FFIX has always been my favorite game. the characters were great and there was humor in it....i love humor.
FFIX has always been my favorite game. the characters were great and there was humor in it....i love humor.
It doesn't get any attention because most poeple played FF VII and VIII and loved the them,s tory, whatever. Then Square decided to go back to their roots and a lot of people didn't like it because it wasn't like a futuristic setting like VII and VIII were. So they kind of shyed away from it.
Squall is
lol. deformd 8 year olds. i understand that 9 was a great game but the whole thing where 8 and 7 get most of the coverage is kinda off. no one except for me and the other 4 people on the internet like 8 and we get told that it sucks everyday by every other jackass out there that dont know a good game when they see it. 9 was pretty good. not my favorite though.
So everybody BUT you and your four friends has bad taste? Help me with this... I didn't play VIII all the way through, but it didn't seem very good -- not bad, of course, just, like VII, not nearly worthy of the attention it gets.Originally Posted by Mavrick
I'm playing IX now though, it seems pretty good. Haven't gotten too far, though.
i did play wild arms and i loved it to it is loong!!!!!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ok, what the hell. FFVII gets too much attention because it was the one that sold the most copies, period. It isn't very good, the storyline isn't as awesome as FFIX or FFVI, the characters aren't half as lovable (except for Aerith). FFVII is the easy choice for gamers, well it sold the most copies so it must be the best, plus it was sorta cool when I played it. COME ON! Talk about people who don't know about RPGs. FFVII is one of the worst FFs, it is clearly a hollywood movie, nothing new, nothing interesting. It revolutionized NOTHING, the only thing it added was the Limit Break meter. At the same time as FFVII came out, this other INCREDIBLE RPG game out called Wild Arms, guess why it didn't get as much attention? BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAVE THE ADVERTISING AND THE FRANCHISE NAME TO BACK IT UP! But it clearly was much better than FFVII. FFIX is just the second best FF, awesome graphics, the storyline was incredible, the characters were unforgettable, the setting was very, very awesome and the retro touch gave it a charm that only real RPG fans would like. That is also why it didn't get as much attention, FFIX is an RPG lover's RPG, not a commercialised bull game. Iconic sword? I'm sorry, the sword became ICONIC with FF7 cause it was huge. The swords on the previous covers were only secondary, the Mog took a much bigger place. FF didn't start with FF7, know your stuff.
right, i only just read this but i'm gonna get back to the topic off ff9. ff9 is the best game ive bought. i bought it when i had a ps1, i now have a ps2 and so far none of the games ive played have been as good as ff9 (including ff's 7-10). i dont know why i love it so much, but i do know that the music has got to be one of the reasons. the tunes are just so "deep" and i just love em. also the whole storyline (which isnt actually that origional) is done perfectly. how's that? best game i ever bought was £10. yummy!
yeah it made me wonder,i always see ff7 and keep hearin how good it is but nothin can be better than ff9
i thought it was soo good i went and brought a ps1 and everything just 3 play it
definetaly best game, followed by ff5
"This the outro, I was gonna put it at the beginning
But this is what I say the moment after I'm winning
Thank you, Ultimate Victory"
The Ultimate Victory - Chamillionaire
the fact that the stroryline does even fit is a good reason...
I mean, you run after the 4 jewels during the first 2 cds, and the ugly queen totally needs them, and they are key items. then, you get all of them and the two girls trade them...end of the thing. we never hear about them anymore... WTF???
And the end...
Team: alright, we killed kuja!!! the world is saved!!!
necron: not so fast...
Team: and you are?
Necron: im necron. Im the last boss...
Team: but kuja was the last boss... you simply have no point behing there!!!
Necron: i dont care, im the boss. thats how it goes. lets fight...
And finally, the heroical end...
Zidane: now that we escaped at the peril of our lives, im going to return there and abandon my friends and my love, cause maybe the bad guy will want to repent himself... and it wouldnt be then same if the game just ended like that after the big battkem so i willdisapear for a while and make people believe im dead, then i will reapear. God im so smart...
