/vr/ - Retro Games

Steal as many items as you can from bosses with Zidane. You'll earn good gear.

Don't go full OCD. There are many extremly tedious to get secrets whhich aren't worth the trouble of getting them.

make a point of stealing items from bosses with Zidane

prepare for a lot of
>couldn't steal anything

>>685529
the only steal-able that's not worth it is the flute from that Golem after you meet Eiko. Not only it's hardest item to steal in the entire game but you can buy the flute less than 1 hour later. Everything else is worth it.

>>685529
>>685532
>>685537

Good to know guys, thanks! Should I bother with the card game at all? I have a friend that really likes it, talks about it a lot.

>>685521
It's pretty much Final Fantasy Missables

There really isn't anything terribly important to miss - if it's something you're concerned with, there are some FAQS and guides that can give you an idea of what to look out for. But there is pretty much no way you'll 100% it in one playthrough, if that's your bag.

But ya, steal from every boss. Try not to synth weapons and armor you don't have mulitples of (until you have the abilities you want for everyone in your party), make sure you don't forget to eat Quina's best spells if you want to use her.

The game isn't terribly hard, so most importantly, use whatever characters you like best!

>>685539
You will either love it or hate it. I love Tetra and am not a fan of whatever FF8's game is, but I think I'm in the minority on that one. Try it and see- but it's completely optional, there's pretty much nothing you can get from it other than joy.

When you get princess, do not name her fucking Dagger. Dagger is a retarded name and it would stay there forever.

>>685539
In FF9 the card game is useless. There is only one moment where it's mandatory to play it in the entire game but even then it should be easy to win even if you have never played it before.

Don't bother, there is nothing to get and it's not even fun.

If anyone's interested I found out a rather easy way to kill the Grand Dragons up Gizamaluke's grotto at the start of Disk2, thus being able to grind at any level you want with the 4 characters you have at that time right at the start of Disk2.
It's a trick I found out that I have never seen in any walkthrough or talked about. (Bear in mind that you can't learn lvl5death before the end of Disk3)

>>685539
>Tetra Master

>>685545

>>685545
I liked it for the first disc, but then it stuck all the way...

>>685542

Just wanted to make sure that I didn't miss anything big, like getting huge materia in FF7 or extra characters or whatever. Better weapons/armor is cool, but nothing I'm going to get in a fuss over.

>>685552
>>685545
You people are a stain on this earth.

>>685547

Sure, I'd love to hear it.

>>685556
>extra characters

As soon as you find the swamps on the world map (it's at the same time as you can find the first chocobo forest), catch some frogs or you'll miss a character and only get her much later on.

Speaking of the chocobo forest, if you have the patience, play the chocobo mini game. Then you'll be able to find good loot on the world map with it. It takes a bit of time but it's worth it if you want stronger gear as early as possible.

Really it depends how OCD you are in general with video games, but if you're as autistic as I am, you'll get hooked to the Steal command and to the Chocobo treasure hunt.

>>685557
Garnet fits her better overall. Because at the end of Disk3 just after she cuts her hair, Zidane gives her a speech telling her that she has become a real Garnet by now. Her name should have gotten back to Garnet at that point.

>>685562
Ya, if you want to play the Chocobo Hot and Cold game, do it early while most of the rewards are useful.

I waited until that last minute and then just kind of said fuck it. Took all the fun out of it.

>>685562
>her

>>685571
They were going to add in the option, but they ran out of time finishing Amarant's dialogue

>>685575

>>685552
>>685545
>>685571
At least there is one thing that's better in the german version I played when I was a kid.

Her name is "Lili" because the dagger she and zidane talk about is called "lilies something something dagger" in the german version
>"Oh, I've always liked lilies, so call me Lili from now on"
>Ok

so it was pretty weird to me when I played the english version later

>"Oh look, a dagger, why not call me dagger?"
>wat

>>685558
Alright. It's gonna be tough to explain because basically, the Grand Dragons have 3 types of attacks :
- a poison attack
- a single target melee attack
- a lightning attack that hits everybody

The trick is to make your entire team immune to both poison and lightning, so that the Grand Dragons can only hit you with single target attacks. Like this, and with dozens of phoenix downs, you'll be able to win because he'll only be able to kill one character at a time.

