| Kasz216 said: I bought Tactics. Tactics was excellent. I didn't think it was up to Matsuno's previous work with the Ogre Series and Tactics Ogre series... but I actually bought Tactics twice. Then again I bought FF7 3 or 4 times and I hate 7. Front Mission 3 ruled though. Didn't buy FF9. Haven't even played it. After 8.. and finding the only fun or interesting thing in it was Triple Triad... I skipped until 12. I keep hearing good things about 9 so i plan to pick it up eventually but i just haven't gotten around to it. As for the other bad games... I probably just stopped paying less attention honestly. Until I got my hands on Final Fantasy Tactics and Front Mission 3 I was absolutely distraught and angry at the company because the PS1 was the first system i bought with my own money... specifically for FF7 and it was just so... bad storywise in comparison. |
You should definitely pick IX up at some point: it's a breath of fresh air in the series, post VII. Good plot and game mechanics, but mostly it's the fantastic characters that will hook you. Honestly, it's one of the best RPGs I've played, and I went in thinking it was going to be crap. I still replay it at least once a year...it hasn't lost its charm.
I agree that Tactics wasn't as great as the Ogre games, but then what is?
And strangely enough, I also bought a PlayStation for FF VII, and hated the damned game. The plot is piss-poor, the characters all get on my nerves, the mechanics weren't exactly stellar...It almost soured me on the whole system, until someone introduced me to some of the better games, so I kept it. Good thing, too, or I'd have missed out on several classics.
Shoot, I'm rambling now, aren't I?
