Current Events > Is it safe to say Final Fantasy 9 is better than Final Fantasy 7 and...

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.... every other PS1 game?
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FF9 is indeed a great game

I'd rather play Tactics
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No on both accounts.

FF7 is the best Final Fantasy game ever made.

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is the best ps1 game ever made.
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

.... every other PS1 game?

No. With Tactics around, it's not even the best PS1 FF game.
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Pretty safe to say it's second best to Tactics.
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TheDarkCircle posted...

FF9 is indeed a great game

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The only things I remember about FF9 is it had great art direction and a bullshit ending. I don't remember any specific plot points and very few of the characters
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eston posted...

and a bullshit ending

What? The ending is perfect.
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Hmm...

For me, it goes

1. Tactics
2. 8/9
3. 7 (while still being one of the greatest games of all time, beating OoT).

Also, the above poster might not have gotten the good ending. I don't remember what happens in the ending where you don't find all the stellazio.
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It's usually safe to say whatever your opinion is, even if it's wrong.
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never heard a legit reason why people think 9 is good. characters are annoying, plot is stupid, art direction is a decent throwback to better eras, soundtrack was forgettable.
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9 was leagues better than 7.

But it's not hard to be better than trash.
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No, it's a very mediocre game that relied on nostalgia.

itachi15243 posted...

It's usually safe to say whatever your opinion is, even if it's wrong.

Tell that to the Trump supporters who were savagely assaulted.
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--kresnik-- posted...

Hmm...

For me, it goes

1. Tactics
2. 8/9
3. 7 (while still being one of the greatest games of all time, beating OoT).

Also, the above poster might not have gotten the good ending. I don't remember what happens in the ending where you don't find all the stellazio.

I've never played Tactics but I enjoyed Fire Emblem Birthright.
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

eston posted...

and a bullshit ending

What? The ending is perfect.

Suddenly, Necron
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9 is great minus that slow as hell battle system. 20 seconds to load. 15 seconds to perform my imputed actions. Ridiculous.
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Guerrilla Soldier posted...

never heard a legit reason why people think 9 is good. characters are annoying, plot is stupid, art direction is a decent throwback to better eras, soundtrack was forgettable.

7 and 8 did good, so some people who just started playing the game enjoyed it and now, nostalgia
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Tactics is one of my favorite games of all time. Shotgunnova has actually got a guide for it, which helped me a lot when I was beginning. It's a must have

Edit: I agree with what Behaviorism said about the waiting. Those speed shoes really made a difference. I have to switch my party around next time I play. I always bring Steiner and Freya, so maybe I should try the others. I thought Vivi was a bit underpowered.

Honestly, a harder difficulty setting could really bring so much out of the game. I felt like a lot of the spells and abilities were unnecessary, so it might force you to take full advantage of the whole combat system. Defensive spells, summons, etc.
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--kresnik-- posted...

Tactics is one of my favorite games of all time. Shotgunnova has actually got a guide for it, which helped me a lot when I was beginning. It's a must have

Shotgunnova has guides for most of the FFs and they are all amazing

Thanks so much guy!

Also
8=T=9=7
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That order works for me. I don't like even breaking them up.
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FF7, for all its jank and dated design, is still a compelling and moving experience. FF9 trumps it in the technical sense, in every single category - but having seen FF7 almost all the way to the end, there is a charm to it that has shown me why the game still resonates with its fanbase to this day.

Honestly, they're both great. 9 is much more ambitious and polished, but 7 is still fucking monumental despite how it looks and how much it's aged.
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I played 7 as a child and it never really did that much for me. still prefer 4, 5, and 6 to it
I think 9 is better than it as well, but it's hard to play with the slow battles

oh and tactics is better than both of them. the mobile port is actually really good imo, takes the best parts of the psp version and gets rid of the slowdown
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Nope, FFVII, Xenogears, and MGS were better games. FFIX comes in 4th place though.
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Yeah, I agree that the mobile game was flawlessly done. It's a shame I played in on my small screen phone. Also, Dragon Quest VIII works very well in the phone.
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FF9 gets a lot of internet praise over the other PSX games for having a good amount of polish and not having any glaring flaws. This gives people the ability to profess their fondness of it without having to worry about defending it. While it is an excellent game, it plays things safe in way too many categories, relying on tried-and-true settings and gameplay mechanics in a series that is normally (and imo, should be) about innovation.

FF 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12 (to name the ones I've played) take considerable risks in their design, from plot points to combat design. I always appreciated this because, succeed or fail, it provided the one thing that drew me into the franchise: creativity. The downside to this is that, through their missteps, most or all of these games provide detractors with plenty of fuel with which to burn them.

I'm not saying that FF 9 is bereft of creativity - it's a FF title, for goodness sake. But apart from maybe the design of Lindblum and Kuja's thong, nothing about 9 really surprised me or upended my expectations. The destruction of Cleyra was a bit surprising, but add that on to the previous sacking of Burmecia, it became pretty apparent that destroying all the major cities was inevitably going to be a plot / gameplay device; not only did it not surprise me when Lindblum and Alexandria were later toasted, but it annoyed me greatly that those worldspaces then became unavailable or severely reduced. The only moment that truly stirred me was the Assault of the Silver Dragons: FF 9 was the perfect venue for an old-school airship battle played out in then-glorious FMV, and up until that point I was seriously afraid that they'd go the entire game without one.

I definitely enjoyed the game all 4-5 times I played through it, but for me it was a bread-and-butter experience compared to the other FF titles. So I can't begin to call 9 the best in the series or even on the console when - while a very solid and polished game - it failed to stir me to the emotional and spiritual heights that the other games in the series did.
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9 was fine but i never cared to finish the ending. Was bored a lot though
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