So I just learned about the creator of the Final Fantasy series, this guy created and directed FF 1 to 9 then stepped down as president of Squares NA branch and then left square entirely.
He then went to bed with Microsoft to make a new studio with their funding which resulted in two unknown mediocre games and not before being reduced to handheld/wii games, heis studio is currently making iOS Android games.
What a sad spiral downwards. Why did he leave Square in the first place?
>>333149026
They were merging with Enix which made him anger and left with his ego
Originally square Enix was terrible and he looked like a sane man but over time they got their shit together and he became bitter even to this day
>>333149026
Why do all the old good developers go over to iOS and android games?
Romero did the same thing
That's just how nips are.
yeah he mainly works on this game and its really good for a mobile gasme, not pay to win and doesnt have a lottery or gacha, as bad as other games, you max aout a char and you wont get it ever again in the gacha.
>>333149176
Smaller teams and less money to worry about
>Why did he leave Square in the first place?
Because he Spirits Within failed hard and nearly fucked up square.
>>333149026
>two unknown mediocre games
You best not be talking about the best modern final fantasy game.
>>333149176
because so many games hit it big and make millions of dollars then fans lose interest, which is like the greatest thing you can have as a developer for mobile because it means you can re-release, new name on the shit, re-generation all the hype and get more money for almost 0 work.
Only most mobile devs ignore that there are literally millions of games released every single day. MILLIONS. EVERY DAY.
>>333149026
Remorse. His project of a movie left Squaresoft in serious trouble and it didn't make any profit. He then commited professional seppuku and let his company be absorbed by Enix
>>333149304
this, its what ff10 should have been
he made a movie and Square got pissed because they nearly went bankrupt.
>>333149176
It's the more similar thing to "the old days" available right now
>>333149026
>Why did he leave Square in the first place?
Because he blew a ton of their money on his movie project and got kind of disgraced afterwards. He got Square into red and resigned as the VP; registered his Mist Walker trademark just a few months later.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2001/02/09/square-does-the-management-reshuffling
>>333149304
Last Story was pretty dope, if not a bit simplistic in some parts.
>>333149127
Ah that makes sense.
I cant help but think he's come to realize that might've been a big mistake
>>333149402
Interesting.
>>333149401
how so?
>>333149026
He got salty that Sony helped Square back then with Non-controlling shares.
Since Sony saved Square, Sony started a little meddling in various projects Square has, which angered Sakaguchi.
However, what he doesnt know that most of his audience is with Sony, so ventures with MS and Nintendo bombed.
He still spites Sony, just like Shinji Mikami
>>333149583
Why does Sony hate Shinji Mikami?
>>333149360
They'd been in talks with Enix even before that. The movie bomb almost made Enix walk away.
>http://www.rpgamer.com/news/Q2-2003/042503e.html
>In other Square Enix news, Yasuhiro Fukushima, former chairman of Enix, told Mainichi that a merger with Square had been under consideration as long as three years ago. According to Mr. Fukushima, the sticking point at the time was the terrible showing of Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within, which made Enix think twice before committing to the partnership.
And to give the idea of just how catastrophic their SW losses were:
>After posting an operating loss in the previous fiscal year, SquareSoft had forecasted a 700 million yen (about $6 million) profit for the current year, but now the company plans to book a loss of approximately $13.9 billion yen (about $115 million) to accommodate for the poor performance of the film.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/square-pulls-out-of-the-movie-business-sees-losses/1100-2816030/
>>333149583
Why would he hate his business partner of over a decade suddenly because they gave their input on a few things and helped fund more projects?
Pretty sure if you're seen a a savior you'll have more of a say than the publisher and in this case he surely did
>make shitty movie.
>cost your company all the money.
>refuse to cooperate.
>muh vision.
>resist the merger.
>quit in a huff after your movie flops.
>>333149559
>how so?
Any mobile game only needs a really small team. Like one or two guys programming (Romero and Hall), one or two artists and a sound technician/composer.
Compare that to the fact that there were a team of ten just to animate last Assassin's Creed protag clothes.
>>333149724
Fuck
>>333149724
But wasn't Takaguchi the man who didn't approve the merge?
>>333149664
Sakaguchi hates Sony, just like Mikami hates Sony.
