Square Enix Announces New Star Ocean: “You Guessed It!”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jul 20, 2013 08:34 JST
- Tags: Announcements, RPG, Social Games, Square Enix, Star Ocean
Loyal Star Ocean fans are the latest to be given the full Square Enix treatment, as the announcement of the latest and greatest title in the Star Ocean franchise seems to have left much to be desired in their eyes.
The new title, Star Ocean: Material Trader, is an “item creation card RPG” set to be distributed by GREE on mobile platforms in the near future:
For some reason fans of the series are not happy:
“Wow!”
“It’s over now…”
“Fuck off Square!”
“God, could it get any worse…”
“They changed the character design for good measure?”
“Thanks GREE!”
“Nice to see these two great companies cooperating.”
“GREE are besmirching another great franchise with their filth I see.”
“Who cares, I already switched to western games so it is no skin off my nose!”
“I guess I should not have got excited when I saw this announcement, it is Square Enix after all.”
“They slapped the SO name on this trash but it has nothing to do with SO. Still, this isn’t some AAA franchise so perhaps this is an actual prelude to a new release?”
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fucking cockteasing cunts! not another shitcardgame!
These social games are really ruining the whole concept of playing games.
Now this is just insulting and depressing. Star Ocean is one of my favorite RPGs of all time, please go bankrupt already Square Enix.
Fuck you, Square.
Fuck. You.
And don't even bother to cry and bitch as you keep losing money. You dug your own grave. Now lay in it and die.
Stupid idiots turn a favorite RPG into a card game.. yep go die Square Enix.
I was like: wow new star
No, fuck YOU.
'Square' is something reserved for premerger SQUARESOFT, which was great under Sakaguchi's lead if only not for that one 3D movie.
Don't insult Sakaguchi's legacy by calling Square Enix what it is not.
No...no..."Square" works for both.
And Square EA from the Chrono Cross era (pun intended).
No! not until Final Fantasy 15 is release, then SE can die..
As a mobile card game.
im gonna cry.again.
Square doesn't even the rights to Star Ocean, that belongs to Tri-Ace and Sega. Last I checked.
And you would be wrong. It has always been owned by Enix now SquEnix. The developers for the various iterations have changed over the years but the owner and publisher has always been the same.
While Tri-Ace did develope the games, all of them were published and are owned by Enix(now SquareEnix). I have no idea where you pulled Sega from...
I see now, thanks to both anon(14:11) and anon(16:18, I will remember that "developed by" doesn't always mean "Owned by." Also, did Tri-Ace sign with Sega after the last Star Ocean game, or did I get that wrong too?
Well, they DID make Resonance of Fate for SEGA, but they HAVE been making quite a few more games for Konami lately. Hmm...where are these games anyway...oh yes.
--Japan Only.--
http://www.destructoid.com/tri-ace-sega-is-more-open-to-rpg-ideas-than-square-enix-143700.phtml
That tells you everything you need to know about Squeeeeenix. SEGA is a better company to make RPGs for than Squeeeeenix is.
Though tri-Ace DID develop Final Fantasy XIII-2, apparently.
Someone should go and put them out of their misery, it's the only humane thing to do =(
If they touch Radiata Stories or Xenogears, they wont need a grave, i'll be cremating them.
I don't see what the problem is. Square-enix never said they weren't making anymore Star Ocean games. We already know Square is pushing out more mobile games. I wouldn't be surprised if they made a final fantasy card based for mobile.
Plus we haven't heard in awhile what Tri-Ace is working on.
No, but Square (Enix) DID promise to stop making crap games. Or rather, that they would "Scrap the rubbish".
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/04/03/square-enix-were-going-to-scrap-all-the-rubbish/
Since then, they've gone on to:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/04/05/million-arthur-a-new-low-even-for-square-enix/ - a LAME smartphone social card diseas...err...game for the VITA,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/04/26/square-enix-announces-final-fantasy-tactics-s-not-again/ - a smartphone social disease,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/05/14/square-enix-will-focus-on-social-gaming/ - No explanation needed,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/05/17/grand-union-just-give-up-on-square-enix-already/ - a smartphone social card battle disease,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/05/26/final-fantasy-xiv-marred-by-total-wtf-ui/ - we can only hope the HUD got fixed,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/06/12/not-again-final-fantasy-xv-action-rpg/ - Even Charlie Brown isn't this big a loser at this point, as Square is just getting LAZY...this was supposed to be XIII Versus after all,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/06/14/square-enixs-fall-because-of-bad-feng-shui/ - Oh, yeah, blame all your own bad decisions on mysticism...losers,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/06/16/ff14-some-things-never-change/ - Should issues like this have been fixed by now? No or course not...
