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Honestly two major Final Fantasy titles releasing in back to back years is pretty impressive for the series and Square Enix as a whole. Something we haven’t seen in a while. Literally we had to wait 5+ years for the next mainline entry ever since XII, but from XVI to VII Rebirth in less than one year that’s a pretty nice release window
I don't like that tbh. Once FFVIIR came out, SE stopped giving any attention to XVI. With XV, despite the poor state of it's initial release, they worked 3 whole years in that game, and the final result was INFINITELY SUPERIOR than the first version. They could have been done some more things with XVI, like doing a PS5 Pro patch, adding FSR3 to the game or keep trying to optimize a little better the PC port. But that didn't happened, only one year after XVI release, they abandoned it.
I think SE is just bad are marketing in general, they seem to send their games out with no or no marketing a lot, even when their games aren't releasing close together.
Yeah a couple of years ago, square released a shit ton of extremely bad/ almost incomplete games within the same year and it was an absolute disaster. I think they and other companies are beginning to learn that unreasonable deadline are killing games before they even begin. 2024 had been a very good year for games, especially RPG games.
@@UltimateGattaiwhich games? Ff7 and ff16 were all over the place. My god, they put out Advent children out again in theaters and even had a massive live-streamed celebration for ff16’s launch. I saw tv commercials for their games every day. They go all out for final fantasy.
Best bet at this point if for a Switch 2 showcase. As I’m sure Square would want to be banking on that, just like they did a bit for Switch 1 with Octopath and Dragon Quest XI But more locked in with FF9 Remake, FF Tactics and even ports of some of their bigger stuff that weren’t on the Switch 1, to be there, especially since FF isn’t doing too hot in Japan in terms of sales, opposed to DQ where it’s king there
Nope, don't want them. They will ruin them. I don't care for remake or rebirth. It's no longer final fantasy... 9 was the last real FF game have have not produced another since.
@@CD-vb9fi They've actually made alot more FFs since 9 that have been amazing. Also why is FFX not included as a "real" Final Fantasy? It's arguably the best FF.
@@venweasel 6 and 7 blow X out of the water by major numbers in my opinion 4 & 9 beats X easy too. My specific point is that 9 is the last "actual FF" made. That does not accuse X, XII, or the rest of not being okay or great games. They just are not FF, except in Title only. While I hated X myself I would at least grudgingly accept that as a FF game to some extent. The skill chart was Path of Exile not FF. My problem is the heavy bias I have in the history of FF. I grew up playing FF on NES. Now, I certainly do not expect or demand that FF have "specific" features but there needs to be a feel... 4,6,7,9 deliver on that very well and brought the franchise to memorable and long enduring regard. The first FF I hated was 8. I loved FF Tactics... To me the Pixel Remasters were such a let down. I wanted to see quality pixel artwork for the series a lot more like Octopath and they missed the boat on that. And I don't have a problem with remakes, rebirth, re-imaginations or anything like that either. But the talent that brought the series to fame is just not there anymore... neither is the mentality. The studios are just too "infected" with current day problems that afflict the AAA scene. I have been playing far more Indies the past 10 years and I have barely touched anything out of a major studio. They just don't make fun games. They are all about mindless hack and slash graphics that look paltry, cheap, and stupid. I mean... I am sick of seeing swords going through monsters and screen filling bosses all the time and the cheap "flinching" when hit nonsense. When are we going to finally use the tech we have to make the action "more convincing"? And to be fair to FF, my complaint on this is not just on them. It's on the whole industry! I want to see "quality" in games again... back then we had limitations on hardware so we had to make due... but not now... now it's cheap flim flam.
“Want to focus over quality of quantity” damn who would’ve guessed that high quality beats out over saturation? Crazy that gamers have echoed this sentiment since the early 2000’s and it just now starts to resonate with these executives. Not just for SE but all of these AAA studios/companies
@CactuarJack007 when SE was a private company, they released essentially all bangers. When shareholders entered the mix they wanted game after game after game ASAP. They just saw numbers and failed to see why the developer was thriving without unrealistic release dates.
Quality over quantity is indeed a good thing, but people focus too much on Forspoken, Foamstars, and Babylon Falls, two of the three were budget microtransaction garbage. However, there was Crisis Core Reunion, Tactics Ogre Reborn, Star Ocean the Second Story R, Live A Live, Star Ocean The Divine Force, Valkyrie Elysium, Harvestella, Diofeld Chronicles, Chrono Cross Remastered, Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song Remaster, Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origins, and Triangle Strategy. The year was actually full of great games, and early 2023 had Octopath Traveler 2 and Theatrhythm Final Bar Line. There was no quantity over quality here, it more so quantity AND quality in most of 2022 and most of these games didn't sell well. Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion was more than just a remaster, the combat system had a major overhaul and brand new textures were used to replaced everything in the game bringing it closer to a major budget PS3 release when it comes to graphics. It doesn't look as good as Lightning Returns Final Fantasy 13, but it's close. Tactics Ogre Reborn, another one of these "remasters" is a masterpiece. However, much like Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion, they only lifted the PSP version of Tactics Ogre and use that as the base of the game. So outside of the story and locations, Tactics Ogre Reborn's gameplay is completely different. The original game was one of the earliest TRPGs and it's actually a TRPG that defined many of the mechanics that we know and love from the genre today, so much so that the original game is still a fairly good game but it's got a lot of problems. They attempted to fix those problems with the PSP version but added many others and the PSP version is very grindy, and I myself would say is not a good game. They rebuilt the entire combat system and mechanics based off what was best about the original game and what was best about the PSP game and removing all the issues from both. It's the third release, but they really perfected the genre. Those are two of the best in my opinion, but what about some that are seen as the worst? I know that this video referenced the low scores of Valkyrie Elysium and Diofeld Chronicles, but Valkyrie Elysium is actually not really bad. It's not Crisis Core, it's not Final Fantasy 7 Remake, etc, but it's decent, it's actually got kind of great combat system provided you put in a couple of hours to unlock some of its underlying depth as it's all locked behind weapon upgrades. Ys8 was an amazing game, Ys9 was a bit disappointing but good, but Valkyrie Elysium is better than Ys10. Stranger of Paradise is another one that gets a lot of crap since we all know how much Jack needs to kill Chaos, but Stranger of Paradise is the closest we'll ever come to a God Hand successor. The storyline is written in such a way throughout the entire game it's a terrible storyline until the very end of the game where it comes to a full circle and at that point you'll have mixed feelings about the whole storyline because it's like, yeah, the storyline is actually great after they reference everything and you find out why they said what they said at different points in the game. However, throughout the game, the gameplay was the best thing about the game, giving us the best 3D beat em up we've seen and probably ever will see again outside of God Hand. If you like action games, this is a must play, DMC5 is better but it's also debatable that it's kind of not, I mean, DMC5 forces you to play through many stages with V. If you've ever played DMC5 and weren't one of the few people who actually like playing as this character, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. So in 2022 and early 2023, Square Enix released a huge amount of games and it deflinitely wasn't "quantity over quality" as most of these games were great and some were just good. But people ignore just how good the games this year were for Square Enix because most people just focus on the biggest games of the year, most gamers are just casual sheep that will sit there and be told what's good or bad. Most of these people haven't played the games they praise or berate and do so because a large group of people on the internet told them so.
Hell look at RGG studios as an example for this. They released Like a Dragon, then the Kiryu gaiden game that came out before infinite wealth, then infinite wealth came out, now there's a Majima game who's a fan favorite character coming out in less than 2 months. RGG isn't releasing 7 games in 3 years yet if you talk to people about the studio a whole lot of people say, including myself, that we aren't worried about the quality of the game cause it's RGG. They consistently put out great titles game after game
I think they need a smaller number of AA games that are high quality but still cost lot less to develop than Final Fantasy. It seems like a dangerous strategy to put all your eggs in the AAA basket when your AAA games, despite being high-quality games, failed to meet sales expectations. At the same time, they should absolutely put as much as they can into the final part of the FF7 Remake trilogy. I know there are a lot of people who are interested in it but don't care to buy it until all the games are released. They could also offer a discounted trilogy bundle. I also really hope that we get more Mana games. I had a great time with Visions of Mana, and I think it laid a solid foundation to build from in future Mana games.
In regard to double A, atleast in Japan, week 1 sales of Romancing SaGa 2 remake outsold Metaphor's week 1 sales, so for atleast the japanese market... the problem with SE games is when the budget start to balloon out of control, FFXVI development budget was only around 59 million USD, while Forspoken was 100 million and FFVII remke was 140 million (granted both of those games had serious development problems, while FFXVI development problem was the PS4 version that was scrapped)
Waiting on DQ12 is painful man I want it so bad. I believe when they showed us the logo for the game, they also said in an interview that this DQ will be darker than the previous entries… I was so hype to hear that. It has been almost 8(?) years since DQ11 came out like c’mon man hurry up. The 2d HD remakes are actually making the wait harder lol
I'm legit losing hope for it. ATLUS I understand why they do that because they don't want dev updates to ruin sales but SE can afford to show SOMETHING about the game.
One thing I read was that SE is probably forced to wait with FF9R because its a Switch 2 launch title and Nintendo is well.. Nintendo. It also follows very similar silence to other things we know are in the works for Nintendo but seemingly only get crickets this year down to not even any leaks. Feels like Nintendo is being like Rockstar here using their weight to make the industry wait with all their reveals and shit until they do their Switch 2 showing somewhere early next year. Until then nothing gets out and nothing gets leaked.