You can become immune to poison rather easily IIRC with different gear you can get throughout Disk1.
Becoming immune to his lightning attack is another story and the solution is the reason why it's not possible to kill them at the end of Disk1 but it is at the start of Disk2.
The trick is to get 4 Coral Rings (which makes you absorb lightning attacks) and equip them on all your character. You can get your first Coral Ring in Disk1 if you let Freya win the hunt in Lindblum, but for the 3 other Coral Rings, you'll have to wait the start of Disk2 when you play as Garnet and Steiner.
You can forge Coral Rings in Treno. Chances are that you won't have the items necessary to get 3 of those though, but guess what, you can actually backtrack by foot to Dahli Village and buy the items necessary to forge those Coral Rings! Now just make sure that none of your characters have them equipped when the game switches back to Zidane's team and you're set.
It totally breaks the 4th wall but it works.

Also to make things better make sure to teach everybody the exp+ abilities. To make things easier too you can teach Mother Guard to Quina.

I think I reached the highest point of autism posssible in FF9 when I found out this trick by myself and lvl'd up to lvl60 at the start of Disk2. Bear in mind though that Garnet and Steiner will remain low level, but at least each time a new character joins his lvl will be an overall number between all your characters.

>>685591
>Lili

makes me think of the Tekken character
... I can fap to this

>>685547
Actually you do get something for the cards. If you have enough collector points, it'll boost your treasure hunter rank for when you want the special scene with Gilgamesh.

>>685591
In the French version she's called "Dagga" (dagger in french is "dague")

at least it sounds a little more feminine than Dagger thanks to the "a"

>>685579
the habit of aclling Quina stick with me because, even though I've played the game both in english and in french, in french they didn't bother with the "s/he" and simply called "her".

>>685596
Wow, that's just cool that it's possible to take one on so early. I wouldn't touch a dragon without Quina's death spell.

>>685610
I kept wondering whether the developers intended it or not.

I mean I found out about this trick on my 4th or 5th playthrough or something. I doubt any betatester could have found out during betatesting time.

>>685614
I'm pretty confident no one cared by the time FFIX was finished, unfortunately.

It's like the entire company clocked out.

>>685623
Was the trick I mentionned in the official walkthrough?

>>685631
I think he was posting the walkthrough as further evidence that the company didn't give a shit. The guide was terrible and consisted muchly of 'google it', implying the testing was lackluster as well.

>>685623
That fucking strategy guide, I still want to kill the guy who came up with that idea.

I didn't have internet at the time, and whenever something really interesting came up "Use this code to look it up!"
Fuck you

>>685596
> think I reached the highest point of autism posssible in FF9
So you got the Robe of Lords on the disc 1 Chocobo Hot & Cold?

>but guess what, you can actually backtrack by foot to Dahli Village and buy the items necessary to forge those Coral Rings!
This was actually secretly intended by the devs. It's the only time in the game where Zidane and Freya can be the only party members, having their own dialogue for it. It's also the only way to open the treasure chest behind the windmill gears.

Speaking of synthesis exploits, you can make infinite money by synthesizing cotton robe trick, the only recipe where the sell value of the new item is greater than the purchase value of its ingredients.

>Garnet and Steiner will remain low level, but at least each time a new character joins his lvl will be an overall number between all your characters.
Kill Garnet and Steiner to level up Marcus, his stats compound with Eiko, thereby giving her higher stats than if you leveled her up directly. All the temporary party members share the same stat pool with permanent party members, but iirc only Marcus is bugged that his levels compound.

>>685631
>implying anything was mentioned in the walkthrough
>at all

>>685646
You know, I still think being dead is worse then being forgotten.

