FFIX - Battle Theme

BacardiBreezer

My life is a chip in your pile. Ante up!

Location: NE Ohio

Joined: Aug 16 2010

Yeah, slightly. I finally finished it a week or two ago (took me so long bc I've been super busy), and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I guess I played it too much when it came out, and went so many years without replaying it, I forgot a lot of things from the game and I remembered the stupid things. I will play again though.

karathrow

Joined: Oct 26 2010

GOOOD COME TO THE DARK SIDE BACARDI MWAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh and if it makes you feel better Ive been playing FFVI :P

My favorite song in FFIX is Dark Messenger. I want to see someone do a cover of it @_@

wayfaerer

"Embrace your dreams."

Location: The Lifestream

Joined: Apr 03 2011

@ lemon, seconded, but he looked wicked cool, and the atmosphere was very creepy and ominous; good idea, poorly executed--shoulda been foreshadowed says i... then again, hes like some type of supreme deity, so i dont really know how foreshadowing coulda been done, even though ff is fictional in millions of ways.

@ kara, yes. DAT BASS!!!

but, in conjunction with:

@ bacardi, rose of may is my personal favorite theme. freyas theme was also quite excellent, as well as the terra theme. also the memoria theme, that some seriously sweet (as in sugary) sounding creepiness; reminded me of the shinra basement theme in vii for its mood

in all honesty, and even though vi is my favorite in the franchise, i think ix was sculpted, both in scope and gaming appeal; but thats just an opinion, argue it. fine. but i stand by that

hslesperance

Location: Walpole, MA

Joined: Aug 10 2008

Never played any FF games, but started listening to the soundtracks in order. Just listened to the FFVIII soundtrack yesterday and will be listening to IX soon. Now all of the praise Uematsu gets finally makes sense!

Onto the tab:

Does this sound better for the intro

e|---------------------------------12------13-12---|
B|-----12----13-12------15-13---------15-----------|
G|--14---------------------------------------------|
D|--------14-------14---------14-------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------| x2

Here you just missed the B16

e|-----------12--15--14-----------19--17~---|------10--12-------------------|
B|--/13--15--------------15-16-17-----------|--13----------10~---------10~--|
G|------------------------------------------|----------------------12-------|
D|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|-------------------------------| x2

And the last four notes here you tabbed the harmony, but it should stay consistent

e|--/13-13--12--10------10----------------------------|
B|------------------13------13--12------10-12-10-9~---|
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------|

And good catch on the last measure, I didn't even hear those notes at first becuase the volume was low

karathrow

Joined: Oct 26 2010

BacardiBreezer said

I'm in bed, so I don't have my guitar out, I always trust your judgment so if you want to keep it like that I"m cool with it lol. Can't believe you've never played a FF, lol, but glad you're listening to the music. Any favorites so far? I'm between IV and VI, IV is just so nostalgic for me it takes me back to being 8 years old. Then again VI was like a year later so same thing haha.

Also about Necron, 55000 HP is WAY too damn low for a final boss. Maybe add another zero. That was the first time I really watched the ending and it got me pretty good. I'm pretty sensitive and I admit there were some tears shed.

I dont know what the fuck is up with Final Fantasy and random end bosses that have NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING.

Also as for the hp thing, Idunno. I think JRPGS have a fundamentally flawed difficulty structure. Bosses like Ozma and Necron and others can be either really easy or really hard based on RNG and status effects. Albeit you can equip certain gear and skills to cut down on the really bad ones. At which point the fight is incredibly easy. It's either "will this status effect fuck me over?" or "can my healer heal faster than the boss can deal damage?". If you can't manage one or the other than just grind your way out! WEEEEE

That isn't to say western RPGs aren't easy, but I think in general the only time an RPG is "hard" is when you have to commit 200 hours to grinding to progress, as opposed to some form of reflex or strategy.

/rant.

Nostalgia will always dictate which soundtrack is our favorite methinks. Despite me HATING the game to death, FF2 has a pretty good soundtrack. (the real FF2, not FF4 which I enjoyed.)

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

gizamaluke (I am never prepared for it and I never feel like leaving the grotto and running alll the way back to lindblum to pick up potions) and ozma were the only hard bosses in that whole game
Kuja was the funnest boss

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

karathrow said

Nostalgia will always dictate which soundtrack is our favorite methinks. Despite me HATING the game to death, FF2 has a pretty good soundtrack. (the real FF2, not FF4 which I enjoyed.)

Yeah, I like all of FF1-9, except 2. That game's horrible. I like the music, though :-)

wayfaerer

"Embrace your dreams."