I mentioned this before, but why would be Square-Enix holding back the reveal of Final Fantasy IX remake just because of the Nintendo Switch 2, since the original game was released on the PSOne 25 years ago and it wasn't playable on a Nintendo console until it was ported to the Switch back in 2019? I don't know if the majority of Nintendo players, both old or new have any knowledge or nostalgia attached to FFIX, it's not like people wanted Zidane or Vivi to be playable on Super Smash Bros. I mean, I'm sure a Final Fantasy IX remake would be a multiplatform title, but would be a Nintendo-oriented title despite having more history with the PSOne? Or is it because out of all of the PS FF games IX is the one that's more influenced by the first 6 FF games that came out on Nintendo consoles and Square-Enix has released more games inspired on old-school FF on Nintendo consoles like FF: Four Heroes of Light, Bravely Default and Second and Octopath Traveller and for that reason a FFIX remake would be a better fit for Nintendo, especially because of its cartoony and colorful artstyle?
@@pablocasas5906 It's strictly because of their new multiplatform strategy, and waiting for a Switch 2 reveal event to showcase an FF9 remake is the smartest move. The biggest gaming events are the ones held by the platform holders, and Nintendo directs are by far some of the most popular with the most eyes on them. If the Switch 2 reveal really is in early 2025, then Square knows exactly what they're doing.
@@pablocasas5906 I mean maybe? I’m tbh not sure. Either they want to reveal it coming to all consoles instantly to not cause any costumer confusion and revealing this title to be runable on the Switch 2 would be a big no no for Nintendo given that they want to present the systems graphical capabilities. Not some 3rd party remake title half a year in advance. That or maybe they feel like IX could benefit from that DQ energy or oldschool FF and/or cartoony shit generally just works well on Nintendo consoles like you said. They might also have some console exclusive stuff going for the Switch 2 perhaps they are tight lipped about. Either way I never really could recall a game being announced only for a competitor revealing their console and then for the game publisher to retroactively announce ‘oh yeah we’re releasing on that console come launch too’ although I bet there are some examples. Another idea is that FF9R is a launch title for the Switch 2 first and foremost. So the game is announced and the release date is revealed congruently with the Switch 2. Then it would make more sense to wait for that reveal too instead of it being a happy coincidence after the fact. I find more fault and questionmarks with Nintendo for waiting so stupidly long. Its reaching GTA levels and I bet the reason is equally stupid just like Rockstar. Something about them wanting one more holiday round of sales for the Switch. It’s so dumb. Also makes me wonder why they couldn’t just have the console ready for this holiday. Unless they reveal now and the release is literally next year November lol. Which would be insane. So yeah I dunno, all I know is that allot of titles that are rumored Switch 2 titles like Pokémon Legends ZA are conspicuously silent for a long long time. Its all the same pattern.
@@Kingdom850 Yeah or this indeed. Just really dumb how long Nintendo is waiting with this reveal. I honestly wonder if it will be even January or February. I feel like they might literally wait till March lmao.
SE has a marketing problem. I actually think whoever does the cuts for their trailers is ultimately responsible for the failure in sales we are seeing. If i wasnt already a final fantasy fan and had seen the final release trailers for Rebirth I straight up would have slept on that game. How am i meant to care when i watch a supercut of incoherant footage with lines like "im waiting Cloud" thrown in the mix. Make us understand why the combat system is incredible. Be more selective and slow paced with your cuts so we can focus on a particularly cool moment and take in all the cinema like direction choices. To a lesser degree it was the same with XVI, I actually think the coolest marketing they did was the live action trailer. That should have played as an early marketing piece at an award show or showcase instead of being lost in a much smaller event.
Whoever was in charge of marketing NEO: TWEWY should be fired. That was an incredible game with a terrible marketing campaign and did not deserve the poor sales it got.
Yeah, it makes sense. There's been some worrying that perhaps Enix and Armor Project would try to make DQXII a PlayStation 5 exclusive, but it doesn't make much sense considering how bad the PS5 is performing sales wise in Japan, don't know how powerful the Switch's successor is going to be, but at least it'll have to be a bit more powerful than a PS4 Pro, and Dragon Quest games have never been huge graphical showcases, I'm sure Armor Project would like to reach the most players they can. The thing is that mainline Dragon Quest games always release on the most popular game console in Japan, the first 6 games were released on Nintendo consoles, VIII was released on the PSOne and VIII on the PS2, but IX was released on the DS which took many gamers in the West by surprise and X was later released on the Wii. Dragon Quest XI was an interesting case in which Armor Project developed two different versions, one for the PS4 and another one for the 3DS, since they couldn't ignore that there were more people playing on the 3DS compared to the PS4
It's too late to promote a remake of FF9 for 2025. They would have had to start advertising it already. Besides, three are strong industry insider rumours and indications spreading that the FF9 Remake has been cancelled. So it's probably a good idea to start managing your expectations about it.
That is a horrific waste of resources and they deserve to have their company revert to AA status if they scrap something as important as an FF9 remake.
At this point its either cancelled or stuck waiting for Nintendo to announce the switch 2 so they can release it on all platforms at once per their new strategy.
Sad to see FFT: War of the lions isn't openly planned for PC port _again._ Google has their Play Games android marketplace as a PC desktop emulator now, its worth checking out; it's still in beta but it seems really great so far. But sadly, FFTWOTL isn't available on that, either, despite being available for dedicated android devices 😥(tbh that still wouldn't replace a PC port, don't really want to play WOTL w/ touch controls.) But Bubble Bobble, eh? I might cough over 10 bucks for that. That undead whale still gives me nightmares 😬
What was it if you happen to know? I can't find any information on this supposedly new trailer but I found it hard to believe Square would pass on the Game Awards and give an unseen trailer to a much smaller event no one has heard of before.
@ The Grand Game Awards boasted that Square Enix would show a trailer at the award program. They didn’t explicitly say it was a NEW trailer. It was for Rebirth on PC.
I still can’t believe that Rebirth didn’t sell more…. I swear people have no taste anymore. Kids these days would rather play the same copy and paste battle royales.
It costs $100 CAD and 2024 was str8 up stacked for excellent games (Metaphor, Wukong, etc.) It was also a PS exclusive. And the third one will be too Lmao. Square is screwed.
To be fair there are a couple valid reasons why it didn't. Releasing exclusively on PS5 (which sold much less than PS4) Being a sequel title FF7 Remake having controversial story changes Many people waiting for Part 3 to release before diving in to the entire trilogy all at once.
They should only went back to lesser known IP AA games only when they are able to deliver strong sales of AAA game first just like how Capcom did. Capcom used to be in a position like Square and then they focus on only developing quality Resident Evil and Monster Hunter. When they are in a healthy financial position, they invested in their lesser IP - Dragon’s Dogma and now Okami and Onimusha.
The Japanese need to realize that the only mobile games that do well globally are the AAA Multiplatform ones made by Chinese devs…inspired by JRPGs LOL (Hoyoverse, Wuthering Waves, PGR, etc). Their 2025 mobile games that do won’t make it to 2026.
DQ12 is probably near completion actually. They've been working on it for 5 years now, with planning stages started in late 2016 and early 2017. They were already hiring out for DQ12 in late 2019, so that's when the project went into full development with a completed story and scenario, and the base prototype for their new battle engine worked out and ready to go into full development. When it was announced in 2021, it was already in full development. DQ12 they're probably doing fine tuning etc. and want everything core completed prior to 2026, as May 27th, 2026 is the 40th anniversary, and 10 years out from when DQ11 was first released in Japan for the 30th Anniversary. That would fit perfectly with a proper send-off to Akira Toriyama and Koichi Sugiyama, as both men completed their work for the game prior to their passing. Horii has also mentioned he wants to make 12 a homage to the original trio of him and his late friends and compatriots. So I fully expect the core game is already completed and would be ready to go except for any extras, series homages/callbacks/easter eggs like DQ9's Legacy bosses and Inn guests, or DQ11's Tickington.
'Quality over quantity' It was the failure or only mild success of some of their AAA games that got them in this situation in the first place! It just seems like doubling down on that. And it means a bunch of IPs are going to go dormant again so they can pump out more FF and DQ or something. That doesn't sound good to me. Like, some of these games took many years and cost a ton. Like Forespoken. That WAS a AAA game like they're describing and it flopped. Spending even more time and money on it probably wouldn't have helped. They released a ton of AA games way too close together to properly market them or let them breathe. Not to mention doing it in the fall when other big games usually hit. That was a faiure to properly coordinate their releases. 1 AAA game... like Forespoken? Like, this new plan won't magically make all their releases good. That quality is not assured. Fewer, bigger games just makes for more feast or famine. No chance of surprise hits. And flops like Forespoken hurt even more. I hope we get remasters or whatever of 9 and T. But it's been so long, I dunno.... I don't know. I hope you're right.
Valkyrie Elysium had more RPG mechanics than FF16 lmao. But my god, it was such a bland game compared to earlier Valkyrie games. VP: Lenneth is a PS1 classic.
Bro I don't even want to think about how terrible it is. Literally a trash rehash of the first game's story but infinitely inferior. I paid extra to get it early too.. such a waste
The shotgun approach they took with all those games at that time was nuts, not only did those games cannibalise each other, but none of them were terribly good either. Although I personally enjoyed Harvestella, that was a decent game.
Not really surprised about the "change of heart" with the company - considering how they pretty much failed with the industrial style games output - but dunnoo if that really chnages anything in terms oif real quality, which is about writing and style mostly - imo. P.S. I need a FF8 remake!
