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Rumor: Square to sell two franchises
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davepoobond
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Jonnyram said:
It could very well be KH for this reason...its such a shoe-in for lots of sales yet Square hasn't announced anything about a possible next-gen KH game. We know Disney/Buena Vista wants it, but Square has their KH team on FFVsXIII right now...so it wouldn't come for a couple years for sure unless Square made a new team which would be odd.
nelsonroyale
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Jonnyram said:
a disney 360 exclusive maybe????
Anyway, has this 'rumour' been proven to be true? If so Im think maybe parasite eve, to capcom, and something like chrono trigger to mistwalker, since they have the old scool vibe going
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Wario64 said:
I especially like how they fail to mention those two European sites >_<
I doubt very seriously they'll sell Kingdom Hearts. Its the only new IP they've created in recent memory that can even begin to be mentioned in the same breath as FF and DQ in terms of popularity. Not to mention I doubt they would let Buena Vista continue to use Square characters in the game, which would..um..not make it Kingdom Hearts anymore, rather just another Disney game.
Series I could see Square Selling: Front Mission, Star Ocean, Musashi, Parasite Eve, or Bushido Blade.
Parasite Eve is one I would put a good deal of money on as its a very marketable and recognizable series, which doesn't seem to be apart of the company's current direction(same goes for Bushido Blade). I could also see Musashi return as a major portable franchise(especially in Japan) if someone took the time. I throw Star Ocean in there as a wildcard simply because the series has increased in popularity considerably, yet Squeenix seemingly doesn't see it as a killer franchise, where as someone else just may. Its also been 4 years since SO3 originally came out japan, and there hasn't been so much of a whisper of a 4th installment.
Series I could see Square Selling: Front Mission, Star Ocean, Musashi, Parasite Eve, or Bushido Blade.
Parasite Eve is one I would put a good deal of money on as its a very marketable and recognizable series, which doesn't seem to be apart of the company's current direction(same goes for Bushido Blade). I could also see Musashi return as a major portable franchise(especially in Japan) if someone took the time. I throw Star Ocean in there as a wildcard simply because the series has increased in popularity considerably, yet Squeenix seemingly doesn't see it as a killer franchise, where as someone else just may. Its also been 4 years since SO3 originally came out japan, and there hasn't been so much of a whisper of a 4th installment.
BlueTsunami
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Who gives a flying **** about Kingdom Hearts!
This thread should be about Trigger StopWatch
This thread should be about Trigger StopWatch
neojubei said:
Why? Square is pretty much never going to make another sequel.
Blue Dragon shows that Sakaguchi and co. could easily make another CT sequel that would probably be better than CC.
Are you just scared that a Mistwalker Chrono game might not come out on a Sony system?
Lost Fragment
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Hmm...
Akira Toriyama...
Nobuo Uematsu/Mitsuda on music...
Sakaguchi...
I could dig a Mistwalker Chrono game
Just as long as they make the story a litlte more intelligible this time.
Akira Toriyama...
Nobuo Uematsu/Mitsuda on music...
Sakaguchi...
I could dig a Mistwalker Chrono game
Just as long as they make the story a litlte more intelligible this time.Lost Fragment said:Hmm...
Akira Toriyama...
Nobuo Uematsu/Mitsuda on music...
Sakaguchi...
I could dig a Mistwalker Chrono game
It wouldn't be without Yuji Horii doing the scenario again.
Emenis said:
I don't think it belongs there.
Zilch said:
Neither is MistWalker, considering every single action they've taken since inception has shown that they're fully intent on creating and maintaining unique MistWalker IPs to establish their own brands to rival other notable RPG series... you think they're going to take Square Enix's reject sloppy seconds all of a sudden?
Lost Fragment
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It'd be awesome if Horii did the scenario again, true, but he isn't the only one who can write a story that doesn't require 18 playthroughs and a sheet of LSD to understand.
Lost Fragment said:
Well, just saying... three of the four people you listed are freelancers. The only key member of the original team exclusive to Mistwalker is Sakaguchi, while Horii (and a number of other key individuals) are still at Square Enix.
The first three (Toriyama/Uematsu/Mitsuda) could collaborate on a new Chrono game if D3 was making it as part of the new lynchpin of their Simple series.
Link316 said:
Er, no, I think Square fans would be the ones getting the reality check.
While Square and its franchise characters certainly factored in with a certain portion of the fanbase, the overwhelming popularity of the games WAS derived from the inclusion of Disney characters and the heavy role they play.
Kingdom Hearts didn't steamroll past Final Fantasy in the US for nothing, you know. You take the name "Square" off a Kingdom Hearts box and I doubt most people would notice.
charlequin
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ethelred said:
I think once you account for everything that has to come out of Kingdom Hearts for it to become a Disney-only property you'd find people would definitely notice.
Disney is definitely the more important half of the IP equation, but the reason KH really took off is that it made the Disney properties "cool," and the context provided by the Square stuff (both the FF characters and the newly invented Nomura stuff, plus the j-pop and anime stylings) is what's needed for that.
The success of KH is pretty much entirely in the unique, theoretically unsound chimeric amalgamation that it is, and I've gotta think that both IP holders invested in it understand that it's basically got nothing to offer if you remove either side from the equation.