Final Fantasy IX

[Lex]

Is there some software reason why analogue movement was lost in the port from the PC/mobile version and/or couldn’t be restored?

I dunno tbh, I haven't seen it addressed anywhere.

 

[Strangelove]

1000 jump rope

i question the mentality of some of the people who think up trophy requirements. i understand stuff like 'beat the game on hard difficulty' or 'defeat this optional boss' but others like this i just don't get

what life have you lived to lead you to this decision, anonymous person

do you at least get a reward ingame for doing 1000

 

[Odysseus]

do you at least get a reward ingame for doing 1000

Yes you do, you get a special key item that's a medal awarding you as "king of jump rope." I've never bothered with going for that so I don't know if it serves a purpose at all, but it's something.

 

[Strangelove]

maybe if i find a podcast to listen to and try it when i have nothing else i want to do

 

[ForceStealer]

i question the mentality of some of the people who think up trophy requirements. i understand stuff like 'beat the game on hard difficulty' or 'defeat this optional boss' but others like this i just don't get

what life have you lived to lead you to this decision, anonymous person

As someone who's about to embark on VII's stupid freakin 100 million gil trophy, I agree. Especially when they left so many that might actually be enjoyable without a trophy, like collecting all the enemy skills, or the Turtle's Paradise flyers :/

 

[Strangelove]

collecting all the enemy skills, or the Turtle's Paradise flyers

see, i'd like these more because they encourage exploration or vigilance to make sure you find them and don't miss them

maxing out gil is just grinding for the sake of it, since having that much gil isn't going to help you. you can buy anything you'd need with a lot less than that

i don't mind getting level 99 because i like to do that anyway and it's got a practical gameplay benefit

square hire me, i will make you much better trophy requirements

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

The jump rope thing should have been no more than 100. Even then it would have still been bigger bullshit than the lightning dodging thing in FFX, but it would have been bullshit I could have looked at and said "Maybe someday I'll have the skill" rather than "LOL get fucked."

 

[Shademp]

The jump rope in FF9 is where lifelong video game trauma is made.

I did become the King of Jump Rope.

BUT AT WHAT COST

 

[Volvatta]

The jump rope in FF9 is where lifelong video game trauma is made.

I did become the King of Jump Rope.

BUT AT WHAT COST

I could never... I put time into everything, and i mean everything in that gam...except that. I chose not to for the feet would be in pain... I would not do that to poor ViVi

 

[Clement Rage]

Isn't the point of trophies in the first place to encourage the gamer to do pointless things for bragging rights, though?

 

[Ite]

I thought the point of trophies was to make the player feel like there’s more content in the post PS2 games where there’s generally less tangible content.

 

[ultima espio]

An update on the steam version will have removed the game from your system by accident yesterday. You’ll have to update again today to roll it back.

April fools from Square?

 

[ForceStealer]

lol, oh square. My favorite comment I saw was "Can't be any bugs if there's no game."

 

[Clement Rage]

I played a few snippets lately, and y'know, this is a truly excellent game.

 

[ForceStealer]

Played a lot of IX this past weekend. This Moguri Mod is gorgeous. And the select "remastered" tracks fit better than I feared, I particularly like this version of Over the Hill. About to head to Cleyra, never bothered delivering all the Kupo Nuts before, also got more of Quina's blue magic than usual. Also got a pretty good Tetra Master deck going, playing for real too (not restarting after a loss).
Did this remaster improve the abysmal steal rates? I've had a decently lucky go of it so far, which is highly unusual. (Marcus still took forever to successfully rob Black Waltz 3.)

Still hate Choco Hot and Cold, but I got all the available Chocographs *grumble*

 

[LNK]

An update on the steam version will have removed the game from your system by accident yesterday. You’ll have to update again today to roll it back.

April fools from Square?

Damn, that sucks! I was wondering why mine was gone. Thankfully I had my cousin add it to my ps classic a while back

 

[LNK]

Played a lot of IX this past weekend. This Moguri Mod is gorgeous. And the select "remastered" tracks fit better than I feared, I particularly like this version of Over the Hill. About to head to Cleyra, never bothered delivering all the Kupo Nuts before, also got more of Quina's blue magic than usual. Also got a pretty good Tetra Master deck going, playing for real too (not restarting after a loss).
Did this remaster improve the abysmal steal rates? I've had a decently lucky go of it so far, which is highly unusual. (Marcus still took forever to successfully rob Black Waltz 3.)

Still hate Choco Hot and Cold, but I got all the available Chocographs *grumble*

I feel like Tetra Master takes forever to build up your cards. Maybe I wasn't doing it right, idk.
If I remember right, the Kupo nuts was pretty pointless. I did it, but I don't remember it yielding a special item or anything. I didn't mind Chocobo hot and cold. It was definitely tedious, but not as bad as chocobo racing (in my opinion)

 

[ForceStealer]

Chocobo Racing I can control that I win. In Choco Hot and Cold, not only is the appearance of what you're looking for random, but then you get 30 seconds of your minute time limit of "Kwehhh?!"s while you frantically search for the magic pixel they want to finally get an Eye Drop

 

[LNK]

Chocobo Racing I can control that I win. In Choco Hot and Cold, not only is the appearance of what you're looking for random, but then you get 30 seconds of your minute time limit of "Kwehhh?!"s while you frantically search for the magic pixel they want to finally get an Eye Drop

Lol very true. That feeling is not fun at all. Especially in the beginning when the chocobo is super slow

 

[ForceStealer]

(For the record I do enjoy the Chocograph half of things. Just not the getting the chocographs part.)

 

[Odysseus]

If you're playing one of the modern ports of IX, the speed up function doesn't effect the timer in Chocobo hot & cold, so you can cheese it pretty bad. Just FYI.

 

[ForceStealer]

Yeah, unfortunately the Moguri Mod appears to do away with the cheats

 

[Odysseus]

Oh, well that's no fun.

 

[Ite]

Does the Moguri Mod do away with the quick-start battles as well? Skipping 15 seconds every battle is game-changingly good, it's pretty much worth giving up joystick movement, that's how good it is.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

The slog of the battles is literally the only reason I couldn't bear to do this game more than twice.