Mikami's hate stem from the fact of the resident evil exclusivity deal which resulted RE3 being renamed to Code Veronica and the hodgepodge of unused assets built to make RE3 and the final straw of RE4 being ported to PS2
>>333149756
>>make shitty movie.I liked it
>>333149885
Fuck off Max
He's making a new console game. Looks pretty good.
>Why did he leave Square in the first place?
>>333149749
Because "muh creativity" and "muh Japanese Pride".
These Japs are fuckwits. Remember that they are the kind of people like what happened to Sega that would rather burn than let Tom Kalinske usher Sega to greatness.
Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and The Last Story are better than anything Squeenix has shat out since FF9.
>>333149853
Can you tell us more about the Resident Evil exclusivity deal?
This guy went insane. He wanted FF7 to be set in cyberpunk new york (the actual city) featuring a hard boiled detective on a search for an evil sorceress. This stuff all lead to the eventual FF7, FF8 (with the sorceress), and the FF movie (it taking place in the real world). The FF movie cost square pretty much everything.
>he's reduced to creating shitty mobile games
>>333150000
He should have acted like a western dev instead and turned FF into CoD.
is ff V really the best ff ?
>>333149197
wait what, the creator of FF was behind that?
I tried that a year or two ago when it was just out and it was weird as fuck, i didnt even think it was gonna take off
dang
>>333149304
Also, he made Blue Dragon which was pretty fuckin'_________________fun.
>Two unknown mediocre games
I don't know who you are you massive fucking faggot but I will kill you. I bet you haven't even played them.
>>333149813
Him and a few others but majority rules approved and it left saka a terrible taste in his mouth
>make video games out of passion
>treats it very seriously
>strike gold and creat a hit
>and another
>and another
>eventually become on of the biggest publisher/developers in the world , at one point on par with the big dogs like capcom , sega and Nintendo
>find out that the board wants to merge your technical company with another relatively successful rival company
>for possible good reason resist
>nearly sabotage the entire deal over a few bad deals(i.e. The movie)
>can't stop the inevitable and leave the company you helped grow
>said company becomes a near shell of its former self while you strike gold with a multibillion dollar tech giant
>company regains its footing while you only produce a few good titles and return back to a code monkey
>Lost Odyssey and Last Story are bad meme
WEW LAD.
>all these fuckwits ITT who just learned about Sakaguchi
No wonder /v/ is dead
>>333150117
thats the Sony curse.
anyone who publicly curse or shat on Sony will suffer greatly and be irrelevant.
Notable cursed people who shat on Sony:
Shinji Mikami (buttboy of Bethesda)
Hironobu Sakaguchi (mobile developer)
Swery (what is he doing even now)
Kenji Eno (shamed out of game development)
Masato asada (brought down Cave and now doing the same to Mages)
>>333150000
wasted quads
>>333150117
But...they're not shitty. As far as mobile games go Terra Battle is pretty dank.
>>333150389
Michael Jackson?
>>333149985
The only problem with the movie was the release frame. Kids who went and saw the movie had really only experienced FF7, so to them the movie was HOLY SHIT FINAL FANTASY THAT MEANS CLOUD AND CREW AW YES HYPE.
What they didn't understand is that it was Final fantasy in name and theme, since ever FF game is supposed to be the end of a saga we hadn't witnessed. The Final chapter I whatever universe you were in. In this, the movie succeeded, it was in fact thay, and mixed elements of fantasy and Sci Fi. Hell, even CGI wise, it was a pretty awesome breakthrough.
But because everyone was expecting literally a movie about the only FF they knew about, it bombed hard, where if it had just reversed its subtitle to become Spirits Within: Final Fantasy, it would have done better.
I shudder to think how kids would have reacted to the Final Fantasy animes
>>333150389
Don't forget Itagaki
>Sakaguchi acknowledges Final Fantasy XV
How does /v/ feel about this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIeCDsEB1M
>>333149985
Man that movie was fucking lame.
Lost Odyssey is one of the most masterfully crafted games of the last generation. The fact that it got the lukewarm reception that it did shits me off to no end.
I mean its motion capture was fantastic and this was in 2007 and then you get cheapo JRPG's today not even bothering with proper cutscenes and just cutting to a dialogue box I mean Jesus fucking Christ. I can't even think of a game aside from LA Noire that conveyed facial emotion that well.Nuke Compile Heart. I'm serious, burn them to the ground.
>>333149583
yes. jrpg morons care more about brand loyalty than video games.
>Bravely Default developer Silicon Studio is teaming up with Lost Odyssey creator Mistwalker to make a new game.
