i dont get it, people complaining about SE, the way i have seen it they have only really had 2 major games, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom hearts, Star Ocean kinda plays backup to those too. This generation they have released abit of filler, Infinate Undiscovery and TLR both where not amazing, but none of them where BAD per say, The World Ends With YOu was pretty good if i remember.
in short, as long as Versus and XIII kick ass, they will have met my expectations, the fact that they are releasing MORE cannot be a bad thing
teldath
Square Enix is much more then it use to be and the videogame industry has change drastically. Gamers aren't really sitting on the edge of their seat wondering if a Japanese game will head to North America like back in the late 90s. And the RPG Revolution has a created a era in Japanese RPGs where developers are now considering a western market over its own in the Rising Sun. About 12 years have since Final Fantasy VII pushed the idea of English localization in gaming. In short, we've played these games before.
But this generation is quite different from what we saw on the PSOne and the PS2 because of development cost, hardware, the multiplatform era, and 3 hard pressing consoles on the market. Final Fantasy XIII was announced at E3 in 2006 and it's coming to the US in 2010? Not to mention Versus has no established window for a release. A Kingdom Hearts game for a current generation console hasn't been announced yet, and Dragon Quest X was revealed acouple of months ago which it's release is TBA.
Even though Lost Odyssey, and Tales of Vesperia are good games people are looking for that trademark quality Square Enix puts into its top 3 franchises. Last Remnant was not it. Even though Star Ocean: The Last Hope is fun, it's not the game we've been waiting for either.
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