I would have to say yes I think he did. I mean when Sakaguchi was there Square pumped out quality titles like clockwork.

During the PSX era Square and Sakaguchi gave us, FF7-FFIX, Xenogears, Vagrant Story, Front Mission, FF Tactics, Parasite Eve, Brave Fencer Musashi, Chrono Cross and Countless others.

During the PS2 era he gave us FFX but then when he left everything at Square went to hell (except a few titles) Quality wise fans got served a bunch of Shit passed off as Video games.

I havent played LO or BD but from what Ive heard they're great games.

What do you think did Sakaguchi take the quality gaming experience with him when he left Square?

Absolutely not. Blue Dragon is mediocre as hell. Tetsuya Nomura > Sakaguchi.

^ WRRROOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!^ OH GAWD DONT EVRR SAY THAT AGAIN!!!

I only meant for this gen of consoles.

I would rate Blue Dragon a 8.9 and Lost Odyssey a 8.8

Both great games !!!!

He's technically right.  Tetsuya Nomura directed FFVII Advent Children, Sakaguchi made FF The Spirits Within, and that almost put the company in bankrupcy, causing the Squaresoft and Enix merge.  So technically Sakaguchi left the quality at Square.

And Blue Dragon is horrible.  So overrated, same with Lost Odyssy.  I'm not too impressed with the soundtracks either, and Nobuo Uematsu is my favorite game composer ever.

Absolutely not his two games are above average games at the most. The problem is that square's main market strategy are failing flat right in to their faces. They became more greedy and money hunger lately and willing to take the first check that they see (winking at microsoft) and they never really got a full grasp of the new generation technology and they failed to have something new on to their game.This is a different era that were talking about. They started releasing exclusively at microsoft console in which they thought was smart because they get extra money from microsoft and  has a bigger fanbase than the ps3. I think they releases three games so far that is exclusive to microsoft the last remnant, infinite undiscovery, and Star Ocean in which has some lackluster sales. Square especially their president are stupid  thinking that they could sell lots of games just making their games exclusive to a microsoft console. They just don't get it the majority of 360 players likes first person shooting and an RPG like fable and mass effect. The majority of japanese rpg gamers are all the way on the ps3 fanbase.

This, by far. Both are extremely talented men though.

Lost Odyssey is brilliant.

That said, I think Square Enix have pumped some great titles out this generation.

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That is true. Although games like IU, Last Remenant, and Star Ocean aren't developed by the FF teams tho, I think the Enix half is ruining S-E because they're not taking much time with their games. IU is meh, I never had much chance to play Last remnant, even tho I want to, and Star Ocean 4 is no whee near as good as the other 3 were in my opinion.