>Chocobo GB Flopped.
>Strangers of Paradise Flopped.
>Babylon Fall Flopped and closed for good.
>Star Ocean flopped.
>Triangle Strategy performed decently.
>Live a Live performed decently.
>Octopath Traveler Mobile is bombing.
>Nier mobile flopped.
>FF7 mobile flopped and closed.
>NEO TWEWY flopped on steam.
>Chrono Cross Remaster was whatever.
>The Diofield Chronicle flopped.
>Valkyrie Elysium flopped.
>Harvestella & Tactics Ogre: Reborn are releasing next to GoW and Pokemon, calling it a flop.
>AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game is flopping.
>Forpoken is releasing the next Fire Emblem & Hogwarts next year.
>FF16 is releasing next to Zelda next year.
>FF7 Rebirth is releasing next to Spiderman 2 next year.
>Wave of people are making "I am done with FFXIV...for now!" youtube videos.
>No western branch to help.
>DQ3 and DQ12 are MIA.
>KH3 only sold 6.7 million since the end of 2021.
I really like Square and don't want them to die or be bought by Sony, but it is hard to not see they are quickly dying atm.
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frankly i feel more like i dodged a bullet, imagine what modern SE doing a parasite eve reboot/remake/sequel would be like
>Tactics Ogre: Reborn flopping
Nope, there might not be enough hype for this niche game but its going to sell millions. Its also $50 when the psp version was only $20 new. It reuses 90% of the asset so the game will be all profit for SE.
>millions
more like 250k worldwide
That would be fantastic but the autistic OP would probably call it a flop.
The highest TO ever did was 500k on the PSP, so if this does 250k we can expect Mastuno to work full-time with Square. Though I doubt it will break 100k at full price, and reviewers are going to give an 8/10 since they already hit the review quota with GoW (I am saying this unironically btw).
>but its going to sell millions
Anon, I like Ogre Battle, and hope for a remake of 64/MOTBQ, but it'll be lucky to sell 100k.
maybe they should actually make new ideas again instead of milking the same IP for 30 years.
they just made diofield, various dayjobs and harvestella
It's a shame diofield and various dayjobs were not very good, star ocean is surprisingly a lot better than I expected though but my expectations weren't very high
>dioflop, various blowjobs and troonystella
Not buying any of this garbage, mr. marketer.
>squenix only rehashes old IPs
>"that's false"
>no, those don't count
Yes, ugly ass kusoge from the same creatively bankrupt team doesn't count.
>someone actually got paid to make the logos on the right
ngl, im jealous. It's quite the racket, typing the title using TMR font on Powerpoint and submitting it as a logo. Takes all of 30 seconds to earn a paycheck
various daylife sounds so fricking stupid I cant believe its an actual game title
Unironically it's supposed to make you think of the daily life iseka stuff.
Valkyrie and Star Ocean were low budget and might end up turning a small profit. Stranger of Paradise wasn't exactly AAA either, and they'll likely break even with it.
>Strangers of Paradise Flopped.
It didn't though?
You're right about the rest. Not a single bit of advertising for any of those either.
It only sold 60k physically in Japan, and charted in the PS store, but Square didn't release anything about which is save to assume it didn't recoup.
they just released a new DLC campaign for it
These are planned in advance, and could very well be part of the main game taken out or reduced in scope.
Doesn't seem likely unless you think they did the same for Nioh 1 and 2, both of which have main campaign foreshadowing for stuff that's DLC only
>watched Harvestella gameplay
>it actually looks really good
>story and atmosphere are dark and serious
whew
It has American gender politics in it.
and that's why I'll not play it. what a shame.
also what kind of $60 game is unvoiced? even all important scenes are unvoiced.
>NOOOO, I CAN PICK A 3RD OPTION FOR MY CHARACTER'S GENDER
really, /misc/?
NO DON'T TALK ABOUT IT, OR ELSE THEY'LL SHOW UP
FRICK, TOO LATE
>NO DON'T TALK ABOUT IT, OR ELSE THEY'LL SHOW UP
Let us hope the pandering help bring in some cash. When are the reviews out?
And here I wanted to give it a chance. Not anymore. I fricking hate Americans so much.
