So just how good is Final Fantasy 9? I only got to the point where you fight the 3rd mage that's after Garnet A.K.A Dagger. My friend stole it from me while I was at my father's house. I never got to finish it, and it really sucks that you get kinda far in a game then you can't play the rest.

It is not that bad but yes, it is good... just imagine that Zidane and the others are good, somehow.

Moving to the Final Fantasy IX forum. Please try and post things in the right place, yes?

Sayin FFIX is good or not is all a matter of opinion. Some people think its great and others don't but it's their opinion. I personally liked the game and thought it was a lot of fun! See some of these games I've been playing seem to be lacking that special feature.

Lets see..

Ive always enjoyed Fina Fantasy IX, because there is so much to learn about it, the characters have deep personalitys so you can understand them and get to know them well.

The landscaped are always new, they all represent the mood that needs to be givien out to the player.

Oh and there are many games to do after you have completed it, id say, top class game.

u might not have played it but it is the best . i thought it was really fun

FF9 is the best numbered final fantasy ever, it goes up there with the games KH and FFT as my top 3 favorite RPG's. Now it's a greatest hits for ps1 and you can get it for like 15$!!!! That game was so much fun I played it over and over again.

Final Fantasy 9 is my second favorite game, (with 6 in first place)

This game is soooo close to being perfect, in my opinion with only two problems with it, one of them being trance, it's so random you can't use it strategically, so I just ignored it, the other problem though is a major problem: having ability's learing by equipping weapons, for some reason alot of people like this system but not me, it drove me nuts. It simply leads to so many complications.

I prefer learning my spells naturally, rather than having my inventory cluttered with 2000 different weapons and items I really don't want but I'm not done learning from them, enemies give you shit ap compared to what you need to just get on with your life.

Let's see, I have a old useless weapon and a new stronger weapon, I very badly want to sell this thing and keep the obviously more vital one equipped, but my ability is still 16/155, I have no idea why because I went through about 5 boss battles and plenty of random encounters along the way.

also I hated synth, another thing that keeps you from selling what you don't need anymore.

and the one last thing, I absolutely HATED the fact that my characters had so much free will, I had no control over them, when you get to a new town, you take this opertunity to heal, buy new weapons and items, equip my party with everything and level up..... but I can't because zidane is by himself. So as a result he's 30 levels ahead of everyone.

Towards the end of the game you finally get much more control over the character, like when you travel with regent cid on that boat, I literally spent 3 days trying to get all my abilities in.

Honestly it's a wonderful game, my favorite cast of characters in all of them, very fun battle system, great story, music, art. But because of the tedious facts that weapons and abilites are linked, ap is gained very slowly, and you have so little control over your characters, I only see it worth playing once.

Everything Melichior just said.

Seriously, FFIX is spectacular. It boggles my mind that so many people didn't seem to care for it. It's the most underated game of all time, in my opinion.

its super duper! its fandabidosey! its the best!!!!

sorry but its my second fave ff game...i just love it....

'you dont need a reason to help people',Paitence it a virtue...'

In a lot of ways I like it better than FFVII and FFX-2 - if you haven't got it yet, come on, get it.


P.S.: Find a way to get another copy and don't just take that from that friend of yours.

haha...i gave my friend my FF8.....and i havent seen it since!

It's great to see other people who love this game as much as i do.

No one I know likes this game.

I agree this is the most underrated game ever, unlike that piece of trash that is FF 7 which is the most overrated game ever. FF9 is the game Cloud and Seph wish they were cool enough to be put in, they both wish they were Zidane so much that they threw away there swords so that they can practice with daggers and have tails taped to thier butts.

I think the biggest mistake Square ever made was making a sequel for FF7 and not FF9.

FF9 sets itself up for a sequel because at the end when you kill Necron says something about coming back to finish things.

FF9 is underrated mainly because people played ff7 and 8 first which had nothing fantasy like to them, then played 9 and didnt like the change, because 9 goes back to the fantasy style which was in 1-6 and isnt futuristic..

x-2 really was bad tho...

i like ff 9 much more then ff8 the sound the story the mooglys ^.^ and also the animations are great, just look at the towns or alexander but i think anyhow the characters during the game look much better then in the sequenz *smile* zidan in his trance looks a bit like ssj4 goku i think *kihihihihihi* i loved to bring the letters to the different mooglys but till now i wasn�t able to find a heal for the mog that switched its collor.

i've heard ff9 is really good but i've never played it. but heard it's real good

i wouldn�t say it�s the best it has a good story etc but i think the characters are looking a bit naja...

yeah no matter what ff 10 is the best only in my opinion though.

