TheGameReviews.com's Very British Gamer Sinan Kubba speaks of his disdain for and manipulation of storefront video game retailers via a frustrating account of his attempts to get hold of Chrono Trigger DS.
It's long been thought that a Chrono Trigger remake is impossible, but the Super Mario RPG remake could pave the way.
It's already been said that they weren't motivated to do anything with the series unless the gang was back together, not really for any legal reasons.
A third Chrono series game called Chrono Break was planned, but Square prioritized an MMORPG, and Chrono Break’s concepts were used in mobile games.
It’s true.
Squaresoft used to be like the equivalent of Naughty Dog back in the day. When you heard Squaresoft was making a game you knew it’d be a banger.
god I miss those days.
Yeah they used to be the best in the industry. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the worst decision they ever made. While they had previously talked about merging with Enix, that film flopping so hard left them with no other option.
@porkChop
My understanding is that merger was happening before the film and the flop of the film freaked them out because they thought Enix would call it off.
I personally wish Square Pictures was a success. I thought the Matrix shirt they did was cool and they were pushing computer animation into a more mature realm.
Unfortunately, Spirits Within noted many and wasn’t the FF movie a lot of fans wanted. I thought it was decent, but something like Advent Children should’ve been the direction they went.
To me, Naughty Dog is now Naughtycucks.p after that god awful story in LoU 2.
It was people like Yasumi Matsuno that held it for me, at Squaresoft. The company thought them too radical and ran them out. And now they yearn for people like that. They’re short sighted and pathetic.
Kinda misleading title, even from reading the article itself.
The staff and management couldn’t come to an agreement and the team moved on. Part of the team went to creat ff11 and the rest to Monolith software. Ideas for this game were implemented in some form to mobile games-later on. Which make sense as early 2000s mobile phones were not as powerful.
In the 16-bit era, game devs and composers could finally change the type of tones used in the music, simulating a wider array of instruments and creating a whole lot of great soundtracks in the process.
It wasn’t easy picking out the best of the best because there were so many great ones. Even middle-of-the-road soundtracks seemed to deserve a bump if the game was just that damn good, and so many from that era are that damn good!
Here's the Ghetto Gamer list of top 20 soundtracks from the 16-bit era.
I hate buying things retail now...
me too, i am finding myself shopping more and more online, for UK people, shopto.net is the best website there is trust me, they have great deals and offer some amazing bargains, there released are almost never above £33 even for launch games.
Game are okay. Although I hate when I'm in the queue and happen to hear their banter with the customer at the front of the cue who is buying a Wii.
"We're flinging Wii Sports in with that for free," says the, typical, burly manager.
"Oh really? That's great! Isn't it Darling?" exclaims the chuffed Dad-like figure.
The Mum-like figure confirms my suspiciousness with: "Yes dear; the kids will love that!"
This is usually followed with the few hardcore gamers looking at each other to see if anyone is bemused as they are about the transaction unfolding in front of them. At the same time, a free pink Wii-remote jacket is flung into the deal, met with unfounded joy by the parents.
...I feel for the boy.
Usually I just put my head in my hands and hope that they aren't gullible enough to fall for 'Buy a Wii and get the box free!' trick. Oh dear...
I pretty much always go to HMV for my RPGs, they're great for the RPGs because they don't sell much in HMV but they keep stocking them which means they fall in price in a relatively short time but for new releases it's not as good except on the DS(the highest I've seen a game at is £30 like everywhere else).
HMV has also started doing used games now and I'd trust the people at HMV more than at Game or Gamestation(although the people in there are pretty cool too).
I've never really had a bad experience with Gamestop. Some of their business practices seem a little questionable but other than that they seem to be alright.