FINAL FANTASY 8

[King Hadas]

No self respecting guy would dress up as an effeminate clown and destroy the world but hey, that never stopped Square before. Also, Zidane could have a billon tails for all I care, his outfit still screams fag.

[timrpgland]

[Guitar Woman]

Originally Posted by timrpgland

I feel IX is the worst one on the PS and actually close to the bottom of all of them. It just felt like a wannabe FF, the storyline was stale and I also despised most of the characters.

I enjoyed FFVIII more the 2nd and 3rd time through. The first time I played through I was bitching about it too much to really enjoy the game. It didn't live up to VII, that's for sure.

To me, FF9 is one of the the best Final Fantasies. It brought back the "Fixed Class" system we all know and love from FF1, 4, and 6, instead of having a completely customizable party (which I hated), it had a wide range of completely different and totally wacky characters (who DON'T suck), it brought back Moogles in abundance, and it was funny as hell. ("So this must be Garland's haunted mansion.
Talk about bad taste in interior decorating." -Zidane

"I'm telling you, people who eat pickles are nice people!" -Guard

"Is stone edible? Or is for barbeque?" -Quina)

And just because Kefka is a plain old-fashioned queer, it doesn't mean that Kuja is.

[sadie]

all i can think of is the little elvis dude moving from square to square.

[timrpgland]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

To me, FF9 is one of the the best Final Fantasies. It brought back the "Fixed Class" system we all know and love from FF1, 4, and 6, instead of having a completely customizable party (which I hated), it had a wide range of completely different and totally wacky characters (who DON'T suck), it brought back Moogles abundance, and it was funny as hell. ("So this must be Garland's haunted mansion.
Talk about bad taste in interior decorating." -Zidane

"I'm telling you, people who eat pickles are nice people!" -Guard

"Is stone edible? Or is for barbeque?" -Quina)

And just because Kefka is a plain old-fashioned queer, it doesn't mean that Kuja is.

Kefka and Kuja don't belong in the same sentence let alone the same series

Your points don't validate the games goodness as mine don't its badness. I just don't like the game that much. Felt like a gimmick and was just insulting to a long time fan who appreciates a believable world (for how much it can be) and an engrossing struggle. I just never felt that with IX. "We're going back to our roots, woohoo crystals and moogles!"

Maybe if I was 11, I would've enjoyed the stupid goofiness and wacky characters.

Freya was cool tho.

[Guitar Woman]

Well, we're different people with different views on life and different taste in games, so think whatever you want about it.
But I still like it.

[timrpgland]

Yep and your views just happen to be wrong

[the_dudefather]

i prefered FF IX to FF VIII mainly becuase it was more.....fun.

maybe im shallow but ffIx characters was more fun, i mean a guy with a tail, a dragon warrior woman, mages, and humor, all i remember about ff8 was killing giant catapillars in some town and a bunch of hip young characters with flared jackets and half-skirt-half-trousers. i mean the main boss was gayer looking than labrynth-david bowie

based on my hazy memories of course

[Lil' Johnny]

Oh man, I own FF9, but can't play it because my PSX didn't come with controllers or a power supply.
I don't know why I'm complaining though, 'cuz I got it for 7 bucks at half-price day at Value Village. :D

[Supafly345]

Originally Posted by timrpgland

Maybe if I was 11, I would've enjoyed the stupid goofiness and wacky characters.

The age you probably got your attachment to ff6.

[timrpgland]

EXACTLY!

Very close, 12 in fact.

The game holds the test of time however.

Go ahead and knock the best FF. VI is awesome still to this day, but alot of that is nostalgia.

[Lil' Johnny]

That makes you, what, 23? You old fart.

[Schimid]

Originally Posted by timrpgland

Go ahead and knock the best FF. VI is awesome still to this day, but alot of that is nostalgia.

Hell yes a lot of it is nostalgia. I honestly can't even play the game because it's so slow in the beginning. I've tried five times and the farthest I've gotten was the sandcastle place going underground, and then I bored and quit.

[Rongi]

i recently played through the game and i gotta say, it was fun and everything, but if it wasnt for the fast foward button on my emu, i would have never gotten through it, it's that slow. also, the plot is a turd, and pretty much all of the characters ( save for ultros ) are unlikeable.

[timrpgland]

My FF is bigger than yours

[Guitar Woman]

Originally Posted by Rongi

also, the plot is not a turd, and pretty much all of the characters ( save for ultros ) are not unlikeable.

Fixed.

[Lil' Johnny]

Ultros was a cunt.

[timrpgland]

Uncle Ulty is awesome

[Lil' Johnny]

He was too hard to kill. Especially on the raft with that wimpy faggot Bannon. UGH.

[ArrowX]

The reason that so many people find FF8 Superior to FF9 is because of the sudden change in timeframe (or setting) since the FF games have thrown realism't to the wind many people have just expected the next to buld on what the previous had accomplished, instead of another gunslinging tits fillled flying building fest. They got swords spears and good ol fashioned magic. What started at "tools" in 6 became a minigun arm in 7, and became a Glock sword in 8.

Final Fantasy IX was more of a throwback to the past where it was more fantasy than sci-fi instead of more sci-fi than fantasy. The hardcore fans who foun final fantasy on the NES before the PSX felt more at home in 9 and those who started at 7 were appauled by the lack of what theyd come to expect in the previous versions and thus the human "Unfamiliar must bash" nerve kicked into gear.

on a side not kuja was flamboyantly gay. The fucker wore a metal thong. if he were older he could be in the same categoy as Kefka but I 'm sure that would violate some law.

[timrpgland]

Final Fantasy IX was more of a throwback to the past where it was more fantasy than sci-fi instead of more sci-fi than fantasy. The hardcore fans who foun final fantasy on the NES before the PSX felt more at home in 9 and those who started at 7 were appauled by the lack of what theyd come to expect in the previous versions and thus the human "Unfamiliar must bash" nerve kicked into gear.

The reason IX is forgettable is cause it does a terrible job of going back to its roots. It's a mockery. I would have loved the throwback ways if the game was more enjoyable. It felt like they tryed to hard.

I find more people who love IX are from the PSX generation.

[Supafly345]

Hey shut up, 9 was lovable and lighthearted. It was the easiest to enjoy and most interesting to look at. The rest of them bore me to tears. 9 does a close job of that, but not as bad.

I know you are a breakneck fanboy and everything, but this is unreasonable.

I find more people who love IX are from the PSX generation.

Irony.

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by Schimid

Hell yes a lot of it is nostalgia. I honestly can't even play the game because it's so slow in the beginning. I've tried five times and the farthest I've gotten was the sandcastle place going underground, and then I bored and quit.

Seconded, I got to right after the rafting scene. But back in the day it was awesome for some reason.

I will submit that Chrono Trigger has stood the test of time, however.

[Marine]

Originally Posted by King Hadas

Later on in the game summoning becomes completely useless.

thats just because you dont make you summons level up enough.

[timrpgland]

All of you are wrong and I'm right.