Square Enix recently hastily completed its purchase of UK game publisher Eidos, best known for its early oppai physics experiment Tomb Raider and its cosplay simulator Hitman, spending some £85 million on the company.
The Eidos group filed losses of £100 million in 2008 (due, they say, to restructuring), and as the below graphs show, has experienced plummeting or stagnant sales of its top franchises in recent years, leading some to wonder whether this deal was well advised?
Presumably Square Enix has plans, very good ones we might hope.
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Maybe Tomb Raider get a modern graphic engine at last...
Hopefully they'll remake Deus Ex. It's been years since I last played it, but I'm convinced that if you took the original game (not invisible wars) and modernized the graphics/physics, you'd have a bestseller. FPS+RPG with skills, inventory, and modifiable weapons... imo only System Shock and Fallout 3 have even approached the fun I had playing Deus Ex the first time.
i want legacy of kain back
Stick to FF Square Enix. Tomb Raider might end up like FF7 DC Vincent's storyline, that games gameplay sucks balls.
Moefications would be it's predicament...
They should also buy the Mirror's Edge franchise...
Hmmm. Maybe her D cups will become G cups.
Lara Croft and Agent 47 in Kingdom Hearts. :p
Kingdom Hearts with Lara Croft and Agent 47 in it. :p
Thats What i was thinking XD
Worst case scenario: Dirge of Cerberus remake.
Dirge of Croft, you mean?
i think now is the time for japanese game to dominate in western
Never gonna happen - we are too hardcore and they make soft games
if they dont step up to the plate and make games like gears of wars - L4D - Kill Zone etc. they wont make it - they will with rpgs but thats about it
but you can see bioware already starting to cover the rpg market for the west with their far more story driven games
wwwww
lara croft about to get anime-ized. this should get interesting.
I don't know if Legacy of Kain with beltan zipper is going to be as good of an idea as Square does.
They probably wanted to make Kain and Lynch
We all know what this means, Lara Croft will make a cameo appearance in Kingdom Hearts 4....
Only liked TR:1
.... only if I could get a freaking...
Remake of all the games within a single game all with current gen graphics, will I even think about spending another dime on this franchise.
Its not even worth renting now, since corporations put their shit stains on it.
So, consider me racist or whatever you will, but why all the assumptions that Lara will be flat? In my honest opinion of the Japanese people (and Square) I truly believe she will be given huge tits. They will then try to get her as naked as possible without making their game rated M or 18+ and milk out all the money from Eidos as they can until people get bored of the ecchi.
As for Hitman... Well get ready for a busty female partner, character, and/or turn based strategy/stealth game.
Yes. I also found it weird that others on the board would think that Lara would be given DFC. All this time, I'd gotten the idea that the Japanese assumed real non-Asian women were giant pairs of walking boobs.
The upside of this might be that the developers won't be so uptight abou the whole "Nude Raider" thing, anymore.
I want a Lara Croft and Aya Brea cross over game.
LOL. Dream on.
Well that would be epic. If the graphics of FFXIII is anything to go by, Tomb Raider is just going to get a whole lot better with that jaw-dropping Lara Croft.... The gameplay and story line will get sorted out one way or another, its not like its that hard to do anyway. Tomb Raider has been nothing more than a fan serviced based adventure/shooting game. =P
OTOH though, Hitman could be in trouble....
Yes. All we need is materia mixing to let Lara leap around even more rediculously than before.
Wow. There are so many contradictions here, I'm having trouble imagining the ramifications of this.
Also, I find it hilariously (sad) that Anniversary sold fewer than Angel of Darkness.
Don't forget that Angel of Darkness was bundled with alot of Video Game cards due to it being an *advanced* Direct X 9 game. It even had a Benchmark in it.
need lara in maid outfit
mizugi is fine too
maybe square just wants a team for non-rpg type releases
Eidos has had a relationship with Square(soft) ever since FF7 or so. This isn't really surprising to me.
But as insiders pointed out, they expected a merger, not a total buyout.
This is the key point. The merger proposal comes as the global recession worsens. Eidos isn't selling their company. It is more of a mean to cut operating costs and to share intrastructures. This happened before with Squaresoft and Enix. What is unique in this deal is that SE is more considered as a Japanese company(even though they have huge presence in US) and Eidos is a Western company. While they might have some say in the content being published by the other company, I won't expect any crossover titles.
ahahah "oppai physics experiment" and "cosplay simulator". oh, this made my day a bit brighter.
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I lol'ed so much
fucking owned
Will Lara Croft become Lara Strife?
Tifa would like to have a word with you
0.o well that was unexpected
It'll be Lara Croft, but turn based and prettier.
They will copy this: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/04/22/the-king-of-fighters-sky-stage-puzzles-fans/
Lara Craft Tohou Shooter anyone?
i bought it from ps3 store, and lara croft its awesome, probably the most fun game in the series.
We need a Eidos-Square Lara Croft comparison image. The new Lara will doubtless have even smaller breasts...
hmm... loli-lara: the early years. i think i might be on to something here.
Hmmm...DFC Lara? o_O
oh hell yes xD
And an absolutely retarded yet somehow modest outfit
Hurrr... i honestly can't think about anything of it.
Square Enix did not have very good plans for its latest games...
Sorry to dissagre, but last game i bought of downloadable content from tombraider coop mode, its probably the most fun game i had played from tombraider, and looking foward to deus, its about time square enix started to do playable games.
If they continue with final fantasy series, they will fall down to their own grave of fandom.