>The co-developed project will be an original game with a new setting, according to the Japanese-language announcement.
Who hype here
>>333150609
My smartphone is ready.
>>333150514
Oh yeah, Oatmeal face too.
Capcom shatted on Sony too back then, and it almost made their company bankrupt
>>333150389
Not to mention, Eno's now dead
>>333150628
You mean 3DS
>>333150009
shhhhh. they didn't come out on sony consoles. we must not speak of them in a positive light.
>>333150628
I think it was announced it would be a non smartshit game though.
>>333150661
Yea, that's what I meant.
>>333149176
Loads of money obviously.
>>333150650
Capcom is starting to eat Sony's ass again. They realize without Big Papa Sony you can't do shit without becoming a mobile whore.
Look at Kojima and what Sony is doing for him now. Guy bounced immediately back because he was always good to Papa Sony.
He wanted to pursue his dream career as an underground hip-hop artist.
>>333149304
>muh niche xbox jrpg
The TOTALLY TRUE STORY of how Hironobu Sakaguchi (Creator of FINAL FANTASY) achieved his most prized accomplishment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWkvyeAu0E
>>333149026
why was he at the uncovered event?
>>333149127
>Square Enix
>got their shit together
In what universe?
>>333149197
>This item is not available for download in your country
>>333150038
the original concept for FF7 also birthed parasite eve
>>333150492
Should have just made Advent Children way back then
Would have been a success
>>333150797
Mega64 was better before becoming SJW mouthpiece. Now everyone avoids them like the plague.
>>333150896
What the absolute fuck are you even talking about?
>>333149197
This game is, surprisingly good
Not usually big on the whole puzzle mixed with rpg thing but the gamneplay, music and design are all really good. Shame it will always be an obscure mobile game
>>333150038
sounds good to me.
>>333150831
he apologised for FF XIII, and so did uematsu
>>333150662
I dunno about you but I played Lost Odyssey and it was underwhelming and way too fucking slow
Also what was the point of making it a 4-disc release if the CGI cutscenes weren't even that good
>>333149127
>but over time they got their shit together
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>333150983
Neither had anything to do with XIII. Last FF game that Sakaguchi produced was FF12. He handpicked Matsuno as director.
>>333151005
SE is decent now. Probably better than most publishers.
>>333150521
Eraqus was a moron
>>333149026
He was the director of FF :spirit withing that bombed fucking hard (100 millions dollarydoos losses)
Japanese will resign when met with a huge failure like that
It wasn't that bad of a movie but it was way too ambitious given the technology of the time
>>333151090
So, they are decent as a publisher? Who gives a shit about publishers, the games they've developed are all dogshit.
>>333149026
Sadly he was the only guy who knew how to manage a project at Square. He would have told the idea guys to fuck off and had FFXV finished in 2-3 years.
>>333151090
That says more about how much worse the rest are.
>>333151168
Publisher funds the games that get made. So something like Nier is still thanks to SE money.
>>333150195
FEARANAWE
ENYEREYES
>>333150831
"Hey gys, remember when FF was good? Me neither, bye."
>>333150014
Look up the Capcom 5.
>>333151170
He fucking released VIII-XI back to back. Guy was a machine.
>>333151232
Nier was fucking mediocre, furthermore publishers are abundant and these days every other dev that needs money just runs a kickscammer.
>>333150568
>25gb+ of mediocre CGI
Bravo Sakaguchi, you truly are a pioneer of fully voice acted jrpgs
>>333150879
Advent Children is worse than Spirits within though.
>>333151408
If publishers are so abundant and funding so easy, why can't Sakaguchi get a console game funded?
>>333150782
>niche
ok
>>333151289
I miss when square made games a lot, and they were good.
>>333151615
They still make a lot of games. But yeah FF has been badly mismanaged the past decade.
>>333151615
This and Vagrant Story were mint.
>>333151289
And they all sucked.
"Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi originally planned for the story to take place in New York in the year 1999, and as such, the original script of Final Fantasy VII, which was written by Sakaguchi, was completely different from the finished product. Tetsuya Nomura recalled how Sakaguchi "wanted to do something like a detective story." The first part of the story involved a "hot blooded" character named "Detective Joe" who was in pursuit of the main characters, after they had blown up the city of Midgar, which had already been developed for the story."