If you expect anything new from them any time soon, don’t hold your breath. With them going “full 3rd party” now, that everyone cheering on about, the games will take even longer if they have to release the games sinuously on ps, Xbox and pc. This is especially true if they want to keep it the same quality they were when they were “exclusive” lol.
Weird conclusion to come to. All those AA games they released were all multiplatform and didn't take any longer to release. The same tech that's in the PS5 is in the Xbox Series line, and obviously PC is stronger than both.
@ rebirth nor remake were multiplatform on release. FF16 wasn’t either. In fact the dev for 16,Yoshi P, said the reason why they could bring the game out as early as they did was BECAUSE they had the luxury to only focus on one platform/hardware while building the game, and the reason it WASN’T on PC the same day it was on PS5 is because side they didn’t want to delay its release. This is why I have the take and opinion that I have. It isn’t coming out of nowhere nor platform loyalty. It’s what SE devs themselves have said.
I hope they don't abandon AA games in favor of AAA with this new quality over quantity strategy. Though I also hope the reduction in the amount of games they make per year allows them be of better quality and all to be properly marketed as well. Also I'm hoping if FFIX remake gets announced it's not some crazy trilogy like FFVIIR is and a more faithful remake along the lines of Trials of Mana. Just with some added content to flesh out some characters, Freya and Amarant, as well as some story moments. I only have a few minor issues with the original game and it doesn't need a complete overhaul like they did for VII, heck that game didn't need it either IMO.
The IP is still doing stuff. You need to play more mobile games. I play Last Cloudia and they have had 2 collabs already. I have Lenneth, Freya and Arngrim in my roster. The game lives on in spirit, you just have to look for it!
@@NoctLightCloud Actually, i was thinking of Cid when i wrote that, but i like it when people project their own thoughts. That and the DQ hd2d remake that I was excited for. Not buying woke crap though. I’ll emulate the originals.
@@khatdubell How is Cid woke? I played the German OG7 version back then and the translation wasn't the best. If you mean less swearing, I'm all for it as it wasn't done well anyways. Also, he wasn't swearing in Advent Children either iirc.
@@NoctLightCloud Don't try to change what i said. I called the DQ HD2D remake woke. I didn't call cid woke, i said he was made for the mythical """"""""""modern audience""""""" I can't tell you what cid was like in the german version of FF7, but I CAN tell you that that _thing_ in rebirth isn't cid from the english version of FF7. It might have his face, but it doesn't have anything close to his personality. Which means it might as well as be a completely different character.
@khatdubell I agree, he's different, but what does that have to do with "the modern audience"? (also you didnt say that. I can't read your mind...?) And modern audience and woke are meant as synonymes. You're trying to make an argument out of thin air at this point.
It sounds good in theory, but I really would like to dig further into how they define quality. Hope it isn't just improving the size of the map and better graphics, but at the risk of having less to actually do. People just want to have fun with likeable characters
I enjoyed the 2 star ocean remakes more. Rather have more remakes of star ocean and/or a new mainline star ocean game instead of the final fantasy games.
Yep... these are not really "remakes" Star Ocean is... it's trying to stay true to origin but FF's are not remakes... they are straight up new and different games with the same story. It's just not FF anymore. The only franchise that was successful in change this much that I can think of was Metroid Prime. FF9 was the last real FF game they made.
As much as I love ff9, I would have loved to see them remake ff8 first. And I doubt the ff9 remake is coming next year. If it was square enix would have announced it in 2020 or something as they have a terrible habit of announcing games years before they are ready.
It's not a big deal, but why do people refer to remake and rebirth as "mainline" ff titles? I thought the 16 numbered ff titles are the mainline ones, and several of those have had spin offs, sequels etc.
They should bring back First Soldier, but make it a true BR available on all consoles. I think making it mobile-only was their biggest mistake on that title and the reason it never really took off.
Considering that most of their games have a similar target audience and with FF 16 and Rebirth releasing in a short window it really makes them compete with each other quite fervently.
I do not think FFIX Remake would meet sales expectations because it was not as popular as VII and also that failed to meet sales expectations as a Remake with solid gameplay. Higher quality does not lead to sales but perhaps if there are less other Final Fantasy releases diluting the sales it might work out.... depending on how much AAA cost went into it. Honestly they need to scale back on AAA not double down... the games need to be made with a budget limitation because honestly that second half of FFXVI felt like they ran out.
It would be nice if some of the budget from those canceled titles went back into Final Fantasy 14, considering it's the only thing SE makes that is actually considered profitable enough.
Eh, bought Diofield Chronicle, Valkyrie Elysium and pretty much all the other AA games SE put out recently and loved them. Valkyrie Elysium was a particular highlight. I do still agree that it might be better to focus on doing less of those types of games in such a short timespan. I mean, they basically were competing against themselves while also failing to market any of their games. But, the games are worth making, and worth owning and playing for fans. Not everything needs to be a AAA-sized game that takes 5 years to make and SE is (was?) one of the only companies left that seemed to understand that there's value in the smaller scope experimentation (and platform support). I just hope this doesn't mean they are going to take that away. Can't think of owning a Switch 2 or PS5 someday without the support of SE, tbh (especially with PS5 being where they are almost exclusively the only developer giving the console any game support at all). They make like 90% of the non-Nintendo Japanese games worth playing at this point, since pretty much all the other companies have either closed or simply can't get games out the door anymore.
This sounds like great news honestly. I don't even bother with 6/10 games when my backlog consists of so many 8/10-10/10 games. So if SE releases a bunch of mid games that I never plan on playing then they are just wasting their money in regards to me personally. Meanwhile if they release just a couple high quality games that I won't be able to pass up on then they will make more money off of me.
Square not hitting sales expectations with XVI and VII Rebirth was all their own doing though. They decided "Hey we're going to do console exclusivity with Sony again." and it isn't like it didn't work with Remake as that helped sell plenty of PS4's back in the day...however PS5's were scarce due to scalpers, not to mention by the time XVI and VII rebirth released anyone who owned one got one already. People are also taking more and more to PC gaming, why buy a console that'll be replaced in a couple of years when you can build a PC that will last you longer and out perform those consoles? Free online gaming, multiple store fronts, emulation, has keyboard and mouse support I could go on but you get my point. Square's execs are not following the current trends and are instead chasing instant profits with console exclusivity rights. I get it, FFVII and Final Fantasy as a whole have been a sony main stay for years. All the way up to FFXII. But XIII showed (despite it's mid reviews) that a final fantasy game can do well on other platforms. Square just walked backwards with XVI and VII Remake trilogy. I hope they stop this, because those employees did not deserve to be let go because of bungling from the top.
THe other thing that will help is not listen to idiot companies like Sweet Baby Inc, HIT Inc, and of course, their "ETHICS DEPARTMENT!!!". Yeah, if their ethics department was actually about ethics, they would have said how unethical it was to suddenly replace their original English voice cast on a whim, instead of Tifa being so heavily toned down... Which was the compromise because they wanted her gone.
Trouble is, more time and a bigger budget doesn't at all guarantee a better game. Sometimes you have something that was designed flawed from the ground up and comes out a mess after ten years of development. Sometimes you get a Final Fantasy XV.
isn't it weird people complained when Square-Enix took a very long time to develop and release new Final Fantasy game, now they released 1 after the other, people didn't buy
I think I overall agree with this video but I personally feel that games like Valkyrie Elysium or Diofield were just 1 more year of development time and a decent marketing budget away from being successful. Square really did them dirty. Neo TWEWY was especially painful because that game was truly great but basically received no marketing. Like literally almost nothing when it potentially could have captured part of that Persona audience and been successful. But now most of these franchises probably won't see the light of day for the foreseeable future. I only hope that Square earns their renaissance era like Capcom and Sega to the point that they can properly revive their old IPs.
Open world desing is A problem in Long runs Open world is a really Big risk It will exaggerate resources so hard down the line and Even you can do it your game need to be 9.5-10/10 to make success Persona games know that well that why they never care about open world SE make the right call with charm of HD-2D But My persnal take " Let open world go SE , make game gene and type that people do not focus on openworld (so many type of game people do not care about open world) and make it fun + great for replayable and you will secure profit + stablelity +success in long run"
SE should Just stop wasting money on consultants that represent the concerns of less than 1 percent of their player base while making games less appealing to the other 99 percent. Nihon Falcom has been killing it and slowly enlarging a fan base with consistent quality releases while keeping the people who buy and play their games at the forefront. Maybe they could take a look at Final Fantasy 10 again and see why it was so loved while being super linear. I remember when the puzzles in games actually made you have to think.
Doesn't matter to me. (PC gamer only). Bought all of it. Already bought Rebirth and waiting on its release in Jan. *FF game, Single player, on PC? Here's my money!!!!!!!
Still waiting when Square Enix realises that many want a Xenogears remake, be it in co operation with Monolith soft so the whole world can enjoy this masterpiece....But they keep playing dumb.
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. square seems to be out of touch with the gamers and they seem to bleed cash somewhere. look at games like bravely defualt which completely caught them off guard back in the day and look at tomb raider and hitman absolution both of witch sold well but didn't meet their expections. the development process REALLY needed a change.
Potentially controversial opinion coming, but honestly as someone more or less waiting for the rebirth trilogy to be all out on pc before playing them, I'd honestly prefer 10 games of varying quality than waiting long periods between releases. As someone who more or less only plays rpgs (admittedly with a very large backlog of both games I've bought, and games i haven't yet purchased) it can be rather boring having to wait 1-5 months between games i'm into to drop if i even want to play them at all . For example i haven't played Kingdom hearts since 358/2 not out of hate or anything just a lack of interest, so if kh4 will be more or less the only game of the year that is focused on then outside of titles from other companies i'm gonna be pretty darn bored, it's games like octopath traveler visions of mana diofield and the like that are going to keep my interest and it'll suck to lose that for something that i know i'm not gonna care about.
