Final Fantasy IX

Swifty

Whens it out?

Is it this month or what?

SantaHoe

I don't know.

tHE vAGGABOND

me neither

[SN]JAG

gamesworld on liffey st have it on pre-buy.

Energizer1

FF9 IS RELEASED IN IRELAND ON THE 16TH FEB 2001!! i can't wait!! :-)

Mills

I've been reading reviews and I can't wait either! Mmmmmm, only a week to wait, for FF9 and Hannibal, nice

Shinji

It rocks. People who have only played 7 and 8 previously are going to be a bit stumped at first... but you'll get the hang of it

Swifty

Yeah ive been waiting ages for it.

Its the only reason why i kept my PSX

Chubby

Hmmm, have a copy sitting here for the past 2 months. Read that it's not that great so didn't rush home to get my psx...maybe I should go home and say hi to my folks

Chubby

Got bored after getting the 6th ending to Chrono Cross so started playing ff9 over the weekend and it rocks. The story is great so far, a lot more epic than ff8, and I always liked the job system from ff5 and fft. They seem to have given some characters more than 1 dicipline though. Garnet is a white mage and a summoner and Zidane is a thief (steal and gil related abilities) and a ninja (he holds 2 daggers though I haven't seem any ninja specific abilities yet) right? Anyway, recommend this to any console rpg fans.

Mills

I've finished it and thought it was very good.....exellent story and it's quite easy so I didn't have to wander round fighting as much. The story is one of the best I've seen so far.

smoke.me.a.kipper

wonderfull stuff.

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RopeDrink

Never was as fond about Final Fantasy after number 7, although 8 was pretty good. Still haven't played 9 seeing as my PSX is crammed at the **** end of my wardrobe somewhere...

Xithus

Its a lot better than 7 & 8 but the story seems to lack direction.. Still an amazing game though.

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Sliotar

i would like to take this opurtunity to say that ff8 was the biggest disapointment of my gaming life, ff7 being the highlight. i havent bothered wit ff9 cos as as far as i can see they just went too far, everything is too surreal, too japanese really.... can anyone convince me otherwise? plz convince me otherwise as i dont want to give up on ff

Shinji

FF7 was the closest thing I've ever had to a religious experience playing a game; still, YEARS after playing it, I occasionally dream about the game, and the Aerith theme tune still brings a tear to the eye...

FF8 was a huge disappointment. Never even finished it, although I did get right to the end.

FF9 isn't going to be the OH MY GOD THE EARTH MOVED experience that FF7 was, but it's a downright amazing game nonetheless, and definitely worth a fair few of your shiny pennies. Give it a go.

Sliotar

shinji my man, you're speakin my language. im not ashamed to admit it, watching aeris die actually did make a small drop of water fall from my eye, and now hearing that theme makes me get all chokey (or whatever the word is)

i dont know you, but i think i might just trust you on this 1 and give ff9 a go (i have a policy about not trusting anything internet ppl say) thx man

Chubby

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Shinji:
FF8 was a huge disappointment. Never even finished it, although I did get right to the end. </font>

You might as well finish it if you're almost there. It has a 16min long ending which I thought was pretty cool.



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Xithus

I played ff8 for about 15hours before I put it away forever.. big disapointment.
And I shelled out £70 for an import.. oh how stupid I was.

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DrunkLeprachaun

FFVII is one of the greatest games ever made. FFVIII was a bit dissapointing after 7 but it was has the best intro in any game ever bar none.
Any word about when FFIX is out on PCCD?

Sliotar

intro was great cept for music, twas a little too...."bitty"...

c&c red alert would have to be contender for best intro, (apart from the black and white bit at the start tellin the story), and fifa 98 wasnt half bad either....

Shinji

Dear god man, no. FFVIII had a stunning intro, although FF7's was breathtaking at the time; but in terms of truly *astounding* game intros, how about Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve, Xenogears.... Bit of a Square bias here I realise, but they DO make the best CG footage in the world

Hostile Waters on PC has a damn nice intro as well, albeit a bit short, and American McGee's Alice has a great one in stage-setting terms. Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast has a fairly jaw-dropping intro too, and I remember Ridge Racer 4 on PSone having a stunning intro...

[IAR]Nevermind

FF7 was the best game ive ever played over cs , FF8 sucked in my opionin :P havent got around to FF9 yeh skint atm !

Chubby

FF7 was revolutionary in many ways and back then no one else was doing fmv intros like that. I remember I was so impressed by the quality and direction of the intro, the way the camera zoomed out all the way from Aeris to a bird eye's view of the city. The ff7 logo would appear breifly and then zoom all the way back into the train station where Cloud arrives .

They're saying FF10 will be just as ground-breaking as FF7. It looks good from the limited amount of footage that was leaked but somehow I don't see it having as big an impact on people like us who've played through those rpgs.

Sliotar

ff is losing its impact mainly because its more or less the same thing over and over again. reclusive/loner hero must save world, add love interest, bad guy, maybe a wacky character etc... most of us hadnt played ant ff before ff7, so we (i was neway) were blown away. is ff10 suposed to be an online rpg?

DrunkLeprachaun

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sliotar:
intro was great cept for music, twas a little too...."bitty"...</font>

You didn't like the music?
/me is clearly astounded.

Shinji

Actually, FF9 breaks the mould you just described quite well... Zidane is anything but a loner, for a start

FF10 isn't online, no.

Swifty

Yer , FF9 is very good. Havent got around to completeing it yet though but im on the fourth disc .
And are the other sequals coming out only on PS2?

Sliotar

i really didnt like the music. ff7 had smooth harmonic melodies, ff8 had jagged confused (insert word for oposite to melody)s

DrunkLeprachaun

HE'S GOT A ****ING TAIL!
which sucks.

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Vega

Its Already Out And Its Sh!t!!!!!!Stop The Madness!!!

Vega

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DrunkLeprachaun

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sliotar:
i really didnt like the music. ff7 had smooth harmonic melodies, ff8 had jagged confused (insert word for oposite to melody)s</font>

I agree for the most part, but I still like the intro music. The word is dischord.

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Sliotar

oooh very nice, ill be sure to remember that one

Chubby

Saw a link to a high quality FFX trailer on squaregamer so passing on the link
http://www1.sbs.co.kr/games/movie/mpeg/data/ff1001.mpg

SantaHoe

FF8 was alright, but it was missing something... it just didn't draw me into the plot like FF7 did.
Which is probably why it was so easy to just stop playing after disc-1 and move onto something else.

DrunkLeprachaun

You missed out. You should go back and finish it, the ending is much better than 7.

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Digital Tilmitt

The reason (most) people prefer 7 and 9 to 8 is because 8 had the worst charactor designer the world has ever seen. FF10 will have the same charactor designer as 8 and no matter how good the graphics are FF10 will still be crap.

Does anyone know why FF7 had BETTER BATTLE GRAPHICS than 8 and 9?