>>685638
>All the temporary party members share the same stat pool with permanent party members
>Marcus is bugged that his levels compound
Learn something new every day

>>685639
>there's a super secret awesome item in this town
>go to playonline.com and enter in the keyword 'UGOTDUPEDUFAGGOT' to find out what it is!

>>685623
>It's like the entire company clocked out.
FF9 was the last game by Squaresoft developed exclusively for the Playstation. Only Final Fantasy Origins would release later on the Playstation, but they are rereleases of FF1 and 2.

Wikipedia has this to say:
>In the game's conceptual stage, the developers made it clear that the title would not necessarily be Final Fantasy IX, as its break from the realism of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII may have alienated audiences. This led fans to speculate that it would be released as a "gaiden" (side story) to the main series.[15] By late 1999, however, Square had confirmed that the game would indeed be published as Final Fantasy IX, and by early 2000, the game was nearly finished. The developers made several adjustments to the game, such as changing the ending seven times

Wiki's source for the above doesn't work anymore, but I remember reading about this change of mind within the company years ago. I love FF9, but disc 3 and 4 lack the finish of disc 1 and 2. Sakaguchi began planning in summer 1998, meaning FF9 had less than 24 months of development while most teams were busy with PS2 titles, like The Bouncer and FFX.

Speaking of FF8, am I the only one that think the encounter with Beatrix is fucking bullshit? Even after so many times, you are "forced" to lose against her because of Shock, an attack once use by an honorable warrior but now wielded by a bitch like her.

They could have at least make the last encounter of Beatrix the one that make her lose the battle and make her THINK what the fuck she actually doing at that time (killing the princess).

>>685638
>So you got the Robe of Lords on the disc 1 Chocobo Hot & Cold?

I considered it for the longest time but gave up at some point.

I guess you're right, this wasn't the highest autism point possible in FF9.

However there is probably something more autistic than getting the robe of lords in disk 1 : it's eating enough frogs in disk1 to be able to deal 9999dmg with the frog drop at that point.
Idk if it's possible but it should be. I'm just unsure what makes the frogs in the swamp spawn again : is it simply time passing by? (if yes that means anybody can do it by letting the game turned on) or a number of steps? number of random fights fought?

>This was actually secretly intended by the devs. It's the only time in the game where Zidane and Freya can be the only party members, having their own dialogue for it. It's also the only way to open the treasure chest behind the windmill gears.

So if they intended it for Zidane&Freya, why did they let the path open for Garnet&Zidane at the start of Disk2?

>Kill Garnet and Steiner to level up Marcus, his stats compound with Eiko, thereby giving her higher stats than if you leveled her up directly. All the temporary party members share the same stat pool with permanent party members, but iirc only Marcus is bugged that his levels compound.

Wow. I had no idea. Now I want to try that out.
Does that mean that you can add up the stats? In the sense that, you could remain low level for every character, but level up Marcus a lot thus having higher stats for Eiko at a low level; and THEN leveling up Eiko so that she has even higher stats than she would possibly have the normal way?

>>685667

Half-assing Final Fantasy endings has been a tradition for a while.

>>685667
Plus they were really pushing the PS1 to the limit with a lot of what they were doing. The game released well after the PS2 launched.

It's interesting that the ending got changed so many times.

>>685670
It's even more bullshit if you use my trick and you are lvl60 against her in Disk2 and you're still forced to lose because she's supposedly "stronger" than you

>>685678
i heard that they did that on purpose, releasing FFIX and FFX at similar times to give people one "retro" style FF game along with one charging into the more modern age. not a bad idea, honestly. I think FFIX probably wouldn't have been as charming as it was if it had been on the ps2, but maybe i'm just full of it.

>>685670
It's pretty much a reference to the same mechanic being used in earlier FF's.

Random Question

During one of my playthroughs something "strange" happened and I really tried to figure out why.

There is this one time where Alexandria is being attacked, the part where you can actually fight with beatrix.
For some reason, Steiner fucking one-shot everything.
He did a shitload more damage than he should, and I could never figure out why.
Does anyone know why that happened?

During another playthrough I also checked whether I had the "best" weapon currently equipped, all the right abilities, but I never could do as much damage as I did this one time.