Square Enix games despite their quality in the past decade have been financial flops, but most of them have been great games that just haven't met expectations or haven't sold at all. They've been the pinnacle of development from RPG publishers. In 2022, despite the poor sales people focus on Platinum games developed Babylon's Fail, Forspoken, and Foamstars. Even a blind deaf person could have told you that this microtransaction shovelware garbage would fail, this same person would tell you that absolutely no one has any interest in Forspoken. Were they even following up with the developers of these games to see what was being developed? However, the amount of good games developed in 2022 was pretty significant and the problem was that a lot of games didn't sell regardless of quality. Now I absolutely could write a book on it all, but for brevity, outside of the trash that I mentioned above, the worst game and it's still a decent game at the very least, was Valkyrie Elysium. It was just a rough game at the start with the depth of this poor man's DMC combat locked behind weapon levels that you'd acquire as you progress. Square Enix though developed some absolutely amazing games in 2022 and two of them are some of my favorite games in their respective genres. Crisis Core and Tactics Ogre Reborn. These were not just remasters of classic action RPGs and TRPGs, but pseudo remakes of these games where they took the core games and completely reworked their combat systems, fixing all of the issues that these games had, making Crisis Core a substantially better game and literally perfecting Tactics Ogre Reborn(it is one of the few TRPGs deserving of a 10/10.) This even extended into 2023 with many other games great lower budget games that were pseudo remakes of previous games. There was definitely not a Forspoken or Foamstars for every Octopath Traveler 2, etc. Now you mentioned Atlus and I'll even pull Falcom into the conversation because people love circle jerking over these developers now, now that they've become popular. Go play any SMT, SMT spinoff, or Persona game, and then go play another one. There's one distinction that can be made with the games and that's the progression of all these games are identical, the gameplay itself is near identical. Now this is in the last decade of course, but aside from the calendar bs and the slight variation on combat like the one more, press turn, baton pass, the demon combo system, sabbath system, etc, etc, etc, etc, the fundamental core combat is identical and these games are honestly the same game with a different coat of paint. Or is there even a different coat of paint when Soul Hackers 2 is more or less a bad SMT Nocturne that they may as well have just remade SMT Nocturnes with modernn graphics and it'd have been a far better experience. SMT5 is just a worse SMT Nocturne. Persona 5 is just a worse SMT Nocturne with a calendar system just to waste the players time playing an 80 hour game that realistically should have ended 60 hours prior. You get the idea. Well, Falcom is the exact same, because just play any of these 83.5 Trails games released in the past two years and you'll have played them all. 98% of the storyline is fluff while a whole two percent is actually relevant. The combat system on every single game is identical for the past 15-20 years except that each game has some sort of mechanical quirk that makes the overall difference very subtle. These companies are just giving us a rehash of the same game year after year after year after year, and then when they don't give us the same game, when they are like, here, here's a more modern Ys game, and then they give us another, and then another and then Ys8 just blows us away with quality, Falcom then takes that good will and takes a dump on it all, but shoving all this drivel down our throat. The padding included in Ys10 is obnoxious. If you want to talk about a bad game, Ys10 is a bad game. Valkyrie Elysium may not be a Crisis Core or Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but Ys10 is an even worse game. So I'll leave you with this remark, my opinion, is that most people have sh** taste and good games don't always sell. Atlus actually released a different style of game in a long while with Persona 5 Tactica and that game failed to sell any reasonable amount. For once it's not the same game again and again and people just ignore it... well, sortof, it is still Persona 5, but it's a TRPG.
FF7 Rebirth, FF16, Dragon Quest 3, Visions of Mana, Octpath Traveler 2, Tactics Ogre, Live a Live, Triangle Stategy since 2022 Are the Saga games and Star Ocean games good. Never played on but that could be on the list. People focus on the bad too much now a days, Square has put out plenty of bangers over the recent years. Gamers just don't buy single player games anymore. Oh you can think of 5 games over the past 3 years that sold, let me change my opinion ;) Oh just make good games, I'm sure Square hadn't thought of that.
The fact that it took them this long to get into the mentality of quality over quantity shows how moronic their leadership is overall. Atlus and RGG release a few games every few years and they sell like crazy cause they're actually good games. Take Persona 3 Reload and Like a Dragon infinite wealth as an example for both. Took a bit to come out but they sold well. Now RGG has a Majima game in Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii as a Gaiden type game like the Kiryu game was before infinite wealth came out. I dont have to worry about RGG putting out a stinkfest like square enix does
You know im sad im older and I don't have time to play these smaller SE games like visions, valkyrie elisium, dio chronicles and the new saga game. Even of those game end up not being great it reminded me of the PS2 era where there tons of jrpgs.
Personally, I pretty like Diofield Chronicles but the story and RPG elements could have been work out better. What Square is doing is very similar to what Marvel is doing for their TV shows and Movies. Put out less and put more much better quality stuff.
Kingdom Hearts is literally killing itself off as a franchise with these extremely long dev times. time between Dream Drop Distance and KH3 was 6 years, and now the distance between KH3 and KH4 has been 6 years and counting. Thats over a decade since the tail end of the classic Kingdom Hearts games and nearly 2 decades since KH2. They made a massive mistake not just starting afresh with Verum Rex/Versus XIII, because there won't be any KH fans left when KH4 comes out.
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Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or am I seeing Dying Light on a SquareEnix upcoming game list?
don't buy the game on keystores, the developer get ZERO money from there... ZERO
just bought the twin pack, thanks for the recommendation! ( i also want them to make less game but therefore more high quality games) games we have fallen in love with back then were not made to be consumed in masses, many games these days are so rushed that it is really bad for their quality
can we admit that making a game exclusive to a specific console and expecting it to sell well is like expecting a boulder to skip on a lake
Honestly two major Final Fantasy titles releasing in back to back years is pretty impressive for the series and Square Enix as a whole. Something we haven’t seen in a while. Literally we had to wait 5+ years for the next mainline entry ever since XII, but from XVI to VII Rebirth in less than one year that’s a pretty nice release window
And FF14 Dawntrail was released this year as well. It's fine if Final Fantasy took a break in 2025 lol
I don't like that tbh. Once FFVIIR came out, SE stopped giving any attention to XVI. With XV, despite the poor state of it's initial release, they worked 3 whole years in that game, and the final result was INFINITELY SUPERIOR than the first version. They could have been done some more things with XVI, like doing a PS5 Pro patch, adding FSR3 to the game or keep trying to optimize a little better the PC port. But that didn't happened, only one year after XVI release, they abandoned it.
Yeah that's why it's so bad.
Less titles per year for SE means they can appropriately market their game and not have their games cannibalize each other.
It's fewer titles.....eek gad
I think SE is just bad are marketing in general, they seem to send their games out with no or no marketing a lot, even when their games aren't releasing close together.
Yeah a couple of years ago, square released a shit ton of extremely bad/ almost incomplete games within the same year and it was an absolute disaster.
I think they and other companies are beginning to learn that unreasonable deadline are killing games before they even begin.
2024 had been a very good year for games, especially RPG games.
@@UltimateGattaiwhich games? Ff7 and ff16 were all over the place. My god, they put out Advent children out again in theaters and even had a massive live-streamed celebration for ff16’s launch. I saw tv commercials for their games every day. They go all out for final fantasy.
The best years of Square were when they were releasing banger after banger on PS1. They need to just give up on AAA and make good games.
FFIX Remake and FFT Remaster were leaked over three years ago and have yet to be announced. Hopefully we hear something about them soon.
Best bet at this point if for a Switch 2 showcase. As I’m sure Square would want to be banking on that, just like they did a bit for Switch 1 with Octopath and Dragon Quest XI
But more locked in with FF9 Remake, FF Tactics and even ports of some of their bigger stuff that weren’t on the Switch 1, to be there, especially since FF isn’t doing too hot in Japan in terms of sales, opposed to DQ where it’s king there
@@madkaiser4887probably Next TGS or game awards.
There's no evidence though. It's not really a credible leak if there's no pictures or any tangible proof of their existence.
@@ForTheViolence I doubt TGS or next TGA, given that nothing major from them was shown as those events THIS YEAR
Rumor mill has been going hard that FF9 remake will launch with Switch 2 which is slated for first half of 2025.
They need to drop FF XIII ports to current gen consoles
The pc ports are in a really shitty spot. Lightning returns is ok but the first two games run so bad. I put up with a lot and it was really bad
Romancing Saga 2 is a STELLAR AA experience. Really hope Saga remains a priority for SE!
Dragon Quest III is killing it though. Hope SE finally give DQVIII the treatment it deserves
What do you mean? The 3DS version was pretty solid and makes a good companion to the handheld remakes of IV through VII.
@@kinggoldark3853 I mean proper PC and current gen consoles port 4k 60fps, personally i don't like to play on that small screen...
2025 would be the perfect year for FF9 Remake and Tactics Remaster
Please this, please!!!
Nope, don't want them. They will ruin them. I don't care for remake or rebirth. It's no longer final fantasy... 9 was the last real FF game have have not produced another since.
@@CD-vb9fi They've actually made alot more FFs since 9 that have been amazing.
Also why is FFX not included as a "real" Final Fantasy? It's arguably the best FF.
