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Well, It may sound strange but I still yet to have played FF9 :) I missed out on that when it came out, and since then never had a chance to pick it up. Maybe sometime in the future I will, but I need to finish FFX first, plus there are many more games that require my attention before I can get to FF9 :)
Speaking of FFX, I'm playing it now, and having great time, so its sad to hear all this bashing this game gets as well :( Time for FFX defense thread, I say :)
The ending brought a smile to my face. I think it was the simple fact that you could see it coming that did that. I really do hate when they pull a final boss out of their ass at the last moment. No real backstory for Necron, nothing. Lame. And I hate the fact that Terra seemed like one big public service announcement. Don't believe me? Talk to all the citizens in Terra again.
Well, I'm getting way behind on my prg playing. I just dont have that much time anymore, and rpgs are quite time consuming. I will definately pick up FF9 one of this days, but I need to finish FFX first, and Valkirie Profile is next on my list of rpg's to play.
Alot people here are running on the beleif that the older FF games were any less cash based excercises in rehash than the new ones. Eveyone misses the "good ol' days" but I really don't think it was any better than now. Main difference is that back then we had fewer alternatives, because all the best RPGs on SNES got left in japan.
I just hate the GAY look of the main character
He is a bit afemenate. But I like the game.Quote:
Originally posted by MajinRyu
I just hate the GAY look of the main character
Was the ending predictable? Sure. But it was happy! When was the last time a Final Fantasy game (FFX included) ended entirely happily?
Matsuno (of Ogre Battle/Tactics, FFT, and Vagrant Story fame) is co-directing XII. Maybe he'll give the series a kick in the ass. I'd rather he was directing it by himself and Sakaguchi had nothing to do with it, but it is Sakaguchi's series after all.Quote:
Originally posted by Mman
FF really needs a big change to be good again. Unfortunetly, it looks like they are going online for that change... :( I just want a new non (less) random battle system.
As for IX, I can't say anything because I haven't played it. VIII completely killed what little interest I had left in the series after VII.
If I remember correctly, most people here loved it, and I was damn near the only one who couldn't stand the story and characters. Or at least voiced it.Quote:
Originally posted by andyrose
We had one about 6 months ago. :p
Which (true to TNL form) eventually turned into a discussion of whether the 3D models in FFX conveyed more emotion though facial expression then the highly-animated 2D body language of Valkryie Profile between Shidoshi and me.
Hmmm, no, but it sure as hell was cliche. It really wasn't a BAD ending, I actually found it very satisfying (so satisfying in fact that I didn't feel like playing through it again), but it was rather... uh... predictable.Quote:
Originally posted by Hero
Or is that too passe, unhip, and unreal for these days of mature gaming?
I liked FF9, but out of the four in the series that I've beaten, its my least favorite. 7, 8, and 10 are all tied for first, and then 9 comes behind it. I think I'm the only one who really loved eight (now THAT was an ending). My reasons for not thinking FF9 was God's second child: story felt rather thrown togethor. Seriously, for the first disk or two it seemed like they were just sorta wandering around with no real ultimate goal. Reason 2- it didn't have anything or anything that just really really captivated me. Wait, no, I take that back. The first 5 hours or so were just amazing to me, but it just sorta went downhill from there. FF7 really caught me due to... uh... just about everything but the graphics. FF8 caught me with the story (cept for the whole orphanage thing, wtf was THAT about?), battle system, and side quests. And FFX caught me primarily with the new battle system and the story. FFIX had a great, simple battle system, some really fun, cool characters (Vivi and Steiner spring to mind), and awesome graphics for PS. But none of that in FF9 was just spectacular for me, and the story only took away from that (well, at least until about the end of disk 3 where they start to actually have a purpose for doing things). Overall, I thought FF9 was a very good game, but it wasn't in the league of 7, 8, or 10. Had great music, btw (love that overworld theme, LOVE IT!). But then again, I think FF8 is one of the best RPGs ever, so maybe you shouldn't listen to me. ;)
I really like FF 9
it was rather enjoyable
but I do have a couple of complaints
I thought the end battle was to hard and cheap
also someon mention about the slowness of the battles and the pauses,
well not only that but the active time bar seemed to fill up really really slow, maybe that is how slow 7 and 8 were and i dont remember but it was really slow