Wyrdness said:
jarrod said:
Wyrdness said:
jarrod said:
sparticus112b said:
The dude in the video started talking about Nomura though and that's crazy because he's the best thing going for square enix right now. |
lol, no. Hori is without a shadow of a doubt the best thing they have going for them. And the sales really drive that point home.
I wouldn't mind if Wada and Nomura hit the road. It's too bad the Enix side (specifically Keiji Honda) didn't retain leadership after the merger, I think they're portfolio would be a lot more diverse and higher quality if he had.
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I have to agree with this the Enix side of things has been on high form and retained consistency with their side of things, I wish Enix were given more freedom to roam as before the merger they were quite an adventurous rpg dev with games like Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma, Actraiser and so on. When they merged I was hoping for more efforts like the Chronotrigger collaboration they had during the SNES days to become more frequent but it's gone in the opposite direction and the two seem more distant together then they were apart.
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The Enix side was pretty much gutted, outside Hori's Armor Project. Now all they do is oversee tri-Ace games, anime licenses and some Final Fantasy spinoffs. The 16bit glory days are long gone sadly. :(
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Talent going to waste, the main reason Hori retains control is funnily enough the patent for Dragon Quest is under his name not Enix apparently so if they upset him and he left it goes with in, Enix apparently only have a contract deal for it's exclusive development with Hori, it's no wonder they don't oppose him as the series is a national icon in Japan and gaining popularity in Europe.
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Yeah, Hori's ownership was how Chunsoft was able to selfpublish the first Torneko game on SFC. It's the only DQ related game Enix didn't publish themselves (in Japan).
I think a lot of the Enix side staff is either gone now or mixed with Square's teams though (including their small R&D support team), as are most of the outside developers they used to work with (Quintet, Produce!, Almanic/Givlo, Daft, etc). All that's left intact is pretty much Hori/Armor Project, and tri-Ace is the only notable outside developer left.