Americans ruin fricking everything. God damn it. Why can't you just keep your homosexuality out of video games.
The last thing I want in my farming/life sim is some deep story, they should only be about character interaction and relationships. Harvest Moon clones never understand this.
Yeah. it'd be so much better if they REMOVE THE FARMING ALTOGETHER and focus on the grimdark story and world.
>no marriage
no thanks
>watched
I'm boycotting it because of the troony stuff in the game, but I'll get TO day one.
Matsuno is woke btw, kept retweeting lgbt stuff a while back. I am not surprised given he is fluent in English so that is a leeway to him being brainwashed. Next Tactics Ogre will have troony stuff, you can bet on that.
You needed to be blind not to notice Marxist class conflict rhetoric and his disdain for nobles in his games, he was always woke.
>disdain for nobles
You want to be lorded over by homosexual who were born into their station? You must be a cuckold lmao.
>he wants to be ruled by a homosexual who is "democratically elected" but ignores his interests
An actual NPC, lmao.
why do nip consumers let him get away with it? why dont they band together and tell squenix to make him knock off the homosexual shit?
Matsuno is a washed up hack who is barely involved in games nowadays and he hasn't worked for Square since FF12.
Matsuno is kino but is autistic when making big AAA games he would spaz out if anyone forced him to change anything.
>Watch a nip stream Harvestella
>She's audibly confused why she can choose male body and voice after picking the girl
- NEO would've sold 10x the copies if it was called TWEWY2, and making it a Switch "exclusive" (timed) would give it the Zelda/Mario bonus in review and sales.
- HD-2D is a gimmick that is going to run out of steam.
- Should've canceled Diofield and Valkyrie and put all that money into Star Ocean. One series at a time.
- Learn to give a shit about WHEN you are releasing a game, you could always hold the game like Nintendo till the opportunity presents itself, not like 7 months of Twitter marketing ever done you any favors.
I'll take the CFO job now.
>NEO TWEWY
>A good game worth playing
Hmm
It's shit.
>Wave of people are making "I am done with FFXIV...for now!" youtube videos.
Kek imagine listening to ecelebs.
There are still millions subbed to ff14, it's pretty much the only thing keeping SE afloat.
I re-subbed for a month just to see if that island sanctuary was going to be any good but it turned out to be mammet sweatshop grindfest instead of the comfy stardew/animal crossing thing everyone was hoping for
When was the last time the Square side of S-E has made a great game?
I feel like Enix is carrying them hard these days.
Automata maybe?
But that was more Taro and Platinums doing than actually Squares
Triangle Strategy
At least the remakes are getting really fricking good. Now I can't wait for them to do Terranigma justice.
Terranigma balls
>96 Metacritic.
>10 million copies in a month.
>Heights-rated and fasted-sold FF game to date.
>Makes all western dev seethe.
>Wins all awards away from Zelda.
It's going to do well just from having the FF14 fanbase latch onto it to boost sales, I can't see this doing poorly unless the game itself runs like complete ass even on recent hardware or has some other launch day issues.
>It's going to do well just from having the FF14 fanbase latch onto it to boost sales
Too bad it cut itself off from a part of the XIV community by being a timed PS5 exclusive.
Yeah well that's mostly SE israelitery at work, I also fully expect a second year of Epic store exclusivity as well at full price, then finally two years later after launch it'll hit steam for full price yet again.
>FFXVI renamed to "THE NARUTO"
>Looks boring, why can't Japanese devs make something like Genshin?
>The characters are old, but what they're doing is chuunibyou stuff, so cringe.
>Feels less FF-ish than FF Ramen (FF SoP), just the eikons. It doesn't feel like FF without that subdued stylistic narcissism.
>This FF16 doesn't look any more interesting than FF15. Looks like they've just lost the technical ability to make bullshot trailers.
>FF16 is not being released for the customers, but for Sony, so it's no wonder it's not appealing.
>Gokiburi lit. Sony roaches haven't been saying anything about selling 10 million lately, it seems like they've realized that FF can't do it anymore.
>Isn't the game too dark visually? Is this for gaijin? Also, stop old guys from talking with a smug look on their face.
>Now that I think about it, the PV of the host group frolicking in the convertible got a lot more attention.