Why does FF9 even need a remake? Its a whimsical chibi adventure, it doesn't benefit from advanced graphics or gameplay like FF7 or FF8.
@@venweasel 6 and 7 blow X out of the water by major numbers in my opinion 4 & 9 beats X easy too. My specific point is that 9 is the last "actual FF" made. That does not accuse X, XII, or the rest of not being okay or great games. They just are not FF, except in Title only. While I hated X myself I would at least grudgingly accept that as a FF game to some extent. The skill chart was Path of Exile not FF.
My problem is the heavy bias I have in the history of FF. I grew up playing FF on NES. Now, I certainly do not expect or demand that FF have "specific" features but there needs to be a feel... 4,6,7,9 deliver on that very well and brought the franchise to memorable and long enduring regard.
The first FF I hated was 8. I loved FF Tactics... To me the Pixel Remasters were such a let down. I wanted to see quality pixel artwork for the series a lot more like Octopath and they missed the boat on that.
And I don't have a problem with remakes, rebirth, re-imaginations or anything like that either. But the talent that brought the series to fame is just not there anymore... neither is the mentality. The studios are just too "infected" with current day problems that afflict the AAA scene.
I have been playing far more Indies the past 10 years and I have barely touched anything out of a major studio. They just don't make fun games. They are all about mindless hack and slash graphics that look paltry, cheap, and stupid.
I mean... I am sick of seeing swords going through monsters and screen filling bosses all the time and the cheap "flinching" when hit nonsense. When are we going to finally use the tech we have to make the action "more convincing"?
And to be fair to FF, my complaint on this is not just on them. It's on the whole industry! I want to see "quality" in games again... back then we had limitations on hardware so we had to make due... but not now... now it's cheap flim flam.
“Want to focus over quality of quantity” damn who would’ve guessed that high quality beats out over saturation? Crazy that gamers have echoed this sentiment since the early 2000’s and it just now starts to resonate with these executives. Not just for SE but all of these AAA studios/companies
@CactuarJack007 when SE was a private company, they released essentially all bangers. When shareholders entered the mix they wanted game after game after game ASAP. They just saw numbers and failed to see why the developer was thriving without unrealistic release dates.
Quality over quantity is indeed a good thing, but people focus too much on Forspoken, Foamstars, and Babylon Falls, two of the three were budget microtransaction garbage.
However, there was Crisis Core Reunion, Tactics Ogre Reborn, Star Ocean the Second Story R, Live A Live, Star Ocean The Divine Force, Valkyrie Elysium, Harvestella, Diofeld Chronicles, Chrono Cross Remastered, Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song Remaster, Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origins, and Triangle Strategy.
The year was actually full of great games, and early 2023 had Octopath Traveler 2 and Theatrhythm Final Bar Line.
There was no quantity over quality here, it more so quantity AND quality in most of 2022 and most of these games didn't sell well. Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion was more than just a remaster, the combat system had a major overhaul and brand new textures were used to replaced everything in the game bringing it closer to a major budget PS3 release when it comes to graphics. It doesn't look as good as Lightning Returns Final Fantasy 13, but it's close.
Tactics Ogre Reborn, another one of these "remasters" is a masterpiece. However, much like Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion, they only lifted the PSP version of Tactics Ogre and use that as the base of the game. So outside of the story and locations, Tactics Ogre Reborn's gameplay is completely different. The original game was one of the earliest TRPGs and it's actually a TRPG that defined many of the mechanics that we know and love from the genre today, so much so that the original game is still a fairly good game but it's got a lot of problems. They attempted to fix those problems with the PSP version but added many others and the PSP version is very grindy, and I myself would say is not a good game. They rebuilt the entire combat system and mechanics based off what was best about the original game and what was best about the PSP game and removing all the issues from both. It's the third release, but they really perfected the genre.
Those are two of the best in my opinion, but what about some that are seen as the worst?
I know that this video referenced the low scores of Valkyrie Elysium and Diofeld Chronicles, but Valkyrie Elysium is actually not really bad. It's not Crisis Core, it's not Final Fantasy 7 Remake, etc, but it's decent, it's actually got kind of great combat system provided you put in a couple of hours to unlock some of its underlying depth as it's all locked behind weapon upgrades. Ys8 was an amazing game, Ys9 was a bit disappointing but good, but Valkyrie Elysium is better than Ys10.
Stranger of Paradise is another one that gets a lot of crap since we all know how much Jack needs to kill Chaos, but Stranger of Paradise is the closest we'll ever come to a God Hand successor. The storyline is written in such a way throughout the entire game it's a terrible storyline until the very end of the game where it comes to a full circle and at that point you'll have mixed feelings about the whole storyline because it's like, yeah, the storyline is actually great after they reference everything and you find out why they said what they said at different points in the game. However, throughout the game, the gameplay was the best thing about the game, giving us the best 3D beat em up we've seen and probably ever will see again outside of God Hand. If you like action games, this is a must play, DMC5 is better but it's also debatable that it's kind of not, I mean, DMC5 forces you to play through many stages with V. If you've ever played DMC5 and weren't one of the few people who actually like playing as this character, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
So in 2022 and early 2023, Square Enix released a huge amount of games and it deflinitely wasn't "quantity over quality" as most of these games were great and some were just good. But people ignore just how good the games this year were for Square Enix because most people just focus on the biggest games of the year, most gamers are just casual sheep that will sit there and be told what's good or bad. Most of these people haven't played the games they praise or berate and do so because a large group of people on the internet told them so.
Hell look at RGG studios as an example for this. They released Like a Dragon, then the Kiryu gaiden game that came out before infinite wealth, then infinite wealth came out, now there's a Majima game who's a fan favorite character coming out in less than 2 months. RGG isn't releasing 7 games in 3 years yet if you talk to people about the studio a whole lot of people say, including myself, that we aren't worried about the quality of the game cause it's RGG. They consistently put out great titles game after game
Wow, I thought Diofield was great, surprised to see that the meta score is so low...now if you had said Triangle Strategy, I would have agreed.
I think they need a smaller number of AA games that are high quality but still cost lot less to develop than Final Fantasy. It seems like a dangerous strategy to put all your eggs in the AAA basket when your AAA games, despite being high-quality games, failed to meet sales expectations.
At the same time, they should absolutely put as much as they can into the final part of the FF7 Remake trilogy. I know there are a lot of people who are interested in it but don't care to buy it until all the games are released. They could also offer a discounted trilogy bundle.
I also really hope that we get more Mana games. I had a great time with Visions of Mana, and I think it laid a solid foundation to build from in future Mana games.
In regard to double A, atleast in Japan, week 1 sales of Romancing SaGa 2 remake outsold Metaphor's week 1 sales, so for atleast the japanese market... the problem with SE games is when the budget start to balloon out of control, FFXVI development budget was only around 59 million USD, while Forspoken was 100 million and FFVII remke was 140 million (granted both of those games had serious development problems, while FFXVI development problem was the PS4 version that was scrapped)
Square needs to just follow exactly the blueprint that Capcom has laid out over the last 7 years.
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Waiting on DQ12 is painful man I want it so bad. I believe when they showed us the logo for the game, they also said in an interview that this DQ will be darker than the previous entries… I was so hype to hear that.
It has been almost 8(?) years since DQ11 came out like c’mon man hurry up. The 2d HD remakes are actually making the wait harder lol
I'm legit losing hope for it. ATLUS I understand why they do that because they don't want dev updates to ruin sales but SE can afford to show SOMETHING about the game.
One thing I read was that SE is probably forced to wait with FF9R because its a Switch 2 launch title and Nintendo is well.. Nintendo.
It also follows very similar silence to other things we know are in the works for Nintendo but seemingly only get crickets this year down to not even any leaks.
Feels like Nintendo is being like Rockstar here using their weight to make the industry wait with all their reveals and shit until they do their Switch 2 showing somewhere early next year.
Until then nothing gets out and nothing gets leaked.
I mentioned this before, but why would be Square-Enix holding back the reveal of Final Fantasy IX remake just because of the Nintendo Switch 2, since the original game was released on the PSOne 25 years ago and it wasn't playable on a Nintendo console until it was ported to the Switch back in 2019? I don't know if the majority of Nintendo players, both old or new have any knowledge or nostalgia attached to FFIX, it's not like people wanted Zidane or Vivi to be playable on Super Smash Bros.
I mean, I'm sure a Final Fantasy IX remake would be a multiplatform title, but would be a Nintendo-oriented title despite having more history with the PSOne? Or is it because out of all of the PS FF games IX is the one that's more influenced by the first 6 FF games that came out on Nintendo consoles and Square-Enix has released more games inspired on old-school FF on Nintendo consoles like FF: Four Heroes of Light, Bravely Default and Second and Octopath Traveller and for that reason a FFIX remake would be a better fit for Nintendo, especially because of its cartoony and colorful artstyle?
@@pablocasas5906 It's strictly because of their new multiplatform strategy, and waiting for a Switch 2 reveal event to showcase an FF9 remake is the smartest move. The biggest gaming events are the ones held by the platform holders, and Nintendo directs are by far some of the most popular with the most eyes on them. If the Switch 2 reveal really is in early 2025, then Square knows exactly what they're doing.
@@pablocasas5906 same reason ATLUS is holding Persona 6's announcement beck for the Switch 2's reveal. The big bucks that will flow in.
@@pablocasas5906 I mean maybe? I’m tbh not sure. Either they want to reveal it coming to all consoles instantly to not cause any costumer confusion and revealing this title to be runable on the Switch 2 would be a big no no for Nintendo given that they want to present the systems graphical capabilities. Not some 3rd party remake title half a year in advance.
