Final Fantasy IX vs Final Fantasy Tactics

[Bu†cH]

Well, one of these fine summer days I'm gonna get one of these games, but what?

I heard Final Fantasy Tactics got in Official Playstation Magazine's Issue 100's 100 Greatest Games and EGM's 200 Greatest Games of their Time but not IX.

And in one of my old Playstation magazines and Ohtachi said that IX was the greatest of the three PS1 Final Fantasys. But last year, EGM said that it was overrated.

 

[Shadows Follower]

Well I prefer FF IX over FF tatics. I think its underrated under X and VII (not that there not good games but take most of the spotlight). My first FF as well and I enjoyed every bit of it. Go for FF XI!

 

[Ohtachi]

Without question, FFIX is the best-looking game in the series. In every way, FFIX takes the best of the old and mixes it with the best of the new.

That's on the back of the Final Fantasy IX case. Yet you say EGM said FFIX is overrated last year. :/ Either what your saying isn't true or EGM are all a bunch of hypocrites. But I believe your word over them. They say FFVII is having a remake for the PS3. No confirmation from Square-Enix. I think EGM is full of sh*t.

Anyways, both games are great, and hard to find. I'd say Tactics. It's much harder to find this year. But get FFIX soon before it becomes hard to find.

 

[Cloud Strife]

First off, it is the funnest of the Playstation games, not the best, (VII FTW) second, LANDSLIDE here, IX is one of the 10 greatest games ever made, Tactics is incredible and all, but IX is beyond.

 

[Ohtachi]

I'm quotting EGM, not myself. I don't think exactly what EGM thinks. As a matter of fact, I don't know what they think because they change there dam* minds all the time. Anyways, I already know FFIX is one of the greatest games ever, but FFT is a UU game that is very hard to find. Best get it and play it while you can. :/

 

[Captain Castform]

I'd say go for Tactics. It has a lot more replay value than IX and a better story. There's also a lot more customization involved with Tactics' job system than with IX's, and there's more strategy.

Personally, I thought IX's graphics where no were as great as they say, and the whole game just seemed boring to me :\ Plus, there was all this hype about how it was supposed to be like the old FF's, but it really wasn't anything near the old games :\ IX reminded me of VIII and VI, so if you like either of those, you may like IX.

 

[Cloud Strife]

I'd say go for Tactics. It has a lot more replay value than IX and a better story. There's also a lot more customization involved with Tactics' job system than with IX's, and there's more strategy.

Personally, I thought IX's graphics where no were as great as they say, and the whole game just seemed boring to me :\ Plus, there was all this hype about how it was supposed to be like the old FF's, but it really wasn't anything near the old games :\ IX reminded me of VIII and VI, so if you like either of those, you may like IX.

I laughed for hours at the first bolded statement. Tactics has more replay value? HAHAHAHA, and I would go IX for story too.

If you DON'T like VI, than it is just time to hang up the controller, you and games are done, just quit, it is over.

 

[Ohtachi]

I've never played Tactics but it's suppost to have a top notch Job Class System. Other than that, what's the story? Also, how can you play Final Fantasy and not like VI? o_0

 

[Bulk]

FF IX is by no means overated. If anything, it's underated. I find it the best FF game ever but I've never played FFT so I can't really make a comment on both. However, from my experience so far, FFIX is definatly worth the money.

 

[Captain Castform]

I laughed for hours at the first bolded statement. Tactics has more replay value? HAHAHAHA, and I would go IX for story too.

If you DON'T like VI, than it is just time to hang up the controller, you and games are done, just quit, it is over.

First, please tell me where I said I hated FF VI. Please, I'd like to know.

Second, I'm quite sorry that I may have had a different opinion than yours. I felt that FFIX had a dull story and I actually wanted it to stop after the first disc. However, I quite enjoyed Tactics' story. Obviously this is a difference of preferance.

Also, I found Tactics' job system to be quite more satisfying than IX's own system. Tactics, in my opinion, provides a fairly broad and flexible class system to work with, providing with what I felt was a greater degree of character customization than IX. IX's characters, however, are all stuck with one specific job. I felt that this made Tactics better overall in replay value. In IX, I'm sure you can replay the game to complete side quests you missed before or enjoy the story again, but the overall experience will most likely remain the same. This is why I felt Tactics had the better gameplay system, as the use of different jobs could provide a different experience for the player each time through.

I'm sure you have your own reasons for lliking FFIX, but I simply felt that Tactics was the overall better game based on my own sets of values. I hope that you may be able the grasp and respect that.

