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https://www.eurogamer.net/square-enix-ditches-nintendo-switch-racer-chocobo-gp-after-just-nine-months

lmfao rip

They really should just focus on making good RPGs....

They're gonna make it offline which is nice I guess

The experiment of "how shit can we make this experience and people will still pay for it" thus concludes.

Waste of a damn good Zozo track.

The microtranscations were beyond ridiculous in that game

Kinda feel bad for Square. They've been trying to get into different genre of games but they just can't succeed in them.

Wark

It's especially annoying for me as I've wanted a sequel for Chocobo Racing for ages and this was the garbage we got.

VeggetaX posted...

Kinda feel bad for Square. They've been trying to get into different genre of games but they just can't succeed in them.

Its their own fault it was low budget and monetized to hell and back.

VeggetaX posted...

Kinda feel bad for Square. They've been trying to get into different genre of games but they just can't succeed in them.

Well if this....

NeonTentacles posted...

The microtranscations were beyond ridiculous in that game

Wasn't true, then maybe they would have succeeded. I never even tried the game because I heard how bad it was with microtransactions

Even when you removed the transactions the game wasn't good enough. The racing feel was kind of bad and the tracks were mostly bland. The balance was also really off, but that's at least something that could have been fixed when talking about a live service game.

I mean even before microtransactions they've been trying to get into the beat em up genre and fighting game genre. The Tobal series was good, I never played the Bouncer but some friends told me it was okay and there's that fighting game they made with Cloud and Tifa in it.

....I've said since day one.... every company has something they are ridiculously good at making. Capcom is great at fighting games and horror games. EA does a good job with Sports games. Square-Enix should stick to turn-based rpgs. That's their go to. That's what they are good at. But every f'n time, they keep trying to push the boundaries into other genres, even their action rpgs suck. I'll give FF16 a good shot, but is it so fucking hard for them to go back and make Final Fantasy 17 a turn-based rpg in overhead 3/4 view style of 7 through 10? Is that so fucking hard?

The game can look incredible, but going with that style means you just have to focus on making the story be good. Rather than detailing every back of the building that exists because your obsessed with "action rpgs".

Ivany2008 posted...

Capcom is great at fighting games and horror games

Wrong. Capcom is great at everything.

VeggetaX posted...

Wrong. Capcom is great at everything.

They have had some stinkers. They can't make lengthy series feel good. Megaman X started getting terrible past X4, Lost Planet 3 was awful, and then there's Dino Crisis.... in Space...

Capcom should have made Auto Modelista 2

Supposedly EA isn't actually good at sports games. They just own a monopoly. Back in the 2000s, 2k made a NFK 2k and it was way better than Madden that year. Before the next year, EA had quickly made a deal with NFL to have exclusive rights to NFL for video games.

2k was banned out of the industry even though they had been better

Breath of Fire
Phoenix Wright
Monster Hunter
Tons of 2D platformers like Mega Man, Ghouls and Goblins, Strider
Tons of Beat Em Up games like Final Fight, Knights of the Round, Aliens vs Predator
Tons of everything everything

Capcom also makes top tier Zelda games

VeggetaX posted...

I mean even before microtransactions they've been trying to get into the beat em up genre and fighting game genre. The Tobal series was good, I never played the Bouncer but some friends told me it was okay and there's that fighting game they made with Cloud and Tifa in it.

The first two Dissidia games were great and what a Final Fantasy style fighting game should be like. Too bad they totally botched it with the third.

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

The first two Dissidia games were great and what a Final Fantasy style fighting game should be like. Too bad they totally botched it with the third.

Meh, Dissidia was only successful because they had RPG elements in them. The game couldn't survive as a standalone fighting game.

Ivany2008 posted...

....I've said since day one.... every company has something they are ridiculously good at making. Capcom is great at fighting games and horror games. EA does a good job with Sports games. Square-Enix should stick to turn-based rpgs. That's their go to. That's what they are good at. But every f'n time, they keep trying to push the boundaries into other genres, even their action rpgs suck. I'll give FF16 a good shot, but is it so fucking hard for them to go back and make Final Fantasy 17 a turn-based rpg in overhead 3/4 view style of 7 through 10? Is that so fucking hard?

The game can look incredible, but going with that style means you just have to focus on making the story be good. Rather than detailing every back of the building that exists because your obsessed with "action rpgs".

I like the direction FF is going, 15 and 7R get shitted just bc their different

Gamespoht posted...

I like the direction FF is going, 15 and 7R get shitted just bc their different

and if you do, far be it from me to tell you otherwise, but I hated 15 with a passion. The story was probably the worst thing they have ever written, which is hilarious, when you consider that the base story was already fucking written. They claim it was in pieces when Tabata got it, but I don't buy that for a second, seeing how much of Nomuras stuff was leaked afterwards.

Which is a damn shame, as everything else was actually done decently. Hell, to this day the Pitioss ruins, one of the bonus dungeons, is still my favorite piece of bonus content that has been made period. And that was made by a single man.

I like action rpgs, I do. Not nearly as much as I like turn-based rpgs, but Square just isn't good at making them. Anytime they had dealings with that genre they contracted it out to better companies. I'm still hoping they find a way to remaster Terranigma, which was a game published by Enix, produced by the now defunct Quintlet, and was the last of the Soul Blazer saga.

Wait am I reading that right?

They're closing down the in game currency shop on a 2 week notice and not refunding people who happened to not hear this one notice?