Is Square actually CAPABLE of making another good game?

[Wyborn]

FFIX kicked ass, you heretic.

And....I dunno about the recent FF games, having not owned a PS2, but FFXII looks really, really nice. It seems to promise the sort of revolution (gameplay-wise) that seperated each Final Fantasy from each other so starkly in the first three generations (1-9).

Insofar as Square goes, I'm not actually able to look forward to anything but Crystal Chronicles (which looks awesome to me and my little brother), but FFXII and Kingdom Hearts II look DAMN fine.

Hmmm....this gives me an idea.

[imported_mango]

Yeah, most of the currect Square games have been crap. I thought Kingdom Hearts was the most crapilicious, though. It was way too much of an action adventure game than an RPG

[imported_mango]

Ok, I'll take my stand on all the recent Square games and tell you what I think. And yes, you can not read this and say you did.

FFX - I really liked this game, although a lot of people didn't. There wasn't that much to put down about this game, but the only thing that bothered me was the sphere grid system. I would rather gave experience points than the sphere grid system. Overall, this was a good game.

FFX-2 - Um.... no. This game was basically just a bunch of sidequests with little to no story. At all. The game was fun, but I wouldn't necessarily say it was a good game.

FFXI - Never played it, but I am going to say it is crap because any MMORPG that you pay monthly for is crap.

FFTA - This game was okay. I just downloaded the ROM (arrest me) and played it for a little. Never finished it, but all in all, it was an okay game.

Kingdom Hearts - Okay, there is no doubt in my mind that this game was crap. The Disney and Square mix just didn't work for me. At all. And I'm a big fan of turn based strategy games, and I pretty much hate Action Adventure games. I personally didn't see many RPG elements in this game. They should have just called it an Action Adventure game.

FFIX - It was pretty good, but it wasn't the best. It had a great soundtrack that I bought though.

Final Fantasy The Spirits Within - Square, don't make movies. Ever. Again.

Goldeneye for N64 - This was the best game ever. Oh, wait...

[Dee Emm]

Originally posted by mango:
Final Fantasy The Spirits Within - Square, don't make movies. Ever. Again.

Too late. FFVII: Advent Children's being released later this year, I believe.

[Dee Emm]

Yuna = Rinoa with a dye job.

[imported_mango]

Originally posted by Lord Bill Braska *DM*:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by mango:
Final Fantasy The Spirits Within - Square, don't make movies. Ever. Again.

Too late. FFVII: Advent Children's being released later this year, I believe. </font>[/QUOTE]Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Well, it doesn't look that bad, but theres a good chance it will be.

[Wyborn]

FFIX was actually another example where all the characters looked different, or were itnended to.

Garnet was supposed to be a blonde. God bless Amano.

Anyway, yeah: all of the character designs in FFIX were radically different from each other. In many cases, they were radically different from the final versions (compare Amano's sketch of Vivi to what he ended up looking like...or Steiner, for that matter)

[ February 04, 2004, 09:21 PM: Message edited by: Wyborn ]