Posted Dec 21, 2009 3:15 am PT

@iilsSuez

Saying that all 4 Grin titles are poor is pretty harsh. Bionic Commando: Rearmed was well received by critics, and both Bionic Commando and Wanted:Weapons of Fate were good albeit flawed titles. Terminator Salvation is an abomination, but as you said, it's an easy game for achievement points/trophies. Square Enix has released plenty of lemons themselves and Final Fantasy XII was far from perfect (imho off course ).

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Posted Sep 26, 2009 4:52 am PT

Ah to think that Square Enix was once Squaresoft. Gosh those were the days, and to think that it was actually a small company on the verge of busting before they released Final Fantasy to be thier last game. What irony that it turned out to the game that saved them from liquidation. And now Final Fantasy is still successful for many reasons.
I do however hate the way that most Japanese game companies are still imperialistic, xenophobes that won't release other good games that needs to be translated for westerners.

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 3:50 pm PT

@Frankasti "@ iiIsSueZ
Square Enix is one of the most successful company making RPGs... They do have troubles these times but they still are the best at what they do. Did you ever played Final Fantasy? At least one?"

Your message serves absolutely no relevence to what I stated at all. Please learn to read and understand what quotation marks are. And in answer to your question, yes. 1,2,7,10,12.

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 2:49 pm PT

@ lindallison

Of course there are FF fans in Japan wise guy. What I was saying was, since I can't speak for the Japanese b/c I don't live there and I don't really even know if the Japanese even care about a re-make, but that plenty of Westerners would love to see one b/c of the dozens of comments I read on a monthly basis of people praying to various gods for this to happen.

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 2:05 pm PT

I'm a fan (obviously from my user name) but I still refuse to buy FFXI and games that require a few extra players (like Crystal Chronicles for the gamecube). I prefer my FF games to have the requirement of a) one player and b) can be completed.
Admittedly I'm a bit of a loner when it comes to RPGs. I would appreciate a lot more if Square Enix will not drop the Eidos label. Otherwise our Great British companies will dwindle to extinction. With the exception of Rover cars, they were rubbish anyway.

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 9:47 am PT

FF is never going to die, we have to many hardcore fans that will buy a new FF every 2-3 years, even the handheld FF games are top 15 sells.

FF spin off is a FPS with Yuna doing something stupid with no relation to the main story lol.

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 8:19 am PT

Square were right to remove GRIN from the project, they seem to have a knack for revealing visually stunning screenshots and gameplay videos throughout the production phase of their titles which attain much interest and anticipation but in the end do not deliver the goods. Bionic commando is an amazing and dynamic concept but horrible in execution and Wanted was a game based on a (v.bad) movie (need i say more?). Giving GRIN the rights to metaphorically defecate over a much loved and historical franchise such as final fantasy would be a sin!

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 8:01 am PT

Poor GRIN, a lot of person didn't like Bionic Commando, but infact this game was underrated ! If you could past the fact that their is a lot of loading in the begining of the stage, the first few stage ( Because after that you play a while before having a loading screen ) and if you can handle the grappling system, well this game becaume a lot of fun ! Well i had a lot of fun. So because of that i will but Wanted ! Some gamer said that the game is short but indeed, if the game is good i don't really care.

At least we have another FF that coming up ! They just had to put more effort on it, anyway that what you should do when you work on a title like FF. You can't screwed up !

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 7:52 am PT

Just about every game GRIN touched has sucked

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 7:11 am PT

@im-a-roustabout

yup there are no final fantasy fans in japan......

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Posted Sep 23, 2009 12:12 am PT

I doubt they worked on anything of note, anyhow. At best, it was probably just an Action-Adventure hack 'n slash / simplified version of Kingdom Hearts.

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Posted Sep 22, 2009 12:15 pm PT

@ Misfit1119

What bollocks. Compare FF 1-5 to any 7+ game and it's clear which games are of better quality. The NES - SNES era FF games were mediocre and drab with as much personality as any other run-of-the-mill RPG. Get crystals, kill bad guy, rinse and repeat 4 more times. Me thinks you're wearing an extra powerful pair of rose tinted glasses.

Although Final Fantasy 6 is a fantastic game.

I haven't got a clue where you're getting the lack of personality comparison from. Compare Firion, Onion Knight or especially Bartz to Cloud or Squall and you'll see that they both have meaningful motivations and growth throughout the story, both overcoming crippling personality disorders to rise to their respective challenges.

Again, compare that to "Go get crystals to save the world".

What is it with the rampant Final Fantasy hate? Especially badly thought out hate like that.

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Posted Sep 22, 2009 12:03 pm PT

@ im-a-roustabout:

Well, so far they've remade 1-4 and tactics. See a pattern?

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Posted Sep 22, 2009 11:48 am PT

@ leviharris

I'm pretty sure they're saving the FF7 remake for when their money goes south. That's the only reason I can think of because I just don't understand why the frickin-a they are not remaking it! Everybody and their mother wants a 7 and 8 face lift. I wonder if Square even knows about this? Living all the way out there in Japan.

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Posted Sep 22, 2009 10:45 am PT

@azureblade89
I think you're alone in that line of thinking. FF VII was a great game, but it was hardly the best FF has had to offer before or since. In fact if anything, it's a tad overrated. FF VI remains the best FF ever (albeit for the SNES), and FF X for the PS 2 easily holds its own against VII. And I thought FF XII was a great game as well, MMO style combat system notwithstanding. So no, the FF franchise truly did not die off with Aerith...

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Posted Sep 22, 2009 10:28 am PT

Well it's not a major disappointment but it'll be interesting to see if it makes it to market

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Posted Sep 22, 2009 9:59 am PT

and to the guy that said the ff series died with the ps1, umm r u kidding, ff10 was one of the best ff ever made if not THE best one made! the ghraphics were unbelivable and the story was the best ff story ever, it was realy hartfelt, it was definatley the best ps2 rpg made!

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