Videogame Collecting Haul May 2024: Overdue PS1 Purchase, Completed Subset, and Lots Of Magazines

[@gurleyman104]

FF9 is great. It's very much different and the music is 10/10

[@EmperorFoxx]

FFIX is arguably the best FF game imo. Those Game Informers gave me tons of nostalgia feels. Most of the SNES game covers would magazines I’d like to flip through. Nice haul for a no. Travel month!

[@Bubblun1]

Those GI's also went pretty deep even ensuring coverage of 3DO and Jaguar games of the period - some of the bigger magazines didn't even bother I remember.

[@Mogura87]

Honestly crazy you haven't played FFIX. It's not just easily one of the very best Final Fantasies, even rivalling VII, but also one of the best JRPGs ever made, and also one of my all time favorite games period. It's one of those 90's/00's JRPGs that demonstrate the best how big of a nose dive we've taken in AAA RPGs compared to then, in terms of charm, fun, soulfulness and actually imaginative fantasy settings. There's also tons of depth to it, with some insanely hard mini games (looking at you, skipping ropes) and tons of secrets. To be fair FF7 Rebirth managed to bring back some of that magic this year, and I was frankly taken aback because I wasn't expecting it to hit so hard.

[@Bubblun1]

Good to know, I could use a refreshing RPG as the genre has turned me off lately.

[@Mogura87]

@@Bubblun1 If you're coming from typical uninspired modern RPGs it's definitely refreshing to play today. It just oozes charm in absolutely everything. It has one of the most traditional skill systems in post-SNES FF history in that each character largely learns their own unique skills. Both tonally and mechanically very different from FFVIII. At the time it felt like a love letter to the then long-time fans of Final Fantasy.

[@jedirun]

cheers, have you checked out Tom Pappas' new release? I haven't yet

[@Bubblun1]

Nope, still hoping for a proper Superdrag album.

[@TB-TheGoldenAgeGamer]

i like ff 7, 8 and 9 eight has its flaws, but once you learn the junction suytem the game is fun imo you will like 9 its more like the snes fff games. you can still get gsme informer physical at game stop i was looking at one and they are flimsy and super cheap feeling