Location: The Lifestream

Joined: Apr 03 2011

i wasnt a fan of II either honestly; it felt really generic and... herpadurpy

as for final bosses, in response to kara, i thought FFI had a nice little ending finale. and as far as OSTs go in the series, i think VI and VII were spectacular, and VIII had some awesome music as well; i really wish i would have given that game more of a chance--i wantred to like it, i really did, but i couldnt

also, bacardi, what was the standard party you used? zidane, dagger/garnet, steiner, and vivi were my choices

TidusZidane

Joined: Feb 12 2012

FF1-10 are the best by far, X-2 was a decent game just to pass time, nothing more. XII was not bad, a little fun but the battle SUCKED give me my ATB bar back SE you fags, then XIII WAS A HORRIBLE SHAMBLES, I got to the 'open' world fields bit which had nothing in it, but didnt play it again for months out of boredom and then i got a new ps3 cus my old 1 broke an i lost the saves, overall the game sucked, the battle system, the cringey fag chars like Vanille and Hope, the average story, the music was ok so that redeemed it up to a 5/10.

FF1 - played it, it sucks because when you die its nearly impossible to revive them, but that aside its a fun RPG with a basic story and nice music. 7.5/10

FF2 - Never really played it, good music with basic story, seems similar to FF1 7/10
FF3 - See FF2^ 6/10
FF4 - First FF with a decent story, good battles, good chars, great music score, I give this 8/10
FF5 - Never played it, supposed to be good
FF6 - Played about 2 hours, didnt really enjoy it even tho it's supposed to be the best

FF7 - First one I played, awesome everything apart form graphics but who cares? Great story, chars, emotion, battle system, equipment system... plain AWESOME 9.5/10 replayed it about 8 times

FF8 - Only played this on the psn copy since I never got the original. Great game, Yes the story can be abit silly, but who cares, I enjoyed it when Rinoa teased Squall it wss funny, good battle system, good junction... good game. Great music I give it 8.5/10

FF9 - What a game, fantastic characters, one of the best cast of an FF game, Zidane with his cheeky banter... great battles, great equipment, fantastic music score - 10/10

FF10 - Great game, a move away from traditional, but they got it spot on, magnificent music score, particularly Run and enemy attack which imo were the best run music and boss music of an entire FF, which helped Nobuo out as he did his usual quirky character themes. The story is arguably the best of all the FFs, great graphics and voice, although the laughin scene is cringey to watch with another person. Overall I think this deserves 9.5 aswell

Oh and the sphere grid was superb replacement to level ups. At first I was annoyed, but in the end i found it great

FFX-2 - 6/10. Enjoyable game with a decent ATB battle system. Bit faggish and girly alot of the time, but a decent little game, ovbiously not top FF quality.

FFXII - 7/10. A good game, nothing more, nothing less. Horrid music score except for the main theme and the boss theme, horrid battle system, uninspiring characters, Balthier aside... good equipment system like back to the FF9 style, overall a good game but not spectacular

FFXIII - 5/10, it only got to 5 because I enjoyed the music score, nowhere near FF7-10 quality but still decent. Story is average, chars are annoying and gay, battle system worst ever, 1 char only? Omg, awful, I will not be buying FFXIII-2, sadly I will have to wait til about 2014 to see what they spew up for FF15, hopefully a return to basics, Nobuo with the music score, ATB turn based battles equipment, level ups. No more 'Innovative' rubbish like FF13 please

TidusZidane

Joined: Feb 12 2012

I played it for about 2 hours, and it was abit boring and the music thus far wasnt great, I didnt finish X-2 got to about level 32 and on 12 got to about level40 odd, didnt finish 13

TidusZidane

Joined: Feb 12 2012

I listened to a few tracks, like aria de mezzo and celia theme? is it called? They were fantastic so im sure it is good but the 2d graphics put me off and cant be bothered playing on emulator

TidusZidane

Joined: Feb 12 2012

If I ever get a nintendo ds 6 is the first game i shall play!

iamHoustonian

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Joined: Oct 03 2011

I strongly agree auri. Something about those smudgey pixeley bastards I love.
Esp in FF games because you get to see the awesome concept art and you can imagine that your little sprite is a perfect representation *Fights back a massive man tear hehe

EDIT: I wish I knew how to do some magnet bead art like this

iamHoustonian

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Sorry, Bacardi =^.^= Got kind of side tracked, didn't realize I blasted your tab post hehe my bad

EDIT: Oh shizz it's already been submitted hahahaha WTH

iamHoustonian

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That sneaky monkey! I knew it!
He even changed the dates of the other posts from "earlier today". hehe