Square Enix Profits Plunge 90% “Because of FF14”

It's probably because it's no longer the same people that made those classics running Square Enix. The classics were from Squaresoft.

Cry some more Square. Cry some more.

I would play a chocobo racing game with realistic graphics. Not some cartoony one which would appeal to children. It should play like burn out paradise and you would be able to pimp out your own personal chocobo.

Fail-nix really needs to get their act together before they plunge into a firey ball of death.

@Anon 7:38

Semantics.

I'm not acting like anything. I just think they could divert their attention elsewhere.

And I like both KH and Dissidia. I'm talking about the sequels that contribute little story or gameplay wise and do nothing more than generate portable platform sales.

man, seriously why didn't they just make a remake of ff7 with some nice graphics.
they wouldn't have to care about story or gameplay, just make the graphics nice and shiny and keep everything else as it is.
as all they can do now IS graphics it would be perfect.

so, they got this product everyone's been waiting for for years and that would sell like hot cakes and what do they do?

"meh, i don't feel like it, let's make a game about a really long tunnel instead."
"oh! oh! and after that we could just try and make everything wrong!"
"yeah, that's a great idea man, let's do this! oh wait, on second thought, let china do it and we go for a drink instead"

seriously wtf sqeenix
i can understand why games become worse because companies try to appeal to casuals but this is just fucking retarded.

How about squeenix make a FF game using the old style FF gameplay (mmm, FFVI). I mean, its not like anyone ever played their games for the gameplay...

...amirite?

They should make a 2D console and publish FF on it, where it belongs.

Square-Enix crafted a whole new engine just for generating games with FF13 graphics. They clearly haven't been taking advantage of it at all... especially considering we haven't heard news of an Agito or Versus at all... and they decided to not do the FF7 remake... and they're still hung up over 14... and they keep releasing next-to-irrelevant Kingdom Hearts and Dissidia games...

i vote remake the old. then they have to put any thought into the story. their classics all the way to the ps2 era is wat made then big. why not go back to that?

Yea I hated FFX and the characters. Everyone was over acting. And I really don't care about their past backgrounds or feelings. It was like they were trying too hard to be emotional.

FFXII was great though. The characters weren't 'deep' or we weren't forced to pry into their pasts too much. They were a cool bunch of guys and did not have the tendency to scream all the time. They're there to do what they had to do.

Tidus was the worst main character in all of FF imo. I got tired of hearing him brag about being the star player on some gay soccer team.

I completely agree Dreck! FFX just didn't have that charm. It was one of the most boring gaming experiences in my life. Though a majority doesn;t think very dearly about FFXII I had much more fun playing it compared to FFX.

You Sir, Speak so much truth.

VI was the Last great one.
VII was good.
VIII tanked into Shit-Hole.
IX was Redemption.
X was the finally fall into Hell.

hah personally VIII was among my liked titles :) But IV and VI along with IX were the most enjoyable for me. They all had just enough quirks to themselves to set them apart, but they all still felt the part of a series. Really someone a fan of the series at that time looked FORWARD to the smaller changes just as much when they were sitting down for a playthrough. At the very least that was the case with myself. Does no1 else even remember just the difference the blue windows in FFIX brightened up the scheme? Even small things such as that had their worth (despite how ridiculous that sounds... even to my ears)

I've more or else gotten to where I don't play console much at all... Things have gotten too big for me I feel like I've been left behind a long time ago. Shooters no longer pace themselves, it's always run and gun. RPG's are far and few as far as the states or west are concerned (with only a few notable exceptions)

I remember buying my ps3 simply for the hopes that there would be at least quite a few ports available, especially from japan. Gone are the days of relatively unknown or small companies pumping out cult hits one after the other. Yeah sure I enjoy the blockbuster hits from time to time, but I don't need 3Dmax graphics everytime I pop in a gamedisc...

Did you just say s-s-soccer?

I disagree.
I found FFX to have a very engrossing story, mainly due to the world's background.
The timeline and the story really hit me as an epic. From the start of the game all characters seemed to have a big role, more than most rpgs in which everyone starts as an unlikely hero.
The ending in X was also excellent.

FFXII though, while I considered it to have solid gameplay, none of the characters were interesting.In fact I felt the the main antagonist was correct in both his goals and methods, after the great plot twist, so that really soured the game for me.

You just spoke my thoughts exactly.

12 turned out to be my favortie ff game because of that.

Yeah, I agree that FFX had a great storyline, but I consider that it was the last final fantasy, since the beginning was great and all, but after the guy that was writing the story was replaced, nothing made sense to me anymore