>>685690
Well, you probably simply had reached a high level with Steiner without noticing. At the end of Treno, in the underground path the carts, the worms you can fight give tons of exp, especially if you kill Marcus (and even more if you kill Marcus and Garnet died)

>>685681
I literally have Quina do 2 Limit Glove and that is bullshit on to itself.

>>685683
Like what? Most of them have you coming back at those foe and you kill them, humiliate them, or some high being come out of no where and push them away. Beatrix was that bitch that cannot be beaten because of some the dev want some "Strong woman that isn't afraid of no man" bullshit.

>>685682
I seriously doubt it was intentional. They were released a year apart - pretty much the same time frame between 8 and 9.

Needless to say they are very different games that received different attention - both from the audience and the developers. I think both could have benefited from IX truly getting finished, and giving X a little more time to polish up.

>>685694
hmm, well as i said, it was just something i'd heard. i'm not very surprised to find out it was false. siiiigh.

>>685690
Did he have Blood Sword equipped?

>>685672
>it's eating enough frogs in disk1 to be able to deal 9999dmg with the frog drop at that point.
I have my limits, I don't know of anyone who did that.

>why did they let the path open for Garnet&Zidane at the start of Disk2?
I don't remember, I don't like Garnet enough that I probably never tried.

>so that she has even higher stats than she would possibly have the normal way?
There was a guide for maxing out Eiko's stats, telling you what to equip for both character for specific levels.

>>685678
I don't have any screenshot handy, but does anyone remember texture warping in FF9? Vagrant Story had slight texture warping, but given the amount of textures that game had, it's natural.The slower loading times with FF9 might have something to do with how powered it is on the PS1. Hell, remember the sword fight in the beginning where the audience was fully animated? It was a taste of the graphical power FFX would feature as standard.

>>685712
>Did he have Blood Sword equipped?
Is that the one you get in Treno for the Stellazio Coins?
If yes, maybe, not too sure though, does it deal bonus damage?

>>685712
>There was a guide for maxing out Eiko's stats, telling you what to equip for both character for specific levels.

Does that mean that, depending on what equipment you have, you will gain more or less of a stat category after a lvl up? or just at given levels?

>>685545
>>685552
Oh man, thank god I wasn't the only one who did this. When that input name screen came up I was like "oh fuck I hope it doesn't stick through the rest of the game" so I decided not to risk it.

>>685724
Nevermind, it heals him. It's the ability it comes with, Darkside, that does bonus damage at the cost of his HP.

Is MP Attack even possible that early? Otherwise I don't know why you had Steiner act so strong that one time.

>>685734
it's probably the addition of several things. Best sword possible at that point, higher lvl than expected due to fighting more worms than expected at the end of treno, and probably the ability that deals extra dmg against that type of monster in alexandria turned on that one time

>that hidden Distant Worlds logo

>original background art before it lost quality for the PSX

If you get to the final dungeon within 12 hours of gametime, you get the best weapon in the game.

>>685542
>There really isn't anything terribly important to miss

You can miss Vivi's -aga spells permanently. I mean, you'd be an idiot to do so, since you get them from a staff you can buy on a location you pass through while progressing the story, but if you have a brain fart and forget to check out the shop or decide "eh, I'll get it later" and wait until Disc 4, you will miss it.

>>685639
Blame the suits. They wanted to shove PlayOnline down everyone's throats, so they chose FFIX at the trojan horse to do so. It backfired, horribly, as many short-sighted exec decisions do.

>>685667
>changing the ending seven times

Well, that explains some things. The ending always felt rushed and haphazardly thought-out, like they didn't know how to end the game.

>>685521
Buy Octagon Rod.(this especially).
Buy Zorlin Shapes
Bosses usually have pretty great loot to steal.

>>685712
>I don't have any screenshot handy, but does anyone remember texture warping in FF9? Vagrant Story had slight texture warping, but given the amount of textures that game had, it's natural.

It's just a PS1 thing. You see it in many games.