FFIX is one of the favorite Final Fantasy games. I think it got little attention because of FFX since it came out a year later on the PS2 it caught all the attention.
I liked IX the best too, and why it has the least attention is beyond me, but so true: I just finished reading the character list of Kingdom hearts on imdb, and again, the only game of ff VII-X2 who has no characters there, is ffIX. sick of this
It is a good game and story but the one thing that pisses me off is that (possible spoiler) (SPOILER)you put all that effort into making your characters good, to find out in the end that most of the characters HP cant even been raised beyond 8000 HP except Amarant which is really annoying.
meh. Nevermind about high hp. It's not all about the hp. FF9 *cough the best cough* is more about the moves you learn and getting them to be the best.
And who said that FF8 and 10 were better than 9? Wow you're wrong. Although 7 is better, i still prefer 9. It's delicious with a nice cup o' tea.
I did really enjoy this game, but looking back on it, there were a few things that annoyed me.
The main thing that annoyed me was the skill system. It was great that you equipped different armour and weapons to learn skills, but I still have no idea what the hell a lot of the skills and abilities are for. Like Locomotion for instance. And why on earth you needed Man Eater to be effective against humans, and Stone Killer to be effective against those enemies, and bird killer, and bug killer, and devil killer, and so on.
My point is, is that there were too many different skills, and no obvious ingame explanation for them (unless I missed something). And healer, and gamble defense, for instance. They sound obvious, but I didn't see them make any difference. As well, how do you use Mug?
As well, while there was a nice, light, la-ti-da feel to the game, I found the music to be a little too silly. I'm back playing FFVI now, and the even though it's a 16 bit game, the music is by far better in my opinion. It gives you a better feel to the game's setting. Some of the music in FFIX was just strange, like Linblum Castle's music. It just didn't set the atmosphere for me.
As well, I found the Trance mode to be pretty pointless. They rarely ever went into trance for me. Sometimes they did, but at the very end of a fight, and at which point I didn't get to do much with it, anyways. And even then, there wasn't anything drastically different about Garnet's and Steiner's trances when in effect, either. Zidane's were different, but really not that eye catching, where he runs up and slashes the hell out of the enemies, unlike Squall's Lionheart, Tidus' Blitz Ace, Cloud's different limit breaks, Zell's dual, etc. I didn't even get trance activated enough to see all of Zidane's different moves.
However, the ending FMV was amazing, the game had a great storyline, and the world was beautiful. I found just flying around in the airship, looking at the lush landscape to be enjoyable. As well, the game script was great, in that the characters seemed to have more personality than say FFVIII, for instance. And the battle system was great, too.
But I guess, I would have liked to have seen the skill system, trance and the music to be done differently. Well, the skill system itself was neat, but there were just too many different, obscure skills. And I found I could never have enough skills equipped with the need for more ore slots.
I think the main reason it didn't receive as much attention is because, as said earlier, it was released after FFVII and FFVIII, and right before FFX and the release of the PS2. That, and the fact that it wasn't angst ridden and sexy like FFVII, FFVIII and FFX, as said earlier.
Definitely.
Last edited by crazybayman; 11-02-2005 at 02:23 PM.
WICKED-AWESOME SIG.
Yeah, the first time I got FFIX and played it through it took me four days to complete, but I was constantly playing, and I didn't include any of the side quests or anything. But the reason I was constantly playing the game is because I was hooked to the storyline and the game, I thought it was a great game and is one of my favourites along with X & VII. IX brough my love back to the Final Fantasy games because I didn't enjoy VIII as much, so I was happy to see that IX wasn't a let down.
It is irritating as its not as popular, not because it doesn't get attention - because its not sold in the shops anymore over here in the UK and I lost the second disc to my game
Crappy graphics style, stupid main character, useless summons, and the ability system all drain FFIX's popularity.
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