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Topic	What's the worst game you've sunk 50+ hours into?
Lopen 03/23/21 2:16:35 PM #151:	Reasons I don't like FFIX The molasses battle system, while glaring, is not remotely the only problem with the gameplay, as the battle system has a lot of bad mechanics on top of that. Trance being uncontrollable is the worst. Items giving abilities is annoying cause you need to equip subpar items for way too long to get techs. Steal's success rate being like 1% is also awful. These two have an unholy union of suck on top of that with steal being the best way to get a lot of items. This is the worst leveling system in the series by far-- FFII has nothing on it. It's also got like no customization or choices to make when training your characters, just go down the road of equipping your item that you don't have a skill for-- this is a somewhat welcome change as you could argue FFVII and FFVIII were skewing it too far in the customization direction, but having none (arguably even less than FFIV due to your gear choices being made for you) is bad too. Outside of Vivi and Kuja the characters just aren't very interesting or good. They're for the most part written in a one dimensional way (which can be fine, if you like the personalities-- I find the majority of the cast actually annoying which makes this worse) and then have character development wedged into them (which ultimately hurts the characters) when it suits where they want the story to go. You're Not Alone and Dagger Can't Concentrate are so bad, feel so forced. Amarant is actually my second favorite playable character in the game because he just stays out of all the bad "character development" going on by just being completely irrelevant to anything. Amarant represents me, the player. I, similar to him, get no screentime and am completely disinterested with what's going on and just want the game to be done with. The plot is fine, passable, and the setting is actually interesting. But if the characters are bad and the combat system is bad, what am I even playing it for. Maybe 4/10 was too nice the more I think about it the more of a 3/10 this game feels. But at the same time it's not really BAD it's just... there are so many better options out there. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! <cite>Lopen posted [p:952027054] in What's the... [t:79363144]...</cite> <quote>Reasons I don't like FFIX The molasses battle system, while glaring, is not remotely the only problem with the gameplay, as the battle system has a lot of bad mechanics on top of that. Trance being uncontrollable is the worst. Items giving abilities is annoying cause you need to equip subpar items for way too long to get techs. Steal's success rate being like 1% is also awful. These two have an unholy union of suck on top of that with steal being the best way to get a lot of items. This is the worst leveling system in the series by far-- FFII has nothing on it. It's also got like no customization or choices to make when training your characters, just go down the road of equipping your item that you don't have a skill for-- this is a somewhat welcome change as you could argue FFVII and FFVIII were skewing it too far in the customization direction, but having none (arguably even less than FFIV due to your gear choices being made for you) is bad too. Outside of Vivi and Kuja the characters just aren't very interesting or good. They're for the most part written in a one dimensional way (which can be fine, if you like the personalities-- I find the majority of the cast actually annoying which makes this worse) and then have character development wedged into them (which ultimately hurts the characters) when it suits where they want the story to go. You're Not Alone and Dagger Can't Concentrate are so bad, feel so forced. Amarant is actually my second favorite playable character in the game because he just stays out of all the bad "character development" going on by just being completely irrelevant to anything. Amarant represents me, the player. I, similar to him, get no screentime and am completely disinterested with what's going on and just want the game to be done with. The plot is fine, passable, and the setting is actually interesting. But if the characters are bad and the combat system is bad, what am I even playing it for. Maybe 4/10 was too nice the more I think about it the more of a 3/10 this game feels. But at the same time it's not really BAD it's just... there are so many better options out there. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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