>There used to be good openings like in Chrono Cross even if Nomura and his team didn't storyboard them.
>I guess they don't have any employees in the visual dept these days.
>Well, Nomura's NEOTWEWY and KH3 didn't look too good either.
>it's over www
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FF16 sisters...
>>This FF16 doesn't look any more interesting than FF15. Looks like they've just lost the technical ability to make bullshot trailers.
I know you're a moron, but this isn't as much of a dig you think it is. 16 isn't lying to your face like 15 did for a decade
Yeah, just lied about the solo combat and AI party members, "unfinished graphics" that looked even worse 2 years later, because fixing empty environments is adding more post-processing, VFX and dimming the picture, releasing "sooner than you think", lying some more about how 1 year of wait is no biggie in game dev which they really really need though the game is supposedly playable, lied about muh poor communication with the main office and Malaysian sweatshop they outsource to, etc.
Lmao remind me of the negative comments they made about xenoblade 3, its not weird it dropped from Amazon jp list so fast
What is it with japs being so ageist?
Like all they want is to play as teenage boys for all eternity while being in their 40s
What's with mutts fetishising Black folk and old people? Does your life begin at 40 unlike normal human beings, so that must also be reflected in fiction? Really hope China replaces you ASAP.
>>Now that I think about it, the PV of the host group frolicking in the convertible got a lot more attention.
This is gonna send Yoshita cultists into meltdown, lol. Imagine losing to Tabata trailers, FF16 team are nothing but zero talent hacks.
boring, why can't Japanese devs make something like Genshin?
Pedobait with shit gameplay and the depth of a puddle?
No wonders everyone hates otakus lol.
>Pedobait with shit gameplay and the depth of a puddle
sounds like the last of trans part 1
>The characters are old, but what they're doing is chuunibyou stuff, so cringe.
Frick them this is my jam
Don't worry, Square has a new flagship.
That's not painting very fair picture.
>views = sales.
Now shows us animal crossing and elden ring.
Checks out.
ER had a couple of million views in its initial trailer, it only picked up when it showed gameplay and 6 months away from release. Now show us Death Stranding and Last of Us 2.
barry wont
dont point out how 14's trailers viw count blows 15's out of the water by several million or he'll ape out and start spamming clash of clans clones
>and start spamming clash of clans clones
i kind of want to see this
Here you go, this should set him off
When he starts trying to cope because of a song that existed before 15 and was used in the game has high views, bring up that an AMV for crisis core comes up when you search "Final Fantasy" in youtube and filter by view count
Then he will start screeching about a chinese mobile game for 15 that is just clash of clans with some FF15 jpgs
>numbers, numbers
you dont want to see most botted videos on YT
right on queue
>Barry seethed
I liked Dungeon Encounters, I want DLC or a sequel to that.
>I liked Dungeon Encounters
>Octopath Traveler Mobile is bombing.
I've never heard of it? Did they even market it?
Square enix is finished, all they had to do was focus on final fantasy but they shit it up from XIII onwards
Make a fantasy and magitech based, 4 homies in a row Final Fantasy with no voice acting and an overwprldmap with progressively better and cooler methods of travel that unlpck areas later in the game.
Its not that fricking complex.
they're just gonna remaster bravely default for that
frick remaster drones.
anyone who likes remasters is a total homo.
Frick off moron
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Bayonetta 3 flopped
anon that's not a square game
I know but you are a tendie who get happy whem other games flop so frick you
It's not my fault developers are moronic.
But hey man you enjoy having to defend a two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand debut for FFXVI.
XIV is gonna be able to keep square on life support for a while
*raughs*
>AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game
>mobile game
israelitepanese EA cant die soon enough
It’s way too early to say whether Star Ocean 6 failed.
It seems to be doing fine.
Opening sales are the worst in the series history in Japan.
It's going to be saved by the NPD just like Digimon Survive.
Survive debuted at #2 in Japan.
Enix should've never the saved them.
>>KH3 only sold 6.7 million since the end of 2021.
I like how DMC5 is slowly outselling this kusoge.
Final Fantasy needs to go back to its roots like Resident Evil and Zelda did
Square is anti-PC and wants everything on the Tencent store. I pirate all their shit and don't care if they go under or not.