That or maybe they feel like IX could benefit from that DQ energy or oldschool FF and/or cartoony shit generally just works well on Nintendo consoles like you said. They might also have some console exclusive stuff going for the Switch 2 perhaps they are tight lipped about.
Either way I never really could recall a game being announced only for a competitor revealing their console and then for the game publisher to retroactively announce ‘oh yeah we’re releasing on that console come launch too’ although I bet there are some examples.
Another idea is that FF9R is a launch title for the Switch 2 first and foremost. So the game is announced and the release date is revealed congruently with the Switch 2. Then it would make more sense to wait for that reveal too instead of it being a happy coincidence after the fact.
I find more fault and questionmarks with Nintendo for waiting so stupidly long. Its reaching GTA levels and I bet the reason is equally stupid just like Rockstar. Something about them wanting one more holiday round of sales for the Switch. It’s so dumb. Also makes me wonder why they couldn’t just have the console ready for this holiday. Unless they reveal now and the release is literally next year November lol. Which would be insane.
So yeah I dunno, all I know is that allot of titles that are rumored Switch 2 titles like Pokémon Legends ZA are conspicuously silent for a long long time. Its all the same pattern.
@@Kingdom850 Yeah or this indeed. Just really dumb how long Nintendo is waiting with this reveal. I honestly wonder if it will be even January or February. I feel like they might literally wait till March lmao.
Ff 9 r in 2025 let's gooooo
Where in the holy fuck is FFT? DDDOOOOIIIITTTT
Forget that where is DQ12? They just announced a title and disappeared
Nah I'm with Magoo FFT 😢 is a much better game than the entirety of DQ
@@phillemon7664 I keep forgetting this game exists, they literally announced it and have not said another word about it.
SE has a marketing problem. I actually think whoever does the cuts for their trailers is ultimately responsible for the failure in sales we are seeing. If i wasnt already a final fantasy fan and had seen the final release trailers for Rebirth I straight up would have slept on that game. How am i meant to care when i watch a supercut of incoherant footage with lines like "im waiting Cloud" thrown in the mix.
Make us understand why the combat system is incredible. Be more selective and slow paced with your cuts so we can focus on a particularly cool moment and take in all the cinema like direction choices.
To a lesser degree it was the same with XVI, I actually think the coolest marketing they did was the live action trailer. That should have played as an early marketing piece at an award show or showcase instead of being lost in a much smaller event.
Goes deeper than that.
They clearly are out of step with the audience.
Whoever was in charge of marketing NEO: TWEWY should be fired. That was an incredible game with a terrible marketing campaign and did not deserve the poor sales it got.
@@khatdubell This, they're definitely out of touch, it's not just their crappy marketing knee capping their titles, nor is it console exclusivity.
I don't think ive ever seen Square enix ever been happy with their sales. They could get 100mil sales and theybwould still say they were disappointed.
I'm pretty sure that Square Enix is waiting for the switch 2 to a announce dragon quest 12 .cus Japan is the biggest audience for DQ games .
Yeah, it makes sense. There's been some worrying that perhaps Enix and Armor Project would try to make DQXII a PlayStation 5 exclusive, but it doesn't make much sense considering how bad the PS5 is performing sales wise in Japan, don't know how powerful the Switch's successor is going to be, but at least it'll have to be a bit more powerful than a PS4 Pro, and Dragon Quest games have never been huge graphical showcases, I'm sure Armor Project would like to reach the most players they can.
The thing is that mainline Dragon Quest games always release on the most popular game console in Japan, the first 6 games were released on Nintendo consoles, VIII was released on the PSOne and VIII on the PS2, but IX was released on the DS which took many gamers in the West by surprise and X was later released on the Wii. Dragon Quest XI was an interesting case in which Armor Project developed two different versions, one for the PS4 and another one for the 3DS, since they couldn't ignore that there were more people playing on the 3DS compared to the PS4
It's too late to promote a remake of FF9 for 2025. They would have had to start advertising it already.
Besides, three are strong industry insider rumours and indications spreading that the FF9 Remake has been cancelled.
So it's probably a good idea to start managing your expectations about it.
That is a horrific waste of resources and they deserve to have their company revert to AA status if they scrap something as important as an FF9 remake.
Wouldn't surprise me with SE, but I also didn't want them to remake FF9 anyway, I just wanted the tactics remaster.
At this point its either cancelled or stuck waiting for Nintendo to announce the switch 2 so they can release it on all platforms at once per their new strategy.
@@phillemon7664no one needs ff9 to be remade tbh
Sad to see FFT: War of the lions isn't openly planned for PC port _again._ Google has their Play Games android marketplace as a PC desktop emulator now, its worth checking out; it's still in beta but it seems really great so far. But sadly, FFTWOTL isn't available on that, either, despite being available for dedicated android devices 😥(tbh that still wouldn't replace a PC port, don't really want to play WOTL w/ touch controls.)
But Bubble Bobble, eh? I might cough over 10 bucks for that. That undead whale still gives me nightmares 😬
There was hope that this “Grand Game Awards” business might have involved insight on a rumored project, but sadly that was a bait and switch.
What was it if you happen to know? I can't find any information on this supposedly new trailer but I found it hard to believe Square would pass on the Game Awards and give an unseen trailer to a much smaller event no one has heard of before.
@ The Grand Game Awards boasted that Square Enix would show a trailer at the award program. They didn’t explicitly say it was a NEW trailer. It was for Rebirth on PC.
I still can’t believe that Rebirth didn’t sell more….
I swear people have no taste anymore. Kids these days would rather play the same copy and paste battle royales.
It's not that big a deal
It costs $100 CAD and 2024 was str8 up stacked for excellent games (Metaphor, Wukong, etc.) It was also a PS exclusive. And the third one will be too Lmao. Square is screwed.
Exclusivity screwed Rebirth. PS5 priced out a huge chunk of the potential market. They’ll recover some of it with PC, but not enough.
To be fair there are a couple valid reasons why it didn't.
Releasing exclusively on PS5 (which sold much less than PS4)
Being a sequel title
FF7 Remake having controversial story changes
Many people waiting for Part 3 to release before diving in to the entire trilogy all at once.
Honestly it was just a stacked year for great RPGs.
They should only went back to lesser known IP AA games only when they are able to deliver strong sales of AAA game first just like how Capcom did. Capcom used to be in a position like Square and then they focus on only developing quality Resident Evil and Monster Hunter. When they are in a healthy financial position, they invested in their lesser IP - Dragon’s Dogma and now Okami and Onimusha.
SquareEnix needs to fix the mess they made with the total mismanagement of the Life is Strange series.
I gave up on it, they really rushed the ending of the first game.
@@UltimateGattai I think they rushed only one of the endings, the other ending was well done.
The Japanese need to realize that the only mobile games that do well globally are the AAA Multiplatform ones made by Chinese devs…inspired by JRPGs LOL (Hoyoverse, Wuthering Waves, PGR, etc).
Their 2025 mobile games that do won’t make it to 2026.
Does someone know if there is a sale on the epic twin pack? Or just steam?
It’s on epic as well
@@optimysticquest well, i checked and it's 69 bucks, on steam it is 59, right?
I'm all for a lull year once in a while. Gives time to play some titles I missed like Star Ocean 6, Nier and both Octopath games!
FFIX Remake could just surprise us!
God I hope DQ12 actually comes out next year.
DQ12 is probably near completion actually. They've been working on it for 5 years now, with planning stages started in late 2016 and early 2017. They were already hiring out for DQ12 in late 2019, so that's when the project went into full development with a completed story and scenario, and the base prototype for their new battle engine worked out and ready to go into full development. When it was announced in 2021, it was already in full development.
DQ12 they're probably doing fine tuning etc. and want everything core completed prior to 2026, as May 27th, 2026 is the 40th anniversary, and 10 years out from when DQ11 was first released in Japan for the 30th Anniversary. That would fit perfectly with a proper send-off to Akira Toriyama and Koichi Sugiyama, as both men completed their work for the game prior to their passing. Horii has also mentioned he wants to make 12 a homage to the original trio of him and his late friends and compatriots.
So I fully expect the core game is already completed and would be ready to go except for any extras, series homages/callbacks/easter eggs like DQ9's Legacy bosses and Inn guests, or DQ11's Tickington.
'Quality over quantity'
It was the failure or only mild success of some of their AAA games that got them in this situation in the first place! It just seems like doubling down on that. And it means a bunch of IPs are going to go dormant again so they can pump out more FF and DQ or something. That doesn't sound good to me.
Like, some of these games took many years and cost a ton. Like Forespoken. That WAS a AAA game like they're describing and it flopped. Spending even more time and money on it probably wouldn't have helped.
They released a ton of AA games way too close together to properly market them or let them breathe. Not to mention doing it in the fall when other big games usually hit. That was a faiure to properly coordinate their releases.
1 AAA game... like Forespoken? Like, this new plan won't magically make all their releases good. That quality is not assured. Fewer, bigger games just makes for more feast or famine. No chance of surprise hits. And flops like Forespoken hurt even more.
I hope we get remasters or whatever of 9 and T. But it's been so long, I dunno....
I don't know. I hope you're right.
Valkyrie Elysium had more RPG mechanics than FF16 lmao. But my god, it was such a bland game compared to earlier Valkyrie games. VP: Lenneth is a PS1 classic.
Bro I don't even want to think about how terrible it is. Literally a trash rehash of the first game's story but infinitely inferior. I paid extra to get it early too.. such a waste
The shotgun approach they took with all those games at that time was nuts, not only did those games cannibalise each other, but none of them were terribly good either. Although I personally enjoyed Harvestella, that was a decent game.