>>685734
MP attack is possible.

>>686123
They look fine in the final game, unless you play them on an emulator at four times their original resolution, that is. See >>685572. Looks ugly as sin.

>>686721
Just saiyan, some devs learned how to compensate on the PS1 for texture warping. Squaresoft was one of those companies that mastered the PS1 architecture.

>>686620
That's definitely genuine. Nobody would have the time and skill to do that for free to deceive people. It lends creedence to images like >>686123 being authentic, since they're found in the same neogaf thread.

This has me thinking, FF9 artwork is unusually documented. We still don't have access to concept art of FF6, 7, 8 or FFX like we do FF9. Maybe there was a sheer volume of artwork that even a small leak is more than what we see in most games. Maybe it's a greater developer willingness to share. Either way, we win.

>>685521
>Remember to encounter all Friendly Monsters
>Get all of Quina's blue magics. They are insanely useful
>Steal as much as you can. Thievery can do 9999 every time if you steal enough
>Do chocobo sidequests as early as you can. You get amazing items and equipment really early

>>686708
You know, I see this argument all the time these days, but when I was a kid and the game came out everyone who beat it thought it was a great ending. I can see how it comes off as out of left field, but when you're that young and not jaded by the world it raises a lot of questions I hadn't considered before.
The ending to me was always a question of not being able to live forever and doing what good you can while you're still here.
The idea that there could be other universes and fucking with memory was wild to me.
I still remember the ending, the very last thing after the credits they showed the crystal.
I fucking lost my shit and started crying at the beauty of it all
I was 10, but you know. It had a real impact
so fuck you.

I finally finished playing this game yesterday. What do I do to soothe the pain from something so beautiful?

>>691614
Play with a dog

Favorite FF other than X.
Good choice, OP.

>>691628

It's not helping.

>>691674
I love how beautiful this game is. To this day the artwork holds up so well

>>691692

>>691704

>>685554
>>685545

Well there was an option to change all the party members names but not until you get a card from Kuja's room and let some guy from Daguerro look at it.

>>691692

It's such a beautiful game. Good thing I have a PSP. It looks much nicer on small screens.

>tfw new TV makes FFIX look so blurry

so in the interest of keeping the thread going, favorite/best game moments?

For me it will always be the fight with the Black Waltz after it kills all the black mages and Vivi loses his shit

>>685521
Get a turbo controller for all that X pressing you'll have to do.

>>691909

Playing it on my Vita. No turbo controller.

>>691834
A few moments I loved;
The entire love letter confusion.
The ending of course.
Not alone scene. But especially when Steiner says he'll stick by Zidane till kingdom come.
Eiko fishing up Quina

>>685572

is there any trick to the chocobo game, or other forests?

shit is annoying as fuck and ive only managed to get 4 "prizes" once. how the fuck do you get more chocographs?

>>696519
As someone who has completed hot and cold twice (gotten a gold Chocobo twice in two separate playthroughs) all I can tell you is just keep digging. Persistence is the key.

You'll notice that chocographs are buried much deeper than regular items (like 34-56 depth).

The Moogle will tell you when tere are no more chocographs in the forest anymore, in which you should go to the lagoon on disc 2 or 3, then repeat the process.

>>685596
You can also just do this with Quina and matra magic, I think it's called? Just keep killing Quina til she/he revives with 1 health, then use Freya to keep protecting Quina whilst being immune to lighting/poison.

>>685529
This guy. You will NOT find all the little Zodiac Collectables without a guide, because they are literally pixel hunt items that are hidden all over the world, and most of them only give you one chance to obtain them, when you have no clue they're even there. Never mind grinding to learn every single ability from every piece of gear on every single character, getting -all- of Quinna's blue magic, etc.

But yeah. Steal a lot. Explore. Just don't get super hung up on getting everything your first time through.

Also as annoying as it is, the Chocobo Hot and Cold mini game should be played early and often to make best use of the crap you can find, and also to upgrade Choco as fast as possible. Having early transport is both fun and dangerous.

