Except Dragon Quest which came from Enix. I think they was running scared that everyone in the west would just want 1st person shooters and Bill Gates even talked about the Japanese players wanting cerebral games and West players wanting Twitch games. Square-Enix went on a convert everything to twich while keeing the cerebral players. This formula NEVER worked. The other thing is it takes at least twice as long to make a turn based rpg with almost twice the staff, as it takes to make a action game.

You have to give the player what they WANT.

Except Tomb Raider and Nier are actually a relevant franchises now and FFXV was great if you weren't clouded by nostalgia.

i think quality went down because the competition between Squaresoft and Enix made both their games great!

Exactly. Dragon Quest 9 is responsible for me getting into the Dragon Quest series and into console/handheld rpgs in general.

FFTA2 is one of my favorite games of all time and got me really into tactics games.

Yeah, all 2 of them. Dissedia is ok, The world end with you is really good. Basically everything else is just a re-release, wasn't actually made by them, or is garbage.

Like, you can't count Valkyrei profile because it's actually a 1995 PS game.

@ Princess

So you're really just going to ignore all the quality games Square Enix released just to fit a flimsy agenda huh?

I disagree. I have no nostalgic attachment to classic FF games because I barely played the games. Most of my exposure is to the remasters and spin offs like crisis core. In total, I have played maybe less than 7 FF games and 2 of them actually are the first 2 anniversary psp releases, but I never beat them because I was a kid and got lost and had no patience to figure out what to do or where to go.

With that out of the way, I thought FF15 was a mediocre game. It had an awful story that was not only poorly written and shoddily paced, but also incomplete with several cutscenes being added after launch which is ridiculous.

Aside from the garbage story, the game's combat was mindnumbingly dull. All you have to do is hold a single button for auto combos and occasionally press a direction of you felt like mixing it up. Dodging was holding a button for auto dodging. Partying didn't even require timing. Just hold the square button and bam, you'll parry when the attack hits. No timing required.

Add to that, the completely formulaic open world structure with copy/paste "take this photo here" and "catch these frogs for me here" in a world where The Witcher 3 exists where even the most full of quests legitimized itself with good writing and context within the game world. The most lived in and concrete open world in a video game with the most tightly knit design of any open world game to date.

I did not think FF15 was good at all. Has nothing to do with nostalgia because I have next to no attachment to the franchise, but I love rpg's, both action and turn based, and FF15 to an rpg fan felt like an insult to my experience with the genre. It felt more like "baby's first action rpg".

Had nothing to do with the old games, combat, story, "missions" = go there, get that, bring here, everything was dull, and playing the sidequests did nothing for the main story. Completing them was more of a chore.
Calling a monotonous game great is overdoing it, glad you enjoyed it there's plenty of simple rpgs with no depth for you to play. :)

No. FFXV is complete trash there no sugarcoating it.

I never said secret of mana was, I was saying id like it on a physical disc to which they probably wont do.

FFIII on psp isnt small project in the end of the day its main FF. Still, they released it on disc in japan and only digital in the rest of world. Moreover, Limited, Collector editions were mostly not available in US only in EU. All FF in psp, 3rd birthday, KH BBS, and the first two XIII trilogy all of them were just available only as standard edition in US, but in EU there was some quite different editions. After Lightning Return SE has became better as whole company.

You said it future. We aint there yet. It like saying back to 1985 throw all your VHS because in 2013 Blu-ray is the future.

Where have you been, all these small publishers popping up offering physical releases. Truth is there are more games coming out physically then what did on ps3. Some people may have realized that digital isnt the future just yet.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse