Is square enix loses its touch?

Ever since final fantasy 10 came out all I have seen is remakes or games that just to be don't make the cut. I really tried to get into final fantasy 12 I did not like the battle system and I could not stand how even if you ran you still where chased. The story was not the best it could be in terms of previous final fantasy games. I remember back in the 90's squaresoft had tons of great games that where fun and exciting. Since sakaguchi san left square it seems that square is struggling to even come up with a game that holds to the calibur of quality that they used to be able to do. Now I read a article on final fantasy republic that said Miwa Shoda a scenario writer for square enix is being told to focus less on storyline.

"I've worked all over the place and gained a great deal of valuable experience from all sorts of people, and learned approaches to writing games I would not have been able to do on my own, but the one approach I could never understand is the notion that 'games don't need storylines"

I even heard that some of the composers that are working at square enix are being forced out, for what reason I have no idea. It seems to be that square enix is sabotage itself. Am I I wrong or is this square enix destroying itself?

Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core was a really good game imo...and it was for the PSP.

Easily PSP's best game. I doubt anything would top it for the PSP.

Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core was a really good game imo...and it was for the PSP.

Easily PSP's best game. I doubt anything would top it for the PSP.

They seam to be trying to go main stream while trying not to change what they do.

FF13 still have rich enemies compare to the other games this gen. I would say they are some of the riches enemies I have fought on the xbox 360.

In terms of console games, Square Enix lost its touch IMO with Final Fantasy XII and on. Portable games though, they're still at it. The World Ends With You and Crisis Core are amazing games.Flame_Blade88

Close. IX was good, and X was great. From then on, something bad happened.

I feel that people are getting too used to the FF formula... Square needs to do something new. Hopefully FF XIV will be an incredible MMORPG.

FF14 will be great too. I know its a MMO but still, it's going to be epic imo.

Fact: I have only played FF7:Crisis Core and FF11 Online. I never owend a Ps2 (Xbox gamer) and never got it for PS1.

I know I know you guys hate me.

But I will be getting 13 after I beat Conviction, RDR, and War for Cybertron.

Square Enix definitely isn't the powerhouse they used to be, IMO. I finished FF13 today, and while the combat system is good, everything else about the game rubs me the wrong way. Everyone's hoping that FF13 Versus is going to be the game that FF13 wasn't, but we know almost nothing about it.

The World Ends With You is a great game, but we may not get a game like that again. Crisis Core isn't so great. Still hoping for another Ogre Battle game.

square are a franchise farm now.. they used to make original games like chrono trigger, vagrant story and secret of mana. now it's just kingdom hearts and final fantasy. and expect the future to be full of FPSs! tetsuya nomura stated at E3 that he wanted to make an FPS next.

I know what happened sakaguchi san left and took all the talent with him lol.project-exile

[QUOTE="project-exile"]I know what happened sakaguchi san left and took all the talent with him lol.just_nonplussed

Mistwalker makes original IPs, but they have yet to make an original game. Their games have HD graphics, but cling slavishly to long outmoded gameplay conventions.

Eh, I actually enjoyed Final fantasy XIII; I felt it was an improvement over FFXII in pretty much every aspect. But I hated FFX-2, and again, FFXII wasn't that good to me, sooooo...maybe.

[QUOTE="just_nonplussed"][QUOTE="project-exile"]I know what happened sakaguchi san left and took all the talent with him lol.CarnageHeart

Mistwalker makes original IPs, but they have yet to make an original game. Their games have HD graphics, but cling slavishly to long outmoded gameplay conventions.

Can't say much as to what Square Enix is doing on the portables, but I have loved every Final Fantasy they have released lately,FFXII and FFXIII. Both excellent, excellent games if you can adapt to the new changes. FFXIII was amazing IMO, great story, great combat, and quite challenging.

They are becoming more main stream now especially since the merge to become Square-Enix. They have alot of IPs to work on now and so spread out their time on them where as before they mainly had the Final Fantasy series. Their goals and direction has also probably changed sincet he PSX era.

At the same time I think it is just with the type of games they are making. As far as the final fantasy games on the console games go they are going away from turn based JRPGs to more of a of modern RPG as far as combat system so it might just be that that is giving you the feeling. I know that is the reason why I am not as big a fan of them as I used to.

They are becoming more main stream now especially since the merge to become Square-Enix. They have alot of IPs to work on now and so spread out their time on them where as before they mainly had the Final Fantasy series. Their goals and direction has also probably changed sincet he PSX era.

At the same time I think it is just with the type of games they are making. As far as the final fantasy games on the console games go they are going away from turn based JRPGs to more of a of modern RPG as far as combat system so it might just be that that is giving you the feeling. I know that is the reason why I am not as big a fan of them as I used to.

naelgilani

if you have a ds, you should try "the world ends with you". Square still has it, but its really getting less with every year:(erdemn

yeah that game is great. i love it. i think square has its touch here and there.

They've lost it for awhile now but FFXIII confirmed that Mitsuno was the only design talent they had left before he quit. FFXIII is the first legitimately terrible Final Fantasy game SE has ever released. The level design is awful, the story is, not only terrible, but poorly told, and the battle system is a boring piece of automated tripe. XIII will probably be the last Final Fantasy game I buy until they hire some people who know how to design a game.

They've lost it for awhile now but FFXIII confirmed that Mitsuno was the only design talent they had left before he quit. FFXIII is the first legitimately terrible Final Fantasy game SE has ever released. The level design is awful, the story is, not only terrible, but poorly told, and the battle system is a boring piece of automated tripe. XIII will probably be the last Final Fantasy game I buy until they hire some people who know how to design a game.

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They've lost it for awhile now but FFXIII confirmed that Mitsuno was the only design talent they had left before he quit. FFXIII is the first legitimately terrible Final Fantasy game SE has ever released. The level design is awful, the story is, not only terrible, but poorly told, and the battle system is a boring piece of automated tripe. XIII will probably be the last Final Fantasy game I buy until they hire some people who know how to design a game.

texasgoldrush

Ever since final fantasy 10 came out all I have seen is remakes or games that just to be don't make the cut. I really tried to get into final fantasy 12 I did not like the battle system and I could not stand how even if you ran you still where chased. The story was not the best it could be in terms of previous final fantasy games. I remember back in the 90's squaresoft had tons of great games that where fun and exciting. Since sakaguchi san left square it seems that square is struggling to even come up with a game that holds to the calibur of quality that they used to be able to do. Now I read a article on final fantasy republic that said Miwa Shoda a scenario writer for square enix is being told to focus less on storyline.

"I've worked all over the place and gained a great deal of valuable experience from all sorts of people, and learned approaches to writing games I would not have been able to do on my own, but the one approach I could never understand is the notion that 'games don't need storylines"

I even heard that some of the composers that are working at square enix are being forced out, for what reason I have no idea. It seems to be that square enix is sabotage itself. Am I I wrong or is this square enix destroying itself?