I played Final Fantasy XIII for about a quarter or a third of the game, and then, completely bored out of my mind, gave it up and literally put it at the bottom of my pile of games, and thought about giving up the franchise.
Final FantasyIII-2 has made me rethink that decision.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
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."
What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.
It may not be what everyone wants out of a new Final Fantasy, but yes, from everything I've seen and played of the demo, and everything I've heard from importers, it's over all a much better game than XIII was, at the very least.
FF-XIII was a great game despite of it's flaws & the negative feedback it gets from people that were dissatisfied with the game,I played the PS3 demo of FF-XIII-2 & it was fun can't wait to play the full game,I accept change & people need to embrace change also.
Nope
The demo was average at best and it seems square put the best bit from the game as a demo to get peoples hopes up. It played like FF13, I mean if I was playing it and didn't know it was a sequel I would of thought I was playing FF13
These imrprovments were just Square exgerating them so they could sucker people into buying it again. I mean it still has the same rubbish battle system, voice acting, characters, linear gameplay etc.
Nop...
I still have fuckloads of issues with it.