Yea ff9 was definetly my favorite, every little detail of the towns, and the people really brought the game to life. but for some reason a lot of people seem to hate it. if anyone reads this hates ff9 tell me why

I've played and beaten all the FF games excluding X and X-2 and I have to say I have liked IX the most with V coming in a close second.

Very good story line and music, and I love the abilities system.

Is that why you call yourself ff7 forever? lol

haha...no he likes 7....and 10...but everyone knows he likes 7(hence the name) so he was pointing out he likes 10 as well

uhh.....i think?

i think ff9 is quite babbish compaired to the others im not saying its a horrorble game but just a bit babish and for the younger generation but this is just my opinon

i think so many people were disapointed of ffIX cause they have played ff 8. i would say ff8 is really made good but i don�t like the story, so i think even if the char. in ff9 look a bit umm let me say odd ^^ but the story is much better.

it is a kinda different from the rest i dunno how but well for starters it is by far the easiest.

i found 6 the easiest - i completed it with an average character level of 34. :P

I thought FF9 was a cracking game. the only reason ppl dont like it is becuse they compare it to other games.
I wasnt too keen on choco hot and cold though - i sucked at it :'( and i couldnt ever find my way to the chocobo lagoon :'( x-x. I agree, at the start, i wanted more time to lvl up my characters, but by disk 3 i had had the oppertunity to do so :)
i like the way the story panned out, and how the characters were developed...

Originally posted by squallthelionheart
i think ff9 is quite babbish compaired to the others im not saying its a horrorble game but just a bit babish and for the younger generation but this is just my opinon

It's not for the younger generation, infact it's much more challenging than FF7 and FF8, you basically just insulted the game.

No, everything in FF9 looks the way it is for two reasons alone:

1. A light-hearted atmostphere for a change, classic story-line we remember from our childhood in fairy tales involving crystals, princesses, castles, knights, dragons, etc. (atleast up until disk three, then you meet garland and everything goes back to FF7 and FF8)

2. Going back to the better style of character classes:

1. Thief/Ninja
2. Black Mage/Black Wizard
3. White Mage/White Wizard
4. Fighter/Knight
5. Lancer/Dragoon
6. Blue Mage/Blue Wizard
7. Caller/Summoner
8. Black Belt/Monk

Much better than all of your characters being able to learn everything inturn making less character development and less style and challenge to the game.

I wasnt too keen on choco hot and cold though - i sucked at it
Chocobo Hot & Cold is the best. I bet you probably just never figured out the game's big secret: that there's only one treasure in the forest (or whatever area) at any given time and once you find it, a new treasure appears in another location. This game rox - once you what you're doing, you more than make up for the price of admission. I mean, there's nothing like paying 50 gil or whatever it is to enter and then finding 100 gil or even thousands of gil buried somewhere.

Uh...Yea,Everything u just said is true lol

Originally posted by Agent0042

Chocobo Hot & Cold is the best. I bet you probably just never figured out the game's big secret: that there's only one treasure in the forest (or whatever area) at any given time and once you find it, a new treasure appears in another location. This game rox - once you what you're doing, you more than make up for the price of admission. I mean, there's nothing like paying 50 gil or whatever it is to enter and then finding 100 gil or even thousands of gil buried somewhere.

is THAT so..... i had a sneaky suspision. I just dont have the knack for those sorts of things though....

Originally posted by Naphtali
Is that why you call yourself ff7 forever? lol


well i did like ff7 at the time until i beat ff 10. then i liked ff 10 but 7 ties with it so i should have put ff7 and 10 forever

i think mini games are important in such games whats why i like ff7 and ff 9 there is much more to do then just follow the story.

yeah it can be fun but i hate chocobo mini games!!!

i liked the chocobo ball game thing in 10...i thought that was fun!

but i suck at the mini-games....i suck at blitz too(witch is a kind of mini-game)

hehe yeah what i really hated was the music in ff9 when i ride a chocobo, don�t know why it�s not much different from the chocobo music in the other ff games but somehow always i hear it i and ride on my choco i get sick :eye:

haha ever thought it was the chocobo? those things must give you a bumpy ride...you know the way they bounce around!:)

heh that sucks oh well i suck at blitz too so don't feel bad bill and bill go to comments

sorry ff cant be botherd tonite...ill go tommorow....

alright then later bill

hmm maybe you�re right !? ^.^ so guys there are for sure some bad things about ff9 so letz start talking about that.
what do you think of the way the characters act? for example the knight ( what was his name again?) i don�t really like that one.

steiner...yeah...hehe he's funny though! i can imagine his voice!