>>333151049
>picked a guy thay had a nervous breakdown and made the entire development a clusterfuck with crazy ripple effects on the entire company until now
It's like some angry god is mad at him, a lot
>>333151564
He got 3 funded, if he didn't manage to get his shit together with that maybe he or his new team underperformed and he should retire.
Do you actually know that he wants to make more console games? Maybe mobile turned to be a goldmine for him.
>>333151690
i guess it didn't live up to your Ubisoft taste
>>333149026
he left because he felt responsible for the failure of spirits within
>>333151798
Yes he does. Jap devs usually don't like mobile and Sakaguchi's last console game bombed.
He's looking for investors for his new console game as we speak.
>>333150492
It was a space marine movie with final fantasy name slapped on it for no reason
The only value it had was being one of the first 3D animated movie
>>333149026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWkvyeAu0E
He's living his dream.
>>333151597
It is
>>333151712
FFVII was originally supposed to be similar to blade runner
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S8NGDsnv34M
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf9WDPa028
>>333151240
The best part about Eternity is that Ian Gillan sings it. Yeah, the Deep Purple guy.
>>333151920
Send him a mail explaining kickstarter then.
I know of nobody that actually gives a shit about blue dragon or last story though, so maybe he should just accept his failure.
>>333149176
less costs, more freedom
>>333151982
try reading the thread first retard >>333150797
>>333152146
too bad ian kinda sucked since 1983
>blue dragon was a dragon quest ripoff that was completly unbalanced
>lost odyssey completly shat it's interessing premise with the most cliched character ever
>terra battle would be good if they would update the thing more than once every 4 full moon like a bunch of super slow wereprogrammer
>>333150845
Just download the APK, retard
I thought Mistwalker was a nintendo dev just like Monolithsoft was, but I guess Nintendo owns the IP The Last Story rather the dev just like W101 and not Bayonetta
>>333150000
Nice.
>>333152267
Fuck off faggot.
>>333152398
I don't have it on this PC, but Tango Gameworks used to have a 4koma, where they showed old mikami vs new mikami with the text "the difference in quality is too obvious!" regarding his more relaxed appearance and attitude from compared to the ps1 era
I actually really liked Spirits within, and even have it on DVD.
It's a real shame that it bombed so hard, I'd love more young adult/adult targeted CGI movies, instead of them all being relegated to children's shlock.
>>333152398
>from director to voice actor
>>333152695
Moron
>>333149026
>this guy created and directed FF 1 to 9
Wrong. He's only directed 1 and 5. Admittedly, the best int he series. The rest he's produced.
He's directed/produced other games since, but they weren't that good.
>>333152631
Well that's the deal, outside of japan animation is always regarded as for children, so if your movie isn't child friendly it bombs. The Wakfu guys recently released the Dofus movie, knowing it would bomb, it bombed, and then they wrote a post that's basically "shit, it bombed because it wasn't aimed exclusively at kids"
Only exception is if you're James Cameron.
>>333149127
>over time they got their shit together
What? You're retarded. Squeenix has only gotten worse over the years.
>>333149026
>two unknown mediocre games
What? Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey aren't unknown.
>before being reduced to [...] wii games
Are you implying The Last Story is awful?
He tried a "complete multimedia campaign" by expanding out of video games into movies like business analysts say video games should do, and it bankrupted Square.
>>333152814
I-it's O-OK F-Final F-Fantasy XV W-W-Will be GREAT!
>>333152695
Nan-ni shimasho-ka?
>>333149127
>over time they got their shit together
and gave us the masterful Faggola Nova Clitoris saga
So does Terra Battle recharge thing force you to pay at some point or is it generally fair?
I wish games like this just had a buy option that cuts the whole part out
>>333153113
I got to the ending without spending a cent, but as i said this sort of game live and die by weekly/monthly update and terra battle updates are the slowest i've ever seen
That said the next update is supposed to have FFT director and musician on board if you are into that
Thank christ hes gone though. Looking at his games since he is still literally using the exact same cut amd paste stale as fuck mechanics.
Where as FF is at least trying to change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWkvyeAu0E
>>333150746
Nice Reddit image lad. Post more so I can upboat
>>333151712
Sounds good.
He didn't direct 1-9, he directed 1-5.
And he left SquareEnix because his fucking shit movie made SquareSoft go to bankrupt.
I don't know what the fuck was he doing in the Uncovered this fucking traitor.
>>333149304
>only on 360
this kills the developer.
