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Final Fantasy IX The crystal comes back! Discuss Square's final installment to the FF series on the PSX.

View Poll Results: which is better the ff8 or ff9 version of cards?
final fantasy viii's was way cooler! 25 56.82%
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Old 12-21-2004, 02:07 PM   #1
 
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Which do you think is better the ff8 version or ff9 version of cards? I think the ff9 version is better, it does not have the annoying rules like elemental! I kind of like the concept and it does make it harder haveing those random rules in different regions, but I found a few of them realy annoying! what do you all think??
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Old 12-30-2004, 06:37 PM   #2
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I prefer FF8's card game, because the random rules for each region kept me guessing on a strategy, and it was a lot tougher than FF9's, which was really easy after about 5-10 games.
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Old 01-10-2005, 11:04 AM   #3
 
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I really didn't like the card game in FF9.. I only played it when I had to (ie, that tournament you have to do). FF8's card game though, I played a lot to get as many special cards as I could. It was fun
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Old 01-13-2005, 02:48 PM   #4
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For me, FFVIII's game was easier to understand when it came to how cards beat each other. I never did understand how IX's system worked.
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Old 01-14-2005, 10:23 PM   #5
 
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Yeah, FF9's card game was more complicated, but the numbers all meant something on the cards. I learnt how everything worked, but the most annoying thing about FF9's game is that there as a randomness element to it, which meant the better card didn't always win, and that could often lead to a secure win turning into a heavy defeat because something went against what I'd have expected.

FF8's game is much easier to understand and overall a lot more fun to play.
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Old 01-18-2005, 11:47 AM   #6
 
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Hi, peeps I'm new here, but used to post alot back int he day!!!The numbers on the cards in IX were done in hexi-decimal, a dis-used mathematical technique, like C3PO. WHY??!?!?! No-one could really understand it anyway!!!! Much prefer VIII card game spent 8 hours straight doing that !!!!!
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Old 01-23-2005, 07:35 PM   #7
 
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mastering the game in 8 took longer with the complicated rules and 'that ' rule, i mean the random rule from cetra. but triple triad kicks the socks off the game in ff9
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Hi, peeps I'm new here, but used to post alot back int he day!!!The numbers on the cards in IX were done in hexi-decimal, a dis-used mathematical technique, like C3PO. WHY??!?!?! No-one could really understand it anyway!!!! Much prefer VIII card game spent 8 hours straight doing that !!!!!
Hex isn't disused. Most webpage color programming is done in a six-digit hexidecimal system to build a RGB (the first two digits are red, the second pair is green, and the third double represents blue) so 000000 is black and FFFF00 is yellow, for example.

Also notice the following oddity: the very first Final Fantasy was built on an 8-bit system (NES). An 8-bit hexidecimal system only has two digits. F is the highest a hex digit can go before going back to 0 (kind of like 9 in our regular system, one more and the digit becomes zero and we add a 1 in the next digit over). So the maximum 8-bit hexidecimal value is, oddly enough, FF. Strange, isn't it?
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Old 04-29-2005, 11:50 AM   #9
 
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I haven't played FF8 yet but i like the FF9 card games they are way easy to win
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I like the card game better in 9, i also like 9 better then 8.
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Talking Card game is better in ff8.

Final Fantasy 8 card game is more original and very competitive. I was once beat by an old lady where all the places were (forgot by now).
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Old 06-07-2005, 08:33 AM   #12
 
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I vote for ff8.
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Re: cards

I never understood ff8's rules. However 9's were very easy and I liked playing it. I really liked the link thing in it but hated the block things in the middle of the cardfield.
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Re: cards

I prefered the card game in FF9 because it was more fun than the game in FF8. While the elemental part of the FF8 game made it more interesting to me (I liked that part of it), the constant rule changes from region to region were just plain annoying.
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Re: cards

The constant rule changing is easy to get by if you know what you're doing. What you do is save every time before entering a town for the first time since you played cards in a different area.. then play a game and keep soft resetting until one of the rules you don't like are removed. In my last game, I managed to remove irritating rules such as Random without much work really.
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