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Final Fantasy IX (PS4) |OT| The Place I'll Return To Someday
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Eesh. Was just about to buy this, then checked into this thread :\
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Oh my fucking god. I zoned out of the wrong door in the Black Mage Vilage and that apparently is enough to screw me out of an ATE. Have to go all the way back to Fossil Roo now. Such bullshit.
Edit: Finally back. Only took an hour instead of 2 and a half with cheats and no exploring. Had to relearn a bunch of blue magic. Gave ore to a friendly monster the first time around, but he never showed this time. Found a pop quiz instead though.
Edit: Finally back. Only took an hour instead of 2 and a half with cheats and no exploring. Had to relearn a bunch of blue magic. Gave ore to a friendly monster the first time around, but he never showed this time. Found a pop quiz instead though.
Shadow_FFVI
Member
Are you guys using any guide to assure you don't miss trophies? Like for example the ATE trophy.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Just met Eiko. No matter how much Garnet tries to deny it. She is in fact
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=665159772
I'm using this one. It's clear and has pictures for almost everything. It's for the Steam version so it also has extra info. Like it always tells you when the last chance to get equipment that is needed for certain abilities is, so you won't miss the achievement for learning all abilities (which was removed from this version for some reason).
legally Zidane's wife.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=665159772
I'm using this one. It's clear and has pictures for almost everything. It's for the Steam version so it also has extra info. Like it always tells you when the last chance to get equipment that is needed for certain abilities is, so you won't miss the achievement for learning all abilities (which was removed from this version for some reason).
Shift Breaker
Member
God, I hate the steal rates in this game almost as much as my insistence to steal every thing from every boss in this game. (Except for the Fairy Flute).
I just want your gloves, Black Waltz 3
I just want your gloves, Black Waltz 3
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
So much detail can be seen now that these models are in HD. Just got to the scene with Kuja after
. There's a lot of battle damage detail on his model in this scene that I never noticed before. He's covered in dirt and his clothes are tattered.
Alexandria is destroyed and he escapes on the Hilda Garde
Shift Breaker
Member
It's not even the little details. For the longest time I had somehow convinced myself that the fang enemy looks completely different and looking at it now I have no idea how I came to that conclusion other than it being at a much lower resolution.
Basically, I thought its ears were eyes.
It's annoying because you have to hold back on bosses for ages until you've stolen everything, which takes far longer than actually killing them
I think I tried for like 2 hours to get the flute once before I finally gave up, never again
They did fix the missing monster sound effects for this version. Doesn't look like anyone's mentioned this. Hopefully some other sound and animation bugs are fixed. Eyes still stay opened when casting though.
Also. I didn't brag enough in the previous thread so I'll post this again lol. Got it on my first try this morning after 3 hours of not getting passed 330 yesterday.
"Peeling 1,000 onions makes your eyes teary. Jump-roping 1,000 times gets them tearier still."
-Onionmeister
I was just about to post in this thread saying that no one will get platinum in this game because of this trophy and now I see this......are you even human!?!?
web_slinger_62
Member
So if I own the PS3 digital version (haven't played it yet), is there a point to getting this one?
Berserking Guts
Member
I just don't know what to do. I'd love to get this game and go for the platinum, but I can't overlook the bugs. I'm hoping Square will patch them, but I hoped they'd do the same with FFVII too, and they never did. Maybe I should just replay the PS3 version.
Cheezeman3000
Member
Not trying to brag, just giving perspective, I've completed 1k jump ropes on 3 separate playthroughs of the game, so once you 'get' it, it's not too bad. Still a terrible trophy tho.
If I can platinum Drakengard 3, I can do this! YEAH!!!!
Shift Breaker
Member
Stealing from Beatrix sure isn't fun with the 10 turn limit. The Auto Save and Continue options to help somewhat at least, but it's still such a paiiiin.
