Square Enix decides to release Dissidia 012 in Japan March 3

@PreGHz
I'm sold.

@PreGHz *applause* never thought about that

@ZGiSH What for, exactly? They've been working on the English version at the same time.

@FuriousMailman

would you say it makes you... furious?

@Sordid State of Eclairs

INCREDIBLY, I'M HOLDING SHIFT AS WE SPEAK

@FuriousMailman
Show me your RAGE....... I mean your happy...

@Sordid State of Eclairs

Excellent scenario.

@Sordid State of Eclairs

I don't think I've ever seen anyone so succinctly nail everything that's become wrong with the company in the past few years.

@RickGhastly @atriux

Thanks :)

For a while I didn't want to admit it but... the moment they started to promote XIII and seemed to be more telling customers what they want instead of listening to them, I had to admit the company seemed to be going downhill fast :/

Hopefully they can right the ship soon so I can go back to looking forward to their titles again.

Square Enix needs to hire me as their lead project manager. I would immediately cancel ALL current projects, and get them to work on the following:

Kingdom Hearts 3
Final Fantasy VI HD remake
Final Fantasy VII HD remake
Chrono Break
Seiken Densetsu 5 (that doesn't suck)
ActRaiser 3
Illusion of Gaia + Terranigma HD Collection
Parasite Eve 3 (cancelling "Third Birthday", giving it a proper name and and making it a real RPG)
An offline Final Fantasy XIV
An offline Final Fantasy XI

@Elranzer The on-line titles should have NEVER been given numbers.
Should have just been FF: Online 1 and 2.

@Elranzer

I'll work for you, lol.

@Elranzer

Whats your obsession with numbered sequels? Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep was amazing and way more enjoyable than KH1 and 2 were. It set the stage for KH3 to potentially be amazing, but I don't get why everyone is clamoring for a KH3 considering KH2 was so "finny fun!".

And why does it matter that FF11 and FF14 are online? Shakespeare's a rose by any name comes to mind. I mean if you just want them to be called FFO1 and FFO2, you still would hate them and bitch that they exist instead of other FF games. It's just stupid complaints.

Fact of the matter is JRPGs do NOT sell well like they used to. Even more so, "classic" JRPGs sell horrible outside of Japan. Chrontrigger didn't make half mil on DS, FF4 remake the same. Best selling non-Pokemon JRPG on the DS is Kingdom Hearts 358/2 with still less than a million sales. On consoles it's a similar story. With the following, none of which even come close to a half mil sales - White Knight Chronicles, Folklore, Star Ocean Last Hope, Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, Blue Dragon, Last Remnant, Tales of Vesperia, Magna Carta 2. Most of those are about 100k - 200k sales.

So while classic style JRPGs like Lost Odyssey are putting out numbers like 840,000k WORLDWIDE, and updated and hated titles like FF13 are selling 5.7 million copies (over 6x as many) - It's kind of hard to argue that a company should make more FF6/7 era games instead of FF13 style and more casually friendly RPGs. I mean, did you buy Resonance of Fate, Folklore, Eternal Sonata, Enchanted Arms, Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean, MagnaCarta 2 or Tales of Vesperia?

Times have changed and the JRPG genre is just dead like platforming. I'm a fan of the genre (KH:BbS, TWEWY, and Lost Odyseey are my 3 favorite games of this generation) - But I realize that fans of the genre are dwindling.

@Punkrawk Bbob
Well, did you? I own 4 of the games you mentioned in your final rant.

@TheShaper

"I mean, did you buy Resonance of Fate, Folklore, Eternal Sonata, Enchanted Arms, Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean, MagnaCarta 2 or Tales of Vesperia? "

Yup, all of them. Hence listing them. Several on the DS as well. Me, I love JRPGs and always will. I can see the painting on the wall though.

@Elranzer

Sounds good.

It'd be cool if that Parasite Eve 3 could have a ps3 version as well, please?

Also, I agree with Ryoga... would have been a better idea to not have them in the main series. Live and learn for SE (I hope.)

sir, you appear to be a raging homosex.

@aznsamuel88
x'D

@rahnyc4
Yeah, HOW DARE THEY MAKE GOOD PSP GAMES, I'LL NEVER BUY ONE NOW!

@Helghast102 yep well im not not into psp's as a good gaming platform for me. 3ds is the way im going, though i skipped over the ds. i can make up for that on the 3ds.

@rahnyc4

Props on the toolish comment. Wouldn't expect anything less from the new breed of "gamer" today.

@rahnyc4

So in one hand you have a system that is out and has enough awesome games to warrant a purchase, as well as a ton of good and "good enough" games to carry it's weight. Then you add on the ability to play classic games from the PS1 generation.
OR
A system that has no price, no official specs, and not a single person outside of the industry has handled one in it's final form yet.

I agree, *facepalm* thinking about the current generation of gamers coming up. Either you were raised on a Wii or you're just an idiot.

@Danjcb Actually, all of the localization appears to be done already, pointing to the possibility of a worldwide launch.

@AcidBurnISU

I think that's just the current conversion rate.

@Gibbeynator Even at the conversion rate when our economy was stronger (about 100 yen to the dollar) that would be $60.90 still pretty insane for a handheld portable game.

@AcidBurnISU
6000 yen is a pretty standard price for a AAA PSP title. 5000 yen for titles with a lower budget; 3000 yen for budget-priced re-releases.

@Elranzer Walk away then.

@Elranzer It's an interesting thing. I used to foam at the mouth for a Final Fantasy/Square game and Enix got a giant "Meh" up untill the end of the Playstation 2. Now it's the complete opposite. DQ IX quickly found it's way into my top list of RPGs right in there with Chrono Trigger, FFs IV and VI. I do not know what is going on with Square these days but I sincerely hope they fix it soon.

@Elranzer

1) Spirits Within was not god-awful by any means. It's an awesome sci-fi.
2) Enix was in the process of buying Square BEFORE Spirits Within tanked the company and Sony had to bail them out. That actually just delayed the merger until Square was a profitable company again. If anything, you have Spirits Within to thank for FF8, FF9, and FFX being awesome titles, before Enix came in and X-2 and beyond started straying.

@Elranzer Yeah, seriously. I tried to get pumped for that movie... but it just made too much hype so it fell beneath a ton of people's expectations. That, and they should've just left Final Fantasy out of the title since I think that alone scathed ticket sales, etc.

@pluupy

It's only ego if it's unwarranted. They own Eidos and Taito as well. They're right up there with Activision/Blizzard and EA.