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All You Final Fantasy IX Fans: Where Were You When It Mattered?
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I was 18. I bought the game at launch as well as the goofy strategy guide. I did my part and enjoyed it. I just didn't go argue with people who didn't like it on the internet afterward.
I was 10 and had never heard of Final Fantasy. X was my first one.
In fact, I have yet to play IX despite buying it as a PSOne Classic for my Vita years ago.
In fact, I have yet to play IX despite buying it as a PSOne Classic for my Vita years ago.
I didn't beat the game for about three or four years after it came out - the Silver Dragon in Pandemonium wasted my ass and I just got mad and put it away.
maybe you are just like 200 iq and can appreciate the intricacies of a card game that relies on like, putting two 1-200 random number algorithms against each other
tetra master is so weird. i dont even like triple triad but its hella better than tetra master
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Yea, I mean, I was 9.
I didn't use to visit forums (the internet was pretty young too) or comment much about the games I liked.
I didn't even know about the criticisms until much, much later.
So don't come and point the finger at us, OP :p Just saying, lol.
Btw, Final Fantasy IX is my #1 game of all time and I've always said it.
It's actually the game that made me a fan of this industry.
I still love every minute of it. I think it's the game that I have spent the most time with.
I remember printing out sheets full of tricks and stuff about the game. Man, the memories!
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I was a child and the only gaming related thing I was interested in doing on the internet then was play Neopets.
FF9 shouldn't be compared to World of FF. World of FF can go on somewhere, honestly.
FF9 was all right, but at the time it didn't bring it like FF7 or 8 had done. I got it on release, but that game becomes a slog. It's not bad by any means, but all together lacked the punch that FFX brought when it showed up for PS2. Zidane is a throw away lead like Vaan. Zidane over Vaan though
FF9 was all right, but at the time it didn't bring it like FF7 or 8 had done. I got it on release, but that game becomes a slog. It's not bad by any means, but all together lacked the punch that FFX brought when it showed up for PS2. Zidane is a throw away lead like Vaan. Zidane over Vaan though
FF9 (PSone classic version) is the only reason I miss my Vita :(
I was 9 at the release year, only played on like 2002/3, had no internet access or $$$ for magazines back then. Knew zero stuff about critic/public opinion on FFIX. Me and people around me just loved all the FFs in the PS1, even if just for the neat cg stuff.
I've never beaten a final fantasy, but from the outside I think I've heard less talk of IX than any other mainline game in the series. Not even just to make fun of it like VIII. Just... nothing.
I need to get on my final fantasy marathoning spree soon so I can catch up by the next turn of the century.
I need to get on my final fantasy marathoning spree soon so I can catch up by the next turn of the century.
I bought it just like every other Final Fantasy the day it came out? All my friends did, and most of us bought the completely worthless guide that came with it.
I wasn't really on game forums around the time of FFIX's release, at least for Final Fantasy, so I don't think I even knew there was a fan backlash towards it until a bit later. (Same with VIII). To me all the FF's just seemed like they were considered awesome. It wasn't until X that I personally disliked one myself.
I 100% remember thinking the Wind Waker backlash was stupid though.
I 100% remember thinking the Wind Waker backlash was stupid though.
I actually bought a PS1 and FFIX on PAL launch day and it was the first PS1 FF played, (I had previously played FF 1, 2 and 3 US versions) and since I only wanted to have a N64 as a teenager, I never bothered with PS stuff until a few years later when I was over the console wars stuff.
I was 18, and a dirt poor dude working his way through culinary school. Didn't have a PS1 let alone a PS-freaking-2.
I was so focused on my art at the time, I didn't even know FFIX had released.
I was so focused on my art at the time, I didn't even know FFIX had released.
Put the pipe down, son.
Final Fantasy had up until that point with 7 and 8 appealed to the mass market with a lot of eye candy. Those games were typically the prettiest things on the PS1, with some fairly impressive CGI cutscenes in an era where those things still mattered.
9 unfortunately was a victim of bad timing. Not only was that game launched a few short months before the highly anticipated PS2, but it launched almost a year AFTER the Dreamcast- by the time FF9 launched, game media and the casual market had long since moved on to next gen games like Soul Calibur, Shenmue, Dead or Alive, Jet Set Radio, Space Channel 5, Sonic Adventure, Skies of Arcadia, etc.
FF9 was NEVER going to draw a second look from the crowd chasing the latest and greatest. The PS1 was old news. It's a miracle and a testament to the quality of the game (it's probably the best of the PS1 FFs from a story and mechanics standpoint, graphics aside) that it sold the 5 million or so copies that it did.
What a terrible thread lmao.
But just to answer your question, I was 9-10 with no money.
But just to answer your question, I was 9-10 with no money.
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Oof, right there with you. Game was what, an hour and a half to complete?
I was 12 and our family only had an N64. Any talk of getting a Playstation was met with some variant of "isn't one console enough?".
All my friends had an N64 as well. When FFIX released, we were all eagerly waiting for IGN 64 to drop the latest edition of 72 Hours so that we could pore over every last bit of sub-240p video footage of Majora's Mask. NOSTALGIA!
Anyway, yeah, blame my family. Or not, since FFIX sold really well without my 12-year-old self's "help".
All my friends had an N64 as well. When FFIX released, we were all eagerly waiting for IGN 64 to drop the latest edition of 72 Hours so that we could pore over every last bit of sub-240p video footage of Majora's Mask. NOSTALGIA!
Anyway, yeah, blame my family. Or not, since FFIX sold really well without my 12-year-old self's "help".
Bought the game when I was a kid from Walmart like, the month it came out. Had saved up allowance and birthday money for it. The art direction and soundtrack are my favorite in the entire series.
I own WoFF and Maxima but they don't really appeal to me for completely different reasons. I also don't think the art direction between WoFF and FFIX are comparable at all.
I own WoFF and Maxima but they don't really appeal to me for completely different reasons. I also don't think the art direction between WoFF and FFIX are comparable at all.
As a fan of the 16-bit Final Fantasies I was head over heels crazy about what I considered a "return to form". I bought it day 1.
Also this thread makes me feel old since I was already in college when the game came out.
Also this thread makes me feel old since I was already in college when the game came out.
Bought the game, bought the guide book, even bought a load of figures
Was one of my favourite FF's - though the original encounter rate and respective load times each time were a little "trying"
Modern gamers with their QOL improvements don't know how good they have it compared to the dreaded disk whirl and loads of PSOne etc era RPGs
Was one of my favourite FF's - though the original encounter rate and respective load times each time were a little "trying"
Modern gamers with their QOL improvements don't know how good they have it compared to the dreaded disk whirl and loads of PSOne etc era RPGs