>>685602
So you have Dagga in Tours?

You guys said earlier you can go to Dali with just Freya and Zidane. How?

>>691834
Most scenes with the Tantalus crew.

>>696549
Didn't think of that. How can Freya protect Quina again? is it an ability she learns?

>>696643
Yeah, the ability is called cover.

>>696576
I don't recall any of the Stellazio being missable, though I may be misremembering.

>>685596
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlc42MgtZ0

There ya go

>>685604
You don't need it to get the S treasure hunter rank. I ignored it completely and got it by just opening treasure chests and stealing at least once per battle

>>685521
That's a really good game. Don't read anything spoilery, specially 4chan until you beat the game by yourself. You'll thank me later.

>>685690
I know he goes into a scripted Trance during one of the battles, and his Trance basically quadruples his damage output. Maybe that's it?

>>685726
The rabbit hole goes deep.
>http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/197338-final-fantasy-ix/faqs/20745

>>697793
well does Cover cover multiple-target attacks like the Grand Dragon's lightning attack?
In any case that also means Freya will cover the Grand Dragon's single target attack, which means that she will die, and that if the Grand Dragon uses its lightning attack before you revieve Freya, you're screwed.

I guess it might be possible (granted Cover works on the lightning attack, which i doubt) but much harder than my tactic

>>698625
cool!

>That last world
>That last boss
>All those castles

Damn this game was beautiful. Think I'm gonna buy the soundtrack, or the art book, or both.

So here is a quiz question for you ff IX fans.

What is the song that is played/found both in FF IX and VII

>>701541
The parade song for Rufus in Junon

>>701554

impressive!

Isn't it possible to just completely miss Quinna?

Am I the only one who LOVED Tetra Master? I wasted so many hours playing it.

So addicting!

>>701579
I got all the cards, it looked so good complete

>>701579
No you weren't. I love card games, especially ones where I don't know the rules. Figuring the game out was probably the most fun for me.

>>701569
No, Quina's required for the storyline- if you don't get her at first, you'll have to go back eventually and the story will lead you there.

Basically, it's more like 'you can get this character early' rather than 'this is a side character you can skip'.

>>701579
I loved Tetra Master, I dunno why Triple Triad gets all the popularity

I remember FF9 had this awkward integration with "PlayOnline" which seemed like a website in search of a solution. What the hell was that all about again?

>>701847
Squaresoft was trying to push PlayOnline as a one-stop platform for all related Square media from FF9 and on.

The only thing it ended up being used for were creepy chatrooms, a mail system no one uses, Tetra Master Online, and an annoying payment cockblocker for FF11 players.

>>701871
>Creepy chatrooms in an otherwise abandoned/failed mass media push site

oh god maybe I'm fucked up but that sounds awesome

I love dark corners of the internet like that, I wonder what the fuck the community was like

>>701903
10% of the users were FF11 players sitting on maintenance every once in a blue moon.

The other 90% were strangers who used it for cybering and soliciting child porn.

I wish I had my screencaps, but it was like stepping into a portal to 1997.

>>701847
It was a clear case of the suits trying to push their stupid proprietary service by using their flagship games as a trojan horse. The worst example was FFIX's strategy guide, a stunt which completely backfired, and which they never, ever pulled again.

>>701946
God that does sound nostalgic.

Reminds me of the old bnet chatrooms in a way too

>>701954
Oh christ I remember that. Didn't it basically have parts that were like YOU CAN ONLY FIND THIS ONLINE!

>>701946

Hahaha, yeah, good old playonline chat rooms. There were no rules in that place, just the way I like them. Although I never saw anyone soliciting child porn, I saw cybersex more than a couple times. Good times man, good times

>>685552
oh my god THEIR FACES!!

>>701541
You are not alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnsDX4fTaEI

Tried to start a thread about this but it failed, anyway there is a compliation of all the cutscenes in the game in sequence. Even if you haven't played the game it makes an interesting short film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynZGdjuZMCU

>>702171
That conductor is making some great faces

>>702162
Welcome to PS1 polygon jitter, now made more pronounced thanks to increased internal resolution!

