Why is this hated?

[Armisael]

ffix is the best final fantasy ever.the plot,the characters,the music,and the ending were all perfect!

[Kuja124]

Battle System

As said by people in the before thread entitled "FFIX is the worst FF ever!!", the battle system was too simple. You fight an enemy, gain gil, buy new weapon, equip the ability, and repeat. Also, leveling up was simple. Also, people misunderstand FFVIII and VII's Junction and Materia system. In FFVIII, you would first have to learn the junction Attack, Defense, HP etc. abilities before being able to strengthen those. Even after, you would have to find rare draws to strengthen those to the max. In FFIX, you just train for an hour, and you go fight a boss.

My problem with FF VII's battle system is not with the Junction. I know how to use that. My problem with it is that all the characters can summom . Ever one can use magic. Ever one kind of does the same thing. There is nothing different. What is the point in getting a new character? If they can do the same thing as the first person.

FF IX has people do different things. That's what makes it feel like a true RPG. You have a Thief, a Black Mage, Two white Mages that can do different things. They can also call different summons. You have a knight, a fighter, etc. You don't have that in FF VIII. Where is the person that is just your Thief? Where is the person that just summons? Why is ever one doing the same thing?

As for story. FF VIII felt like it was becoming a bad Dawson's Creek Ep. It really did. I don't want some guy who is always donw in the dumps. I don't want three different people who like each other etc. It does not feel like a Final Fantasy game in any way shap of form. It's only Final Fantasy in name. That's about it.

[Trumpet Thief]

*Many FFIX Spoilers Ahead*

Remember, all of this is just my opinion...

More Reasons of why I hate FFIX:

Music: Some of it was good, for example, You're Not Alone was by far one of my most favorite FInal Fantasy songs; same with Loss of Me, the battle theme was okay, but after a while got annoying. THe World Map music was really annoying, and sohuld have been something more original, not a Melodies of Life instrumental, for they alread had Garnet's theme. Some other battle theme's were okay, for example, Dark Messenger. Overall, some music was good, some music was bad.

Weapons: I liked the dagger and staff, I know that. I think Square really had an "imagination" when they chose weapons IMO, for example, I broke down into laughter when I saw Eiko hit the enemy with a flute. The Wolverine style claws for Amarant were okay, but I would have liked a large sword for him instead, would have looked cooler. Steiner had a good weapon, same with Vivi, although I didn't like Freya's spear, for the attacks were weak, and the jump attack was crap, unless it was used for surviving or something, but whatever.

Summons: (I'm only going to describe a few)

Firstly, Ifrit looked like a dog with horns from what I think. THe graphics were a bit shaky as well, but it was considered okay, nothing too shabby.

Shiva was okay, pretty good. Although, I found Ark's animation way too long, it was annoying. Madeen looked cool though, Terra homing was an awfully good attack.

Villains:

I loved the conspiracy at the beginning of the game, I got really pshyched up. The first time I saw Kuja, I thought "Wow, that guy is gonna be an awfully hard boss later in the game" . It was fun for a while, until the game did, what I think, a complete screw up.

I Laughed as Kuja made his comments about the elephant lady and all, and I laughed as fat Queen Brahne got owned by Kuja, but it was annoying in Oeilvert, and Ih ated the four guardians. I was hoping that Zorn adn thorn would just be for comic relief, but sadly, we had to face MultiGemini instead. Eventually, the whole Terra thing came in way too fast. It would have been better if Terra could be seen, but was impossible to reach.

Next, it was too predictable. Who couldn't tell that Kuja would end up being a good guy and dying in Zidane arms. Who wouldn't have thought that Zidane would have survived? Some people might have, but I found that too predictable.

For the Final Boss, there should have been like an insane kja or something. Basically, Kuja being controlled by his own power, engulfed by darkness itself, instead of Necron. Necron was a very easy final boss, but then again, it was just about leveling up. Many other final bosses (Ultemecia, Sephiroth, Kefka, Neo X-Death) could be easily owned by having the party level up like hell.

Remember, it's just my opinion...

