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The decreasing greatness of Square Enix
12 years ago
With the dawn of a new generation of gaming upon us, it got me thinking of some of the game companies and what they did this current gen. One company in mind is Square Enix. Outside of publishing some western games from their Eidos side, what games did they make this current gen? Specifically console games. I remembered thier old glory and figured I'd make a list of the games they created in each console generation, starting with the PS1. Keep in mind a few things in this list:
-I'll only cover the Playstation systems cuz they're mostly the systems I owned and they're the games I know of, so no handhelds and such.
-These are games made by Squqre Enix Japanese side, so none of their western stuff.
-These are games that got english releases.
-Remakes, releases and ports won't count.
-I'm naming these out of the top of my head, so pardon me if I missed a few games.
Anyway, here we go:
PS1 games:
Final Fantasy 7/8/9
Tobal No.1
Bushido Blade
Final Fantasy Tactics
Xenogears
Brave Fencer Musashi
Parasite Eve 1&2
Saga Frontier 1&2
Front Mission 3
Einhander
Ehergeiz
Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon
Chocobo Racing
Threads of Fate
Legend of Mana
Chrono Cross
Vagrant Story
Playstation 2 games:
The Bouncer
Final Fantasy 10/10-2/11/12
Kingdome Hearts 1-2
Unlimited Saga
Front Mission 4
Drakengard 1&2
Full Metal Alchemist 1&2
Star Ocean 3
Radiata Stories
Musashi: Samurai Legend
Grandia 3
Dirge of Ceberus
Dragon Quest 8
Valkyrie Profile 2
Dawn of Mana
Playstation 3 games:
Final Fantasy 13/13-2/13-3/14
Star Ocean 4
Nier
Front Mission Evolved
MindJack
...that's it?
As you can see, a wild decrease in quality with each generation. They were unstoppable during the PS1 era, with lots of original games and amazing sequels. Then in they PS2 days, they had some hits and misses. But damn this current gen... such a sad state.
Makes me wonder what they will do with the next one. We'll still waiting for FFv13 and KH3, SE. Still waiting. And waiting. Waiting to be let down, I bet.
-I'll only cover the Playstation systems cuz they're mostly the systems I owned and they're the games I know of, so no handhelds and such.
-These are games made by Squqre Enix Japanese side, so none of their western stuff.
-These are games that got english releases.
-Remakes, releases and ports won't count.
-I'm naming these out of the top of my head, so pardon me if I missed a few games.
Anyway, here we go:
PS1 games:
Final Fantasy 7/8/9
Tobal No.1
Bushido Blade
Final Fantasy Tactics
Xenogears
Brave Fencer Musashi
Parasite Eve 1&2
Saga Frontier 1&2
Front Mission 3
Einhander
Ehergeiz
Chocobo Mysterious Dungeon
Chocobo Racing
Threads of Fate
Legend of Mana
Chrono Cross
Vagrant Story
Playstation 2 games:
The Bouncer
Final Fantasy 10/10-2/11/12
Kingdome Hearts 1-2
Unlimited Saga
Front Mission 4
Drakengard 1&2
Full Metal Alchemist 1&2
Star Ocean 3
Radiata Stories
Musashi: Samurai Legend
Grandia 3
Dirge of Ceberus
Dragon Quest 8
Valkyrie Profile 2
Dawn of Mana
Playstation 3 games:
Final Fantasy 13/13-2/13-3/14
Star Ocean 4
Nier
Front Mission Evolved
MindJack
...that's it?
As you can see, a wild decrease in quality with each generation. They were unstoppable during the PS1 era, with lots of original games and amazing sequels. Then in they PS2 days, they had some hits and misses. But damn this current gen... such a sad state.
Makes me wonder what they will do with the next one. We'll still waiting for FFv13 and KH3, SE. Still waiting. And waiting. Waiting to be let down, I bet.
I still think it was a bad move on their part to tease their fans with a tech demo of FF7 to show off the PS3. EVERYONE thought there was going to be an HD remake.
Nope...
But hey, all of us are still hopping :)
Pray for it to be on PS4
Granted Square has had some major miss-steps over the past decade and Im not sure if things will improve with them changing CEOs every odd month.
Right now their focus is shorter development times, region specific production and a large investment in handheld/mobile games.
i don't think they're doing BAD, but they could do better
I only whished that they could release Kingdom Hearts 3 and more Dragon Quest games for the Playstion console