Originally posted by Masaiju
hehe yeah what i really hated was the music in ff9 when i ride a chocobo, don�t know why it�s not much different from the chocobo music in the other ff games but somehow always i hear it i and ride on my choco i get sick :eye:

Hey i love chocobo music

i love all the chocobo music! i like the ff8 and ff10's chocobo music

FF9 is alright only bad bit's were the Cross Dressin Weirdo Kuja and PPL h8'n Vivi .. i mean seiously how can u h8 somthing so cute i wanna give him a huge hug *and steal tht little staff o his :D* he is the Cutest ever FF Char ever

it's alright but after a while it gets old

the only problem i had with ff9 was that the card game was so addicting, id play for hours then i could never remember what im supposed to to when i get back to the actual game

huh well that sucks

I personally found that FFIX was a great addition to the Final Fantasy Series unlike VIII which is horrible.

FF8 wasnt horrible...just complicated and mistunderstood....i liked 8...my first FF game! though...i didnt like the moombas...i prefere moogles!:)

when i played ff8 i thought HEY GREAT ANIMATIONS!! but that it was i don�t want to say it so hard, i think most importand is the story and compert to the other ff games i think it�s not so good.
i like really the story of ff9 i like kuja and his music even if he looks a bit gay.

same here....i'd never seen anything like it, then when i saw the CG in ff9 i was even more atounded....then when i got my hands on 7 i was even MORE atounded....at how much ff8's CG had come from the ff7's CG in just a few years....

It makes you wonder what theyre gonna do when the graphics finally become photo realistic

yeah...you think it'll come to the point when we cant tell whats real or not?

maybe it'll be like with real ppl. that'd be strange

sometimes if you take a quick glance, everything does seem real; especially in ff movies. the animators will really have to rack their brains to come up with new ideas to make the graphics above the rest, cuz if it does get to the photorealistic point, eventually everyone will get there and the graphics will be the same for every game. it will be interesting to see the results

yeah the hair on tidus in fmv mode looks so real!!

yeah but it does for all of them....but to be honest, you cant really have hair like tidus', cause he goes in the water, and 10 seconds later its dry and like it was....i hate it when they do that.....

it can't be perfect man. well that'd be weird to control real ppl in a game or they should do that thing where it's like virtual reality that'd be awesome!!!!

yea i guess they still have a long way to go with minor details like that... heh heh

but you have to think how long those ppl are gonna be working on it to try and perfect it i say take what you can get................................. does that saying work for this situation?

never really thought about that....but it takes them years to complete the game, then it takes months/years to complete the dialoge in english(for ff10)...so they just want the best i guess....and they're good at it so i guess you could say that they want to go higher...and they will....cause they can

definetly, but the consumers are going to expect improvements with each game

yeah specially with technology now days it's pretty much a demand for good graphics and such

Hmm? So what's it we're talking about now?

i'm not sure now got sidetracked

it started off as a thread to tell someone whether or not ff9 was a good game but we got way sidetracked and were talkin bout graphics now, join in its fun stuff

yeah real fun i bet ff 30 (that is if it continues that long) will be so life like and real it'll feel as if you're controlling a real person

theres a thread about ff30 and there was a rumor in it saying that square is gonna stop making em after the 15th one

you know what i would love? to have the actual gameplay like the CG in 10! that would be soooo cool! thats what i want!:D

yeah i seen that thread too...though i dont think that'll happen...i mean the series is doing so well...why would they suddenly stop? no..SE is far too greedy to just stop there...it'll go on to 21 at least

oh yeah that would be awesome!! but that sucks if they gonna stop after 15 hopefully not it's such a good series!!

i already said this in the other one, but theyve already made fifteen- ff 1 through 12, 10-2, tactics, crystal chronicals, and 2 for gameboy. not to mention the remake of tactics and the originals.

really?

but they could mean ff 1 through 15, not including the ones on the side such as sequels, remakes, etc

FF:CC looks good...is it?