EDIT: Holy hell, just checked the wiki, 0.39% to steal the Mythril Sword from Beatrix, same as the the Fairy Flute. But I've been successful in stealing the sword before (I think). Nonetheless, stealing rates in this game are insane.
...I'll give it five more goes before I just move on with the game.
Professor Beef
Banned
It's not hard, just time-consuming.
Professor Beef
Banned
Battle Pause stuff is ok, Config menu is NOT.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
No, it's definitely hard. That's why it's time consuming. If it wasn't hard it'd only take 8 minutes. Even people like me who have done it before still found it hard due to the change in timing from input lag.
Professor Beef
Banned
Wait, what? That fucking sucks.
Narpas Sword0
Member
They should have put a 100% steal rate pause cheat instead of the 9999 thing.
sotojuan
Member
The port isn't the best but it doesn't have any gamebreaking issues. The game itself is still amazing.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
It's good. The lack of analogue stick control is by far the worst part of the port. You can only move in 8 directions like in FFVII, but in the PSX version you had free 360 degree movement.
The battle UI is also huge. It takes up over a third of the screen when you're scrolling through menus during battle. This is really annoying because you can't see behind it. I wouldn't call it a deal breaker though.
Otherwise there are some minor missing texture, and animation issues. Like, the stop spell animation is missing the clock in the middle of the VFX.
The HD models are more than worth it though I think. The cheats are also nice for grinding. If they'd fix the analogue movement I'd not hesitate to call this the definitive version.
Thanks! I'll probably pick it up then. What exactly are the cheats? And I'm guessing they prevent you from getting trophies correct?
All things considered it's actually a very well done port, it's just that the few flaws with it can be glaring ones, like the lack of full analog movement. You might not even notice this if you've never played the game before.
Also some of the complaining is about stuff like the background resolution for which there is no easy fix.
Professor Beef
Banned
Cheats similar to the FF7 rerelease. Some of them are fine to use without worrying about trophies, but others aren't. The ones that aren't are explicitly labeled as such in the Config menu as well.
Nose Master
Member
Lol. The timer not speeding up when the game is also works in chocobo hot and cold. Never had the moogle stop me before.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Just got past the final save point (I think) and entered the Crystal World. Gonna nab the last few Blue Magic spells from the crystal fiends here and then backtrack out of this dungeon and tackle the end game.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Just booted up my PS4 and noticed that my top FFIX trophy is Movie Critic and not Hail to the King. That's right. 1,000 Jump-ropes is not the rarest trophy.......for now.
My gf used to play this game with her father as a kid. I kinda want to replay it with her but this version seems a bit meh. I have two original game copies, ntsc and pal, they won't work in the ps4 yeah? But they should be fine in a regular pal ps3, for the original pal at least? She doesn't care for trophies and such.
Edit: Granted, maybe a ps1 game would look a bit grainy on a hdtv anyway? Suggests this ps4 version is better after all?
Edit: Granted, maybe a ps1 game would look a bit grainy on a hdtv anyway? Suggests this ps4 version is better after all?
Narpas Sword0
Member
You really shouldn't need any. Once you get a feel for the combat you can use triple speed. Might help when you are trying to steal a lot too.
Don't be upset if you die a few times in the first few hours.
Wow you know I always wondered why the fairy flute was the only item I could never manage to steal. Took over 10 years, but now I know.
I mean shit, that's much lower than the drop rate for the rare drops in Earthbound.
Wolf Akela
Member
Fairy Flute took me 2 hours from way back. I think I already ran out of Ethers.
Can finally fix my shit luck from 16 years ago, borrowed ff9 from a friend, played and enjoyed the shit out of it. Completed disc 3, smacked in disc 4 and was waiting with glee, waiting , waiting......
Looked at the disc and it looked like a toddler went to town on it with a set of keys. Swore the game off ever since, until now.
Can any one explain why I got destroyed by the first boss (plant spider thing that was guarding Garnet)? It would fuck my whole team with thunder, Vivi couldn't survive a single hit at all.
