| Hynad said: Xen said:
I'm talking sales, you jokers. It's widely known that VII is the best selling FF to date... and I'm still waiting for my copy of XIII to arrive so I can even judge it... Ah, and while we're at it, IX was the worst on PS1. VII > VIII >>> IX My impression is that you started playing Final Fantasy games with VII, or that you're one of those who judge a book by its cover (i.e. the super-deformed look of the characters.). IX was to most long time fans of the series a much wanted return to source. Unlike its 2 predecessors, it didn't try to take itself more seriously than Christian Bale on Terminator's shooting sessions. It didn't try to shove our throat with pre-pubescent pseudo-oedipians shenanigans. And more importantly IX didn't have any plot-holes or ambiguous story-telling.
IX was an homage to the series, a gift to the fans of the classics (I through VI), and was remarkably designed and conceived.
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Your impression is wrong and downright offensive.
First of all, my first FF was X. Second, I dislike IX for a huge lot of reasons:
1. Terrible story
2. Only two good characters among the whole cast (Freya & Steiner)
3. Villain is a bloody joke. Sephiroth is a joke too, but at least the game has other fun elements
4. The battle system is atrocious and the slowest I ever used.
It's a terrible homage to fans of those classics that you're talking about - mainly because FF's IV through VI are good games.
@Wyrdness: IX is infinitely inferior to its PS1 counterparts.
