Judgement786 and Sosdante talks about Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Kingdom Hearts 3, 2 big titles from Square Enix.
"SQUARE ENIX®’s beloved KINGDOM HEARTS series has launched on Steam®, bringing the iconic RPG series to a whole new world of players. All three collections released today—KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMIX, KINGDOM HEARTS 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and KINGDOM HEARTS III + Re Mind DLC—can be played both on PC and on-the-go on Steam Deck devices, and available at a special discounted price for a limited time*." - Square Enix.
My main complaint about the series is that it mixes Disney characters and Final Fantasy characters, but they are actually not important at all to the plot. I read summaries and watched videos about the series, even played the music game which tries to summarize the plot of each game, and the Disney and FF stuff are barely mentioned at all.
All the series really is, is an amalgamation of convoluted plots that tries too hard to be mysterious and edgy, with some cameos to attract fans of Disney and FF, who wouldn't care at all about the franchise otherwise.
Heck, even in the trailer above, the Disney/FF characters are... just there.
After its latest games didn't meet sales targets, Square Enix is going multiplatform but the company's track record isn't convincing.
Square Enix been multiplatform for decades, a few exclusively-deals doesn't make them any less multiplatform.
SE needs to go all in optimization. Broken PC ports won't help its case, especially with big releases like mainline Final Fantasy
It's actually simple. What doesn't inspire confidence is Square allocating their budgets on the wrong projects such as Forspoken, Avengers, Babylons Fall and Foamstars.
Square has always been multiplatform since PS3/360 days which 80 % of their games are. People kick up a fuss over PS exclusivity but not Nintendo which has more exclusive projects console exclusive from Square.
FF16 has done ok but not enough to fix the blunders that the past mistakes Square has made with some of their projects. FF7 Rebirth is unclear we'll see a PC release for sure so it's hard to say so far not as good as they would of liked.
Then again unrealistic expectations. If it weren't for Sony these games would at least had another 2 years development time. So some people need to be realistic in that regard.
Square Enix just really need to revise its expectations. Maybe consider a change in strategy on dev end as well. Multiplat will help for sure but only good games that are marketed well will sell
In a town hall that took place on Monday, Square Enix president Takashi Kiryu reportedly confirmed imminent layoffs in the U.S. and Europe.
What did NA and EU did anyways? Just translate or something? I would say it might help them get back to there roots but DK.
I don't think we'll live to see either. Seeing as Versus XIII has no sign of releasing anytime soon and KH3 isn't gonna happen until the KH team is done with Versus.
I don't care which one ends up being bigger than the other. I just want them both to be released within my lifetime!
Not for me. I just hope they're both released before China takes over the world
Darn right it'll be bigger. It's gonna skip a whole console generation too. KH3 is the end to the Xehanort saga. There have been 4 spin offs of the game after KH2... all of them giving clues as to how the story will end. Kh3 will tie all those spin offs together and finally end it all AND WHEN IT DOES I WILL NOT BUY INTO WHATEVER COMES AFTER CUZ I REFUSE TO GET INVESTED INTO ANOTHER KH SAGA THAT TAKES THIS LONG TO FINISH!!!!
Im gonna say Kingdom hearts because theres been so many games building up to it. But I would like to see both before 2015.