Was I under levelled? I was lvl1 at the time but I didn't get into any fights so was I just too lucky with the random encounters, not getting into fights so no xp?
Grinded the bit outside until everyone was like level 4 and it was smooth sailing after that but I can't help but feel maybe I was doing something wrong at the time...
Looked at the disc and it looked like a toddler went to town on it with a set of keys. Swore the game off ever since, until now.
Can any one explain why I got destroyed by the first boss (plant spider thing that was guarding Garnet)? It would fuck my whole team with thunder, Vivi couldn't survive a single hit at all.
Was I under levelled? I was lvl1 at the time but I didn't get into any fights so was I just too lucky with the random encounters, not getting into fights so no xp?
Grinded the bit outside until everyone was like level 4 and it was smooth sailing after that but I can't help but feel maybe I was doing something wrong at the time...
I think the longest I ever tried was about an hour. But really if you combine it with the multiple times I played it was probably several hours and never did I manage to get it. I thought I had the worst luck in the world just on that one boss.
I don't know about Beatrix. I must have gotten the sword at least once or I would remember it being hard.
Doesn't the PAL version run slower and with the wrong aspect ratio?
Nose Master
Member
That boss is a bit weird. There's like, two random battles before you get to it. I assume they realized you needed to grind a bit and that's why the HP/MP fountain is right there.
BlazeBreak
Member
If FF8 gets a mobile/ps4 port the same of the Steam release, the character models won't be improved. The FF8 Steam release, like FF7 is simply a dust-off of the old Eidos PC port. FF9 didn't get one of those, so its port is "brand new". It's possible because of the layover without a mobile/ps4 release that they'll go back and give 8 some extra polish, but far from a guarantee.
The rarest trophies on the Steam version by a country mile are 10k kills followed by Movie Critic. Hail to the King I don't think is even Top 5.
You can easily cheat the rope jumping on PC, though. On PS4 you are shit out of luck.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Yeah. Most PC players cheated though. Movie Critic and 10,000 kills are both at 0.1% now and Hail to the King is at 0.2%. I wouldn't be surprised if Hail to the King overtakes Movie Critic again since I feel a lot of players like to make sure they don't miss any story and are more likely to care about ATEs.
I don't expect 10,000 kills to be dethroned though. I wonder if I'll have everybody to 99 before that pops....
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Just had a scare with what I thought may have been a game ruining bug.
I was zoning in and out of Alexandria with my gold chocobo, trying to get the Air Garden to spawn near there. Eventually I dismounted too close to the town and it was seemingly impossible to mount the chocobo because it was completely encompassed by the "enter town by pressing X" zone. Thought I was gonna lose almost a whole day's progress and all of my chocobo progression.
Luckily, I discovered that if you hold the direction to continuously walk into the chocobo and then press X it overrides the town zone.
I was zoning in and out of Alexandria with my gold chocobo, trying to get the Air Garden to spawn near there. Eventually I dismounted too close to the town and it was seemingly impossible to mount the chocobo because it was completely encompassed by the "enter town by pressing X" zone. Thought I was gonna lose almost a whole day's progress and all of my chocobo progression.
Luckily, I discovered that if you hold the direction to continuously walk into the chocobo and then press X it overrides the town zone.
BlazeBreak
Member
Very true, did fail to mention that this time (and I totally did use a macro for it).
Game hasn't been out lomg on PS4 yet, so give movie critic a bit more time. Though I'm curious how the PS4 ratios will also compare to the Trance for the first time trophy, which is only 60-something % on PC.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
First time Trance was one of the many trophies that were removed. There's only the 50 Trance one. I'm surprised the 10k enemies one is still there actually. They removed the 100 and 1000 enemy trophies and most of the tedious grind trophies like "Use 100 Blue Magic" or "Defend 100 times". This version is extremely end game weighted as far as trophies go. Individual trophies for almost every end game weapon. (No Ragnarok Trophy for whatever reason).
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