>>333153813
What the hell are you smoking dude?
Nearly one million is damn fine for a new jrpg.
>>333153470
wew lad only the third time its posted in this thread
>>333150868
It's like the book never exisited!
same like front mission creator
what a cruel cruel world we living in
It says he was demoted because the final fantasy moved flopped and thats why he left. He wanted to make movies not only games.
I don't know if that is true or not and I don't really care but one thing is certain, he wasn't the only one that left. The end result of the core people leaving what made final fantasy what it is, is reflected in final fantasy 13. It's just a bunch of nonname hacks that hide under the ff franchise name.
>reduced to making small games
Hey faggot, he's a person who has worked on big games for a long time and now he deserves to relax. You are a child who thinks these people should work themselves to death for you. Grow up.
Want to whinge about Japanese games today? Blame the lack of new talent, lack of vision from hacks like Nomura and probably working conditions we know nothing about.
>>333149127
>but over time they got their shit together
WAT
>>333149127
>but over time they got their shit together
Anything decent from Square Enix in the last decade has either been from the Enix side or a dev the hire/publish for like Tri Ace or Eidos.
>>333152797
>Well that's the deal, outside of japan animation is always regarded as for children
it's actually the opposite and the reason why most japanese anime protagonists are teenagers or young adults and the school setting is very common
nowadays the base audience for japanese are mostly weebs though
>>333149176
>Romero
>Good
An ideas guy is not a good developer.
I wating Lost Odyssey II or a another JRPG for Xbox.
>>333158037
He's actually working on something with the Bravely Default developers. I think BD gameplay was good, with Sakaguchi at the helm we can get a decent story, characters and directing aswell
>>333153765
This.
Sakatuchi did not direct any of the ps1 or ps2 games.
>>333149026
After the movie he was essentially put in a cupboard and not allowed to work on anything concrete at Square, so he eventually left (which was the intended effect)
>>333150492
>The only problem with the movie
Anon, the other problem with the movie is they tried to push the MC as Simone. You know, the realistic waifu?
>>333158494
Don't forget producers were really hands-on back then. They got that kind of title so non-devs would take them seriously but they were still devs.
>>333149026
Chances are he wanted to try something different after 15 years of making the same series. To be fair his games varied a lot, so at least he didn't make the same type of formualic game over and over like people do at Activision with COD, or EA with battlefield.
Having said that, I get a sense he probably misses working on Final Fantasy a bit. He probably also left since Square merged with Enix around the time he left, and he maybe felt like culturally he wouldn't fit; however, it seems like Square Enix has made a good turn as of late, and same thing goes for a couple other Japanese giants like Sony and Sega. Konami has gone straight into the shitter though.
>>333149026
Reading the wiki, I think the only man more saddening than him is John Romero.
But at least he's not Anthony Burch.
>>333152814
>>333150832
>>333151005
I'm going to disagree since I feel like they have made a good turn recently. I'll explain why.
I think after FF13 with the linearity and issues Square Enix tried to make up for their mistakes with the FF13 sequels by opening up the world a bit. They actually listen to the fans. Now did it made the series great? Meh.
Then they botched FF14, but you know what, they listen to the fans and redid most of the game. It takes balls for a company to admit a massive fuck up, then go back and fixed it up and relaunch it. When Microsoft fucked up Vista, they acted like it was fine while they quickly pushed out Windows with no apology. To me it means a lot when a company admits they fucked up, then fixed it by releasing something good as an apology. Granted, you can say they didn't went far enough with a free game or something, but I digress.
Finally I've been impressed how their HD KH collections were well done from optimizing the game for the PS3, but adding in all of the handhelds from redoing the core game, or releasing it as an HD movie. That takes a lot of work then a simple slap job upping the resolution.
Then they are actually making KH3 which looks good so far in the trailers, and I enjoyed the combat in the FF15 trailer. To me they have made a right turn recently, and I feel like they are on the right path again.
>>333149026
He left because SE investors wanted to get into hollywoodbux and told him to make a movie. So he did. And it bombed hard.
Unfortunately SE did not learn from that, as they're currently spending way fucking more than he ever lost them on FFXV
>>333159297
They listened to jackshit when they remade 14. Nobody brought up remaking the whole mmo. That was the producer's idea and then he lied about what's going to be in the 'remake'. The dungeons in the game are all linear hallways that puts ff13's hallways to shame. LIterally all the dungeons in the game (some dozens of em) are just mobs > boss > mobs > boss > mobs > boss.