i don't lke the fact that it wasn't made for playstaytion cause i own a ps2 so that got me mad

yea the game looked amazing, but ive never played it. i hear its repetitave cuz all you really do is walk around and fight monsters, but id still like to play it. as for it being on gamecube; yea im pissed about that cuz i dont got one either, but its understandable that theyre trying to broaden their sales

yeah i guess but ff:cc does look awesome

i�m not so sure if poeple always want some realistic characters in the game. at the latest, if the characters will become someday "perfect", some for sure want that nice comic stile back.
if you ask me, i prefere that old characterdesigne. and even more important is the story! what should i do whit a real, great looking character i a really stupid storyline, just stand in front of a mirror?
i think that is also the point why they made a game like ff9. because of the old players who loved ff because of that it was and that because of what it looked like.

i dont play for the graghpics(if i did that, half of all the games i love i wouldnt have) i always play for the story! but it would be nice to see how far they get to making it look real

i think that�s right, as better as the graphic becomes as normaly it becomes to us and maybe someday people won�t think of playing a really great game becaus the graphic looks old :O/ that�s sad!?

yeah..it IS sad...i love all the old games....just got a fasination with them you know? so i certainly wont be changing

final fantasy 10 rocks, i was blown away from the moment the game started, its great cinematics, its storyline, the tragic characters that are dagger and vivi, zidanes quest to find his true parents and not knowing where he comes from, vivis quest to find his family, the sentient yet naive good black mages i almost cried when vivi talked to the black mage whose friend had "stopped" zidane finally finding out where he came from when he crossed to the far continent, it was great, but even in FF9 and FF10 i still carry 99 hi potions and 99 pheonix downs because i was used to having no curative magic in FF8, ViVi and tidus are some of the most tragic characters in all the FF games, and dagger, did anyone pay attention to the part when they mentioned she had a horn but it got cut off?

yah....she got it cut off cause they were making her look like the dead princess....what i dont get is there is no scar...nothing...not so much as a line........

thats where the creative ideas come in for the better graphics! btw, i really like how this thread completly got sidetracked and has next to nothing to do with the original thread idea

I loved this game! It's a matter of opinion, but I thought it was a very exciting and fun story. It was more "cartoony" than other ff's. espcially after ffVIII, but it's a very good game and i enjoyed it very much.

but we get always back to the point ;)
i would say ff9 is a good game for the ps1. storyline is better then in ff8 and it also got nice music, the town animations are looking really nice and jsut think at the szequenses where alexander protects his city i love that one. but still i think ff7 got a better storyline. ff9 got nice minigames and you can find everywhere cute littel mooglys so that�s a point *smile*.

I completely disagree with you about FFVII's storyline being better. It had no pacing at all, inadequate backstories for most of the characters, and a lack of personality in many of the main cast. While it did have potential, whoever actually wrote it did an awful job.

FFIX, on the other hand, continued to progress at a steady pace. With only one or two exceptions, the party were all well-developed with unique personalities.

On those points alone, I think it's safe to say that FFIX's storyline was superior.

Everything else about the games comes down to personal taste.

Originally posted by Prak
I completely disagree with you about FFVII's storyline being better.

Yeah, I thought FFIX's story was much better. But as you know, Prak, I think FFVII is better.

i have played all the ff's, and IMO i think that 9 & 10 are the best....many people say that 7 is the best, because it was the first and so on, mut i dont have as much respect for it as the other ff's....i got 8 then 9 then 7......so i was kind of used to them....ff 7 is a good game....but i wouldnt replay it 12 times if you know what i mean

ff7 came befor ff9, sure there is a development in ff9 about the storylines of the other characters, would be sad if there was non.
i just think the mainstory of ff7 is really great it�s soemhow unique.
i really also loved the story of ff9 much better than that one of ff8 . maybe i also think the storyline of ff7 is better because i played it first. i also like the other characters of ff7 more than the characters of ff9 even if they don�t have such a story and character backgrouds as in ff9. the only char off ff9 beside zidan i really like is vivi. in ff7 i like everybody.

well i know that masaji! of couse 7 came before 9.....but i got eight first....i have a lot of respet for it, but many do not.....so i guess it does matter what one you got first......i only got 8 cause my dad seen it in a store and thought it looked interesting.....so i thought it started from that one, then when ff9 came out, i wanted that...loved it better than 8....i then descoved that there was infact an ff7....do i desided to get that also....but i didnt like it as much as the other 2.....ff 9 is super cool, as is 10

the only person i dont like in 9 is quina......i thought s/he was really annoying...

i 7, i dont like barret....but thats it i like the rest.....

hehehe yeps you�re jsut sooo right bill!
it�s really important what ff game you played first.
i jsut lovethat one with sephiroth, the lifestream, meteor.
but then the story of ff9, also just great.
i don�t know what to say abou ff10 graphic is really nice (but have to remember it�s also a ps2 game) the story is comehow good about sin and everything but sometimes also a real kind of kitsch and klische.
p.s i really love barret ^.^ jsut to cute that dady

ewww......yich! cute? barret?! thats just wrong!!


yeah as a daddy.......not as a person......eww!

