FFIX was the first FF I played, consequently made me fall in love with the entire series.
I first tried 8 at my friend's place but when I saw that 9 was coming out I bought 9 myself and completed that and instantly fell in love with the series, playing 8 and then 7 after (and all the rest). It's a very good game to get someone into the series.
FF9 is the only FF I've never been able to get through. I really need to play through it. I found it was very boring when I first bought it, couldn't keep me interested.
I do need to play Tactics again, I never did finish the PSP remake, or try anything with the multiplayer...
I own two PSP's just to take advantage of multiplayer whenever a friend who likes game is around! this game kills it for replay value and being able to face off PvP is just that much more fun
Final Fantasy 9 is a great game but I have to agree with Prince on this one about Tactics.I remember getting it used wondering if I was going to enjoy it and holy crap how I enjoyed that game.Great story, memorable music and of course "Easy Mode" Orlandu Cid.
PSP version of Tactics lags horribly for me, and apparently a lot of others. Using abilities such as Stasis Sword and Lightning Stab, item usage, and magic spells. FPS will drop to like, 2 lol.
It had some data reading issues, yes. It also changed the original translation, which I liked better. It made it hand-held though and added multi-player, so it didn't bug me much. I enjoyed War of the Lions for what it was, though I appreciated the original more. I honestly think SE should release a small MMO based on FFT's battle system (FFT, not FFTA), with some rebalancing.
Is it just me or is War of the Lions suuuuuuuuuuper slow in combat? I did enjoy Tactics Advance 1 and 2 but WotL just seemed a lot slower to me.
It has lag issues.
Tactics Advance spit in the face of Tactics imo. The watered down combat and the childish plots divorced entirely from the serious nature(yes, demons popping outta stones is serious) of the original undercut what made FFT a great game.
That's not to say FFT didn't have flaws but FFTA and FFTA2 went in the wrong direction.
Is it just me or is War of the Lions suuuuuuuuuuper slow in combat? I did enjoy Tactics Advance 1 and 2 but WotL just seemed a lot slower to me.
It is, they broke all animations. For that reason alone, the psp port sucks.
There's a patch out there that someone made, but you nee Firmware and a USB cable for the entire thing. It's just too much trouble. I'll just play the PSX version. That's what made me fall in love with the game.
Not that hard or time consuming to install a LCFW to your psp and very little risk involved at all. The patch works wonderfully.. if anything its a little too fast.
It had some data reading issues, yes. It also changed the original translation, which I liked better. It made it hand-held though and added multi-player, so it didn't bug me much. I enjoyed War of the Lions for what it was, though I appreciated the original more. I honestly think SE should release a small MMO based on FFT's battle system (FFT, not FFTA), with some rebalancing.
Gonna disagree here, I liked the period language they put into WOTLs translation. For instance:
"Blame yourself or God" < "'Tis your faith and birth that wrong you, not I"
The update sounded much better. Many of the translation errors were also fixed, the cut-scenes weren't necessary but nice to have and the game is much better outside further unbalancing the ***with Balthier.
Tactics was never released in Europe, nor on the European PSN and because they blocked European credit cards from buying stuff in the NA store it's pretty much impossible for me to get it legally.
Perhaps it's nostalgia, but many of my favorite lines were heavily modified, and it altered the image of the characters I'd long adored, neither beneficially or negatively for the most part... and for that reason seemed unnecessary.
EDIT: I also played the PSX version, start to finish, about 10 times or more. So playing it again, and common things like dialogue being largely different was strange.
Perhaps it's nostalgia, but many of my favorite lines were heavily modified, and it altered the image of the characters I'd long adored, neither beneficially or negatively for the most part... and for that reason seemed unnecessary.
FFT just had amazing lines in general, ***that just blows away the other FFs in terms of depth and real world applications.
Like this quote was upgraded imo:
Quote:
Miluda: Who do you think you are!? We're not animals! We're
human, just like you! There's no difference among us other
than our families! You ever been hungry? With only soup to eat
for months? Why do we have to suffer? Because you nobles
deprive us our right to live!
Algus: Human? Hmph, ridiculous! From the minute you were born
you had to obey us! From the second you were born you were our
animals!!
Miluda: Says who!? That's nonsense! Who decided all this?!
Algus: It's the Will of Heaven!
Miluda: Heaven? God would never say such things! In his eyes,
all are equal! He'd never let this happen! Never!
WOTL:
Quote:
Milleuda: How can you nobles live as you do and yet hold your heads so high? We
are not chattel! We are humans, no less than you! What flaw do you hold there
to be in us? That we were born between a different set of walls? Do you know
what it means to hunger? To sup for months on naught but broth of bean? Why
must we be made to starve that you might grow fat? You call us thieves, but it
is you who steal from us the right to live!
Argath: You, no less human than we? Ha! Now there's a beastly thought. You've
been less than we from the moment your baseborn father fell upon your mother in
whatever gutter saw you sired! You've been chattel since you came into the
world drenched in common blood!
Milleuda: By whose decree!? Who decides such foul and absurd things?
Argath: 'Tis heaven's will!
Milleuda: Heaven's will? You would pin your bigotry on the gods? No god would
fain forgive such sin, much less embrace it! All men are equal in the eyes of
the gods!
Argath: Men, yes. But the gods have no eyes for chattel.
Tactics was never released in Europe, nor on the European PSN and because they blocked European credit cards from buying stuff in the NA store it's pretty much impossible for me to get it legally.
..... FF9 is on par with the likes of 7 8. good story line good combat system had 2 player mode item creation system good JOB classes not like 7 and 8 which pretty much every ones the same only separated by their limit breaks. no brooding Emo main hero, one of that largest cast of pc and npc you could actually play with.only 9 didn't have was flashy multi-hit limit breaks or one summon that can kill the end boss in one go. FF9 had everything people complain about what FF games now lack and more. plus one that best looking Bahamuts in the series imo. one thing i would wanted was the fight out of the Lifa tree after zidane came to save kuja to play thru, and only two villains Busted a planet Kefka and Kuja! their clothing options aside... Besides zidane got his spotlight in FF Dissidia one of the best game characters.
Tactics was never released in Europe, nor on the European PSN and because they blocked European credit cards from buying stuff in the NA store it's pretty much impossible for me to get it legally.
I found most of the characters pretty unlikable except for Zidane, Garnet and Beatrix really. Didn't care much for the medieval settings but some of the world concepts were interesting with the mist and all. But the most intolerable thing about it imho was the battle system. It felt slow and dimwitted and the ability system felt half assed. Or maybe I was just spoiled after the complexity of the junction system D:
Junction wasn't complex, really >_> I really liked 8 but the ending was *** up and made 0 sense. I have no problem following a time travel storyline but this was ridiculous. After disc 1 it kinda went downhill. Still enjoyed it though but it just went kinda... too weird after disc 1.
Sure it was complex. Having to figure out which spells junctioned with what best along with which GFs with who depending on compatibility and what the character needed to be able to junction etc. Not to mention having to flip flops things here and there depending on what you're fighting. It's plenty complex(at least compared to IX's bland system). I didn't say it was hard.
