What does everyone here think of Final Fantasy 9?  So far I've heard no one talk about it and it was my second favorite next to 7.

Only one I thoroughly enjoyed character-wise. The story may have been kind of lame toward the ending, but the journey and character interactions kept it exciting for me. With the rest of the FF games I've found myself hating so many characters either because they're over the top and annoying or just so bland and uninteresting. I hate characters whose sole purpose is to be bad-ass, especially when they're the game's protagonist. (What is up with Squeenix's obsession with the lone-wolf, mercenary type?) With FFIX this came with Amarant, but luckily he came so far in the game and was relatively unimportant to the plot that I could look past that.

well i like the main character design despite most people's complaints. she doesn't look exactly like EVERY OTHER main female in the ff series...

The biggest thing I can say about this game is that I am really, really sick of this whole "giant sword also a gun, neither of the two at all practical" thing.  I'm no fan of Final Fantasy anyway (my favorite is Hataraku Chocobo for the Wonderswan because it's a great game for waiting rooms and stuff so basically the rest Final Fantasy is awful if that's a better game) but I have definitely seen this series going farther and farther into the ground as far as making any goddamn sense goes.

Did anyone really find the characters/storyline in any FF game to be good?

The Playstation Final Fantasy games were the worst in my opinion. Mainly because of how slow their battle systems are. In the SNES era, the ATB system worked flawlessly because of how quick it was. But then Square thought it would be great to pan the battle backgrounds for 20 seconds before the battles started for some stupid reason (FF 9 is the worst with this). They also had 2 minute long summons for god knows why. I seriously hated fighting most of the time, especially when they had random encounters. I guess it was still fun fighting when you knew where to go, but it got annoying after being stuck in a dungeon and not knowing what to do and have random slow battles pop up just to slow you down even more.

Final Fantasy 10 was great to me, because the battle system was the best of all the Final Fantasy games. FF 12 was decent, but lacked on the story and characters. I'm looking forward to this one, since I've never really been disappointed with an FF game. They obviously are trying to make it very similar to FF7, so we'll see how that turns out. If the game is fun to play and has good pacing with a tolerable story, I don't really care. Final Fantasy games never have incredible stories, so I never look forward to that.

Did anyone really find the characters/storyline in any FF game to be good?

When I was really young I thought 1 for NES and 2 for the SNES were epic adventures

Wow is better than final fantasy could ever hope to be.

And I quit like 2 months ago

Am I the only one who just doesn't care anymore about this series?

How's WoW treating you these days? I hear it's just fantastic!

Is there any reason for you to bring your general hate for everything into this thread?

I... er... um.... wow. This is why I hide in literature and graphic design arts. Even though I don't really post a lot.

In any case, due to a problem with Final Fantasy ever since FF6, it's been pretty hard to like any of the games that have been coming out and from what I've seen of 13. Well... 

you hate wow and ff you hate everything.

all of culture. literature. humanity. are but dust. how can you hate both wow and ff and appreciate anything. thou art blind.

perhaps this has more to do with the fact he sticks around the g&d and games forums which have a preponderance of garbage and less to do with not making a bunch of OH SWEET

FINAL FANTASY!

posts?

seriously nightblade can take shit for some stuff but disliking final fantasy and world of warcraft isn't a good point. I dislike both but I love, idk, SHRIMP CEVICHE.

Human society is like a freezing lake, the spectacle solidifies the historical process and oppressive social relations starting from the top and working its way down. Right now we enjoy a rather broad array of choices in life, some more real than others. However as the society of the spectacle is further concentrated and the ice reaches down to folks like us, we will be left petrified with two false choices:


WoW or final fantasy...