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Square-Enix...did something GOOD?!

Postby Nate » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:15 pm

I am about to explode from excitement. I love having a PSP. I love it. I will show you why.

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FINAL FANTASY TACTICS REMAKE. AFJKDLS;AFKJSDLAHGKDLS;AFJKSLA;

What I have always wanted. What everyone has always wanted. Now it is portable. With a new Job Class. Probably new dungeons. New bosses. A polished translation.

This rules so hard, I cannot even think of any words to describe it.
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Postby TriezGamer » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:29 pm

Now with decent translation? :D

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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:09 am

Oh.... my.... WOW!
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:52 am

Wows this is a really great thing MGS: Portable ops then Now Tactics ^_^ i need to get a psp at somepoint
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:11 am

PSP? Sick... That thing has NOTHING of interest for me :/ I got my DS cause all the Square stuff was coming on there^^ Oh well, I haven't even finished the orginal Tactics cause I got stuck a while back and haven't gone back to play since^^
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Postby everdred12a » Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:52 am

[quote="kaemmerite"]I am about to explode from excitement. I love having a PSP. I love it. I will show you why.

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Postby Link Antilles » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:02 am

I've been considering going back and beating Tactics on the PS.... not now, it seems. XD Nice find, Nate!
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:13 am

Wow, that's cool. Maybe I'll actually be able to FIND it now. XD 'Course, finding the money to buy a PSP comes first. >_> Anyways, yeah, that's great!
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Postby Cognitive Gear » Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:55 am

Horray! I finally have a third reason to get a PSP. Now I just need to get the money. xD
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Postby Bobtheduck » Thu Dec 14, 2006 1:05 pm

*cough* I'll have my full response to this announcement on the 27th.
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Postby jon_jinn » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:01 pm

darn. i really wish i have a psp now...
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Postby Debitt » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:35 pm

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But seriously...=[ I wish I could play this without buying a PSP. Because it's really the only game that interests me on the PSP right now...
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Postby Tommy » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:18 pm

It's set. I'm getting a PSP.

I'm not THAT excited because the Tactics series never did please me as much as the ones from the straightforward series.

Final Fantasy Tactics was also very challenging. I did beat the Tactics Advance one which was inferior, but I still wanna get this.

I was hoping this remake would be on a next-gen system and not have sprites.

Think how amazing an FFT game would be in PS3, Wii, or Xbox 360 graphics.

This will do for now.
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Postby Cognitive Gear » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:40 pm

Uematsu when he was interviewed about why he left Square to form Mistwalker wrote:When a company with ten employees grows to employ a thousand people, a lot of things change, of course. The most important thing then is making money. When Squaresoft employed ten to twenty people, the most important thing was to make something interesting and entertaining. All the people were following their ideas and their dreams or did what they thought was right. A company with a thousand employees can't be run on dreams anymore.


I thought this was an interesting quote that those of you who are disappointed in Square-Enix's recent performance would enjoy.
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Postby MasterDias » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:31 pm

Let's just hope it really does have a comprehesible translation this time. But I don't have a PSP however...
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:06 pm

ikimasu wrote:I thought this was an interesting quote that those of you who are disappointed in Square-Enix's recent performance would enjoy.

Quoted for truth I say. Somehow, I feel that the magical feeling the older games had are missing in these newer ones.
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Postby Tommy » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:13 pm

I think the best four FF games were 7 through 10 in a random order. The old ones were great though, but after 10, it all seemed to go downhill.
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Postby Nate » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:34 pm

That's because after X they stopped being made by Squaresoft and started being made by Square-Enix.

EDIT: By the way, I'd like to say that Nomura's character designs suck. Bring back Amano!
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Postby Omega Amen » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:53 pm

Alright... alright....

*sighs*

I give up.

I am going to purchase a PSP now.
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Postby Yojimbo » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:12 pm

Lol I'm actually selling my psp on ebay as of now. I like Tactics as much as the next guy but I haven't touched my psp in 6 months. I'll deffinetly be getting a DS and I expect a Tactics title to come out for that eventually.
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Postby MasterDias » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:19 pm

kaemmerite wrote:That's because after X they stopped being made by Squaresoft and started being made by Square-Enix.

