Discussing the positives and negatives of Square-Enix as a developer/publisher.
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."
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.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
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
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
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.
@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.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
I really hope that Square-Enix will do better next gen, but I have a feeling they'll just continue on with the handheld offerings and produce decreasing quality games for consoles.
With the exception of publishing Sleeping Dogs, Square-Enix have been terrible this gen.
To be fair Squeenix make some great handheld games, its just Final fantasy 13 and 13-2 that are awful
Edit: Like DragonKnight said
They are publishing some great games, (Deus Ex, Just Cause 2, Sleeping Dogs, CODMW3, ETC....but they needs to go back to what made them SquareSoft. get those minds to dig deep in that vault of fatansy, magic, and sheer brilliance,...I wanna experience titles like Final Fantasy 9 or Vagrant Story or Chrono Trigger only in next Gen format,...those was truly a fantasy game.
Square's main issue with consoles this gen is that they tried making "AAA" titles, when like Capcom, they've only ever been a "B" to "A" level dev. It was fan support which made their games AAA.