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/06/20/square-enix-theres-no-point-in-developing-hd-games/ - Uhmm...yyeeeeaaaaahhhhh...Charlie Brown is kicking your ass now, Square,
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/06/26/nomura-final-fantasy-xv-is-an-action-game/ - Wait...I thought this was supposed to be an Action RPG...where's the RPG in my RPG?
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2013/06/27/square-enix-names-wada-new-chairman/ - First they fire him for his ineptitude, now they make him their new chairman of its board...good grief.
And for the games Sankaku missed (or whatever):
Seiken Densetsu: Circle of Mana - Social Card Battle Disease.
Final Fantasy: All the Bravest - A pay-a-thon Social Disease.
Square Enix Legend World - Guess what? It's a Social Card Battle Disease!
Yay, Square (Enix). Go. Whoopie. At this point I hope they just declare bankruptcy and sell their IPs to studios who have more in their noggin' than your average scarecrow.
I prefer Squeenix to die now once and for all before it keeps ruining these franchises which used to be good (Yes, i'm looking at you, FF).
What a joke of a company.
I saw SO and jumped! Then it all came crumbling down. They seem intent on running every good name they have into the ground.
NOPE.
its over, square is finished
Oh my GAWD! THIS is just what we needed Square! Thank you! *cry uncontrollably*
Before, I thought they were dead, after seeing the shoddy work on one of the new FF games (with the "horse-birds") and the other card game. When I saw the action FF at E3, I thought they had a chance. Now I know they're dead. They could actually pull in some good profits like this, actually, but dead in the sense that they won't be making what Square fans are into anymore.
(Yeah, sorry - I don't remember which FFs they were. I'm actually a pretty disinterested third party in this. I thought they did brilliant things in 1997, and TWEWY was great, but overall if they vanished, I'd be ok. I'd rather they kick ass, but... ah well.)
Japanese developers are lost and they continue to bury their biggest franchises.
Namco just hyped up a new Ace Combat then dropped the bomb that it's a shitty F2P game too.
The newest Tekken is also F2P..
>implying they don't make gazillions of dlc even if it were full prized
I hate this thing they are doing. But it's like hating Facebook, Zynga, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony, Apple, and Angry Birds. No matter how despicable and slutty their actions are, they will continue to exist because people keep buying their shit and their shit is designed to maximize profits.
At least the others know how to MAKE money lol
If EA is good at something, it's making money off of the same thing. Facebook earns money by changing and ruining society. Squeenix earns money... or not, rather they lose it by investing in a bursting bubble
Square Enix seems to love the road that leads to bankruptcy.....
bankruptcy roaaaad
kono company zutto owari daaaa
Lets see if it can be revived on this game
Oh goodie a new Star Ocean... trading card video game... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
Final Fancy... dead - check
Kingdom Hearts... dead - check
Star Ocean... about to pull the plug - check
WHAT'S NEXT!?
Dragon Quest?
You could always revive Secret of Mana series...just to bury them again with their own hands...
SoM would be perfect... for a card game on Mobile platforms -_- Don't give them any ideas Anon... not that Squeenix would read our posts lol
Final Fantasy 15 look awesome
Kingdom Hearts 3 look great
Star Ocean, yes, its dead, I fuckin hate this announcement and the other SE Final Fantasy Tactic S mobile game.
Sincerely, I hope Square Enix to stop wasting their resource on trading card game, and make a proper game like they used to do in past.
Wow, they smacked Fayt and Sophia right upside the head with the Generic Moe Stick, didn't they?
What I don't really understand is how they think this is worth presenting in any way, shape, or form. All of this work for..this? I know the natural disasters have fucked Japan up but come on guys, what's with the apathy?
Moments like this make me pray for another video game crash.
Maybe someone should have warned them not to EAT the paint chips...? I mean, I blame squeenix' current head honcho's parents, not them directly.
It's hard for me to be angry at Square Enix that much. I'm disappointed, of course, severely, as I have been with almost everything they've done for the past ten years. But it's not like Namco, Capcom, Sega and every other fucking game company aren't doing the same thing, whoring their IPs into trading card games and cellphone games and cellphone trading card games that cost them next to nothing, require little to no effort and give them easy profits. Most anime studios are doing the same thing, too. Killing Square Enix over this is like removing one tumor when the cancer has already metastasized. You need enough chemotherapy to take the whole system down, not just one company that decided to play the game. And the treatment might just be so severe it kills the patient.
