[Multiplatform] 3 New Square-Enix games

Square-Enix pretty much went sequel happy after it became Square-Enix. Maybe it's just disgusting nostalgia clouding my judgement but there were more original games coming out of Squaresoft back in the 1990s, it pretty much went downhill after the merge. You can only beat one story to death once. It's an entirely other thing to milk the Final Fantasy name since there is essentially a new game every iteration but did anyone really care what Vincent was up to after the fact?

I'm not complaining because you cannot deny the quality of their product but KH2 sucked compared to KH1, all the FF7 spinoffs are laughable and the only games I'm buying from them in the near future are the games that appeal to my graphic whore side and remastered ports I can carry in my pocket.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Eh, I don't even like Star Wars. Nor bad acting. And I'll one up you and name the Matrix as well.

And your logic fails since you quoted me as saying that SE likes to milk the FF name. But essentially they're different games from one another, FF10 does not have the same story as FF1, 2, 3, etc. It's a totally different from say, Kingdom Hearts, where every new version of the game is true sequel to the former, in which I really couldn't give a damn about. Personally I consider it more credible to create a totally new graphics engine, totally new cast of characters, story, scenario, etc from scratch and tack on the tried and true FF name on it rather than take the same old gang, same graphics engine, same story evolved when to a point where it didn't need to go and tack THISGAMESOLDREALLYWELLLASTYEAR PART 2.

Case in point, there had never been a true sequel to any FF story until FFX-2. And wasn't that one of the first games out on the SE name? Even Chrono Cross under Squaresoft wasn't a convential sequal to Chrono Trigger.

People have been bitching about the FF thing since it became popular to so the dialogue really is worn out. But in hindsight, Squaresoft was nothing compared to Square-Enix.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Hindman

Are you trying to say Square wouldn't have done this without Enix joining the fun? That sounds like what you're trying to say. I sure hope that's not what you're trying to say, because that's surely wrong. I agree they're more sequel happy now than ever, but I'm just clarifying here.

Seems to me like it just took them a while to get really good at business like they have.

I'm saying their business model has changed since the merge. I don't know who's responsible since I'm not really privy to the inner workings of SE but there was a very very obvious shift in their mission statement from pre-merge and post-merge. Who knows if the Square side is responsible or the Enix side is because neither company adopted this sort of sentiment before. Now both companies are really capitalizing on their known franchises, which is well and good although I honestly wish we can see more original series come out of both camps.

And personally, while business is going excellent now, I expect people to be burnt out on what they're doing soon. Last I heard, Dirge did really bad and no one is really looking forward to the upcoming FF7 games (save the remake of FF7). SE is mostly riding on the prestige they both collected during the 80s and 90s so when that starts wearing thin, things can change really fast for them and they need to rethink their "3 Pillar" whatever focus they got going on. True KH2 sold a gazillion number of copies but somehow I get a feeling they're alienating the older more traditional fanbase with these sort of games. There's a fine line between genius and accessible to old and tired.

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