Square Enix in trouble - time for Sony make a move?

[darkknightkryta]

Rob-Ot said:

darkknightkryta said:

I know why the game was linera, but their reasoning for itthe linearity I could have been talking out of my ass, I'm just remembering things from interviews from Kitase and that's all jumbled up, but like I said the biggest thing is Wada, every interview with the man has "western" in it.  Or how they were learning development techniques from Eidos (Which is so horribly flawed considering the crap they've made recently) to improve their games.  Plus in that same interview where some developer from Square said they're learning about development from Eidos and that "westerners" like their games better cause they're more realistic and less fantastical and I can only imagine what fail is gonna come out of the studio now using that mind set.

Yeah Toriyama and Kitase were lying out of their ass to try to cover up the development disaster that is square-enix right now. Not only that we got odd conflicting responses. Kitase said, "We adopted linear structure to make it feel like COD", then in another interview toriyama said, "The game is linear due to the story's aim to make you feel trapped", now in the post mortem report they say, "Oh its because we didn't have enough time because we took the responsibility to build the engine along with the game itself", what kind of dumb production team decides to take the responsibility of making a game engine and such an important game both at the same time, its impractical and in the end neither product will be fully focussed upon. Who knows how many more lies they told, the whole "Its too difficult to make HD towns" is all a lie too because a week later Toriyama said, "Oh towns aren't there due to the story", of course we know the real reason, they didn't have the development time/resources. Well I can only hope they have learnt how not to develop a game from all this and maybe FFXIII-2 will be the FFXIII we all waited for.

I agree about eidos, they do make a good game once in a while though (souds like Square-Enix itself haha). I am hoping Eidos don't screw up the new Deus Ex game! Your last sentence makes me fear one of the few redeeming things about squares games now, the art style and art direction (it was so fantastic in XIII) will also be "westernized" and be made "dull".

That's my biggest fear too; there's a reason why I like Final Fantasy games, and well Square games in general, they're so fantastical and if they get rid of that well I'll loose all faith in gaming.  If I wanted realism I'd watch the news.  And yeah the development of the game was horrid, whoever the tech director was needs to be fired.  I mean did they really need a PC version of the game that will never get released to finish the PS3 version of the game?