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. 

 

To me, it doesn't matter - HIRONOBU SAKAGUCHI BROUGHT US FINAL FANTASY regardless if he was involved with the later installments or not. Without him - would there have been such a compelling console RPG since Dragon Quest? And as far as i'm concerned - Square and Enix have been a RPG powerhouse since the 8-bit NES. SquareEnix were meant to be  together.