Not really surprised about the "change of heart" with the company - considering how they pretty much failed with the industrial style games output - but dunnoo if that really chnages anything in terms oif real quality, which is about writing and style mostly - imo. P.S. I need a FF8 remake!
Their writing definitely went out of the window, I just lost interest in a lot of their games for this reason.
Don’t forget that they also released Dawntrail in 24 as well!
If you expect anything new from them any time soon, don’t hold your breath.
With them going “full 3rd party” now, that everyone cheering on about, the games will take even longer if they have to release the games sinuously on ps, Xbox and pc. This is especially true if they want to keep it the same quality they were when they were “exclusive” lol.
Weird conclusion to come to. All those AA games they released were all multiplatform and didn't take any longer to release. The same tech that's in the PS5 is in the Xbox Series line, and obviously PC is stronger than both.
@ rebirth nor remake were multiplatform on release. FF16 wasn’t either.
In fact the dev for 16,Yoshi P, said the reason why they could bring the game out as early as they did was BECAUSE they had the luxury to only focus on one platform/hardware while building the game, and the reason it WASN’T on PC the same day it was on PS5 is because side they didn’t want to delay its release.
This is why I have the take and opinion that I have. It isn’t coming out of nowhere nor platform loyalty. It’s what SE devs themselves have said.
I hope we get more Final fantasy remakes
9 and tactics would be great and enough for me this year
if they mess up ff9 remake they will be officially dead to me.
I hope they don't abandon AA games in favor of AAA with this new quality over quantity strategy. Though I also hope the reduction in the amount of games they make per year allows them be of better quality and all to be properly marketed as well.
Also I'm hoping if FFIX remake gets announced it's not some crazy trilogy like FFVIIR is and a more faithful remake along the lines of Trials of Mana. Just with some added content to flesh out some characters, Freya and Amarant, as well as some story moments. I only have a few minor issues with the original game and it doesn't need a complete overhaul like they did for VII, heck that game didn't need it either IMO.
No! If we aren't going to get a LEGIT Valkyrie Profile, let the IP die! Zidane, I am sorry in advance about what they will do to you, old friend.
The IP is still doing stuff. You need to play more mobile games. I play Last Cloudia and they have had 2 collabs already. I have Lenneth, Freya and Arngrim in my roster. The game lives on in spirit, you just have to look for it!
""quality""
meanwhile kneecaps their releases by trying to reach a mOdErN aUdIeNcE that doesn't exist.
by doing what? not giving Tifa her ps1 fmv cup size? give us a break
@@NoctLightCloud Actually, i was thinking of Cid when i wrote that, but i like it when people project their own thoughts.
That and the DQ hd2d remake that I was excited for.
Not buying woke crap though.
I’ll emulate the originals.
@@khatdubell How is Cid woke? I played the German OG7 version back then and the translation wasn't the best. If you mean less swearing, I'm all for it as it wasn't done well anyways. Also, he wasn't swearing in Advent Children either iirc.
@@NoctLightCloud Don't try to change what i said.
I called the DQ HD2D remake woke.
I didn't call cid woke, i said he was made for the mythical """"""""""modern audience"""""""
I can't tell you what cid was like in the german version of FF7, but I CAN tell you that that _thing_ in rebirth isn't cid from the english version of FF7.
It might have his face, but it doesn't have anything close to his personality. Which means it might as well as be a completely different character.
@khatdubell I agree, he's different, but what does that have to do with "the modern audience"? (also you didnt say that. I can't read your mind...?) And modern audience and woke are meant as synonymes. You're trying to make an argument out of thin air at this point.
I wonder if there's any chance for a 3rd DLC for FFXVI to get a 2025 release?
It sounds good in theory, but I really would like to dig further into how they define quality. Hope it isn't just improving the size of the map and better graphics, but at the risk of having less to actually do.
People just want to have fun with likeable characters
I enjoyed the 2 star ocean remakes more. Rather have more remakes of star ocean and/or a new mainline star ocean game instead of the final fantasy games.
Well I’d rather have FF over star ocean…. And there had to actually be a market for a remake like there is with ff7… not enough people gaf about SO.
Yep... these are not really "remakes" Star Ocean is... it's trying to stay true to origin but FF's are not remakes... they are straight up new and different games with the same story. It's just not FF anymore. The only franchise that was successful in change this much that I can think of was Metroid Prime. FF9 was the last real FF game they made.
As much as I love ff9, I would have loved to see them remake ff8 first. And I doubt the ff9 remake is coming next year. If it was square enix would have announced it in 2020 or something as they have a terrible habit of announcing games years before they are ready.
Get rid of Sweet Baby Inc and the DEI Woke censorship. 2024 has been a apocalypse for woke censorship games
It's not a big deal, but why do people refer to remake and rebirth as "mainline" ff titles? I thought the 16 numbered ff titles are the mainline ones, and several of those have had spin offs, sequels etc.
It's mainline in terms of budget, production quality, size, and marketing. It's just not a "numbered" mainline game (chronologically).
I mean. It’s still FFVII. Like the main story of it and everything as well. I’d consider that numbered. Same goes for FF9 Remake imo
@ that’s why I specified chronologically. It’s not a chronological numbered entry
Disappointed to hear we might not get another Neo due to this. Really unique and fun combat. Music was great.
for the love of god i NEED a xenogears remake!!!!
They should bring back First Soldier, but make it a true BR available on all consoles. I think making it mobile-only was their biggest mistake on that title and the reason it never really took off.
On the bright side… at least SquEnix isn’t going to make a ton of NFTs.
Considering that most of their games have a similar target audience and with FF 16 and Rebirth releasing in a short window it really makes them compete with each other quite fervently.
wonder what the thoughts are for 14 being a cellphone game now? that's pretty wild.
A FFT remake would be fantastic if they used the same FF16 or FF15 engine. That would be an incredible looking game
Edit for your video: YES, us Kingdom Hearts fans ARE looking forward to Missing Link. But yeah, it's just the [important] appetizer for KH4
1:19 the sarcastic side of me expects KH4 to come out on PS7. Lol
I do not think FFIX Remake would meet sales expectations because it was not as popular as VII and also that failed to meet sales expectations as a Remake with solid gameplay. Higher quality does not lead to sales but perhaps if there are less other Final Fantasy releases diluting the sales it might work out.... depending on how much AAA cost went into it. Honestly they need to scale back on AAA not double down... the games need to be made with a budget limitation because honestly that second half of FFXVI felt like they ran out.
It would be nice if some of the budget from those canceled titles went back into Final Fantasy 14, considering it's the only thing SE makes that is actually considered profitable enough.
They just completely overhauled the engine and all of the models.
Eh, bought Diofield Chronicle, Valkyrie Elysium and pretty much all the other AA games SE put out recently and loved them. Valkyrie Elysium was a particular highlight.
I do still agree that it might be better to focus on doing less of those types of games in such a short timespan. I mean, they basically were competing against themselves while also failing to market any of their games. But, the games are worth making, and worth owning and playing for fans. Not everything needs to be a AAA-sized game that takes 5 years to make and SE is (was?) one of the only companies left that seemed to understand that there's value in the smaller scope experimentation (and platform support).
I just hope this doesn't mean they are going to take that away. Can't think of owning a Switch 2 or PS5 someday without the support of SE, tbh (especially with PS5 being where they are almost exclusively the only developer giving the console any game support at all). They make like 90% of the non-Nintendo Japanese games worth playing at this point, since pretty much all the other companies have either closed or simply can't get games out the door anymore.
This sounds like great news honestly. I don't even bother with 6/10 games when my backlog consists of so many 8/10-10/10 games. So if SE releases a bunch of mid games that I never plan on playing then they are just wasting their money in regards to me personally. Meanwhile if they release just a couple high quality games that I won't be able to pass up on then they will make more money off of me.
Square not hitting sales expectations with XVI and VII Rebirth was all their own doing though. They decided "Hey we're going to do console exclusivity with Sony again." and it isn't like it didn't work with Remake as that helped sell plenty of PS4's back in the day...however PS5's were scarce due to scalpers, not to mention by the time XVI and VII rebirth released anyone who owned one got one already. People are also taking more and more to PC gaming, why buy a console that'll be replaced in a couple of years when you can build a PC that will last you longer and out perform those consoles? Free online gaming, multiple store fronts, emulation, has keyboard and mouse support I could go on but you get my point. Square's execs are not following the current trends and are instead chasing instant profits with console exclusivity rights. I get it, FFVII and Final Fantasy as a whole have been a sony main stay for years. All the way up to FFXII. But XIII showed (despite it's mid reviews) that a final fantasy game can do well on other platforms. Square just walked backwards with XVI and VII Remake trilogy. I hope they stop this, because those employees did not deserve to be let go because of bungling from the top.
It's sad cause between Rebirth and FFXVI I'm happier with FF than I have been in a long time
4:22 SE released a lot of mediocre to garbage AA games the last couple of years. Some really fun ideas, but lackluster execution.
THe other thing that will help is not listen to idiot companies like Sweet Baby Inc, HIT Inc, and of course, their "ETHICS DEPARTMENT!!!". Yeah, if their ethics department was actually about ethics, they would have said how unethical it was to suddenly replace their original English voice cast on a whim, instead of Tifa being so heavily toned down... Which was the compromise because they wanted her gone.
Natsuko Ishikawa is still on something not FF14 so I'm still excitedly looking forward to that.
