Right now I think what the OP was trying to get across was that a merger between the two biggest rivals snuffed out the competition and the need to make good games. I wonder what would the game industry look like today if Square had merged with another company instead. Konami-Soft? I think a merger was bound to happen but I think that if it was with a company other then Enix and a company that weren't known for their RPG's then we would be seeing a lot more quality games across what ever platforms coming from both Square and Enix despite where they ended up coming out on.

   I'd say it's more because nobody cares about Tales outside of its hardcore fans. People love to hate on whatever is currently popular, there is little reason to bash something that doesnt sell well anyway.

 Edit: And regardless, this is not because of Final Fantasy. FFXIII is the most anticipated game amongst the users of this website, and overall amongst japanese and North American PS3 owners.

What other huge hit Square had before the merger other than FF series?

They were mainly known for Final Fantasy but many of their titles back then were quality. Titles such as Kingdom Hearts, Xenogears, Vagrant Story, SaGa Frontier, Romancing SaGa series, Einhander, Mana series, Chrono games, Front Mission series and Parasite Eve series.

I am probably missing a few quality titles forgive me. All of these may not have been "Huge Hits" but they were quality unlike what we have been getting lately from S-E. In my opinion anyways.

I hate the Saga team for making The Last Remnant

I wish we had an ignore feature.

SaGa Team = Greatest S-E team.

Greatest or whatever, once you produce crap like TLR, it's crap...

I never said I didn't like the saga series

Don't worry, I wasn't serious about the ignore feature or anything. That is why I used .

S-E still haven't made a game that I love, like yes but not nearly good enough games wich I could love.


FFXII: barely finished 1 time
Last Remnant: still haven't finished.
Infinitive Discovery: finished once.

The old Squaresoft games: nearly 6 times each.

Why would I worry?


LOL internet