Best Ever

[arcanedude34]

Ok, I beat this game ages ago (over two years ago) and I have never shared my feelings on this game with anyone, except a few people that have also beaten this game. But since I recently restarted the game, I just have to tell you my opinions. Let me start off by saying that this is the Final Fantasy that should have brought fame to the name. Final Fantasy X.... SUCKED. I am sorry, but it just did. Seven, not bad, but still not perfect. Until IX the closest to perfect was probably V. IX was HUGELY underappreciated. This is partly because of the fact that it was a PS1 game. BAD CHOICE, SQARE ENIX. Ok, for anyone who can get past that, you people are the true Final Fantasy fans, not the phony players that wont even give IV, V or VI a chance because of the graphics. Despite this, the graphics are among some of my favorite in Final Fantasy games. Kiddish, deformed and slightly frightening, yes. Bad? No. The characters move with alot more ease than they do in X, where Tidus runs like he has a Blitzball shoved up his ass. Face pictures are admittedly not as good as VII or VIII but a hell of a lot better than IV or VI. Music is simply the best ever made. Even my least favorite scores (such as Jesters of the Moon) are awesome. Beautiful. Breathtaking. X's music is nothing speacial, except for Otherworld and To Zanarkand. Characters. I love this game's characters. If there is a single person in this forums who doesnt like Vivi, or Garnet, or Quina, or any other character in this game, then the world is a far more terrible place then we could ever imagine. Each character has a distinct personality. With Stiener's overwhelming sense of duty, to Zidane's playful perverted innocence, to Freja's dark, more serious personality, this game has it all.

Plot. Wow. This game isnt the most in-depth (such as maybe VII or X) but still good. And it has one other thing that no other FF has ever been able to mimic.





A LOVE STORY THAT DOESNT FEEL TACKED ON.




I mean Jesus. Their love meshes perfectly with the rest of the plot. Are either of them perfect for each other? No. Does it feel real? Yes!


The game rocks out loud. Forty hours of gameplay, plus a hell of a lot of mini-games and sidequests, this is the game I would recomend to anyone who has never played an RPG. One of the only drawbacks (that I personally did not mind) was the significantly slowed-down active time battles.

Anyway. This is my view. Thanks for your time.

[cloud21zidane16]

completly agree with you there, maybe not quite the best ever but severly underated
X was just a bit more popular becuase it was the first to come out on ps2 and it attracted a lot of new gamers
IX is just way to ignored

[PuPu]

IX is under appreciated because it brings back themes of the Originals. (FFI-VI) In this game, people would find it very hard to get 9,999 HP unlike FFVII-X, where all you had to do was equip Materia, Junctions, and go through tons of HP nodes. Again, in FFIX, it is very hard, and quite possibly impossible to get 9,999 HP. (I saw a picture of everyone's stats at lvl 99, none of them were 9,999?)

Another theme it brings back is being able to use four characters in battle instead of three. Though you did have more party members, the battles weren't too easy where all you had to do was just mash "Attack" like in, say FFVII.

Also, the final boss of the game, Necron, speaks of words much similar to that of a villain in another FF. The Iifa Tree is also a connection to a past FF villain as well; Grand Cross is a a connection to that same villain.

Yes, the most likely reason for it being under appreciated is because it has a different theme than the two previous ones before it VII and VIII. They had more of a "futuristic" theme than FFIX. Many people probably just weren't used to playing FFIX because it was different to them and much like Originals.

In my opinion, IX is the best of Second Generation FF's and X is the second best of them.

[Sefie1999AD]

Final Fantasy IX isn't my favorite FF, but it's still very close. It's the 2nd best FF for me, actually. The game still has some features that I think are better done than in any other FF. For example, I think FFIX has some of the best character development I've seen in an FF, the storyline may not be the best but it's deep and thoughtful, the game has my favorite FF ending, and I think FFIX has the best music in the series.

Not to mention I like the old-school style battle system of not having a party of overpowered carbon copies who can do 99,999 damage with every hit and whose only difference is their character graphics. The tribute parts to other, older FFs were also a welcome addition.

[AngelofSatire]

FF9 is my second favorite game (Behind FF7....'cmon.....Sephiroth is seriously awesome)....but what really peeves me is....KUJA!:kaodizzy:

....He dresses like a girl and not like FF7's 'Cloud crossdresses to save friend from whatever'....It's just gross.....

They dont have too many other faults.....ITS PERFECT!!!!

Zidane is a great main character! I like Vivi!So....besides the small 'Kuja a guy who crossdresses....YUCK!' thing....It's my second favorite...but OH SO close!!!

