I must say nowadays, I´m indifferent to about 95% of their work.

Their SNES and PS1 games were among my favorite titles in the 16 and 32-bit generations...FFVI, Chrono Trigger, Xenogears (my favorite JRPG of all time), FFVII, FFVIII, Parasite Eve, Einhander, Vagrant Story, Star Ocean 2, etc...

Throughout the last generation, I felt the quality of their games had diminished a lot (IMO), while over the past few years, most of their work has been porting and remaking old games to handheld systems (if you like it, you won´t complain of course) with an occasional good original title as scraps (such as TWEWY).

Meanwhile, the little work they´ve done on home systems has been pretty underwhelming (again, IMO), even when compared to last generation, when they were already declining.

Well, I think ever since Square and Enix quit being competitors and joined as a single company, they became a mere shadow of their former self.

I´m hoping SO4 is more like their days of gold.

Ok, this is all my opinion....what´s yours?...Agree?...Disagree?

i don't think you'll find many people that will argue with you that SNES/PS1 was the pinnacle of RPGs. RPGs have since lost popularity especially in the west. I mean this gen there is only a handful of RPGs even worth playing so far, from SquareEnix we're mostly just getting remakes of games from the SNES/PS1 era.

I thought they sucked back then. And they suck today. So life is normal. :)

Mind you I don't understand, enjoy or play RPGs so my view may be slightly biased...

The only good thing to come out of square for me was Tobal No 2, Bushido blade and Einhänder for PS1.

Mmmm, Bushido Blade. Whatever happened to Lightweight, I wonder? A Bushido Blade 3 would be sexcellent.

Regarding Square, I doubt they'll ever again reach the level of excellence they did during the SNES era. They covered themselves in glory then. Now, not so much.

I like Squeenix.

I don't necessarily like all the games they've made but plenty of other people like the games that I dislike so they're doing something right. I'm also not nearly arrogant enough to say that they're producing bad games just because I dislike them when they have so many fans.

I think the problem is that due to Squeenix's popularity, people have higher expectations for them--more so than any other RPG developer in fact. So basically when SE's next game doesn't turn out to be the Second Coming, some people are very disappointed. I try to set reasonable expectations so I don't usually run into this.

Hey, Kingdom Hearts is fantastic, and TWEWY is great, too--not a Final Fantasy fan, but hey...

Unfortunately I don't think those days will ever come back.

Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Xenogears
Final Fantasy 4-9

Those are still the best JRPGs ever made for me (with Suikoden 2). And I don't see any game really make that list this gen.

Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Super Mario RPG

are my favorite JRPGs and close to my favorite games of all time. I just can't see them being surpassed any time soon. Thats not to say that there aren't some good looking JRPGs coming out soon.

Enix part is still quite good ( with the exception of Quintet loss ).

what about einhander? That game was sweet and actually wasn't an RPG.