>half the party is inaccessible for close to half of the game
>large chunks of time where it's a series of just walking and triggering cutscenes
>takes over 3 discs for you to escape the hallway simulator

go back to /v/

>>11890315 (OP)
only the main 4 matter, faggot

>>11890315 (OP)
It's basically Final Fantasy IV for millennials

>>11890315 (OP)
FF9 is a special type of filter, because its a celebration of everything that came before it. If you didn't grow up with the series, you won't appreciate half of what it does. Its a love letter that doesn't have your name on it, faggot.
>>11891269
Yours either.

>>11890315 (OP)
It's horribly overrated these days. A mediocre game carried entirely by art style

>>11891347
>its a celebration of everything that came before it.
I don't remember any of the SNES games having a gameplay so bad that they ditched it for the next game (X).

>>11891269
4 was my first final fantasy and I'm a millennial. You guys just reach so far up your ass for random shit to say, you start scratching the back of your throat?

>>11891269
The oldest millennial in 1991 when IV came out was 11. So the exact target demographic.

>>11891421
That's not right, anon. Gen y starts in 1985.

>>11891369
Music and setting as well. But yes, the game kind of loses it early on, arguably right after Disc 1 in Burmecia, which ends pretty early oddly enough.

>>11891424
No, it's 1980-81. Either way, all of this is retarded.
Pic related

>>11891428
No, you're a schizo, take your meds and stop eye fucking the Uber driver.

>>11890315 (OP)
>escape the hallway simulator

You do know you dont have to go from point A to point B. There are quests and locations you can go to the moment you are in the open world between story sequences.

>>11891347
>ITS A.. LE LOVE LETTER
Should've made it a better game then lmao

FF1 Origins and FF9 are the only good games in the series. FF7 would be alright too, if it weren't for Cloud getting gangraped. Look within and you'll see this all to be true.

>>11891448
Damn dude it's not Twitter in 2020 anymore.

>>11891383
Proves u have no idea what you’re talking about.

>>11891515
There's very little of that in any of the two discs, there are minor deviations but all of which are on the basic same path way from Point A to B. Plus most of the FF9 side quests tend to expand multiple discs, the coffee quest for example can be completed as of Disc 3, and you start it after leaving the ice cave in Disc 1. The only two major things you can do for most of FF9 is just Chocobo Hot & Cold along with Tetra Master, otherwise very little side content besides "spend most of the game collecting these"

>>11892476
Friendly monsters too, then you have little side objectives in the instanced areas. I'm playing through it now and when the world opens up to me I'm always sure to deviate. Heck, even if the story gives me a moment I'm not railroaded I explore and will find neat things (hidden treasure, new character interactions, things like that). There are definitely times where it is heavily railroaded though. The infiltration and escape from Alexandria is a big one that lasts a while, but its a lot more open then, say, FF XIII.

>>11891347
>If you didn't grow up with the series, you won't appreciate half of what it does. Its a love letter that doesn't have your name on it, faggot.
I did and "le love letter" meme was a marketing ploy of game magazines, 95% of the 9fags barely played 7 and 8 and most didn't even finished them and simply rolled with the publicity stunt.
>ATE!
>Tetra Master > Triple Triad!
>It's LE CALL BACK to classic era.
this was the stupid shit they parroted back in 2000, meanwhile the only shit they could point to was vivi being the classic black mage.
>>11891369
>A mediocre game carried entirely by art style
incredible thing to say when the art style is known to be laughably bad. The color palette in the game is nice though.

>>11891383
>I don't remember any of the SNES games having a gameplay so bad that they ditched it for the next game
FF6

I expected to be able to have jobs but instead it had one of the shittiest systems, and oh boy was it also SLOW. The graphics are nice but hardly a callback to the previous games. Why was the world full of weird furries and midgets in cramped shanty towns? The story was more like wizard of oz+DBZ than anything resembling classic FF. Way too much railroading too and wasting time on stupid shit, yet what fans would have actually enjoyed, e. g. fighting the fiends, was gimped down to cutscenes. Ridiculous.

>>11892471
Not an argument.

>>11892910
>FF6
How was it any worse? Also they didn't drop ATB altogether for VII.

>>11893617
They dropped the shit esper system

>>11893649
Lol fair enough.

>>11891383
Why are people so possessive of game experiences on here?
>This game was for ME and MY generation, YOU wouldn't understand, get filtered

>>11892898
> did and "le love letter" meme was a marketing ploy of game magazines
The entire plot created a theory that FF1-9 are all connected directly, they even quizzed you on events that happened in FF2 (Which hadn't even been localized to the US until a few years later.) This board fucking sucks now.

>>11893667
Were you meant to quote someone else? If not, why are you so sensitive to whenever some unknown faggot shits on your favourite game and resorting to strawmanning?

>>11893667
Thats not what I was saying at all you fucking retard. It was literally Sakaguchi's swan song and departure from the franchise, which was the end of both the PS1 era and was followed by a series of wild departures going forward. It was quite literally the last legacy title in the franchise in multiple ways. It doesn't matter if you got filtered by it, but you absolutely did, just like some people did when it came out. Its not a generational thing, you're just fucking stupid.

>>11893701
Yeah, sorry I'm a phonefag my finger slipped.

>>11893704
I didn't get filtered by shit, I even beat the secret boss though I can't even remember what it was. A giant planet or something. But you being privy to some special Easter eggs like the card games and the opera scene don't make you better than anyone else

>>11893704
>It was literally Sakaguchi's swan song and departure from the franchise
His last FF game was V, and his "swan song" was The Spirit Within.

>>11893753
I didn't even mention the card games. Thats the most surface level projection and you fucking know it.
>I didn't get filtered by shit, I even beat the secret boss though I can't even remember what it was.
Being filtered doesn't always mean the game was too hard for you, it also means you're too fucking stupid to understand anything in the game that's not shoved down your throat. People get filtered by not understanding things like subtext or moral/ethical quagmires constantly. Its ok anon, we all learn to appreciate things more as we expand our perspectives.