Good, i want this SE to fail until it finally starts punishing their japanese directors.
Their western studios suffered all the flak over the years now they have only themselves to point fingers.
>Strangers of Paradise Flopped
it shouldn't have but epic exclusivity killed it
>Triangle Strategy did good
>Live a Live did good
>DQIII Remake is a slam dunk in the making
Team Asano is fricking carrying this company right now, my word. And this comes from somebody who enjoyed SoP and NEO quite a bit.
Yoshi P actually is pulling more people in with 14 and eventually 16.
>Team Asano
Possibly the worst nostalgia baiting shovelware team in the industry, but tendies will lap up their trash regardless as long as it's on Switch.
I try to support them, but anytime I give them a chance I’m disappointed.
This is coming from my first final fantasy being mystic quest in the 2nd grade and still having my original ff3 and chrono trigger copies. I don’t know if I can do it anymore anon
>AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game is flopping.
I blame the trend of splitting off global/ JP servers that phone games go with, on a fricking phone the most versatile and portable piece of tech you wanna split the bases frick you.
I ain't actually played the fma game but Its always the way
if you split the servers you dont have to deal with varying country laws and regulations that differ for each one.
You can also give global shit service the cry about how necessary the global market is
Add Harvesettla to the bomb list. Just scored 69% on SwitchUp.
>69
HEHE
But the + and - are on spot. exactly how I felt about the game.
Teach me how can I get early copies from Square.
>Make a nice looking website
>full set of socials
>ask for free games from indies, they are so desperate for attention they will throw them at you
>review them until you build up a few months worth of articles
>with this start sending requests to PR and community manager types
>aim for specific games rather than immediately going for a rolling pass on everything
>"i love franchise, developer-san, genre etc"
>one of them will crack
>subtly cite and highlight that review as leverage for more
>come to find playing games as a job sucks the fun out of it
>No Voice Acting
>a negative
Unless it's nuPokemon tier where characters are moving around a lot and even singing in complete silence without even any background music, no voice acting is a plus.
There's SO MANY dialogues, it's like a visual novel, but ALL of them are mute.
a lot of great visual novels don't have any VA or minimal VA
Then use your imagination. Voice acting is fine to have at times, but it's never necessary in vidya unless the gameplay is built around it.
>Nier mobile flopped
I couldn't believe how bad it was. I got bored before I even finished the tutorial.
>out for 2 years
>second story chapter isn't finished yet
Nier Reincarnation is a social experiment on how much mileage you can get out of 2B's ass, nothing more.
For some reason X and XIII are ok to be linear but remake is criticized so much more seriously.
With ff7 remake you look at bad first and foremost and then slightlly the good, while other games are just all good except this nitpicks, but they are not bad since "it has soul".
You can feel the special treatment the game has.
>X
is a complete game
has coherent story
>XIII
trash even worse than 7R even though is complete
No they're not ok and any other ff aint ok either. Two wrongs doesn't make a right.
>people like a good game but dislike a bad game
crazy
Stealth XIV thread?
Yet none of this matters because they'll just keep siphoning XIVs hard earned money into these shit projects. They're unkillable unless Microsoft buys them or something
Yoshi is saving FF don't worry
>Asians we had in FFX
We had a blonde-haired blue eyed protagonist, a couple of full blown white girls, a fricking Hawaiian, and a '''''''not Muslim''''' who was as white as the other two girls and had one blue eye and one green eye.
They were all super asian looking in the cutscenes. Its super jarring since they look so different from the in game models. Clearly you've never played the game or you would know that.
>muh FMVs
>DUH CLEARLY YOU NEVER PLAYED
Yeah right, I shouldn't rely on the in-game models or any of the promotional materials or official art, i should use the 180 seconds total of FMV footage to judge them as asian. Good one spastic.
Half of the characters in FF16 looked brown, what the frick is he smoking?
>FF7 Rebirth is releasing next to Spiderman 2 next year.
if this is actually true you really have to wonder wtf is wrong with SE
I hope it does release on the same day. It will be another good excuse for low sales. Anything to avoid blaming it on people disliking remake.
