The Usual "Is It Worth It?" Thread

[LockDown]

While I've played a majority of the series and beaten a couple of the games, I've never once played FFIX. It seems to be well-beloved from what I'm seeing on the forums.

So is it worth it?

[Shyao]

I'm going to personally keep her name as 'Dagger'. Or maybe I'll get crafty and name her 'Stiletto' or after some other knife-type weapon. Would 'Kodachi' fit?

[Rookie (ZOE)]

Originally posted by jabberish:

Originally posted by Rookie (ZOE):

Eh, not imho... :/ "Dagger", on the otherhand... DO RENAME, SERIOUSLY...! DX I renamed my Garnet to "Sophia" since it fits her (and I know her true name, but won't spoil it of course :P ), it really does. ^^

Garnet: "Stop it, you two! ...Steiner, I do not intend to return to
the castle. And I do see Zidane's point. I need a new name...
Zidane... What is this called?"

Zidane: "That? That's a dagger. All knives of that length are called
daggers. Short swords are a bit longer. The big sword you hold
with both hands is called a broadsword. And..."

Garnet: "Oh, okay... I understand now. So this is called a 'dagger'..."

Steiner: "Princess! It's a weapon! Please be careful."

Garnet: "I've decided! From now on, my name is... Sophia"

Zidane: "What?"

ha ha ha Thank you. :D

[Warrior of Right]

Originally posted by Shyao:

I'm going to personally keep her name as 'Dagger'. Or maybe I'll get crafty and name her 'Stiletto' or after some other knife-type weapon. Would 'Kodachi' fit?

i would call her "kitchen knife" but i don't think it would fit.

[BearPajamaGod!]

If you liked the SNES or NES ones I'd say this is one of the best of the PS1 games.

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

FF IX is a masterpiece a real classic, it would even be worth 40-50 euro today for someone who has never played it, in my opinion.

[Larry]

3D era of FF games 7, 8 and 9 are the best.

FF7 - Darker story, plot and generally the more mature of the series with a lot of mystery and interesting twists. Cloud only became emo in recent times but when the game was released he wasn't seen as emo. Advent Children basically emofied Cloud and it stuck. Overall, FF7 is a game you can replay over and over because it did a lot of things right; scale, combat system, levelling up, so many secrets and side activities and a lot of additional optional scenes that fill out the game's universe and provides additional background on characters.

FF8 - Fantastic game... for one playthrough only. The draw system in the game is the worst unique system in any of the FF games to date. It's just bad and it adds an additional layer of grind on top of level grinding. You have to grind levels AND grind magic to boost your stats plus it discourages you from using your best skills because you have to junction them to boost your character stats. It's so backwards and extremely annoying because every character needs to use it. The story is really good but the combat system really ruins it and the "life like" graphics they went with just looks weird. Still, it's totally worth picking up and playing through once if you're at all interested.

FF9 - One of the most overlooked RPGs be it CRPG, JRPG or just RPG. This game was actually panned on release for reasons I forget. What the game delivers is a great story, really good characters with distinct personalities. The one thing this game did best of all was it's pacing. The pacing is spot on. There's not too much talking at any single area and there's not too much combat save for a few areas which kind of bogs down the experience but thankfully there's literally only one or two areas where it feels grindy.

FF9's soundtrack is pretty good. Not really memorable but still really good. The cinematics are really good too and the music really fits well with the cutscenes and cinematics. It's extremely well done. FF9 is, literally, the game they seemed to go all out on and tried pushing the limits of the franchise on the hardware(Playstation). It paid off as it still looks quite good to this day, it's aged really well and the cinematics look so good they rival cinematics released today.

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by Dr.Larry:

FF8 - Fantastic game... for one playthrough only. The draw system in the game is the worst unique system in any of the FF games to date. It's just bad and it adds an additional layer of grind on top of level grinding. You have to grind levels AND grind magic to boost your stats plus it discourages you from using your best skills because you have to junction them to boost your character stats. It's so backwards and extremely annoying because every character needs to use it. The story is really good but the combat system really ruins it and the "life like" graphics they went with just looks weird. Still, it's totally worth picking up and playing through once if you're at all interested.

You think FFII's broken experiment in usage-based stat increases is better than FFVIII's bizarre draw system? Also, grinding levels just makes the game harder because everything levels with you. Someone told me a few days ago that it's actually easiest if you don't level at all. I like FFII in the same way I like the space colony simulation game Outpost... I acknowledge both are broken messes even if I enjoy them.

[ContraWars]

Worth playing. The game is a totally derivative experience though. Gameplay and story were all recycled from older games or lifted from other popular stories at the time. If you just want a classic Final Fantasy that never reinvented the wheel, you're going to have a good time.

[psxlover]

Originally posted by The Matlock:

Now when you say hard, do you need to grind a lot? I never had to grind much in say, Four, Six or Seven as I could usually handle whatever the game threw at me.

I wouldn't call this harder than the previous ones, as long as you make sure to steal from bosses you won't have to do any grinding.

Although my favorite is ffviii I find that imho ffix is the best entry in the series.

[Kargath]

There's this new thing called a web search that makes "is it worth it?" threads pointless.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation/final-fantasy-ix

[LockDown]

LOL. Screw Metacritic.

[Mexican Joker]

Ya.

[ContraWars]

IX is good if you don't want anything new. It was a return to basic FF 4-6 gameplay.

It took the system for magic and applied it to equipment instead of espers. Each character can use an ability and fill up the exp gauge on it, until it's mastered. Then they can equip/remove that ability using points that are in a pool dependant on your character's LVL. Limit breaks became Trance, a mode where your character gets special attacks for a round.

The load times and random battles sucked, but they are supposed to be fixed in this version.

I'm still more excited about Steam having Lunar & Grandia show up in the SteamDB.

[Taka]

Originally posted by Kargath:

There's this new thing called a web search that makes "is it worth it?" threads pointless.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation/final-fantasy-ix

Tries to be a smart mouth, links terrible review site. Good job.