A survey of 3,000 Japanese gamers asking them to identify their favourite Square Enix game franchise yields results which are predictable, if at times out of step with actual sales…
The ranking, not including overseas (i.e. Eidos) titles or Square Enix’s line of DS travel guides, which otherwise would somehow manage to rank 6th:
1. Dragon Quest – 30.3%
2. Final Fantasy – 20.4%
3. SaGa – 6.7%
4. Seiken Densetsu (Mana) – 5.7%
5. Chrono Series – 4%
6. Itadaki Street – 3.4%
7. Kingdom Hearts – 2.9%
8. Front Mission – 2.8%
9. Valkyrie Profile – 2.7%
10. Full Metal Alchemist – 2.7%
Vagrant Story & Xenogears should be on the list. Why Square hasn’t release any VS sequel? It has so much potential, (for live action movie or anime adaptation too). Sigh..
*sighs* really why the f♥♥k is chrono series 5th when it was supposed to be the 1st one!!!!??? and what is kingdom hearts doing here?????
and Seiken Densetsu would come second final fantasy would be third and dragon quest 4th with Saga on the 5th place…
and really guys FMA??? wtf???
btw are they ever going to make another chrono game???
sigh.. the best FF games were from SquareSoft. I just don’t see why saga is in third, the gameplay is just horrible, probably as bad as Magna Carta. Front Mission was a great series with somewhat boring political stories. Sad that FM5 never came to US.
Too bad DQ will never be as popular here.
US >:
first off i think this poll fails, simply because u cant say a SERIES for titles, final fantasy for example 1 – 9 believe were SQUARESOFT before they merged with ENIX. Valkyrie Profile was an ENIX game, chrono trigger was a SQUARESOFT game. thats like saying they made Tomb Raider now that the own Eidos. what i’m trying to say is that these games ARE NOT “SquareEnix” games