How the mighty have fallen?

[zexen_lowe]

ClaudeLv250 said:

zexen_lowe said:

c0rd said:

zexen_lowe said:
Yeah, I miss the old Squaresoft, it's not that Squeenix has been a bad company, they realeased some good/great games (SO3, FFXII, TWEWY), but they don't have anymore the masterful quality and quantity they had in the PS era (FFVII, FFVIII, Tactics, Chrono Cross, etc.)

It's what you get when you merge with the company that makes Dragon Quest

Hah! Nice shot at DQ, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the reason though

OT: I know what you're talking about. I haven't thoroughly played their PS RPG's, but when I play their stuff from the SNES era I often think, "why can't they still make games like this?" Hell, Secret of Mana recently came out on the VC, there's a perfect example.

I don't think it's so much the performance of the PS3, it probably has more to do with the HD graphics. They also seem to have lost most of their talent... who knows where they are. If the team that did FFX is still there, they haven't done anything notable in 7 years - it makes me skeptical of FFXIII. They don't even do SO or DQ (done by tri-ace/Level 5), so all that leaves us with is the KH team and whoever did FFXII (scratch that if Matsuno was what people liked about it, because he left). That isn't much to look forward to.

I was wondering if anyone would note the shot.

Still, while 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

 

Well that makes no sense at all.

Enix is a company that has always gotten its talent from the outside. It's not possible for them to "slow down" Square when they have nothing to slow them down with. It's also been quite awhile since Square has resembled anything that "keeps pumping one amazing game after another, reinventing itself, setting new standars with every game."

If anything Square is holding back Enix. They had a much more versatile library with awesome games like Actraiser, Soul Blazer and EVO. After the merger, you don't see anything like that anymore. All the originality has given way to FF remakes and ports, and now Square is dipping into other franchises for remakes and ports. When their lineup is intersperesed with Final Fatasy remakes, ports and spinoffs and the acting CEO is from Square, I think it's quite ludicrous to suggest that Enix is behind some diabolical plot.

I want Actraiser 3, not FFX-3.

 

No, I'm not accusing Enix of slowing them down intentionally, but seriously, the merge hasn't done Square any good (except financially, which no one of us cares). As you perfectly said, Enix's only important property of its own is DQ, which for me sucks, but if we want to be polite we can say that it's not renowned for its innovativeness. So if we compare the Square of before and the Square of now, they've lost Sakaguchi, the Xeno team (which went to create the excellent Xenosaga series), now they've lost Matsuno too. And what have they gained? A guy that I'd wish that he never made a game again like Yuuji Horii and his team, and the Tri-Ace IPs, which are great, but would be great anyways with or without Square or Enix. For me it's undeniable that Square lost a lot since say 2000 (the time by which Square was a company that "keeped pumping one amazing game after another, reinventing itself, setting new standars with every game.")