[VengefulRonin]

FFX was like Resident Evil 4: they both brought in a ton of new fans who looked at the older games and said "eww, icky graphics." For PS1, the IX graphics were pretty good, especially those gorgeous AMVs. The only thing i couldnt stand would be when they mixed ugly in-game graphics with FMV graphics, such as when Zidane is running through the Iifa tree to find Kuja. I dont know why Square did that >_<

FF9 is my second favorite game (Behind FF7....'cmon.....Sephiroth is seriously awesome)....but what really peeves me is....KUJA!:kaodizzy:

....He dresses like a girl and not like FF7's 'Cloud crossdresses to save friend from whatever'....It's just gross.....

They dont have too many other faults.....ITS PERFECT!!!!

Zidane is a great main character! I like Vivi!So....besides the small 'Kuja a guy who crossdresses....YUCK!' thing....It's my second favorite...but OH SO close!!!

"liek omg, kuja is a feminine tranny!" Sorry, not every guy can be hulking mass of muscle. Some guys body types and facial features just arent as masculine as others. I dont think a wife beater and gym shorts would have been a good look for kuja, so he went with was looked good on him. Besides, he's not exactly wearing a bra or a full dress, nor does he talk gay. He's a stuck up aristrocrat wearing stuck up fancy aristocrat clothing. He's saying to the world "my body is better than yours" by wearing those things.

Vivi is the coolest little dude ever ^_^ I just love seeing a little harmless-looking guy oblitering all the enemies on the field with a couple Doomsday attacks.

[Timerk]

It is a odd game for me because there are some parts that I find sad and beautiful, while other things tend to drag and seem to be overly complicated. The storyline is very much a highpoint, though there were some characters that I found shrill. Also, a many of the sidequests were boring to me.

It is a pretty good game, but not the best Final Fantasy, there are too many uneven moments for it to be called the greatest, my :twocents:.

[VengefulRonin]

It is a odd game for me because there are some parts that I find sad and beautiful, while other things tend to drag and seem to be overly complicated. The storyline is very much a highpoint, though there were some characters that I found shrill. Also, a many of the sidequests were boring to me.

It is a pretty good game, but not the best Final Fantasy, there are too many uneven moments for it to be called the greatest, my :twocents:.

Overly complicated? How so? I thought everything was fairly easy to grasp in this game, unlike VII or X. I do agree that it can drag though, but that was only in disc 4.

And "shrill" characters meaning...annoying as hell? Cuz thats what eiko was.

[LazarCotoron]

Eiko may have been annoying, but she was a better White Mage than Dagger.

Did anyone else feel a little gypped that you couldn't shift your lead character out so you could run around the world as someone OTHER than Zidane?

And... those are my only two complaints with the game.

While I can't speak as highly of the game (I feel it's kinda' a 3 way tie, Tactics and XII being the other contenders) Vivi and Freya are my favorite FF characters ever. One of the reasons I like FFXII so much is because they brought the Mist back from FFIX! The Mist was a really cool idea, and it made me happy beyond belief to see that they hadn't abandoned it.

Plus, the game brought tears of sadness and joy to me as I would play it.

I'm an FF fan as far back as FFV. I couldn't get into FFIV... sorry, the game doesn't black mail me into doing something I would never do-that's just NOT how it works. FFVI was the first one I ever played, and was my favorite FF before I played FFIX, which says something. We irrationally favor our 'first' experience with something over new iterations of that experience. This game overcame both the irrational part of my attachment to FFVI and the rational part of it.

[Timerk]

And "shrill" characters meaning...annoying as hell? Cuz thats what eiko was.

Si.

Overly complicated? How so? I thought everything was fairly easy to grasp in this game, unlike VII or X. I do agree that it can drag though, but that was only in disc 4.

I guess I felt like that most of the sidequests (especially the chocobo thing) was more work than I was willing to put into it.

[VengefulRonin]

I guess I felt like that most of the sidequests (especially the chocobo thing) was more work than I was willing to put into it.

Agreed. Not to say they're not good sidequests....i'm just lazy. For my last file I did have a map printed out of all the chocograph locations, but then i lost it and gave up. But the chocograph sidequest is certainly better than that damn "catch two chocobos and make them have sex, hope you get the right one" sidequest in VII.

