Enix killed Square, Square Enix is a sad husk of Squaresoft

[Johann]

Impulsivity said:

flagship said:

Grandia, Star Ocean, Front Mission, Act Raiser, The 7th Saga, Ogre Battle, Illusion of Gaia, Valkyrie Profile, Dragon Quest are all excellent games/series.

The real problem was once Square and Enix merged all the popular sequels got big budgets for graphics but crap writing teams while promising new titles were underfunded, under promoted and released in desperate need of polish. It's almost like all the qualities workers jumped ship during the merger.

   Ogre Battle was Quest and later part of Square (they made FFT), Star Ocean was mediocre though 3 was pretty good (1 alternately was pretty bad), Grandia was mediocre, Act Raiser 1 was cool but 2 was rather crap; the 7th Saga was just OK in most respects though I will give you the Illusion of Gaia as a good example of what Enix could do from time to time (and Valk Profile for that matter).

 

  Most of the Dragon Warrior games were not that good.  I mean DW 1 as the first real console RPG but once FF came out it was just blown away.  DW 2 and 3 were barely worth remembering; the only one that was any good really pre 8 was DW 4.  Its not a coincidence it was the last one they bothered releasing in NA through the PS2 gen.

   Enix games just never had the pizzaz of Square games nor did they play as well in most cases.  Maybe they're tuned for tastes I do not share, they are pretty grinderific relative to Square games and far less interesting story wise to me.  Seriously though, even with your list I can still think of at least 20 Square games that were better then ANY of those Enix games and even a few like Breath of Fire 2 or Shadow Hearts from other companies like Capcom and Midway that are better.

 

What? Original Star Ocean was bad? Now you`re just talking nonsense...