[Starcrest]

yeah the game was alright, the plot was kinda iffy though IMO, like there was nothing attempting to destroy the world, or nething to the magnitude

[little devil]

i love it *snip*!!!!!!!!!!

No insulting other members, everyone is entitled to their view on the game. Show some respect for that, please. ~ Xander

[aeris2001x2]

yeah the game was alright, the plot was kinda iffy though IMO, like there was nothing attempting to destroy the world, or nething to the magnitude

hmmm, i seem to recall Kuja destroying terra and both him and necron being close to destroying the life crystal and ending all life...

[Pete577]

I love a lot of Final Fantasy games, even Final Fantasy Adventure for the Game Boy. My favorite Final Fantasy game is Final Fantasy IX, it is also one of my favorite games of all time. I also love Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 7, 6, 5, 4, 2, but for some reason I didnt like 1....

[aeris2001x2]

i think u should add 1 and get rid of 2, other wise i will have to recommend a sanitarium.

[FFIXSavannah]

Well all I can say is that I LOVE FF9 it's my favorite FinalFantasy out of the series.

[Pete577]

I dont see why people need to flame. Positive opinions are better than negetive ones, so why include the negetive ones anyway? I hate it, (even when its in the case of an FF9 fan saying that another FF sucks) when someone says, "that game sucked!" Its not like everyone in the world is going to agree with you. But, to be fair, I do agree with some negetive opinions.

[Trumpet Thief]

I dont see why people need to flame. Positive opinions are better than negetive ones, so why include the negetive ones anyway? I hate it, (even when its in the case of an FF9 fan saying that another FF sucks) when someone says, "that game sucked!" Its not like everyone in the world is going to agree with you. But, to be fair, I do agree with some negetive opinions.

Who was been flaming? Everyone has differing opinions, there is nothing wrong with that. Even those who hate FFIX have been giving some positive things about it, but it's not like everyone MUST love the game, and should only compliment it. Even those who try to like it can't. People have different tastes, so you should accept that. Not to be mean or anything though. Some people love certain games, while others hate them.

Anyways, about FFIX. I know that in FFVII and FFVIII people can all be the same, and not be seperated from eachother with differing abilities (Besides limit breaks and weapons) but like Legolas has said, would you want to play as someone you hated, just because they have a certain ability that you may need? Another thing, I never found it wrong that everyone could do the same thing. But it's all based on someone's opinion.

Although people could also be distinguished in FFVI, for they could only use abilities, I loved all the characters so didn't mind. Yet again, all based on people's opinion. Since there is no right or wrong answer to this, people should accept the fact that some people hate it, respect their views, and not think that they are right whenever they are stating opinions.

As for stating about FFVIII that only Squall and Rinoa had greatly developed, and the other hadn't really, what about FFIX?

Sure Zidane changed after Pandemonium, and Garnet had learned to cope with problems. Vivi had greatly developed as well, but what about the rest of them? Quina just continued loving food, and the only reason she went to travel with anyone was to find fooid from different places to eat. Amarant had sorta changed after Zidane and him had that man to man talk in Ipsen's castle, but it was nothing much. Freya would keep going on and on about Sir Fratley for the whole game, thank god she finally got him back at the end of the game so she could shut up. I didn't notice too much about Eiko, for I do not remember too much about her. Same goes with Steiner.

Overall, in my opinion, FF is bad as an FF game, but great as a game standing alone. Compared to other FF's IMO it was bad; Compared to regular games it rocked!

[UltimateSpamGrover]

you only hate FFIX if you want to hate it...and if you hate FFIX, you probably hate FF I-VI... but think whatever you want to think... I dont care..

[aeris2001x2]

no, realise the truth...direct hate to ffII, true game of unrestrained evil...

[UltimateSpamGrover]

right, and Santa is at your doorstep...

[Trumpet Thief]

you only hate FFIX if you want to hate it...and if you hate FFIX, you probably hate FF I-VI... but think whatever you want to think... I dont care..

Just because I hate FFIX doesn't mean I hate FFI-VI! FFIV and VI are my absolute favorites.