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Munkeh111 on 24 February 2009
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twesterm said:
Munkeh111 said:
Fine, you are entitled to your opinion, but have you not noticed that SE have released TLR, IU and SO4 recently, and they have all been met with average reviews (generally), and average sales (not helped by 360 exclusivity) so they are trying to do other things but failing

The big question is, will you see XIII as very good, I loved X, X-2 and XII (the only FF games that I have played), so I expect XIII to be good, and I don't mind being caught up in the hype, as I will still be hyped when I play it, and so still enjoy it even if it is average. Anyway, if they have changed the series in XIII for the better, surely you would want it to succeed? For all you know they have created another VI in XIII, so I don't think you should really want it to flop before we know how good it is

And this is another reason I hate Final Fantasy: it makes other RPG's not sell.  There are two parts to my master FFXIII bombing plan:

  1. Make FFXIII bomb to force SE to make good FF games again
  2. Make people realize there are other RPG's other than Final Fantasy.

Those games you listed weren't bad at all but they didn't sell well because they didn't have the Final Fantasy name attached to them.  I'm sure if they made it something like Final Fantasy VII: Infinite Undiscovery (that's the US Lost Oddyssey right?) and threw in a random Sephiroth cameo or even a name drop then I'm sure it would have sold millions.

They weren't great at all, I still have had no motivation to finish IU, I instead played more Lost Odyssey because it was good, and Lost Odyssey is not Infinite Undiscovery. Square Enix did not make LO, that was made by Mistwalker, a company funded by M$ and set up by the creator of FF. They have made 3 average games, which have not sold great. LO sold well because it was good, the others have not because they were not so good (and in some cases anime hurts). They also should sell them on PS3... but that is another issue.

Last gen, games like Star Ocean 3 sold very well partially because of the huge PS2 install base, but also because they are good. Though it is not always true, most of the time good games sell, that is why Uncharted has continued to sell, because people reccomend it to other people. If you look at the sales of CoD 4 compared to the previous games, it went through the roof because it was a good game

If SE started creating good games, they would sell better. Of course new IP's do not help with many of these games, but if they were properly made they would sell better.

@ rei, it is not AAA, but I was wrong to call it average