>>333151941
>It was a space marine movie
Try watching the movie at least before spewing shit.
>>333159297
>I enjoyed the combat in FF15
and your sensible post has turned rancid. Shame anon, I was looking forward to properly replying to you. FF15 combat is pretty fucking shit.
>>333150342
If he wasn't at the XV conference there'd still be hundreds of clueless retards fellating FFXV but having no idea who surferman is.
>>333150389
>Kenji Eno
>>333150609
Holy fuck who thought that design was good?
>Hey let's take drakengard and fuck that shit up.
>>333149304
Meh I didn't like it.
>>333150195
THIS IS THE BEGINNING
>>333150772
No one here has seen this documentary? He actively tried to ruin Final Fantasy for several years so he could get fired.
>>333149026
>lost odyssey
>mediocre
>>333149304
tbqh this was just a japanese knockoff of planescape torment. With 90% more spiky hair and other anime cliches added into the mix.
That makes it automatically better than the entire final fantasy games. But it's still not better than any CRPG.
>>333161118
it was terribly mediocre and the children fucking ruined the game
https://youtu.be/o-sN6xcYvzY?t=4m20s
>People still meme that SE is bad and their only proof for that is "dude final fantasy XIII thirteen lmaooo!"
>>333161387
Nah, it's called having shit taste.
>>333161436
>dude final fantasy XIII thirteen 13 lmaooo!
ftfy
>>333149127
>they got their shit together
XIII series and XV prove you wrong
>>333161118
Good things:
Short stories
Jansen's VA
Music (even then it's far from Uematsu's best)
Bad/Mediocre things:
Literally everything else
>>333161436
>>333161520
Case in point.
And fuck this XV shitposting too.
>>333161634
It's the go to response because it's the easiest, doesn't make it the only proof.
>>333154085
>one million
>worth a shit post 6th gen hell even 6th that would be unacceptable for a big budget jrpg
>>333161634
Maybe if Square didn't make XV's combat so bad I'd stop shitposting.
>>333161998
They can't help it if you're too dumb to do anything but hold down circle, sorry.
>>333161848
It's a lazy jab that means fuckall.
>>333149583
>>333149749
>>333150000
>B-But Nintendo
LMAO, every fucking time.
>>333161118
If it was a PS3 exclusive these faggots would rank it in the top 5 jrpgs of all time.
>>333162737
Nah, it would still be mediocre as fuck.
>>333159841
How is it shit? At first I was mixed about it being an ARPG, but I enjoyed the demo at the end when you had a taste of the full combat.
>>333162806
Because with platinum demo there has been a new sexual awakening for shitposting about the combat.
>>333162135
Mashing O gets you the same result, anon.
Prove me wrong. The combat is trash.
>>333149026
He was in charge of the Spirits Within movie.
It flopped.
By the unspoken rules of Japanese business culture his options were either to get demoted and get the lowest salary in the company or apologize and resign.
>>333162967
So you have no idea what you're talking about senpai.
>>333150521
There's hope for a collab on FF16.
I'm hyped on Amano too
>>333162861
Hah, good point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWkvyeAu0E
>>333163883
That's the fourth time in this thread you homolord.
>>333149127
>Originally square Enix was terrible
>over time they got their shit together
MY FUCKING SIDES!!
>>333149127
>but over time they got their shit together
Yeah, that's why FFXV exists
>>333149127
>Originally square Enix was terrible and he looked like a sane man but over time they got their shit together and he became bitter even to this day
This is only ever disputable for GBA, DS and PSP, for which they made a pretty good amount of good games/ remakes/ ports each. They've done fuck all in the desktop market but promises and corporational decisions.
>>333149360
Damn shame, Spirits Within wasn't anything stellar but it's actually a decent watch. It just suffers from a lot of stiff exposition and pacing.
The characters aren't bad if a little formulaic, and their dialogue is tolerable. Plot is actually decent and much less convoluted and contrived than other FF and sci-fi concepts really. AC on the other hand was a fucking joke, but because it's backed by FF7 fans and flashy action it managed to coast by, then again I guess as a business SE isn't concerned with the integrity of a product more than whether or not it makes back the money it took to create it so I can understand from that perspective.
>>333150195
I enjoyed it
>>333149127
Sure they did, the quality of the mobile ports is enough proof.
