Tek Syndicate: We don't want IO and Square Enix to be apologetic for offending us. We want them to apologize for their marketing methods. Furthermore, we want them to understand why all there is controversy in the first place.
Square Enix talks about developing Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade for Nintendo Switch 2 in a behind-the-scenes interview.
Why do we think this is coming out on Switch 2 before Xbox? Any thoughts? The S2 is not more powerful than the Series S so it’s not a ‘lack of power’ issue. Perhaps the sales forecast is higher on S2 than Xbox so that’s maybe where their priority lies?
It’s definitely a sales issue. If Xbox didn’t have players used to GamePass I bet it would be there already.
The fact people will buy it. Xbox gamers generally have minimal interest in this series. Portable Final Fantasy will go down a storm in Japan where the switch sells huge numbers
The Switch 2 version is really beautiful. It looked as good as the PS5 version.
Members of Square Enix recently made a remarkable discovery upon opening an old storage container at work that had been shut for close to 20 years: a cache of pristine, retro games that includes titles released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, DOS computers, N-Gage, Nintendo Wii, and Amstrad CPC, among other platforms.
I kind of wish Square Enix would return to their roots… well, more so the PS1 era.
They were absolutely cooking during the PS1 era, now I can't get excited for the majority of SE's newest games. I would actually love it if AAA developed forgot about making the best graphics ever and focused moreso on other aspects of games. Limitations really did breed innovation back then.
The PS1 was cutting edge at the time, it removed limitations.
The innovation came from a huge wave of game creators using the PS1 as the main development platform.
So are we just ignoring Octopath Traveler 1&2, Live Alive, Bravely Default 2 and Triangle Strategy then yeah?
I guess I worded it wrong, I wish Square would return to MORE of their original IPs from the PS1 era, more specifically things like Parasite Eve, FF Tactics, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Einhander, and Vagrant Story. Better?
They found retro games and some are as old as 30 years ? So most of it wouldn't even be retro I imagine.
Weird thing is amstrad commodore and spectrum games are much older than 30 years mostly so how are the oldest ones 30 years ?
retro
adjective
Involving, relating to, or reminiscent of an earlier time.
yeah, they qualify as retro
Kazuyuki Shindo, who worked on games including Legend of Mana, Final Fantasy XIII, and SaGa: Emerald Beyond, has left Square Enix.
Lol. There is no point. Sexism, really? I imagine that makes the 'entertainers' of gentleman's clubs very sexist. Not to mention the cover model on almost every magazine. It'd be different if this was something 'new' for Hitman, but really, it isn't. In game called Hitman that places you in the shoes of a serial-killer assassin that hunts down targets and kills them in a various matter of ways and avoids police, the one thing people want to be morally high-and-mighty about is that some female avatars in the game are depicted erotically? The game places you in the shoes of a literal hitman assassin. You kill people. Murder people. Poison, strangle, shoot, stage 'accidents'. Very fun games in the past, too.
Imagine if Agent 47 felt that way. Just gets done strangling some nightworker, undressing him for his suit, then stuffing the corpse in a dumpster. Then see's a woman clad in a very revealing outfit. "Thats so shameful and sexist, have you no morals or standards lady?"
Female characters that play the role of enemy instead of the damsel in distress? They can even die instead of being the only "immortal npc" in the game? That all sounds like being equal to me. Its not like 47 is grabbing at their breasts and sexually assaulting them. If he were, okay, I see a problem.
They tired to kill him, he kicks their asses. I somehow don't think he thought "oh look, women, lets show them their place and kill them". Probably more like "enemies, tried to kill me, must eliminate the threat."
Coincidentally, it's just a bloody game. A game aimed for mature audiences. Have fun and enjoy killing people in creative methods, stop caring that the women in it may or may not expose thigh. If anything they're wearing significantly more clothing than a lot of chicks I've seen, and they were in this thing called 'reality'.
The trailer was brilliant.
It fit with the series perfectly.
End of story.
Whatever happened to the days where we just made games for the fun of it? Games without all this criticism. People are looking into it way too much.
Why do people get so butthurt over the dumbest things, seriously grow up its a game and they wanted to do something interesting.
The point is death. And I'm getting the point. Day 1.
I was offended cause it didnt turn into porn i want a apology 2!