Yes, but at least THOSE companies actually still make good games regularly. Capcom? They have games coming out. Sega, obviously have games coming out. Namco has the Tales series as well as a number of other IPs to justify it. Square Enix? Oh, Final Fantasy for the next console (not that it has been anything resembling what it was when it was good since PS2 came out)... Deus Ex or whatever... and yeah, nothing for a good while.
However, when was the last time Star Ocean got a new release? 2010, then they teased another game since this series has essentially limitless possibilities; and NEVER went through with it. Now they do this whole boring-ass mobile game stuff, which yeah; is ok once in a while, but this is a total kick in the balls for everyone who's been looking forward to a new game from this IP. Star Ocean is a unique and fun series, there is no series in existence like it; but suddenly they stop doing things with it, and now they've dug it's grave.
I'm sure next week they will resort to making adult visual novels just to earn money.
I honestly like that idea...maybe they can become Illusion's next rival..since Teatime is dead now, and all the server things is being handed to Illusion.
If SE does porn though, don't make the mistake of thinking the games they make would be anything better than Illusion's.
Why? It's PORN. Things like that are supposed to thrive on high sales with very low capital, because sex is one of those things people are desperate to have no matter how fake or bad it is. Otherwise, that piece of shit Illusion made called Happy End Trigger wouldn't sell one fucking copy.
And now imagine some company to actually make quality porn...
The current Illusion is just like Squeenix, too much focus on the graphics, while ignoring the gameplay & customization aspect that made them famous.
Trigger was the worst offender because they made a generic VN. It's been going downhill ever since Artificial Academy.
Only children and the desperate settle for any old porn. Porn is elevated by its scenario and believability, and to pretend otherwise just means people don't think. Only one who somehow thinks that porn is below them is dumb enough to not recognize what makes atruly engaging and erotic porn rather than something that is just someone banging someone else. And yet stupid people continue to say the words 'lol, but its porn' as if they even know what they're talking about. These are the same people I'm sure who think they're actually good in bed with no other evidence than their own egos.
Square are begin as the eroge maker before making FF
Aiming for those downvotes, aren't we, HouseLife? lol :D
Although... I have to say I agree with your points regarding porn and having a relevant plot attached to it make or break a game.
You fags need girlfriends.....
@Miroku74
Cutting down on the selfish and the stupid always triggers down votes :P Even live action porn need eroticism, even a little. A scenario of a guy and girl having sex via a sensual encounter, a story, or even a fake rape scenario is always more erotic than just a clip of banging that starts and ends the same way. It's like having a story with no beginning or end. JAVs tend to be a lot better because they actually seem somewhat decent at this, American porn by and large just have people that don't even commit, so it just ends up being dumb no matter what the scenario. People don't think about the suspension of disbelief affecting a porn scenario, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that it does. Just like any roleplay in any sexual situation.
I've seen plenty of pretty good doujinshi and pieces of fanart that don't really have much of a plot, just a character being screwed. Would they be exceptions since the characters in question were already pre-established in other forms of media?
@Yamato
Doujinshi have a scenario, it's just whether it's weak or strong. One of the differences is your proclivity to enjoy a style. Your brain is already distracted by the style and taking in all the skill it recognizes happening on the page, and therefore it's already more entertaining than it normally would be. It's the same as when anime seems so much better by default when subbed as well. Your mind is not only preoccupied by reading and considering the lines, it's also taking in different sensory perceptions and recognizing the language behind the language generated by the scenario and the context.
@ Anon 1:33
True, but not just any girlfriend. Discussions on whether or not a scenario adds to eroticism has nothing to do with a girl or a lack of one. The irony is that one who recognizes eroticism for what it is is one who pleases a girl a lot more because they recognize that sex is about more than just themselves. I don't speak of only drawn porn or games, but all sexuality in general.
Official Tifa & Aeris porno?
Yes, I'd rather they take the plunge and venture into eroge. They'd be surprised at how much more popular they'd become overnight, when everyone's FF7 and SO ero-fantasy plots are to become official overnight.
I'm all right as long as Lymle is in the new game, 'kay?
never heard that name before.
read*
i hope this has nothing to with me ....................... i want to have some carefree gaming time !!!!
just like everyone else has. i shouldnt get this?
there is a limit to how limited i am because i seem creepy and suspicious.
my carefree gaming time surely is disturbed when i have to consider wal-mart costumer's.
Ok I might seriously consider buying that if they can keep a good plot to accompany it (If not Hire Key)
as if they can make quality h game
so they are just back to their root then?
Do what you want Squenix, just make FFXV to be good for once.
But I want Just Cause 3 :(
I guess you never played any visual novel games huh? actually some VN games have more quality and contents compared to a social card games. Don't talk like it just a money making games.