elpizo]

If you mean a lot of effort in making it drive gamers as mad as possible, then yes, you are correct.

[Madame Adequate]

FFXII has no soul. It has the ingredients of a great game, one I should absolutely love, but I don't. That je ne sais quoi is absent. With IX, I don't grok the soul, but it certainly is there - I invoke Kishi;

FFIX is thematically charming, whimsical, fun, and doesn't always take itself completely seriously.

I might like the technical elements of XII more, but I've certainly spent a lot more time playing IX and I have a much greater desire to try to finish IX than XII.

[Breine]

Final Fantasy IX is one of my favourite FF games, so my opinion is pretty clear.

To be fair, though, I haven't finished FFXII yet. I managed to play maybe 36 hours of it, before stopping (for an unknown reason) - that was over a year ago.
I've been intending to start a new Final Fantasy XII file for a long time now, and finally did it the other day.

Actually, I have this thing where I never finish a Final Fantasy game on the first playthrough. I always tend to stop playing it at one point, before finally picking up the game again later to yet again play it from the start - this time more thoroughly and extensively. It's almost like I'm half-assing it on the first playthrough, subconsciously knowing that I'll finish it at another point. Strange.

[ANGRYWOLF]

as someone else said FFXII has no soul.

[Lightening]

I haven't finished FFXII, I was hoping to do it before march, but it doesn't look like it's happening. There's just so many huuge empty areas in FFXII, I search them looking for secrets but most of the time there's nothing to find.

[Madame Adequate]

Either that, or finding whatever it is precludes you from getting something later