What did you think of Final Fantasy IX ??

Ok so, right about now I'm up to the [spoiler] Iifa tree, and I'm fighting all these monsters, and Kujas just gangsta trippin all over the place [/spoiler] but I don't really see how people say its the best in the series ? ( well the IX fanboys/girls anyways ), I allways thought 8,12 and 13 where the best but does this version of final fantasy pick up, and just blow you away or am I wasting my time, ( have all the best parts already happened ), because I have other games in my backlog like Vagrant Story and Dark Cloud 2.

I like how your spoiler had the words "gangsta trippin" in it.

But as far as FF9, meh. Final Fantasy 7 was just so much better.

I love FFIX. I was waiting forever for it to be released on the PSN, and now I've started my fourth play through. It's my favorite game in the series with seven and ten as close seconds. The characters, the storyline, the music... everything is wonderful.

I feel it has it's unique charms, which no other FF game has. Deffo carry on playing it. I know the story picks up then drops, but overall it's a solid 8.5 or 9/10 game. It's not my favourite in the series, but still, it's cool.

Its has more of an NES and SNES final fantasy feel to it so for the people that loved those games really enjoy IX, myself being one of them. Since you enjoy VIII, XII and XIII I would say that you probably wont enjoy IX as much. I would still suggest you play through it though.

I think people really liked that after the futuristic setting of FF6, 7, and 8, they went back to the fantasy setting. I didn;t care much for the game at the time, but thinking back now, it has its moments.

The FF hierachy top fivegoes as follows ( in order of greatness )

- FFX

-FFVI

-FFIX

-FFVIII

-FFIV

It was the last Final Fantasy before they basically just started making something else entirely and throwing chocobos in it and calling it Final Fantasy. I've become rather convinced that at this point they are just taking whatever RPG idea they have and throwing enough references in it so that they can call it Final Fantasy in order to boost sales with the name recognition.StopThePresses

• Final Fantasy XIII
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy XII
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Final Fantasy IX

IX was my favorite of the PSX era, and my fourth favorite over all (FF IV, FF VI, and FF XII in that order before).

The main thing that made me like IX more then most of the others is actually a general issue I have with a number of RPGs. I don't like it when the game tries to give your characters unique personalities, and then doesn't follow that up in the gameplay. For example, in FF VIII, it really doesn't matter which character has what spells and GFs equiped/junctioned. Gameplay-wise all your characters are basically the same. Yeah, GFs acclimate to characters the longer you use them, but you could have chosen anyone to use the GFs at the beginning with no loss of ability, and with some grinding you can re-acclimate different GFs with ither characters.

In IX all your characters have abilities that are unique to them. It adds a gameplay stratagy dynamic on top of the RPG story elements. I personally feel it makes for a more complete experience when your RPG characters have abilities that back up their personalities.

FFIX is a very good game that has it's charm, and I actually kinda liked the card game in IX more than VIII.

FFIX is my fourth favorite FF, right behind VI, VII, and X.

The FF heirarachy God Tier : FFVI Great Tier - FFIV, FF Tactics, FFIX Good Tier - FFI, FFV, FFXII Average (Overrated) Tier: FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, and for average FFIII Crap: FFII, FFXIIItexasgoldrush

Heh

I wasn't counting FF Tactics in my list because that's not a fair fight ;)

I still feel FF Tactics was the best game released in 1998..and considering how many awesome games were released that year...that's saying something. (Game Informer had a decent article recently on the awesome that was 1998)

FFIX was extremely boring and by the numbers. This decidedly vanilla, uninspired game was the ultra-conservative approach Square took in response to the purists who were put off by the more progressive FFVIII.

The only reason I even bothered to finish IX was because I paid my hard-earned money for it, and that's all.

Easily my favorite Final Fantasy on the Playstation, and possibly my favorite FF of all. Great characters, goofy story, just has such a charming world all in all. Never really takes itself too seriously, and by no means stop playing at Disc 2, there's still a lot more good to come. It was nice to havea protagonist like Zidane that is cocky, funny, and a little goofy instead of the brooding anti-social Squall, and the whiney Cloud Strife.

Final Fantasy IX is GREAT! Of course it was more conservative than FF VII or FF VIII and everything that came since, but it had a good story and very interesting characters. Vivi is SO funny!!!

I feel it has it's unique charms, which no other FF game has. Deffo carry on playing it. I know the story picks up then drops, but overall it's a solid 8.5 or 9/10 game. It's not my favourite in the series, but still, it's cool.

milesprower2k9

^ - This. It's just different than the others. Keep at it.

Personally I found FFIX to be one of the best in the series.

FF IX was also one of my least favorite from the series.

