Square Enix to focus on more Strong IPs

They should just copy what they did with the handheld Final Fantasy games and put them into the console. I don't even care if they make it 2D. Feel free to give it a cliched story. But just do it well. A cliched story done well is perfectly fine. Just...don't make the games as easy as the Tactics Advance games. And stop making it so sci-fi.

But anyone notice how much better Ivalice and all the characters(especially the Vieras) looked in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance than in Final Fantasy 12?

The Vieras in FF 12...looks kinda ugly. What's up with that?

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As for this thread's actual topic...I don't think I'll ever see a Einhander sequel anytime soon.

edited 13th May '11 9:28:18 PM by Signed

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Aw...
My long-shot dream of a new entry in the Soulblazer series has been crushed.

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I would not be averse to a sequel to Final Fantasy VI—the characters themselves have mostly concluded their paths, but the setting could get interesting now that half the ecosystem's been wiped out.

edited 13th May '11 10:18:46 PM by feotakahari

That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful

"What happened to Deus Ex? "

They stuck the name on a monochrome shooter with forced boss battles, regenerating health, cover system, Notice This, and no recourse management (plus one of the previews I've read between the lines of says you are never vulnerable). This may have been underway before they got Edios and not their fault but I forget.

edit: great, why doesn't color work on the forums? It's the only tag I can think of that doesn't work on the forums and only on the wiki.

edit 2: nope [[yellow:text]] doesn't work either. I'll ask on the tech wishlist. There goes that joke.

edited 13th May '11 11:02:59 PM by deuxhero

just put [[yellow:text]] for color (well, specifically yellow, but you get the idea)

[[yellow:yellow]]

EDIT:Yellow isnt a forum color. Try cinnamon.

fUCKING CINNAMON

edited 13th May '11 11:06:23 PM by Zeromaeus

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This.

And I really can't blame them. How much success do their non-Final Fantasy/Kingdom Hearts/Dragon Quest games, that are no The World Ends With You, even have?

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

Fine by me. Keep cranking out those quality FF/KH/DQ titles, and I'll be perfectly happy.

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Maybe it's time to stop trying to read between the lines of previews?

'twas brillig.

I'm with Virus on this.

"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remake

Depends. How well did 3rd Birthday do?

You have got to be the most pre-judgmental person I have ever encountered.

Obviously you were never in the Mass Effect 3 thread.

I'm glad to hear this. The faster we get FF Versus XIII, the better.

Against all tyrants.

The soonest I can imagine Versus XIII coming out in regions besides Japan is late 2012, honestly. Although hopefully Type-0 will be released outside of Japan this year.

edited 14th May '11 7:12:26 AM by Beorc

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A: the planet's recovering.

B: Enjoy a Final Fantasy game without any magic.

I have a message from another time...

At least FFXIII-2 has been confirmed for a worldwide release this year, I hope Versus gets the same treatment.

And how much do you wanna bet that because of this they are gonna reveal Final Fantasy XV at E3 this year?

GOH! JII! RAH!

Yeah, I didn't mention XIII-2 because I know Legionnaire hates the original. :P

edited 14th May '11 7:23:33 AM by Beorc

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I don't hate it, I just think it's shit.

Against all tyrants.

This isn't a nostalgia filter for me; I've replayed their old games just as recently as I've played any of their new games.

For me, the Final Fantasy series has developed from superb into reliable into "tell me if anything worthwhile comes out." And Kingdom Hearts started strong, but hasn't developed coherently as a story.

Obviously, making video games is a business; the object is to make money. But I think that when your business is creating works of art, you should be treating it as more than just a job. And I don't get a sense of that outlook as much as I used to.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

I've played both the earlier and the newer Final Fantasies recently and liked both of them...

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I think the best thing about the PS 1 days was how Squaresoft still did noteworthy experiments. Looking through some ads of the time make me kind of depressed. When's the last time they tried making games like Bushido Blade, or Brave Fencer Musashi? Or regularly spread out and did new RP Gs like Xenogears and Parasite Eve?

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Well, there's The World Ends With You, and, um...I got nothing else.

Though they still experiment gameplay-wise, they just tend to put those games under the Final Fantasy name.

edited 14th May '11 8:33:20 AM by Beorc

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Really the last big risk that they made was the Kingdom Hearts franchise.

GOH! JII! RAH!

I guess this means I can safely ignore everything S-E without worrying if I'm missing out.

"You have got to be the most pre-judgmental person I have ever encountered. "

What's a preview supposed to do then if not inform me of the game?

Before many was baffled that the thought of Final Fantasy having a true sequel but now with X-2, various XII spinoffs, online games and XIII series, those very same people cannot believe it is true. Myself included. Just what happened exactly? Squaresoft and Enix were known to experiment and make awesome games and experiment with them but Square Enix is not creating new stories anymore, just whoring graphics.

I am not pointing fingers now. *cough* Wada *cough* <.< >.>