How the mighty have fallen?

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Pristine20 said:

zexen_lowe said:

I was wondering if anyone would note the shot.

Still, why I was kidding about that, it may be some of the reason, think about it, we have Square, that keeps pumping one amazing game after another, reinventing itself, setting new standars with every game, and then they merge with a company whose flagship series is one that it's 8th game has a story and gameplay that for me couldn't even be consireded good in the the NES era. I wonder if Enix has been responsible of slowing Square down, and that once amazing company has been reduced to do remake after remake, with great games far and between

I second this. DQVIII and DQIX look exactly the same. No 2 FFs look the same.

They are two different series; most people prefer DQ stays the way it is. The Japanese freaked when they tried to change the turn-based battle system. Personally, I'm looking forward to DQIX as much as FFXIII (I'm skeptical of how that'll turn out, though I'm sure XIIIv will be fine). It's just a different gaming experience.

Anyway, I think the Squaresoft --> Square Enix decline theory is confusing cause and effect. Look at the games just before the merger, and you notice the quality isn't much different than what they're putting out now. People complain about FFX-2 (I personally enjoyed it), but that was all Square, the merge was done during the localization of the game. Before the merger, Sakaguchi (FF guy) left, the Xenogears team left, and probably more I don't know about.

@ClaudeLv250: I personally was disappointed by Chrono Cross (a bit insulted, since Trigger is one of my all time favs), but I'd say their PS1 efforts were just fine. If we were to go by preference, it's true anyone could have an opinion on when the decline started. However, if we go by sales, it's a fact they went downhill during the PS2 era.