Sony is also banking on Square games, so they'll force them to move it.
I hope not. Like I said, we need all the excuses we can get for low sales.
Chocobo GP and SoP are great games and pretty cheap right now
>KH3 only sold 6.7 million since the end of 2021.
Is there anything wrong?
>AAA Full Metal Alchemist
More zoomers know Fullmetal Alchemist than a 35 year old franchise like Final Fantasy.
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>bought by Sony
This'll probably happen. Jimbo won't let them go. Especially if the Activision Blizzard deal goes through.
They should just price their games lower, Triangle Strategy and the Tactics Ogre remake have the same budget as an indie game and are simply too expensive even though I want to get them eventually.
Traveler Mobile is bombing.
good. their rates for gacha is the most giga moronic shit ever, like 600 bucks to get a guaranteed pity is dogshit greed and they literally just throw pennies at you. a shame though because the gameplay was actually decent compared to the original octopath.
it's OVER, Nippon is FINISHED
Square Enix hasn't represent Nippon for over 2 decades
I just finished Diofield Chronicles and I want to talk about it
Diofield Chronicles
I beat it in ~25 hours
I have mixed feeling about the game
>The main combat is poor-man RTS, very simple and barebone, but still quite fun
>Enemies and even maps keep being reused and they keep spamming useless samey side-missions
>Characters lack personality and their side-stories are meh and mostly not related to their personal issues at all
>Combat-wise, characters are mostly generic. their personal skills aren't unique enough.
>Adjutant gets so few EXP, reserved members get NO EXP and even active members don't get enough EXP to keep up with level creep every chapter, so switching up your party is not counter-productive.
>So many resources to gather, so much money needed to upgrade your shit
>Though, low level run + barely upgraded weapons are more than enough since the game is easy enough even on Hard
>So many important story bits are resolved off screen
>The last 2 chapters are extremely rushed, and Fred became moronic all of the sudden without any build up
>The grand story is pretty much incomplete, though I'm satisfied with Rias' personal story
That's a lot of negatives.
I feel they really want to emulate Fire Emblem 3H experience, but RTS. This is a mistake. They should've went generic SRPG combat route like FE:3H or... especially Triangle Strategy. The spirit of this game is reaaaally similar to Triangle Strategy. Political conflict, war over resource, "mercenary" troupe etc
This game would've benefited so much from 2D-HD style too. Lower budget and lower effort to make actual HD 3D sprites so they could've actually focused on writing longer dialogues and actually-complete grand story... with BRANCHING routes just like Triangle Strategy.
This really could've easily been its spiritual successor...
Man, what a waste of fricking potential...
Rias and Fred's relationship the entire game reminded me of Mikazuki and Orga, except Mikazuki has the personality and intelligence of Ayanokouji
What does everyone think?
>lump your MCs into a tight group
>gang up on the guard when he's not looking
>rinse and repeat
SE didnt do their research. The game is RTwP except there's no single general pause button, and the character variety is nonsexistent which makes it disgustingly boring
yeah I just end up doing the same thing over over over and over again
1. Fred with Wyvern support aggros everything on the map
2. Gather them all in 1 spot with Wyvern skill's Wings of the Storm
3. Umarida (Sniper) use Headshot to AoE 1-shot most of them
4. Cleanup with other AoE and Assassinate
5. rinse and repeat
Never needed summon and barely needed to heal at all.
The final boss is a joke.
I was so close on getting day one at full price, but I'm gonna wait till it is sub 20 bucks. Square's issue is that they don't give any game the right amount of budget to correlate with their scope.
I would have bought Strangers of Paradise by now if it was released on a real platform.
Maybe early next year I can finally get it.
>>AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game is flopping.
wait it's out already?
booba... armpit...
Damn, the girls here are pretty cute. Are their stories interesting enough?
Yeah.
everything that's unrelated to the gameplay itself is actually good. but as a game, it's just not fun. frustrating, even.
The only good thing that company has ever done was acquiring Taito but letting them do their thing to this day, unlike what Konami has done with the Hudsonsoft absorption
and even Taito is having troubles staying afloat these days
Real or fake?
@617141935
Nice offtopic shitpost, schizo.