Trouble is, more time and a bigger budget doesn't at all guarantee a better game. Sometimes you have something that was designed flawed from the ground up and comes out a mess after ten years of development. Sometimes you get a Final Fantasy XV.
Heck yas, I cancelled my Rebirth pre-order US$52.54 and ordered this twin pack for US$57.25... good looking out.
isn't it weird people complained when Square-Enix took a very long time to develop and release new Final Fantasy game, now they released 1 after the other, people didn't buy
I think I overall agree with this video but I personally feel that games like Valkyrie Elysium or Diofield were just 1 more year of development time and a decent marketing budget away from being successful. Square really did them dirty.
Neo TWEWY was especially painful because that game was truly great but basically received no marketing. Like literally almost nothing when it potentially could have captured part of that Persona audience and been successful.
But now most of these franchises probably won't see the light of day for the foreseeable future. I only hope that Square earns their renaissance era like Capcom and Sega to the point that they can properly revive their old IPs.
Only want ffviii and 9 remake with turn based combat in that order
If they want to make a quality reboot, they can start by looking at the Valkyrie Profile IP.
Not the abomination Elysium was though.
Say what you want, but I'm glad we got diofield.. I loved that game so much. Lol the story got wild at the end
Open world desing is A problem in Long runs
Open world is a really Big risk
It will exaggerate resources so hard down the line and Even you can do it your game need to be 9.5-10/10 to make success
Persona games know that well that why they never care about open world
SE make the right call with charm of HD-2D
But
My persnal take " Let open world go SE , make game gene and type that people do not focus on openworld (so many type of game people do not care about open world) and make it fun + great for replayable and you will secure profit + stablelity +success in long run"
Wonder if they’ll ever bring that KH game to consoles after it’s done running
SE should Just stop wasting money on consultants that represent the concerns of less than 1 percent of their player base while making games less appealing to the other 99 percent. Nihon Falcom has been killing it and slowly enlarging a fan base with consistent quality releases while keeping the people who buy and play their games at the forefront. Maybe they could take a look at Final Fantasy 10 again and see why it was so loved while being super linear. I remember when the puzzles in games actually made you have to think.
Lmao KH4 ain't coming until 2040 😂
I actually like Valkyrie Elysium better than FFXVI.
Should've never left Japan and went global. It's been a slow decline since. I'm just waiting for a Ubisoft collapse at this point.
I'll 1 up you.
Should never have joined with enix, its been a slow decline ever since.
What does this even mean? Their games are still extremely huge in japan. It's just japan has moved to handheld and mobile market.
Doesn't matter to me. (PC gamer only).
Bought all of it. Already bought Rebirth and waiting on its release in Jan.
*FF game, Single player, on PC? Here's my money!!!!!!!
why dont they release theyre games on GOG.
Still waiting when Square Enix realises that many want a Xenogears remake, be it in co operation with Monolith soft so the whole world can enjoy this masterpiece....But they keep playing dumb.
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. square seems to be out of touch with the gamers and they seem to bleed cash somewhere. look at games like bravely defualt which completely caught them off guard back in the day and look at tomb raider and hitman absolution both of witch sold well but didn't meet their expections. the development process REALLY needed a change.
Potentially controversial opinion coming, but honestly as someone more or less waiting for the rebirth trilogy to be all out on pc before playing them, I'd honestly prefer 10 games of varying quality than waiting long periods between releases. As someone who more or less only plays rpgs (admittedly with a very large backlog of both games I've bought, and games i haven't yet purchased) it can be rather boring having to wait 1-5 months between games i'm into to drop if i even want to play them at all . For example i haven't played Kingdom hearts since 358/2 not out of hate or anything just a lack of interest, so if kh4 will be more or less the only game of the year that is focused on then outside of titles from other companies i'm gonna be pretty darn bored, it's games like octopath traveler visions of mana diofield and the like that are going to keep my interest and it'll suck to lose that for something that i know i'm not gonna care about.
The Nintendo Switch 2 reveal will probably have more announcements?
Square Enix games despite their quality in the past decade have been financial flops, but most of them have been great games that just haven't met expectations or haven't sold at all. They've been the pinnacle of development from RPG publishers.
In 2022, despite the poor sales people focus on Platinum games developed Babylon's Fail, Forspoken, and Foamstars. Even a blind deaf person could have told you that this microtransaction shovelware garbage would fail, this same person would tell you that absolutely no one has any interest in Forspoken. Were they even following up with the developers of these games to see what was being developed?
However, the amount of good games developed in 2022 was pretty significant and the problem was that a lot of games didn't sell regardless of quality. Now I absolutely could write a book on it all, but for brevity, outside of the trash that I mentioned above, the worst game and it's still a decent game at the very least, was Valkyrie Elysium. It was just a rough game at the start with the depth of this poor man's DMC combat locked behind weapon levels that you'd acquire as you progress.
Square Enix though developed some absolutely amazing games in 2022 and two of them are some of my favorite games in their respective genres. Crisis Core and Tactics Ogre Reborn. These were not just remasters of classic action RPGs and TRPGs, but pseudo remakes of these games where they took the core games and completely reworked their combat systems, fixing all of the issues that these games had, making Crisis Core a substantially better game and literally perfecting Tactics Ogre Reborn(it is one of the few TRPGs deserving of a 10/10.)
This even extended into 2023 with many other games great lower budget games that were pseudo remakes of previous games. There was definitely not a Forspoken or Foamstars for every Octopath Traveler 2, etc.
Now you mentioned Atlus and I'll even pull Falcom into the conversation because people love circle jerking over these developers now, now that they've become popular. Go play any SMT, SMT spinoff, or Persona game, and then go play another one. There's one distinction that can be made with the games and that's the progression of all these games are identical, the gameplay itself is near identical. Now this is in the last decade of course, but aside from the calendar bs and the slight variation on combat like the one more, press turn, baton pass, the demon combo system, sabbath system, etc, etc, etc, etc, the fundamental core combat is identical and these games are honestly the same game with a different coat of paint. Or is there even a different coat of paint when Soul Hackers 2 is more or less a bad SMT Nocturne that they may as well have just remade SMT Nocturnes with modernn graphics and it'd have been a far better experience. SMT5 is just a worse SMT Nocturne. Persona 5 is just a worse SMT Nocturne with a calendar system just to waste the players time playing an 80 hour game that realistically should have ended 60 hours prior. You get the idea.
Well, Falcom is the exact same, because just play any of these 83.5 Trails games released in the past two years and you'll have played them all. 98% of the storyline is fluff while a whole two percent is actually relevant. The combat system on every single game is identical for the past 15-20 years except that each game has some sort of mechanical quirk that makes the overall difference very subtle.
These companies are just giving us a rehash of the same game year after year after year after year, and then when they don't give us the same game, when they are like, here, here's a more modern Ys game, and then they give us another, and then another and then Ys8 just blows us away with quality, Falcom then takes that good will and takes a dump on it all, but shoving all this drivel down our throat. The padding included in Ys10 is obnoxious. If you want to talk about a bad game, Ys10 is a bad game. Valkyrie Elysium may not be a Crisis Core or Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but Ys10 is an even worse game. So I'll leave you with this remark, my opinion, is that most people have sh** taste and good games don't always sell. Atlus actually released a different style of game in a long while with Persona 5 Tactica and that game failed to sell any reasonable amount. For once it's not the same game again and again and people just ignore it... well, sortof, it is still Persona 5, but it's a TRPG.
FF7 Rebirth, FF16, Dragon Quest 3, Visions of Mana, Octpath Traveler 2, Tactics Ogre, Live a Live, Triangle Stategy since 2022
Are the Saga games and Star Ocean games good. Never played on but that could be on the list.
People focus on the bad too much now a days, Square has put out plenty of bangers over the recent years. Gamers just don't buy single player games anymore. Oh you can think of 5 games over the past 3 years that sold, let me change my opinion ;)
Oh just make good games, I'm sure Square hadn't thought of that.
I need Xenogears, Parasite Eve, Vagrant Story and FF Tactics Remasters’
The fact that it took them this long to get into the mentality of quality over quantity shows how moronic their leadership is overall. Atlus and RGG release a few games every few years and they sell like crazy cause they're actually good games. Take Persona 3 Reload and Like a Dragon infinite wealth as an example for both. Took a bit to come out but they sold well. Now RGG has a Majima game in Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii as a Gaiden type game like the Kiryu game was before infinite wealth came out. I dont have to worry about RGG putting out a stinkfest like square enix does
Fantastic video, NSP. I agree with all points
You know im sad im older and I don't have time to play these smaller SE games like visions, valkyrie elisium, dio chronicles and the new saga game. Even of those game end up not being great it reminded me of the PS2 era where there tons of jrpgs.
Focusing on quality over quantity? Where have I heard that before...🤔
…Fewer…
OFC no SALES!!! when you only release it for PS4 and 5 only
Milking ff news and then generating clicks with metaphor as goty 😂
They should make Bravely Default 3
Personally, I pretty like Diofield Chronicles but the story and RPG elements could have been work out better. What Square is doing is very similar to what Marvel is doing for their TV shows and Movies. Put out less and put more much better quality stuff.
Kingdom Hearts is literally killing itself off as a franchise with these extremely long dev times. time between Dream Drop Distance and KH3 was 6 years, and now the distance between KH3 and KH4 has been 6 years and counting. Thats over a decade since the tail end of the classic Kingdom Hearts games and nearly 2 decades since KH2. They made a massive mistake not just starting afresh with Verum Rex/Versus XIII, because there won't be any KH fans left when KH4 comes out.
Cry cry