The "Company are only wanting to make money" BS didn't exactly sound convincing with on disc dlc or season pass, it's not convincing here eiter.
My god, you're an idiot. DLC for A MUSIC GAME isn't even remotely comparable to on-disc DLC or season passes, especially when they offer the base game for free and you can build the kind of library of songs you want instead of being stuck with whatever they've decided for you.
FFXIV should have been scrapped and forgotten instead of being the money and time sink it ended up being.
That's just YOUR opinion. XIV 2.0 is looking really good. You may have some inane reasons for hating MMOs, but a lot of others don't. I'm somewhat annoyed that Versus is delayed because of XIV 2.0, but I understand why and like what I'm seeing from XIV 2.0, so it doesn't feel like everything's been done for no reason.
Considering they went all in, it'd be weird to see no one finding that interesting when people were ready to swallow shit like what they call FF now.
One mainline FF & its sequels don't make the whole franchise shit, especially not when there have been other great FF releases in the meantime and when we are even talking about the Final Fantasy franchise with switching teams/leads with each installment and vastly different kind of games not only in spin-offs vs. mainline games, but mainline games vs. mainline games as well. The state of non-MMO FF before XIII happened is called Final Fantasy XII, one of the best games in the franchise. While Matsuno has left, a lot of the other people who made the game what it is are still there. Final Fantasy XV will quite likely be something altogether different from XIII, so I find that another reason why it's stupidly premature to write off the whole franchise based on Toriyama's doings this gen.
On console inhouse what did they do appart from FFXIII? go on I'm waiting on the sea of goodness from SE.
I've played plenty of great games from Square Enix, that's all I care about. I don't give a shit about some idiotic, inane requirements for this or that many games to be on these or those platforms withinin X or Y years. When their handheld efforts are as impressive as they are, it doesn't matter.
Nier is not from them, Star Ocean is a joke and they managed to botch Crystal Bearers.
Nier is still a new IP they decided to fund. Also, Star Ocean is all Tri-Ace (there's no creative staff/control from Square Enix's side with that game). Crystal Bearers is not the best game in the world, but neither is it a horrible game either. I guess people just wanted something different.
Saga is on GREE, Seiken Densetsu is dead, Ivalice is forgotten, Tactic Ogre will never come back,
SAGA, Seiken Densetsu & Front Mission are all dead for a reason (part of that is that the games weren't that good, part was that the sales weren't there either).
they shat on Parasite Eve or so I heard
3rd Birthday is a fun game. It's got a story from Toriyama, so... yeah, that's where all the bad press comes from, but as a game there was nothing wrong with it (except it was kinda short, but it has some replay value).
Last remnant was ages ago (2008).
It was released during the current generation, so it deserves a mention (well, the PC version does...).
Again problem isn't with their handheld output I said as much earlier.
I don't find any point in separating the games that way. Last year they released three games that I bought, two of which I enjoyed immensely and one that was decent. Shitting on them because the many fun games they've developed in recent years weren't on your platform(s) of choice is stupid.
Famassu why do you keep lumping in their handheld titles and console titles?
Why are you guys separating them? THAT's what's silly. It's the same company making all these games. If we are talking about Square Enix, we don't lump out a part of their production for stupid reasons.
I'm not denying they didn't have problems which resulted in games like XIII & XIV 1.0, but those problems seem to have been solved and fixing XIV, LR being made and Versus XIII's delayed development are the aftermath from that. These kinds of statements:
I've accepted Squaresoft is dead and like most of their great developers, have moved on. I think the company is in a world of hurt, but my be able to stay propped up thru their high return mobile offerings.
are moronic. A company that has released some of the top games in the JRPG genre within the last few years is dead just because of XIII & older version of XIV? That's a laughable statement from some nostalgic butthurt fan who hasn't actually played 90% of their releases in recent years.
Square-Enix's best bet is to make sure XIV doesn't bomb(again), get LR out and hope enough people buy the game and fast track the shit out of Versus and chalk everything else up to a poor generation for them and start fresh with the new systems and not repeat the same mistakes
That's what they are basically doing, have you not been following Square Enix's doings at all?
With the exception that it's stupid to suggest they should abandon the one game this generation that could return some status for the FF franchise. Versus XIII's development is far along, they shouldn't cancel it now that they are finally on track of getting back to their feet.