What does that have to do with anything? Unless you don't like Enix...
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Postby Nate » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:25 pm

I loved Enix. I loved Squaresoft. But when they became Square-Enix their reign of suckitude began. They were like blueberry pancakes and lasagna...when they're apart, they're awesome, but put them together and they're horrible.
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Postby Tommy » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:42 pm

I agree with Kae.

Let's take a gaming company company that makes games that are great and stick to the true roots of classic NES RPGs, and another company that makes games that change every sequel and the changes always prove to be a beneficial breath of fresh air (FF8 bashers don't deserve to live).

Now we have to companies that are polar opposites, yet great alone, and when mixed together, it's nothing but a festering pile of dog snot.

Nomura is awesome dude, what are you talking about?
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Postby Nate » Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:48 pm

Tom Dincht wrote:Nomura is awesome dude, what are you talking about?

Between Tidus, the guy who wears half a pair of pants, and Vahn, the half-naked manboy, Nomura is horrible. Final Fantasy attire was always exotic, but never ridiculous. Nomura changed all that.

EDIT: Not to mention the horribly generic character designs for XII. Seriously, you could put Penelo behind the counter at a weapons shop and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between her and any other NPC.
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Postby MasterDias » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:03 pm

kaemmerite wrote:I loved Enix. I loved Squaresoft. But when they became Square-Enix their reign of suckitude began. They were like blueberry pancakes and lasagna...when they're apart, they're awesome, but put them together and they're horrible.


But what games are you including in this "reign of suckitude?" I know you don't like Final Fantasy XII, but you need more than one or two games to justify something like that.

To be honest, I agree that Square-Enix doesn't seem to be as awesome as they were during the PS1 years. Still, it seems that SE has been "playing it safe" for awhile now and has been mainly concentrating of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts and whatever spinoffs of those titles that they could possibly come up with. Actually, if you ignore all of the remakes, the ports, the spinoffs, and the tri-Ace and Game Arts games; just how many original games or numbered installments in series has Square-Enix released in the past few years? I can't recall that many.
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Postby Nate » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:12 pm

Square-Enix has released:

Final Fantasy X-2 (crap)
Radiata Stories (not horrible, but not particularly good)
Kingdom Hearts II (their second best game)
Dirge of Cerberus (below average at best)
Dragon Quest VIII (their best)
Final Fantasy XI (blah)
Final Fantasy XII (blah)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (crap)
Star Ocean 3 (horrendous)
Musashi: Samurai Legend (pretty bad)
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Postby MasterDias » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:22 pm

Star Ocean 3 and Radiata Stories don't count in your list. They were tri-Ace games.

Can't comment on Final Fantasy XI, Musashi: Samurai Legend, and Dirge of Cerberus (although the latter did get mediocre reviews from what I remember).

I'll give you Final Fantasy: CC.

Final Fantasy X-2 wasn't as good as X, but I wouldn't call it terrible.

Between Tidus, the guy who wears half a pair of pants, and Vahn, the half-naked manboy, Nomura is horrible. Final Fantasy attire was always exotic, but never ridiculous. Nomura changed all that.

And with Amano, we get midgets, goths, and hippo-people...
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:29 pm

: : folds arms defiantly : :

I, for one, like Nomura's weird character designs, except for Tidus and Vaan. Okay, the FFXII designs in general ARE kinda boring. But I like the designs for VII through X. And his work for Kingdom Hearts is the proverbial bomb diggity.

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Postby Nate » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:30 pm

MasterDias wrote:Star Ocean 3 and Radiata Stories don't count in your list. They were tri-Ace games.

Eh, okay, sorry. I just went to wikipedia and looked at the list, so...those two were listed.
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Postby Tommy » Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:39 pm

MasterDias wrote:And with Amano, we get midgets, goths, and hippo-people...


The Hippo people rocked.

Just to be specific, which games did Amano do?
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