In your opinion,were Square and Enix better before they merged?

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swyggi said:

Riachu said:
I don't think the merger was the cause of the decline of the quality of their games, I think it has more to do with that fact that Sakaguchi left S-E as well as their other good game designers

 

 Sakaguchi gets FAR too much credit.  He created the series, but he didn't even direct the most beloved FF's IIRC.  6, 7, 8 (the online forums are generally the public that hates FF8, don't get pulled into the herd/dogma), 10 and even Chrono Trigger were directed by Yoshinori Kitase.  If he did direct 6, 7, 8, 10 and Chrono Trigger they would have been unbelievably simple and linear.  I'm not saying there wasn't some linearity (is this a word? lol) in some of those games, but the linearness (...is this a word?) would have been greater if Sakaguchi directed them. 

WRONG. Sakaguchi Directed FF7, also he was Executive producer of FF8 and FF6 which is quite a vital role. He was far less important on Chrono Trigger though playing only the role of supervisor