Square Enix says "Fuck making anything non-mainstream!"

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by Mesden

Nothing is better than Dirge of Cerberus for reasons you know quite well. >:

The fact that it managed to take one of the FFVII characters who was actually kind of cool and make a thoroughly mediocre game out of him? Or that it made him a pedophile? Reused palettes? Bland backgrounds? Invisible walls galore? All the other corner cutting?

[POS Industries]

All of the above and this guy:



This motherfucker right here. He's the biggest badass in any FF game ever. To quote some guy on some web forum:

The crazy motherfucker not only riding a flying surfboard, but ruining Deepground’s shit with a rocket launcher while he’s doing it. I have no doubt this man did a backflip, slammed a Dew, and got head from Yuffie, all on the way down.

You cannot deny the power of his awesome.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

The fact that it managed to take one of the FFVII characters who was actually kind of cool and make a thoroughly mediocre game out of him? Or that it made him a pedophile? Reused palettes? Bland backgrounds? Invisible walls galore? All the other corner cutting?

:gonk:

wait what?

[Meister]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Further investigation into the true nature of Lavos' species and his motives for manipulating Earth's life forms and harvesting their DNA as well as the alluded-to entity from whom the time portals originated and the continuation and conclusion of Magus' search for Schala.

I don't know if I'd be so keen on having Lavos canonized as the physical manifestation of the nightmares of the alien race that invented time travel or whatever the hell they'd come up with these days.

[Mirai Gen]

It's just kind of sad that Chrono Trigger's sequel of Chrono Cross had explanations for the mysterious untied ends that would have made a great sequel had their story writers not been outdone by fanfiction.

Thank god the soundtrack and gameplay was pretty.

Not much else that I could say about Square at this point.

[PurpleMage]

Well I don't see them doing badly this year, I've already got the FFIV remake and FFTA2 on reserve. And those are 40 dollar games for the DS! So this year has a good chance for them to fix their financial situation I would hope.

[mudah.swf]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

All of the above and this guy:

I can't wait for that thread to update again.

Before making this thead I had actually forgotten about Sigma Harmonica, which looks to be the last cool, interesting thing we'll see from Square for a while if this is anything to go by.

[Krylo]

This should be less "Damn Square for not making anything new and interesting" and more "Damn gamers for not buying anything new and interesting."

This isn't Square saying that they don't like making non-mainstream products. It's Square saying that, they, as a company, can not, by any means, afford to make products that will not sell well or to take risks anymore, because those products which they made outside of their mainstream franchises in the past few years have not sold well.

[Amake]

Looks like Square aren't sure what they should do. I got an idea, scale down. I bet if they tuned down the production values of their games by 99.9% the profits would only shrink by 99%, effectively multiplying tenfold, while allowing for interesting games that don't have to sell to the lowest possible denominator. Of course then they'd only see profits in the four or five digit range instead of eight or nine, and that probably doesn't impress stockholders as much, so they'd have to show some courage.

[h4x.m4g3]

Originally Posted by Krylo

This isn't Square saying that they don't like making non-mainstream products. It's Square saying that, they, as a company, can not, by any means, afford to make products that will not sell well or to take risks anymore, because those products which they made outside of their mainstream franchises in the past few years have not sold well.

Wait isn't that the state Square was in when they originally made the first Final Fantasy? Isn't that why it was originally called Final Fantasy? Does that mean Square's going to make "Fuck you all for not buying our games, here's the game we were going to make" and its going to make 300 billion dollars in a week, and 15 years from now we'll be complaining about how much FYAFNBOGHTGWWGTM 10 sucks.

Its fun to dream.