Looks fake as frick
>AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game
>KH3 only sold 6.7 million
Is this bad? It sounds good.
Ganker hates kingdom hearts so that's bad
>I really like Square
Why?
All I want from square is a world of final fantasy sequel that isnt held back by the fricking vita.
>NEUTRAL? NEUTRAL WA NANI!? FUTANARI?
>I really like Square
yeah OP they were based but square enix is cringe shit
Thank god Embrqacer's buying Thief and Tomb Raider from Squeenix. They really screwed the two up.
>MALE? FEMALE? NEUTRAL? WTF THEY'RE ALL GIRLS. SQUARE ENIX-SAN? HELLO?
lol
>choose male
>could select male body type and female body type
>choose female
>could select male body type and female body type
>choose neutral
>could select male body type and female body type
>NPC calls you 男の娘 if you mix gender and body type
lol what's the point then? fricking square enix morons
The time jannies were worth the game not looking and sounding like the original reveal. I kneel to Nomura.
The time jannies were bad
The original reveal was ugly
These things have nothing to do with each other. Stop coping.
You dared to say something positive about remake, i gotta correct you.
I think it's unfair that people will say FFVII or IX or X or XIII is good but they will say VIIR has flaws. Why can't people be more objective?
>>Nier mobile flopped.
It's still alive till January at least
Nono anon I think they mean the one titles nier not the one that coasted off neir with a different name, so 2 failed nier games
I'm pretty sure there's just 1 nier mobile. I mean there's Sinoalice but it's nier in the "created by Yoko Taro" sense.
To be fair Square-Enix has been shit for the merger's entire existence and they haven't died yet
XIV genuinely paid for all those failures and made them a profit anyway, and that's before DQX revenue. I think MMOs suck but the fact that they've made SE so much money that they kept giving the greenlight to AA games that feel like HD PS2 games is cool. Trials of Mana, NEO TWEWY, & Stranger of Paradise are all excellent. Remastering Tactics Ogre and the first 3 Front Missions is great. FF16 seems cool because it has a good combat director.
Babylon's Fall is probably the worst game of 2022 and summer of that other stuff is bad, but I'm glad at least one publisher is putting their money into a bunch of different projects to see what sticks instead of 2 or 3 huge bloated AAA games. If only more publishers (maybe with better devs or smarter execs) could do something similar.
>Absolutely no way I will get to experience FF16's story without it being spoiled a hundred times over unless I shell out $500 for a PS5
I'm still seething
It's not 2020 anymore, anyone who wants a PS5 can get one easily.
The downside to that is we can't use PS5 availability as an excuse for low Rebirth sales.
just stay off social media until it comes out on pc
>implying I can quit you homosexuals for an entire year
There is a small chance for a PC release when the preorders open, that said, you could always borrow one from a store or a friend. Hell, buying it and selling it at a loss is always an option. If not then you are fricked regarding any kino story beats.
FFXIV is their money truck. They're fine.
What were they fricking thinking?
>FREE MCU MONEY
The stunt doubles were really a dumb choice, they should have stuck with a more OC look which is exactly what they did with every character afterwards which boggles my mind. The funny thing is the game is on life support but it's in a far better state than it was at launch and is fine if you want mindless beat 'em up content. Still sucks that it cratered GotG.
I KNOW!
LETS JUST MAKE MORE BLACK EMPOWERED WAHMIN FOR OUR 99% ASIAN/WHITE MALE AUDIENCE!
Unfortunately Foreskin will probably sell and above-average amount of copies
Next one will be a hit, for sure!
>make a black protagonist
>everything you do and say will now be highly scrutinized by the insane woke posse
The solution is simple. Don't make black protagonists
>NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T PORTRAY BURAKKU PIPO REALISTICALLY
lmao
they want black skin with white soul
Forspoken is gonna be a disaster. What a sad, failed, woke experiment.
>>FF16 is releasing next to Zelda next year.
Clive is going to kick the shit out of that little twink.
You forgot about Avengers also being a failure. Every time I see Sega's frick ups I just think "You sorry sons of b***hes are lucky Square Enix exists because if they didn't you'd be at the very bottom, underneath the trashcan not even at the bottom of it but literally underneath it."