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twesterm on 16 October 2009
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Onyxmeth said:
twesterm said:
I think SE has pretty unfairly raised the bar for JRPG's and are pretty much destroying the genre.

It's not that they are making great games anymore (or at least the FF games aren't great), it's that they have these insanely high budgets that other publishers can't match but SE can get away with because they know the FF name means several million units and a Cloud clone means another million units.

You mean other publishers like Microsoft, Namco Bandai and Konami? Those small guys that can't make big budget RPGs to match Square Enix? Let's be real here. No one else tries as hard as Square Enix does to sell an RPG (besides Nintendo), and that is why Final Fantasy is where it's at and why the only other largely successful RPG franchise to come along on consoles since the NES days is Kingdom Hearts. Square understands what RPG gamers want enough of the time, and they understand how to market it to them. No other publisher believes in their RPGs enough to market them like a large scale, multimillion selling title. They buy ad space in dying game magazines for a month or two and they get appropriate sales for doing so.

So the big dogs can hang with the big dogs?

I'm talking about studios like Atlus that make phenominal games but just cannot compete because they don't have an infinite budget that people expect from an RPG.  It's sad but true that people will buy what looks better and SE can take as long as they want to make their games look perfect and if you don't look as good as the best, you're shit.

Stupid threads like this prove that.