/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8124154
I don't recognize the blond girl and 2/3 of the hot ones aren't in your party. FF9's variety is shit though. Instead of a bunch of teenagers you have a bunch of children instead.

Zidane and Garnet are as young as you can get without being considered children.
Vivi is a child.
Eiko is a child.
Steiner is a child.
Quina is more childlike than the children.
Amarant sucks.

That leaves.. Freya, I guess, who is boring.

>>4423476
Zodiac Job version IMO.
I hated the original US version.
IZJS cleaned it up, made it cool and more classical. I used a patch to play it w/ eng translations on PCSX2 and it was awesome.

>>4418894
Good man. Finest title in the series. Every character was useful to me, none annoyed me, and the abilities system was great in it's structure yet simplicity.
My only gripe of the game is Trance. If it was controllable it wouldn't feel as wasted. They were mostly useless. Making summons more costly to use however helped reel the difficulty back in a bit. Best thing though is the world. When I hear/see the words "Final Fantasy" that is literally the kind of world I imagine. Not some cyberpunk shit. Too many JRPGs aren't actual medieval/renaissance style games. Like the Persona series. Yawn. Shit like that's fine in an anime but as a game it's just boring to me.

>>3613953
This is such a weird phenomenon.

Like... i've been tempted to play through FF9 again (and DQ8, and BoF2, and so on) but I know they'll never be as fun as they were when I was younger. There are just too many things about them that I know would annoy me:

FF9 - the speed of battles, the loading times, the fucking Cleyra dance scene, the stupid "summon the knights" unskippable minigame in Alexandria Castle

BoF2 - the grind, the golden-fly section, the grind, the repetitive crappy music, the grind, the absurd random encounter rate, the grind, and the grind.

Plus I'm a completionist so JRPGs always take me 20 hours longer than they should.

How to make FFIX million times better: Beatrix joins your party instead of Eiko and Amarant fucks off and Lani joins your party instead of the flaming faggot.