Why Final Fantasy IX Is the Best Game of 2017

The best game of any year seizes on the highest ideals of what games can do and then executes on them.

[SarcasticDuck]

FFIX is the GOTY every year! (It's my childhood darling so there's no arguing back at me on this one).

[Relientk77]

Final Fantasy IX is a masterpiece, and one of the best games of all time, if you ask me.

[zaherdab]

Blah

[CertifiedGamer]

If Final Fantasy 9 was the best game of 2017 then the SNES classic is the best console of 2017.

[bluefox755]

I wouldn't go that far. It is a great game though, would like to replay it. Enough years have passed that it will almost be like playing it for the first time.

[FloydianAndroid]

Hmmm

[Nu]

I've just given State of Decay a go even though I've had it for some time through Free games with Gold. It's actually my game of 2017. When I searched on Amazon to buy the edition withh all the dlc I was pleasantly surprised to find out Stae of Decay 2 is in development.

I agree FF 9 is a gem

[Eidolon]

Isn't it a 2015 game?

[Nu]

@Summoning Beast, yeah it's old but I find it fun.

[Elda]

Nope.

[VersusDMC]

So no other game in 2017 seized on the highest ideals of what games can do and executes them? I smell a hipster rant on how AAA gaming is awful and how gaming is going downhill. Just saying FFIX is HIS favorite game of 2017 would be fine but saying it's THE best game of 2017 is just shitting on all the best games of 2017. Ugh...

[Mulando]

Really? Why because it was now available for PS4 (after you already paid for it on PS1 & PS3?). This is the same game (in this state) that was released on steam years ago. So why should it now be the best game of the year?
Don't get me wrong, it is not my favorite FF but still one of the best (in my opinion).

[franwex]

Uh, I hated the crappy controls. It controls better on the ps1. I’m guessing something was lost when it was ported to a touch screen and back to a console.