Square Soft or Square Enix?

Which do you prefer?

  • Square Soft

    Votes: 18 90.0%

  • Sqaure Enix

    Votes: 2 10.0%
  • Total voters
    20
I like them as Squaresoft better for some reason, though Square-Enix is innovative in itself, I can't really say that I like SE better because...it just isn't the same...obviously. >.>

I liked the old school games more, Xenogears, FFVII, with longer engrossing stories...not saying SE hasn't produced engrossing stories...but, darn, I'm digging myself a hole.
 
Ugh, yes, I like Square soft a lot better than Square enix.

First off, some of the old Square soft staff left after the merge with Enix. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the father of Final Fantasy, left to create his own company Mistwalker. He still worked on the games though as a producer. I think it might be part of it why Square enix is not doing so well.

Square renix has also announced many games that they're going to be producing. FF Dissidia, KH3, FF 7 Crisis Core, FF XIII, FF XIII Agito, FFXIII Versus, The Last Remnant, and a lot more games. They keep announcing these games, they're going to take a while for any of them to be released. They already have 2 games for FFXIII AND FFXII ISN'T EVEN OUT YET! JUST STICK TO ONE GAME AND WORK ON IT!!!

I'm sure when Crisis core comes out it's probably going to mess up the orginal plot of FFVII. They just make stuff up and throw in Gackt in. I have a feeling that this is not going to be a good game.

Also they took forever to release KH 2. They announced the game a little while after KH1 was out. KH1 (Square soft) came out in 2002 and KH2 came out 2005 at the end of the year. I remember they kept pushing KH2. I walked into the Gamestop 2-3 times asking when KH2 was coming out and they kept telling me Square enix kept pushing the date further.

I miss the old Square soft games very much. Chrono series, Secret of Mana, and Xenogears. I wish they could just focus on devloping a few games at a time.

Oh btw, FFX was Square soft.
 
Squaresoft. I loved games like Final Fantasy IV-X, the Mana series and of course, Chrono Trigger (#1 reason I love Squaresoft over Square-Enix). Not to say that the new games are bad, it's just that they just don't have the same amount of fun that the earlier games had.
 
i am sorry but i love Square Enix because of there un dieing love and passion to creating so meny FF games and the passion they show for keeping the RPg alive for so ling as gameing has excited.
 
leon_senpia said:
i am sorry but i love Square Enix because of there un dieing love and passion to creating so meny FF games and the passion they show for keeping the RPg alive for so ling as gameing has excited.
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Another problem. It's always FF that gets the sequels. It's never the Chrono Series, or the Mana series or Vagrant Story (Which even hinted at a freakin' sequel at the end)!!! Even Nights is getting a sequel (Took you long enough, Sega)!
 
Julius Argexis said:
But dear God not as many repetitive missions like the hunts of FFXII....:P Almost every hunt was the same old repetitive process... no challenge at all...

Though I admit that the Pharos Lighthouse was not that bad...

Still Square-Enix should return to their old ways and make legends like FFVII and FFVIII. FFVII shook the word, even Aeris' death caused many to fall in depression (yeah many hardcore Japanese RPGamers). How many times a game has such effect on the gaming community?

I think they lost their magic somewhere between the name change and the development of the new games...
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The hunts were not THAT repetitive. lol. Enix needs to take their time and get something great done. FFXIII. =p.
 
Hands down, Square Soft...

Yeah, I've noticed that ever since the merger with Enix the games have seemed to all be lacking something of the old school appeal, especially with the drastic change in staff at Square.

I always welcome change, but I only hope that Final Fantasy doesn't suffer terrible fate in the near future.


 
from an FF point of view i really prefer SS
ever since SS merged with Enix they started to experiment too much

if i'm not mistaken FFX was still SS but FFX-2 and up was made by SE

it's just as if the Enix part told the SS part to try out new battle systems, stories, characters with FF,

why couldn't they do it with dragon quest(which is an Enix game if i'm not mistaken)

it saddens me that the experiments with the new FFs are liked by a lot of people, they aren't FF anymore imo

i think an FF needs a turn-based battle system, simply because they have always had them(ATB or CTB)
real action fighting(see gambit system or MMO battles) simply don't fit with it.. and that's what they've been mumbling with since the merge

next the stories appear to have weakened, it could be the lack of inspiration but in FFXI(MMO) or FFXII you had rather weak storylines compared to the earlier storylines(FFVII or FFX for my knowledge)

change is good... radical change however.. is not
 
Raptorg said:
from an FF point of view i really prefer SS
ever since SS merged with Enix they started to experiment too much

