FF8 had a sucky draw system. Other than that it was cool. FF9 had a simple to understand plot, and a good battle system. What hardcore RPG gamers want is not the simple plot, but one that needs analysing like FF7.
Edit: I missoed out that Joe Public likes his RPGs to be more simple than an idiot with a lobotomy.

 

i liked ff9 because it made laugh many times, but the battles were still endless... this made me stop playing it in the 3rd disc.
ff8 was like WOW but i stopped in the 1st disc, after sumonning like a hundred times....
battles in a rpg are what makes or destroy the game for me.

 

yup, thats right.there are too much battle. random battle s*cks. its better if you can prevent battles like chrono cross( you wont be in battle unless you touches the enemy.

 

Popular? It wasn't popular. At least here in Germany it sold far less units then FFVIII, partly due the crappy gameplay, partly due the crappy character- and worlddesign, partly due the boring and ridiculous characters, and so on, and so on.

 

I didn't care for FF9 at all.

 

Hmm.. what's FFs like without random battle? Well, I havent found any annoyance with the random battle, and I think that's pretty cool. IMO, the most annoying thing that ever happens in FFs would be the magic drawing system in FF8, it's boring as hell. Well, I have played FF4,5,6,7 and 8. But I havent got my hands on FF9, not sure how is it like.

 

FF9 isnt too bad for me, but I prefer FF8 over 9 like I do 7 over 8.
I think its the characters that I dont like in FF9... and perhaps the graphics. The Eidolons looked like shit.

 

it was from square and called final fantasy; that's why it was popular

 

FF9 is the best RPG in history.
Everything about it rox.
Story
Side Quest
Battles
Characters
ect.
I don't see why everybody hates it, its a master piece

 

FF10 is my favourite FF, eclipsing 7 by a long way (and no, not just because it looks / sounds excellent, the plot and especially the battle and character development systems are amazing)
but the only one i havent actually played in the series is 9, so i cna't really comment on it yet :/

 

... Recca. The plot is simplistic at best, with little to analyse and few if any plot twists.

The Battle system suffered from the uselessness of trances, summons and magic at later stages, as you could easily do 9999 damage with a normal attack.

The characters, barring Vivi, didn't seem to develop at all. None of them seem to have to face themsleves like characters did in the previous episodes. Squall faced himself and then allowed himself to rely on others, Cloud had problems by the bucketload, Tifa faced the fact that she had lied to Cloud, Aeris died, Terra faced the fact taht she was half-human, Celes that she was a biological weapon.......

 

hmm... any good reviews of it around?

 

I didn't even care to finish it. I think they could ave down a much better job than they did on FF9. and I agree as for as the plot goes, I also like FF7 more I seemed to last for ever. (in a good way)

 

Originally posted by Recca
FF9 is the best RPG in history.
Everything about it rox.
Story
Side Quest
Battles
Characters
ect.
I don't see why everybody hates it, its a master piece

If you had played more then one RPG, you would know.

 

I have played so many RPG's that i have stopped counting and still FF9 is the best ever

 

There must be something wrong with you, or you aren't the diehard RPG fan you claimn to be. Half the point of RPGs is deep plots with good undertones and twists, and character development.

 

Originally posted by Lord Kane
There must be something wrong with you, or you aren't the diehard RPG fan you claimn to be. Half the point of RPGs is deep plots with good undertones and twists, and character development.

There's nothing wrong with him, he just has different tastes than you.

[]s Badaro

 

Any One who beat FF9 has to abmite that the ending just FLAT OUT KIVK @$$ come on I have played the series since number 1. and a lot of pc rgs. I still am a big fan of how the ending played out. I INSTANTLY fell in love with all the characters. I have NO Life hehee

 

I'm just not a fan of cartoony graphics. For the same reason I wasn't a fan of the Nintendo 64. For some reason I feel that if a company thinks I want to play a cartoon thats looks something out of pokemon then its an insult to me

The little black wizard outfit worked fine in the old nes and snes games because they were 2d sprites. when they converted it to PSX it looked like a dorky little charactor you'd see in a pokemon game.

 

I maintain that of the three FF games for PSX FF9 was by far the crappiest.

 

A World can be magical and fantasy filled without little deformed charactors. It can also be magical and fantasy filled without trains, Helicopters, And mercenaries fro a program that never made any sense.

Chrono Cross is an example. Until I played Chrono Cross I believed that Square had completely lost its edge.

 

I had no time to play it.

 

FF9 totally sucked. Dont get me started about FF9, or i may never stop...

 

is it just me or did kuja from FF9 strongly resemble a women. I thout he was a women for a long time.

 

I thought Kuja was just homosexual.

FF9 was a very weak game because it tried to be something it wasn't. It wanted to revive some of what had made Final Fantasy great in the old days, but the flatness of the characters, and the simplistic, boring plot just caused the game to fail.

It was after playing FF9 and Chrono Cross that I truly realized that Square was just a shadow of its former self. Parasite Eve II was the last nail in the coffin. It's going to take quite some doing to make me respect Square once more.