[Heero Yuy NWZC]

Ok, I beat this game ages ago (over two years ago) and I have never shared my feelings on this game with anyone, except a few people that have also beaten this game. But since I recently restarted the game, I just have to tell you my opinions. Let me start off by saying that this is the Final Fantasy that should have brought fame to the name. Final Fantasy X.... SUCKED. I am sorry, but it just did. Seven, not bad, but still not perfect. Until IX the closest to perfect was probably V. IX was HUGELY underappreciated. This is partly because of the fact that it was a PS1 game. BAD CHOICE, SQARE ENIX. Ok, for anyone who can get past that, you people are the true Final Fantasy fans, not the phony players that wont even give IV, V or VI a chance because of the graphics. Despite this, the graphics are among some of my favorite in Final Fantasy games. Kiddish, deformed and slightly frightening, yes. Bad? No. The characters move with alot more ease than they do in X, where Tidus runs like he has a Blitzball shoved up his ass. Face pictures are admittedly not as good as VII or VIII but a hell of a lot better than IV or VI. Music is simply the best ever made. Even my least favorite scores (such as Jesters of the Moon) are awesome. Beautiful. Breathtaking. X's music is nothing speacial, except for Otherworld and To Zanarkand. Characters. I love this game's characters. If there is a single person in this forums who doesnt like Vivi, or Garnet, or Quina, or any other character in this game, then the world is a far more terrible place then we could ever imagine. Each character has a distinct personality. With Stiener's overwhelming sense of duty, to Zidane's playful perverted innocence, to Freja's dark, more serious personality, this game has it all.

Plot. Wow. This game isnt the most in-depth (such as maybe VII or X) but still good. And it has one other thing that no other FF has ever been able to mimic.





A LOVE STORY THAT DOESNT FEEL TACKED ON.




I mean Jesus. Their love meshes perfectly with the rest of the plot. Are either of them perfect for each other? No. Does it feel real? Yes!


The game rocks out loud. Forty hours of gameplay, plus a hell of a lot of mini-games and sidequests, this is the game I would recomend to anyone who has never played an RPG. One of the only drawbacks (that I personally did not mind) was the significantly slowed-down active time battles.

Anyway. This is my view. Thanks for your time.

Amen brother, amen.

[Elpizo]

I remember making a likewise topic when I first beat IX and my entire rant was called "Better than the president's speech." and I got several rewards from otehr members. Lol.

Anyway, I agree IX is underappreciated and by far the best, but I disagree with X SUCKED! I haven't played it, but no game sucks, that's a fact. It's just you who doesn't like it. That's all, really.

I don't need to rant again. It's simply this: Pure quality gets overlooked and overrun by hype, and that's what happened to IX, alas. But for those who played teh game and understood it for what it was, it's the journey of lifetime, so to speak. I hate every reviewing site that gives IX around a 8,5 while VII and VIII get 9.5 or even 10. *Sigh* IX deserves what it's numbered: a nine, at the very least. Oh well, as long as I enjoy the game, and I know others do, too, I'm happy.

[VengefulRonin]

I remember making a likewise topic when I first beat IX and my entire rant was called "Better than the president's speech." and I got several rewards from otehr members. Lol.

Anyway, I agree IX is underappreciated and by far the best, but I disagree with X SUCKED! I haven't played it, but no game sucks, that's a fact. It's just you who doesn't like it. That's all, really.

I don't need to rant again. It's simply this: Pure quality gets overlooked and overrun by hype, and that's what happened to IX, alas. But for those who played teh game and understood it for what it was, it's the journey of lifetime, so to speak. I hate every reviewing site that gives IX around a 8,5 while VII and VIII get 9.5 or even 10. *Sigh* IX deserves what it's numbered: a nine, at the very least. Oh well, as long as I enjoy the game, and I know others do, too, I'm happy.

X-2 sucked <.<

I really dont understand why sites review it lower than other FFs though (actually on IGN it did do better than VIII, but barely). The game is a quality piece of work. The game system, such as abilities and whatnot, is certainly easier than VIII (and in my copy of VII materia had a tendancy to not work even when it should have).

It returned to fantasy instead of being so sci-fi. Nothing wrong with sci-fi, but in a game called Final Fantasy, it needs to be fantasy and let the sci-fi be left to xenogears.

The character development is outstanding. Of course zidane goes through alot of changes, and even the two times he turns emo, it's actually justified and somehow he manages to pull himself together. Garnet has the little coming of age thing, although its a bit more brutal than most people would experience. Steiner goes from being an arrogant stubborn fool to a loyal, more understanding companion (many thanks owed to "master vivi"). And vivi is the strongest little kid i've ever seen. I mean the kid finds out he was manufactured and he still goes on living.

And the chocograph sidequest is a much more enjoyable experience than making two chocobos screw each other and hope they produce the right type of inbred.

[Timerk]

I think FFIX gets underrated because it doesn't really tap into a primal themes like other FF's do. Zidane goes on a journey, but it is not the same as Cecil or Cloud, so when you break away from that traditional mold, you are going to lose something with the masses. It is also going to lose something in translation generally, because those primal themes are so strong, and FFIX is all about tweaking archetypes, so everything seems kind of strange because so much of how the characters develop is not what you would expect.

For me, that is the main reason why FFIX doesn't get the same kind of love as FFVII, IV, or X.