>>702171
I just thought you were asking for the best song between the two games. I can't read

>>686109
>Distant Worlds logo
um what?

>>702162

>>685667
>the developers made it clear that the title would not necessarily be Final Fantasy IX, as its break from the realism of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII may have alienated audiences.
>The swansong of classic final fantasy
>alienating audiences

Such a sad state of affairs this series has become.

>>688397
>neogaf

which thread is that??? And why would people think those pictures aren't genuine?

>>702221
I needed this THANK YOU

>Bought this on sale on PSN a while back. It is one of the few (good) Final Fantasy games that I haven't played.

It's not actually good.

>>702375

It actually is. But that's how subjectivity works. Get over it.

It's not a bandanna.

I want a version of FFIX where the battles go 1.5x as fast. And don't spin around the battlefield before the battle starts.

Literally the worst part of FFIX

>>702427
A belt. That's pants-on-head retarded.

>>702427
>belt over eyes
>two belts on abdomen with another slung over shoulder
>two belts on each foot

Nomura?

>>702427
>>702792

probably nomura yeah

but i never knew that blank was frankenstein's monster

>>702770

you mean pants around ankles retarded

>>702762

Also, make it so load times aren't so long, countdowns don't keep counting down while you're loading and make Garnet worth using

>>702868
Garnet > Eiko after Garnet regains her voice in my opinion. Eiko is also an annoying brat.

>>702762

You can increase the battle speed in the options menu and by the time you get auto-haste on everyone, battles move reasonably quickly.

The more patience you have, the more rewarding it is.

>>702815
CARLOS!!

Thanks to this thread, I'm going to replay FFIX.

What missables do I go for (since the thread rightly says that there're too many to try to not miss while still having fun)?

So far I'm thinking of:
- Stellazio
- Chocobo items
- Missable synths (I'll need a good faq for this)

>>702894
That just adjusts the ATB speed. I'm talking about the speed of animations

>>691692
There's a thread on GAF with HD concept art. It's fucking amazing.

>>702910

Oh. You're one of those guys that turns off the animations in Pokemon and shit eh? That's cool. I like the animations.

I don't see why an option to speed them up or turn them off would have hurt, though.

>>702905
Don't forget the coffee quest!

>>702915
I like animations, but FFIX takes its time with them.

For example, FFVII's battles are faster simply because the characters move more quickly

>>702427
I always wondered what Blank's deal was. Always thought he was a doll like Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas or something.

>>702924
Blank doesn't give a fuck about anything except belts. And his bros
It's kind of funny how Marcus and Blank called each other bro

>>702923

The graphics are also worse in VII. Could have something to do with it.

>>702949
Oh yeah, I remember having read that FF IX's battles were originally planned to be much faster, but they had to slow it down because the fps rate dropped too much.

>>702949
Yea, I'm not saying that there weren't limitations. I'm just saying that it would be more enjoyable if the battles were faster

In fact, a great majority of RPGs can be improved by speeding up battles

>>702949
Can't have on thread without VII coming in and pretending to be better

>>702969
>In fact, a great majority of RPGs can be improved by speeding up battles

Definitely. Dragon Quest VIII and Final Fantasy IX were the worst offenders in this regard.
Digital Devil Saga had a really well paced turn-based battle system, for example.
Pre-PSX RPGs don't seem to have that problem, I at least can't remember a SNES RPG with painfully long animations.

>>702915
It's not even the battles themselves that are the problem it's how fucking long it takes for them to start. I can finish my taxes in the period between when I hit a random encounter and when I can enter my first command.

>>702969
>>702987

Maybe I'm just a patient guy but this was never a problem for me.

>>702923
For the most part you're right but...
>Knights of the Round
>Supernova
Oh God, kill me.

>>703000

>I can finish my taxes between when i hit a random encounter and when I enter my first command

I'm playing the game on my psp right now and it takes like 10 seconds. Pretty long for something like a random encounter, but damn man, you must be one hell of an accountant.