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How Square Enix Can Win Their Fans Back: Ivalice Alliance Edition

Trendy Gamers: Last time in our new five part feature, we talked about how Square Enix can get fans back through the Final Fantasy series. This time we are going to talk about the Ivalice Alliance. Now before you correct me and tell me how the Ivalice Alliance is Final Fantasy, let me just tell you that isn’t quite the case. Here is how Square Enix can get it in gear and win back its fans!

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Soplox4528d ago

By releasing FFvsXIII in early 2012 and start working with KH3(and show at least a teaser)

DA_SHREDDER4528d ago

I doubt they can do anything right after the abomination that was FF13, I don't even recognize them as a company anymore. They lost their edge.

dredgewalker4528d ago

Agreed, FF13 was an empty game for me and they also ruined Front Mission by making it a combat game.

TrendyGamers4528d ago

KH3 next year would be great!

PCRockStar4528d ago

Stop releasing crap would be a huge leap forward.

Soplox4528d ago

What are you saying that FFvsXIII and KH3 are crap
?? You know that those are the games that people are waiting for? Those are the games that keep giving hopes to the Square fans after the disaster they did with FFXIII and FFXIV. Those are the games that could make Square-Enix comeback.

Capt-FuzzyPants4528d ago

I was thinking one of these newly announced games could be set in Ivalice. I really want to see them do something with this world. Corruption in the Church is always a good storyline.

NeoBasch4528d ago

Square Enix never lost me. So excited for FF Type-0 and FF XIII-2. Not to mention releasing Tactics Ogre, Dissidia Duodecim, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, and a bunch of other games over the last year. Square is one of the only companies I wasn't disappointed with last year.

Capt-FuzzyPants4528d ago

Yea my only problems with these articles is that Square doesn't have to win me back.

Spenok4527d ago

I agree. Sure there have been some misses (Infinite Undiscovery) and some, ok, but not terrible games (Nier). But overall they havent become the terrible developer most people say they have. Sure, they could improve, but the amount of work and effort they have put into FFXIV since launch is staggering and easy testimony for how much they care about their fans. The game has done a 180 since launch and is only getting better. And i cant wait for 2.0 to launch.

Alos884528d ago

First off, cancel Theatrhythm, it looks garbage. Then cancel all of the RPGs you are intending "for a western audience", because that never works.
Finally, fire everyone that thought up Mindjack, and vow to never again half ass a game that badly.

Capt-FuzzyPants4528d ago

Interesting. I actually plan on picking up Theatrythm when its cheap.

Lord_Sloth4528d ago

By making a freaking JRPG and stop trying to westernize their gameplay!

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I’m Glad Atlus & SE Changed Dates To Avoid Competing With Shadow Of The Erdtree

Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."

H93d ago

More intelligent than guerilla games

raWfodog2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.

HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.

It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.

VincentVanBro1d 17h ago (Edited 1d 17h ago )

What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.

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Yuji Naka guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse Square Enix producer of lies

Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.

Profchaos17d ago (Edited 17d ago )

I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence

solideagle16d ago

can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?

Chocoburger16d ago

Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.

carrotcakeag16d ago

@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.

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FF XVI Producer Is Interested In Working On A New Final Fantasy Tactics Game

Final Fantasy XVI producer Naoki Yoshida is interested in working on a brand new Final Fantasy Tactics game.

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GoodGuy0920d ago

It's insane its been this long since the last release.

CrimsonWing6920d ago

Not from you.

Knowing how you handled FF16 by trying to make it appeal to non-fans and changing the entire gameplay design I can see you changing Tactics to appeal to non-fans.

If they’re going to do this please give it to someone who wants to keep the game and genre in tact.

VersusDMC19d ago

He worked on tactics ogre reborn. Was there changes? He wouldn't make an FF tactics game an action game. It will be AA but faithful. Probably what the Diofield Chronicles team and some of the FFXVI team is probably working on already and he is just keeping a secret.

And FF hasn't had a set gameplay design since X. I disliked the MMO, 12, 13 FF's but didn't mald for years. I played other games. Stop crying as he probably won't make a single player FF again and will be busy with the next FF MMO.

EternalTitan19d ago

I can feel your hatred. Keep it up.

Ataraxias19d ago

Tactics Ogre Reborn was an overall solid product but almost eliminated the concept of builds in the game.
So we'd probably end up with a system where character jobs like Mercenary for Ramza is 80% of the character instead of being freeform.

SegaSaturn66919d ago

Tactics Ogre Reborn changed a lot of gameplay mechanics for the worse. The class system is weird and hard to lock in roles, and they shoehorned a new "random card appearing" mechanic on the maps which makes no sense. Previously you obtained those boosts from killing powerful opponents, not spawning randomly.

There's a way better way to play Tactics Ogre: the fanmade onevision mod of the psp version.

EternalTitan19d ago

16 was just a terrible mess.
Its not even a JRPG let alone a final fantasy game.
Yosi piss(who said he hates JRPGs) should not touch another Final Fantasy game ever again.

VersusDMC19d ago

87 metacritic can't be a terrible mess.
If Kingdom Hearts is a JRPG then FFXVI is a JRPG. And he said he hates the term JRPG as it carries a bad stereotype with western journalists.

So you're just incorrect on several fronts...

Asterphoenix19d ago

I wouldn't mind a new FF Tactics longs they keep the tactical elements of Tactics in it as well as a very in depth story. Which FF Tactics years ago has by far one of the best stories in the series.

Tapani19d ago

Yes, alongside with Vagrant Story. Playing FFT, then Vagrant story and finally FFXII is a bliss. Deepest lore and best stories ever made in video games.