And if you think me likeing Tactics better than IX is funny, then I'm sure this will get your knickers in a twist: I think FFV was the best of the entire main series.

 

[Cloud Strife]

First, please tell me where I said I hated FF VI. Please, I'd like to know.

Second, I'm quite sorry that I may have had a different opinion than yours. I felt that FFIX had a dull story and I actually wanted it to stop after the first disc. However, I quite enjoyed Tactics' story. Obviously this is a difference of preferance.

Also, I found Tactics' job system to be quite more satisfying than IX's own system. Tactics, in my opinion, provides a fairly broad and flexible class system to work with, providing with what I felt was a greater degree of character customization than IX. IX's characters, however, are all stuck with one specific job. I felt that this made Tactics better overall in replay value. In IX, I'm sure you can replay the game to complete side quests you missed before or enjoy the story again, but the overall experience will most likely remain the same. This is why I felt Tactics had the better gameplay system, as the use of different jobs could provide a different experience for the player each time through.

I'm sure you have your own reasons for lliking FFIX, but I simply felt that Tactics was the overall better game based on my own sets of values. I hope that you may be able the grasp and respect that.

And if you think me likeing Tactics better than IX is funny, then I'm sure this will get your knickers in a twist: I think FFV was the best of the entire main series.

No, now I think you are mental. Let me guess, you like II also.
I didn't care that you liked Tactics more than IX, they are completely different games, I just found it funny you though Tactics had more replay value. I never said YOU disliked VI, I was saying for those people who don't.
Anyway, it is not even worth it to show you how every game in the series (except II) rapes V to no end, I don't want to write the essay, and it would not change your mind anyway, so you are entitled to your opinion after all.

 

[Sonozaki Maya]

Dude. Final Fantasy Tactics had tons of created challenges like SSCs and stuff. Tactics has a wonderful customizing system within the Job Class system, and I know that it's got quite a decent plot, and that there is simply a load of things that you can do in Tactics. It is quite difficult to compare FFT and FFIX because they are different freakin' genres altogether. FFIX is a traditional RPG, whereas FFT is a STRATEGY/RPG. Let's not forget the areas with versatility in FFT's gameplay. You can undertake SSCs and all sorts of user-created challenges in FFT. >_>;; How can you say that FFT has NO replay value? (For the record, I've beaten both FFT and FFIX twice)

FFIX does obviously have the better graphics, and the synthesis system does boost fun-factor up a bit, along with the Chocobo and Mognet sidequests. I don't like FFIX's replay value, only level 1 challenges >_>;; I also happen to scoff at the statement about "if you don't like VI, then you don't deserve to play video games." I mean, what the hell? That's just being all dictator like about video games. I liked VI a lot myself, but what about other people?

We all have DIFFERENT tastes. Think about that before you go around making strange statements like that. :<

 

[Cloud Strife]

Dude. Final Fantasy Tactics had tons of created challenges like SSCs and stuff. Tactics has a wonderful customizing system within the Job Class system, and I know that it's got quite a decent plot, and that there is simply a load of things that you can do in Tactics. It is quite difficult to compare FFT and FFIX because they are different freakin' genres altogether. FFIX is a traditional RPG, whereas FFT is a STRATEGY/RPG. Let's not forget the areas with versatility in FFT's gameplay. You can undertake SSCs and all sorts of user-created challenges in FFT. >_>;; How can you say that FFT has NO replay value? (For the record, I've beaten both FFT and FFIX twice)

FFIX does obviously have the better graphics, and the synthesis system does boost fun-factor up a bit, along with the Chocobo and Mognet sidequests. I don't like FFIX's replay value, only level 1 challenges >_>;; I also happen to scoff at the statement about "if you don't like VI, then you don't deserve to play video games." I mean, what the hell? That's just being all dictator like about video games. I liked VI a lot myself, but what about other people?

We all have DIFFERENT tastes. Think about that before you go around making strange statements like that. :<

I never said FFT has NO replay value, I said it doesn't have as much as IX (for the record I have beaten Tactics 6 times (completed everything) and IX over 30 times)
I stand by my VI statement, it is considered one of the 3 best games ever, and unlike VII and OoT it does NOT have a rabid fan base to push gamers away from it. I Reiterate. IF you have played VI and DON'T like it, you don't deserve to play Video Games, end of story.

 

[Yamato-san]

Cloud, I can agree that VI was the best installment of the franchise, and one of my favorite games altogether, but by stating that, aren't you no different from those rabid FF7/OOT fans? You know, people who go on about how their favorite is the absolute best game of all time and shun away anyone who either didn't play it or didn't like it? There is such a thing as differing opinions, Cloud, and while not everyone can agree to them, everyone should be expected to at least respect them.