Best Final Fantasy of the post-Nintendo era. We need more of that.DarkCatalyst

Yes we do! It was the best FF on the PSOne. FFVII is a bit overrated and FFVIII is complete garbage. FFIX was the best of them all.

FFIX was extremely boring and by the numbers. This decidedly vanilla, uninspired game was the ultra-conservative approach Square took in response to the purists who were put off by the more progressive FFVIII.

The only reason I even bothered to finish IX was because I paid my hard-earned money for it, and that's all.

QuistisTrepe_

The more I play FFXIII, the more I dislike it. Granted, it has a very memorable soundtrack and impressive viausls, but the gameplay just doesn't feel right to me, even if it has elements that may make it a FF game.

In my mind, it is definitely the second worst FF game in history.

Final Fantasy IX is my favourite. It was also my first to play. I love the characters, story and the time of that game. It was set in such a wonderful world and had a hell of a lot of extras to find in it. Had me playing maybe 100+ hours. It also had a very emotional and good ending. Final Fantasy X is a close second to this for me

[QUOTE="QuistisTrepe_"]

FFIX was extremely boring and by the numbers. This decidedly vanilla, uninspired game was the ultra-conservative approach Square took in response to the purists who were put off by the more progressive FFVIII.

The only reason I even bothered to finish IX was because I paid my hard-earned money for it, and that's all.

Metamania

The more I play FFXIII, the more I dislike it. Granted, it has a very memorable soundtrack and impressive viausls, but the gameplay just doesn't feel right to me, even if it has elements that may make it a FF game.

In my mind, it is definitely the second worst FF game in history.

Admittedly, I haven't played a new FF game since FF X-2, so I can't say much about what's become of FF other than the gameplay impressions of others. From what I gather, the same thing happened with FFXIII that occurred with FFIX, fan backlash caused SE to go conservative again, which is a shame.

[QUOTE="Metamania"]

[QUOTE="QuistisTrepe_"]

FFIX was extremely boring and by the numbers. This decidedly vanilla, uninspired game was the ultra-conservative approach Square took in response to the purists who were put off by the more progressive FFVIII.

The only reason I even bothered to finish IX was because I paid my hard-earned money for it, and that's all.

QuistisTrepe_

The more I play FFXIII, the more I dislike it. Granted, it has a very memorable soundtrack and impressive viausls, but the gameplay just doesn't feel right to me, even if it has elements that may make it a FF game.

In my mind, it is definitely the second worst FF game in history.

Admittedly, I haven't played a new FF game since FF X-2, so I can't say much about what's become of FF other than the gameplay impressions of others. From what I gather, the same thing happened with FFXIII that occurred with FFIX, fan backlash caused SE to go conservative again, which is a shame.

[QUOTE="QuistisTrepe_"]

[QUOTE="Metamania"]

The more I play FFXIII, the more I dislike it. Granted, it has a very memorable soundtrack and impressive viausls, but the gameplay just doesn't feel right to me, even if it has elements that may make it a FF game.

In my mind, it is definitely the second worst FF game in history.

DarkCatalyst

Admittedly, I haven't played a new FF game since FF X-2, so I can't say much about what's become of FF other than the gameplay impressions of others. From what I gather, the same thing happened with FFXIII that occurred with FFIX, fan backlash caused SE to go conservative again, which is a shame.

I don't mind developers tinkering with the formula. I'd like to give XII and XIII a try at some point. If the gameplay is strong, I'm generally willing to overlook many faults. Some of my favorite RPGs have some big time WTF moments.

[QUOTE="DarkCatalyst"][QUOTE="QuistisTrepe_"]

Admittedly, I haven't played a new FF game since FF X-2, so I can't say much about what's become of FF other than the gameplay impressions of others. From what I gather, the same thing happened with FFXIII that occurred with FFIX, fan backlash caused SE to go conservative again, which is a shame.

QuistisTrepe_

I don't mind developers tinkering with the formula. I'd like to give XII and XIII a try at some point. If the gameplay is strong, I'm generally willing to overlook many faults. Some of my favorite RPGs have some big time WTF moments.

FF 7 was Godlike

9 was just ok

It's probably my favourite in the series. It does lose steam plot-wise towards the end, although I think you could say the same thing about a few of the FF games. The battle system's nice and simple and fluid, and some of the characters are brilliant. Zidane, Steiner and Vivi are some of the most memorable characters in the series. Personally I'd rate it above the more loved VI and VII by a pretty long way. But that's the beauty of the series. Get people to give their top 5 FF games, and you're gonna get radically different lists each time.

IX was my first Final Fantasy game and I loved it! I tried VIII and VII after IX, but I didn't like em as much. :P