ffix is the highest rated final fantasy game on playstation so don't say its underrated. average of 94/100 from game review sites and magazines. and no ffx did not suck!!!! ff9 story is very indepth if you look at the themes they show : O
http://www.metacritic.com/games/playstation/
rated the 5th best game of all time on ps1!!!
finished: ff3ds, ff4,ff5, ff7,ff8,ff9,ff10,ff tactics and advance
This is a list of all of the Final Fantasies that I've beaten, listed by order of how I liked it, the first one being my favorite.
1. Final Fantasy X
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Final Fantasy VIII
4. Final Fantasy IX
5. Final Fantasy X-2.
Final Fantasy IX had a good plot but I didn't like how the characters and setting were "childlike" for lack of a better word. I also didn't like how abilities were obtained. I like FFX's sphere grid and FFVII's materia systems more. 7/10
Well i can see "childlike" with vivi and eiko, since they are children, but how were the rest of the characters childlike, or the settings? I wouldnt exactly consider Burmucia or Memoria to be childlike.Originally Posted by Hambone
I liked the abilities system of IX, just equip the thing and wear it long enough to learn it, then give it to the next person and have them learn it. Seems pretty simple to me. Personally i hated the matieria system, although i think my game was glitched because materia wouldnt work half the time it was supposed to. The sphere grid of X is a pretty good system, but i think it's kind of difficult for alot people to get the hang of at first. Me and several people i know had to completely start over because by the time we figured out how to work it properly we were too underleveled and out of spheres to use. VIII's system was just atrocious >_<
Most of the characters in that game look abnormally small. Ex: Zidane looks like he's 12. Everything just looked small. Note I said "childlike for lack of a better word"
Junctioning is not confusing...anymore. I admit it wasn't my favorite but once you get the hang of it, your characters are really good by the time you get to the end of disc 3. The sphere grid was hard to understand also. I still don't get why people don't understand it, though. It gives a good explanation of it when it's first introduced. The ability system in FFIX just seems to boring.
As I seem to remember from someones sig, 'People dont like FFIX because they are complete idiots.' - Or somethin like that.
FFIX is underrated by the masses. Look at the relatively 'poor' sales figures. Because shallow people didnt buy this game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...nd_video_games - Hey, wait a second, FFIX has disappeared.
But FFX was an excellent game as well.
About the different systems of learning abilities - all of them are good. Although it took me quite a while to get used to FFVIII's.
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.
Yeah, I know this, but still. Games do suck (I have made a few.*coughblackmagechronicalscough*.
IX was underrated mostly because of it's graphics. If people could get past it, and actually see the story for what it is; it becomes quickly prevalent that IX has the deepest story of the PS1 generation.
IX does have the "journey myth" in it though. It's just not as obvious or as centralized. IX doesn't have a main character, but each character walks their own personal journey as they show the player what defines them. It's shown the strongest in Zidane, Garnet, Vivi, and Steiner though. IX's theme is "The Meaning of Life", in context of this theme, each character symbolizes one of the paths that people choose as what is most important to them.
Zidane finds meaning in helping people, Garnet finds meaning in family, Steiner in duty, Freya in love, Eiko in friendship, Amarant in freedom, and Quina in selfishness. Vivi represents those who are still looking for their own purpose and ultimately finds it in helping to lead the other black mages. Of all the FF's, I feel this one expresses it's theme the best.
It's a shame more people didn't like it, cause it was very beautiful. Definetly the best of the PS1 generation. I also enjoyed the references to the older games as well as being a more traditional fantasy game... well as "traditional" as the FF series actually gets.
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
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YES! YES! YES! FFX SUCKED! SUCKIEST GAME EVER.
IX is good game, the main point people hate it is because of the main character have a tail; monkey. They want a human with buzz hair and badass type of sword.
Zidane lead his party better than Cloud and Squall and he's cheerful to his party unlike Cloud or Squall, Total EMO.
FFIX is my favourite FF AFTER FFXII.
The Late Owen Macwere Production.
Awww, the love for FFIX, it makes me feel so refreshed.
Hey now, dont be so mean to X, it was a good game, just nowhere close to IX. And the suckiest game ever is X-2.
Yeah, zidane is a pretty cheerful guy with rather normal hair, and i liked that tail of his. He helped his friends out and gave lotsa good advice to peoples. He did go emo twice, but i think its excusable. I'd probably go emo if the girl i loved was going to become queen and never see me again, or if i found out i was a manufactured alien and the brother of a psychopath.
I seemed to have thought the face pictures of IX pwned the pointed chins of FFVII
...Geddit?
How did FFX suck? Apart from there being no world map.
FFX was a great game, just not quite as good as FFIX.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, stop saying stuff sucks and stuff rules because it's different with each person.
GAWWD
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Yeah but IX does rule, its a fact that was proven in 2003 by a team of nuclear physicists.
, man, that's a mouthful. Again, mebbe not the very best but the most underappreciated.
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