if i'm not mistaken FFX was still SS but FFX-2 and up was made by SE

it's just as if the Enix part told the SS part to try out new battle systems, stories, characters with FF,

why couldn't they do it with dragon quest(which is an Enix game if i'm not mistaken)

it saddens me that the experiments with the new FFs are liked by a lot of people, they aren't FF anymore imo

i think an FF needs a turn-based battle system, simply because they have always had them(ATB or CTB)
real action fighting(see gambit system or MMO battles) simply don't fit with it.. and that's what they've been mumbling with since the merge

next the stories appear to have weakened, it could be the lack of inspiration but in FFXI(MMO) or FFXII you had rather weak storylines compared to the earlier storylines(FFVII or FFX for my knowledge)

change is good... radical change however.. is not
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I completely agree with this guy :monster:


Seriously, why perform radical changes? Mistakes like that created FFX-2...


I've never played Chrono Trigger, but I did play Chrono Cross and I enjoyed it a lot ( I even play if once in a while with my PS2 and an old PSX Memory Card)

Those games, the old school were awww...great and they had this overwhelming magic....

(oh and sorry about FFX...I forgot that title was still SS >_<)

The thing that disappointed me the MOST in FFXII was Archedes....
...such a great city...almost little explorarion....I could see many areas though not access them (like the palace...at least why didn't they allow us to reach the doors of the palace????)
 
Square Soft. Final Fantasy I through VI, IX, X, and Tactics pwn (yes, i left out VII and VIII, i dont like those two). Plus you've got Chrono Trigger, Bahamut Lagoon, and Vagrant Story. Square Soft focused on making fun, quality games that almost always had something new to offer to the RPG world.

Square Enix, on the other hand, seems to be mainly concerned with making money. They've capitalized on all the VII fanboys out there and have made a ton of half-assed spinoffs because they know they'll sell (like Dirge). They made the utter disgrace X-2. I think X was a great game and the ending was fine, it didnt even need a sequal. But not only did SE make an unnecessary sequal, they completely changed Yuna's personality and made the entire feel of the game cheesy, it was impossible to even take the game seriously.

Then there's XII, which is basically a gimmick game. It seems to me that all SE was trying to do with it was make a new battle system so all these new lazy gamers dont have to whine and complain about the traditional RPG system, and they just let good character and storyline development fall by the wayside. Then again, the spinoff Revenant Wings is supposed to give more story on Vaan and Penelo, which leads me to wonder if they really didnt leave character development out of XII on purpose so that people would buy Revenant Wings.

And of course we're going to have the bajillion Final Fantasy XIII games for the PS3 and phone, and probably the Wii and 360 too.

Innovation is fine, but SE seems to be treating the traditional RPG system like it's inferior and needs to be done away with. It's worked fine for the past 20 years and i see no reason why they have to tamper with it so much. In my opinion, X perfected the system and they should have just left it alone after that. Like i said, i think they're just catering to the new, lazy generation of gamers who grew up with easy games like Spyro and Crash Bandicoot (nothing wrong with those games, mind you, i love them) rather than oldschool games that required skill and patience.

Also, there's the utter lack of Amano. They dont even use him anymore except for logo art (and Uematsu has taken a backseat too). Now there's nothing wrong with Nomura, it's just that Amano had unique characters, and Nomura's style is just the generic spikey haired anime characters, and that gets real boring real fast. If i want games with anime characters, i'll pick up the latest Naruto game.
 
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Square-soft. ever since SE formed the series has been changing too much and its became all about the money. The FFVII Compilation. X-2. Sequals. and the biggest one of all - FFXI.

SS = Game-making genious'
SE = Game-making machines who are all about the money.
 
i like square soft

i have a tendency to like original stuff so yeah

plus i always get goosebumps when i see the square soft logo come up at the beggining of a game cuz i just love it so much :P
 
warrrrk! said:
plus i always get goosebumps when i see the square soft logo come up at the beggining of a game cuz i just love it so much :P
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Haha, yeah, that happens to me too, whenever I see that icon, it's just, wow, this has to be a really great game. It usually is when it's a Squaresoft game, and the marketability of the games they've churned out is pretty awesome in itself.

SquareSoft > Square-Enix :monster:
 
i remember after beating FFVII, i would buy a game and wouldn't realize it was made by squaresoft...then the squaresoft logo thing would pop up and id get 10 times as excited. haa the good ol' days...oh how i miss squaresoft :unsure:
 
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