Final Fantasy IX (PC/Android/iOS)

[Ratatapa]

Your monopoly money sucks. 16.99 in NA. I'll wait till payday when it's 20% off of that.

lolcanada if that's the case

[Tyrath]

I can't even about any of these prices considering the game is $10 on PSN. I bought it for 5 on discount for my Vita.

[Krandor]

SE overcharges like crazy for most of their mobile offerings, but $17 for a mobile remake is still way too much.

[Melena]

Yeah, if it wasn't for the fact both the wife and I would be able to play it on separate iphones, i'd probably hold off.

[Daydreamer]

Any word on if the god awful load times are better? I tried to replay this recently on ps1 and ps3 and just couldn't because every battle took forever to load.

[Ratatapa]

Loading seemed good from the stream I watched

[Auspice]

The price is on par with most of their mobile games; IV, V, and VI are $15.99, Tactics is $13.99.

They do 50% off most of their games at least twice a year(just had one at New Year's) so I'll hold of on this for now. Plus, it'll end up on Steam in a few months I'm sure.

[Tyrath]

The price is on par with most of their mobile games

That doesn't suppress my rage, only further enhances it at all their mobile games.

[BWYuko]

Any word on if the god awful load times are better? I tried to replay this recently on ps1 and ps3 and just couldn't because every battle took forever to load.

・Achievements
・Seven game boosters including high speed and no encounter modes.
・Autosave
・High-definition movies and character models

"High Speed" exploits/cheats are generally just a direct increase to the framerate cap.
When you lift the framerate cap while emulating FF9 (with epsxe, for example), the game engine renders the battlefield faster as well. Basically does away with load time issues altogether.

[Ratatapa]

I think he means loading, without activing the boosters

[Daydreamer]

I think he means loading, without activing the boosters

Yup. I'd prefer to not use the boosters if possible. The actual battles are fine once they start.

[BWYuko]

Ah. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt they'll change that, or anything at all relating to the core game engine outside of what the boosters do to character stats/gil/ability crystals/encounter rate/game speed. These all seem like they'll be simple O/I boolean toggles that won't change the formulas by which the game calculates damage, loads fields, or does anything else it wasn't programmed to do in 2000.

All other adjustments so far are purely cosmetic: new smartphone-compatible menus and UI; upscaled res on FMV and images used in the character models, backgrounds, tetra master cards, etc. I'm afraid you'll be hearing that classic FF battle baseline at the start of every fight as Uematsu intended.

Edit:
Looks like SE went the same route they did with the Aerith > Aeris debate and are favoring the Japanese "VIVI" to the NTSC "Vivi" in their official press media:
http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-cont...ee_image-4.png

http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-cont...ee_image-6.png

Always liked his last name, though; very fitting.

[Lonely]

SE overcharges like crazy for most of their mobile offerings, but $17 for a mobile remake is still way too much.

It's FFIX the best game in the series, I would have payed 40. This game isn't your generic gameloft mobile clone 5$ shitfest this is a actual game and even more a port that has effort put into it. The premium price is fitting.

[kuronosan]

I might buy this. I've never played 9 and heard nothing but great things about it.

[Boyiee]

Half the people I know stopped playing FF games because they hated 9, the other half liked it.

[kuronosan]

I remember buying it for a co-worker and regretting not buying a copy for myself.

[Boyiee]

It's my favorite by far, first and only FF I played straight through from start to finish. Every other one I got bored of and stopped playing and had to finish at a later date, sometimes years later.

[vivbiibasjiu]

Half the people I know stopped playing FF games because they hated 9, the other half liked it.

Good riddance, those are the Cowadooty dudebros that hopped on the FF wagon simply due to 7. They didn't actually like Final Fantasy

[Draylo]

Damn this game is way too big for some reason, I only recall it being like 1.7ish GB on the PSP/vita but now it requires 4~8 GB lol. I gotta find a way to put it on my SD card or root my phone (no idea how.)

[Ratatapa]

wasn't game suppose to be 20% off starting today?