[Multiplatform] The Last Remnant: Life at 12 frames a second is a beautiful thing.

Originally Posted by Kairi Li

I swear if Nomura leaves, its the end of Square untill I see some competance in their game making or marketting in games OTHER than Nomura's works. The more I think about the two main characters the more contrived it sounds.

I strongly disagree, Nomura is getting way too much credit, based on rather crappy stuff like KHII (which was a lot of fun, but be honest, the story, pacing and balance was crap) and even worse, Advent Children. He put off a lot of people with his projects, and I honestly don't have high expectations for his next projects. Besides, there are some SE games that he has nothing to do with and still turned out to be great, most recently Dawn of Mana for example. There are capable teams at SE, but they just seem to want to focus on the wrong things.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I played Dawn of Mana and I enjoyed it, but than again, Mana games have always pleased me (I'm a sucker for pretty looking games).

Agreed, Nomura has a huge impact on the company, but that doesn't mean that he's the only good thing going on at SE. I also agree that SE is really going a bit overboard with milking everything FF-related and the endless re-releases, but what else would you do with your most successful franchise? FFXII was a huge succes, and Revenant Wings also looks to become a big hit (at least with the promotion and that damn prelude tune playing on every corner in Osaka). Maybe I'm just a bit biased since I've never really been a fan of Nomura and his art, but I still think people worship him a bit too much for all his flaws.

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Originally Posted by GoldfishX

What bugs me is...Why are the two guys who basically made Final Fantasy working at another company (Sakaguchi/Uematsu), while those that remain at Square whore the living fuck out of it?

So yeah...The Square side of SE is pretty "meh" these days.

This has been brought up way too many times before, it's BUSINESS. As long as people still keep buying every port and every remake of an FF game, why WOULDN'T a company focus part of its activities on that game. I'm not trying to justify it all, but you can't be that naive that you think that SE would choose a risk like starting a new concept from scratch without having something to fall back on if something goes wrong. As for Sakaguchi, he may have been the brain behind the success behind the FF games, and even if they are "whoring the living fuck out of it", do you think that he cares now that he has his own business?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's business, they don't owe him ANYTHING since he started his own company, there is no room for loyalty, legacy or other crap like that here.

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