I wouldn´t call FFXII: RV a great game, nowhere near that. But me, as a fan of Ivalice played it of course. Eventually a remake of FFVII will come true, but the right time (assemble the original team) and experience with next-gen consoles is needed.

I do agree that SE is on a roll. The original Squaresoft always produced first class games, but had a rather bad international marketing. Enix was always publishing good games in Japan, but never succeeded internationally. When these 2 companies merged together things started to go bad, as many veterans left and the new company was mainly focused on making quick cash-ins rather than good games. Right now SE has found a good balance between quality, quantity and mass-marketing and its in-house and external studios have risen dramatically in quality, but also in numbers as well.

They haven't made a good game since the PS1 in my opinion. TWEWY wasn't bad, but nothing compared to what they used to make.

I think Square's been a roll myself but I feel they handle smaller DS and PSP projects with greater ease than with their console offerings. The DS offerings in particular are showing a rejuvenated Square not afraid to think outside the box and are giving us some of the best software since the good old days of the SNES and PSOne.

and Dragon Quest IX and Valkyrie Profile are coming too

Not to mention the other DS games they have announced recently (plus others)

Nanasi no Geemu (Horror, DS)
http://the-magicbox.com/0804/game080427b.shtml

Valkyrie Profile: Toga wo Seou Mono (RPG, DS)
http://the-magicbox.com/0804/game080424b.shtml

Dragon Quest V (DS)
http://the-magicbox.com/0804/game080423b.shtml

...damn them, they are sucking my DS funds dry :(

ANOTHER ONE!?  ^.^

i wanna play disidia FF

SE were never necessarily bad, just that they weren't as good as Squaresoft were in the SNES/PS1 days. I am glad those good ol' days are finally repeating