Quote Originally Posted by chionos View Post
The story (and more specifically the characters) is the key to the game for me. I think I was story-starved from forcing myself to play FFXIII, so this has been a breath of fresh air. The characters are wonderfully written.
Indeed they are and the voice acting is really great too.

As far as IX vs. Tactics, I'd go with Tactics. They're both great games, obviously, but if you're enjoying Ivalice, there's really only one choice. (and after FFT, you should play Vagrant Story).
Yeah I think I'll pick up and replay Tactics since I did start replaying IX, got pass the first disc even; but I hardly have any motivation to continue with it. Game really doesn't do it for me. I finished it back when it came out but never really felt like playing it again. Vagrant Story is great as well, I have it around too; might revisit it some day as well.