Why won't this game shut the fuck up holy shit i'm 6 hours in at lindblum and i swear 5 1/2 of those hours is entirely dialogue fucking dumb ass active time events happen every 2 seconds and party members leave like a niggers dad so damn often christ even most story heavy Final Fantasy's aren't this bad
"Return to form" "The throwback" my ass
>story is bad
Yeah, it doesn't get better. Even up til Disc 3. Your best bet is to drop it or get used to fapping to the Freya and Eiko models.
doesn't help that the plot is shit and only 3 out of 8 characters get any development
if "aaa" games are movie games then are jrpgs book games?
anime games
go play something else then?
if you don't care about the characters at all then you may as well just play a different game because the combat is shit
tranny games
Because i actually love the combat/level up system but it won't. Let. Me. Fucking. Play.
It gets good after 15 hours
Play Final Fantasy Tactics Advance if you like the whole "skills linked to weapons" system
Thats retarded
FF9 Combat is the weakest point.
Mainly because its slow as hell and doesnt give you much options to play with.
Pretty much the whole game suffers from the slow pacing and transitions. but the music is excellent and it has a very comfy feeling with some enjoyable story arcs although some are not very fleshed out or explained.
>"Return to form" "The throwback" my ass
That's what I've been saying all along. This is more like 10 and 13 than it is the first 5 games. It's a soulless linear experience that fails to be a game and it is every bit as bad as 10 but it updates some old designs and drops a bunch of refrences to old games so it's 'a love letter to classic FF'. Balls.
I think it's just that it's actually fantasy world and not some techno babble worlds like 7, 8 and 10 for example
>"Return to form" "The throwback" my ass
Yeah, idiots who spout that probably never played the OG games, they didn't feel nearly as whimsical as IX imo
10 is every bit as low tech and 9 has the same 'old ancient civilisation used high technology but we're shitfarmers again now' gimmick that literally everything else uses. 7 and even 8 weren't lacking in fantasy elements either. No, it's the silly black mage hats, classic 'jobs' (that don't mean anything since there is no job system) and costumes that mke people think it's somehow more 'Final Fantasy' than the surrounding games dispite it having the least of the FF spirit of the lot.
Except 10 is linear as fuck too.
As a first timer as well, the constant talking is annoying.
Luckily the characters are fun enough to listen to (I've grown to really like steiner atleast)
The only major complaint is the battles. Maybe it's just me, but the ADP (I think?) gauges seem to fill MUCH slower here. I'll usually turn on speed up mode until a gauge fills then turn it off, repeat until the battle ends.
the game should shut up less about this rat character
you will have to deal with that the entire game, the world exploration and characters are worth it in my opinion
Yeah the battle system was strangely slow in 9. I'm sure there's been mods out for awhile now that fixes the speed.
just kill yourself then
>he doesn't know about the village of the Scottish Dwarves
HOO BOY
>>story is bad
It is.
In what fucking world does Beatrix go from being arguably the most evil person in the entire cast, even moreso than fucking Kuja, to immediately being a good guy that no one has a problem with.
Ignoring the fact that she happily carried out orders to genocide an entire race of people, took pleasure in their suffering, happily pursued the subjugation of her nation's former ally and friends, and is basically an evil psycho-bitch the entire way through until Zidane goes BUT THE PRINCESS!!!1!1! and she immediately goes "ohhhh, riiight, the princess... haha, whoops! my bad guys" and becomes a good guy.
You bury someone like that under the prison or just plain execute her, right next to the monster that gave her the orders. And Alexandria would be treated worse than Germany after the Treaty of Versailles as soon as the world is beyond the "world about to end" stage of things. The fact that there's a scene saying people are praising Brahne, remembering her as a good person, despite the fact that she ordered the genocide of an entire people and the subjugation of another nation all for the sake of personal power and pleasure, also comes across as incredibly fucking tone-deaf.
Like, I get it... Final Fantasy games and JRPGs in general are usually pretty broad strokes with their things, but you have to remember that FF9 is contemporary to games like Blood Omen, Soul Reaver, Deus Ex and fucking Planescape: Torment. I can't take FF9's plot and characters seriously, they're like pastiches rather than actual character arcs and it's all incredibly shallow. Every single character can have their entire development arc summarized in two or three sentences.
And then Necron just... shows up at the end of the game because crystals (of course it's crystals, it's always fucking crystals, Final Fantasy obsesses over crystals more than new age homeopaths do) or something. It's like, YOU THOUGHT KUJA WAS THE FINAL BOSS BUT IT WAS ME, DIO NECRON!
>I think it's just that it's actually fantasy world
It's not. FF9 is about a super advanced sci-fi civilization trying to terraform planets using a race of genetically engineered monkey people, it's just needlessly pretentious about it.