Okay, you've had a sort of warning not to chat and go off-topic on the last page, coming from Agent. You didn't care, though.

Kill Bill, Masaiju, and to whoever else this applies, all I see when I look at this topic is you lot talking back and forth, and not at all always on topic.
If you don't quit it, stay on topic, and especially, let other people post as well, this thread will be short-lived.
I know there is no rule or guideline dictating how often you may post in one thread, but you're putting it to the extreme when every second or third post in a thread is made by you, and if two people are leading a conversation, it is bad for the thread, and if it goes on, kills it.
So please quit it.

Yea seriously, lets get this back on topic. FF9 i think is the greatest FF game that has been made. Keep in mind I have yet to play 2-6, but out of the ones that i have played 9 is the coolest. The environment (that includes the people) is one of the best things about this game. The unplayable characters of the game really bring the story to life. Not that the storyline needs the help, it in my opinion is the greatest storyline to date. The graphics are good, the characters have realistic personalities, each with their own miniature story within the greater picture. What i dont get is why so many people dont like this game?

i really love ff9...it has many things in it that separates it frm the other ff's.....like the fact that they dont use repeated hand guesters or movements(they do but very little) as 7 and 8 did, but ff9 is an all time fave of mine!

Originally posted by terra child
Yea seriously, lets get this back on topic. FF9 i think is the greatest FF game that has been made. Keep in mind I have yet to play 2-6, but out of the ones that i have played 9 is the coolest. The environment (that includes the people) is one of the best things about this game. The unplayable characters of the game really bring the story to life. Not that the storyline needs the help, it in my opinion is the greatest storyline to date. The graphics are good, the characters have realistic personalities, each with their own miniature story within the greater picture. What i dont get is why so many people dont like this game?

terra child, except for the being the best game of the ff's, (just because we all have our own opinions), i totally agree with you. the way the non-playable characters react to your walking by them is outstanding, as well as when you communicate with them. Everything is very realistic in the game and I don't see how anyone couldn't like it either.

hehe yeah what i really hated was the music in ff9 when i ride a chocobo, don�t know why it�s not much different from the chocobo music in the other ff games but somehow always i hear it i and ride on my choco i get sick



I created a basic transcription for that piece on ukulele. I only have basics at the mo. As i work out more though.....

Originally posted by hellfire_1234


I created a basic transcription for that piece on ukulele. I only have basics at the mo. As i work out more though.....

Ukuleles are awesome! when youre finished youre gonna have to let us listen to what you got!

Final Fantasy 9 is one of my favorite Final Fantasy but I wouldnt praise it to much. The story line was interesting, the game play was alright I didnt like using 4 characters for battle since I was so used to only using 3. I liked how you can gain abilites through weapons and gear but I found it way to time consuming and when ever I had a better weapon I was in a rut because I had to finish the ability on the old weapon. FF9 just didnt match up to FF7 (my favorite FF) and I didnt see much depth into it. I guess it was because I felt that the characters didnt have much to offer.

what I did like is that since this is based in a sort of medievel reality, they made the characters shallow on the world surroundings. Besides that the graphics were nice, and the game did make me cry. But at some points it was just way to easy.

WOOO! i got the 100th reply! ...anyway i think the charachters had alot to offer. They all had there own personality, theyre own plot that wove in with the plot overall, and the conflict between character personalities was amazing

I just see it as that certain characters had strong stories that were interesing such as Garnet, Zidane, Vivi, and Freya. But then the other characters had less story telling, either nothing was revealed or there was to little to reveal.

was there any chance you help that one moogly to get it normal collor back?

final fantasy 9 was enjoyable, the only problem is that the game is a little bit shorter then the others and its so GODDAM EASY!!

But other then the easyness of it, i guess it was alright, didnt top VII though ^_^

then again most FF's were rather easy so u cant rele use that as an arguement......

basicely if you take the time to train a lot every ff is simple