exctly S-E's last gen wsnt vry gud imo

this one is bettr and with kh3/versus 13 it will for sure be bettr imo

I wish they could return to what they were during the SNES and PSX eras.

Squaresoft:

Chrono Trigger (and Cross. Take that haters!), Final Fantasy, Saga games that didn't suck, Secret of Mana, Parasite Eve (I will do something immoral if 3rd birthday turns out to be crap), Vagrant Story, Musashi plus some I've forgot and a whole bunch of great games that never left Japan.

I wish Square-Enix would release Bahamut Lagoon and the other Japan-only games on PSN/Live/WW...

Enix:

Star Ocean, Dragon Quest, Terranigma, Actraiser, Valkyrie Profile (Where da f*** is my VP3!?), Ogre Battle. I feel like I forgot some true gems but it's late. I'm sleepy.-_-

Edit:

I forgot Xenogears. *cries*

They still have kingdom hearts....

They need to fire Wada and Toriyama and bring back Nobuo Uematsu and Hironobu Sakaguchi-san back!

DQIX is their best JRPG this gen for me.

I concur.

Despite the criticisms Square enix has received I have enjoyed their games.  Final Fantasy 13, Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean The Last Hope, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, and Dissidia Final Fantasy were all good at least to me.  The two portable titles were the weakest games in my opinion probably because they were not a main final fantasy title.

That's what happens when you force out the man whose visions made Square so great (Sakaguchi). Now they have lost their mojo and probably won't ever get it back. The only good games coming out of Square are being developed by Level-5.

Their PSP division has put out some solid titles though, but not up to the old Square standard.

Hironobu Sakaguchi is gone.

Squenix, in my eyes, has had this problem for a while. There is the occasional good game that comes out from them, but I think that Square started going down the wrong road late in its life. (Yes, I'm referencing Square pre-merger with that.) They discovered that with marketing and graphics, that they were able to increase sales of their flagship title. (Despite the fact that it was Sony doing the marketing...) And since marketing wasn't handled by them, they fell back on what they did- graphics. Everything else took a hit, key people from Square left, and things went to hell. Then came the merger, and surprise, surprise... those crappy decisions hit a few Enix games also.

But I'm glad I think they fell earlier than most would say. It led me to finding my new favorite company: Atlus. (And thus, I must also highly disagree with Atlus quality going down.) It's a small company (relative to Squenix), with smaller budgets, who have to make actual games that stand on the gameplay. Sure, they don't sell like FF. But they're not expected to. And that leads them to today's market- they are still doing plenty. As a Japanese company, they have to look at their home market, where the portables reign supreme. Sure, they released a lot last gen- but that's because they were able to reuse assets and engines, and had one system. Now there are more viable options, so more time is being spent learning more systems' architectures, designing and porting over assets, and factoring costs to publish on the different systems to expected sales. Their smaller budgets have led to the less powerful systems- where you don't need to compete with all the graphics-intensive games. And I'll stop there before I go into my graphics tirade...

Uhh, and that argument can't be made for consoles as well? That doesn't mean we should ignore them...