And what the f*** is the deal against Final Fantasy V? Obviously Captain Castform likes job systems, and I don't blame him. Customizeable job systems are one of my favorite ways of teaching new spells and skills to an RPG character. Besides, I found the story to be pretty decent. Can't say the same for II, as I haven't gotten very far on that.

In spite of my defending Captain Castform, I gotta say I preferred IX over Tactics. Much more loveable cast of characters, and a storyline that can keep you hooked for hours. Can't say its customization system's as good as a job system, but it's still pretty good (in my book, anything beats just plain old learning new spells through level-up, as is the case in Final Fantasy IV). All the past game references was a nice little bonus, and the mini-games were very enjoyable (frog catching, Chocobo hot and cold, etc.).

 

[Cloud Strife]

Cloud, I can agree that VI was the best installment of the franchise, and one of my favorite games altogether, but by stating that, aren't you no different from those rabid FF7/OOT fans? You know, people who go on about how their favorite is the absolute best game of all time and shun away anyone who either didn't play it or didn't like it? There is such a thing as differing opinions, Cloud, and while not everyone can agree to them, everyone should be expected to at least respect them.

And what the f*** is the deal against Final Fantasy V? Obviously Captain Castform likes job systems, and I don't blame him. Customizeable job systems are one of my favorite ways of teaching new spells and skills to an RPG character. Besides, I found the story to be pretty decent. Can't say the same for II, as I haven't gotten very far on that.

In spite of my defending Captain Castform, I gotta say I preferred IX over Tactics. Much more loveable cast of characters, and a storyline that can keep you hooked for hours. Can't say its customization system's as good as a job system, but it's still pretty good (in my book, anything beats just plain old learning new spells through level-up, as is the case in Final Fantasy IV). All the past game references was a nice little bonus, and the mini-games were very enjoyable (frog catching, Chocobo hot and cold, etc.).

Let me first preface this by saying that VI is my third favorite game

OoT
VII
VI

But I can understand because of the incredibly high (and deservedly so) number of fans they have who tout them (deseredly so) as the 2 best games of all time that somepeople may dislike them in spite of their greatness. HOWEVER, VI not having that leaves only no good reason to dislike VI, since it has great story, characters, control, graphics for the time, ect if you dislike the game, you don't deserve to play video games.
Don't get me wrong, V is a great game, but it is still one of the worst Final Fantasy games (kinda like Majora's mask, one of the worst Zelda games ever, still a top 70 game of all time, go figure)
As for V having a decent story, it does, that is the problem, this is a STORY DRIVEN series. How do you go against the story of IV, VI, VII, VIII, IX, Tactics, Tactics Advance, Crystal Chronicles, III XII (looks like it anyway) and X... with V? There is a reason that only V, II (the two worst games) and III (WTF was III not released here) were not released in America originally. Square knew that II and V were not nearly as good as the other games, and III I guess was just at the end of the NES era.

 

[meta-master]

I've never played a FF game so I cant help you there, but the name FF Tactics sounds cooler.

 

[Captain Castform]

There is a reason that only V, II (the two worst games) and III (WTF was III not released here) were not released in America originally. Square knew that II and V were not nearly as good as the other games, and III I guess was just at the end of the NES era.

Actually, they where planing to release V as america's Final Fantasy III. The reason they didn't is because they thought that the job system would be too complicated for americans to handle.

 

[Cloud Strife]

That would explain why III wasn't released than, same system.

 

[Yamato-san]

a quick look on Wikipedia also states that they were originally gonna localize Final Fantasy II. However, around the time they started working on that, Japan had already released Final Fantasy IV, and thinking it'd be better to shift focus to the newer system, they slapped the II name onto the SNES title. In the process, III was skipped entirely without a localization so much as being considered. In other words, if the timing were just a little better, II and III would've gotten an English release in the first place.

 

[Cloud Strife]

a quick look on Wikipedia also states that they were originally gonna localize Final Fantasy II. However, around the time they started working on that, Japan had already released Final Fantasy IV, and thinking it'd be better to shift focus to the newer system, they slapped the II name onto the SNES title. In the process, III was skipped entirely without a localization so much as being considered. In other words, if the timing were just a little better, II and III would've gotten an English release in the first place.

See, that makes it official though, all the times I defended Square for not being a money grubbing company, and only giving the supperior product were a joke. They are just a evil as Nintendo in that regard, they just did not have the time, this sickens me. I have lost faith i games .