Squaresoft used to be a great company. I have been slowly working through FFX on my friends PS2. While being able to switch to Grand Theft Auto at whim is nice, I am too much of a sucker for Earthbound and F-Zero to actually buy a PS2 over a gamecube.
Squaresoft's change of heart is nice, except for the fact that a lot of the games have gotten annoying. I think FFXIII is the clearest example of that. But more than anything, I am sick and tired of remakes of all the old SNES games. Sure Secret of Mana would be nice on the GBA, but how hard is it to make a new game? I wouldn't care if Squaresoft used the same graphics, mechanics, and characters, just give me a new story. Let me those play FF4-6, Chrono Trigger, and SoM type games again, but don't make buy something I already have.
Of course we are all suckers and will go buy all the square re-releases because they are there. Stupid stupid us.
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Squaresoft used to be a great company. I have been slowly working through FFX on my friends PS2. While being able to switch to Grand Theft Auto at whim is nice, I am too much of a sucker for Earthbound and F-Zero to actually buy a PS2 over a gamecube.
Squaresoft's change of heart is nice, except for the fact that a lot of the games have gotten annoying. I think FFXIII is the clearest example of that. But more than anything, I am sick and tired of remakes of all the old SNES games. Sure Secret of Mana would be nice on the GBA, but how hard is it to make a new game? I wouldn't care if Squaresoft used the same graphics, mechanics, and characters, just give me a new story. Let me those play FF4-6, Chrono Trigger, and SoM type games again, but don't make buy something I already have.
Of course we are all suckers and will go buy all the square re-releases because they are there. Stupid stupid us.