SE back on the right track ? (was forum=152)Follow

With the release of Ogre Battle: Let us cling Together. Is Se back on the right track of making classic games again? I understand the game is a Re-release of the snes/psx version, but with so much improvements on this port, it does feels like SE has learned a few things from their hit/miss with re-make's, lately they have been treating re-makes as they should, wish in my opinion was not the case back in the day, when they started to re-release their older ******** they would not even give them a face lift, or add any real content to the games, but as of late with FFTWOL, FF4(DS) and this ******* it seems at least to me, that they have learned to polish the good strong points of the game all while making their weaknesses into strong points also.

Back in the day, they would only port the game, add some CG and that was it, now they are improving the battle systems, giving a good face lift to the graphic engine, adding a very welcomed quick paced feel to battle's all while increasing the difficulty in a way that is not hardcore but not mediocre at the same time, and going as far as adding content, not only as side quest but as part of the main story, they really went and looked at the script, and added content where it needed.

Now i consider myself a veteran of OBLUCT, and as so the first few battles i treated them as i would in the PSX version, and boy was i in for a surprise XD! Not only is the AI really good now(They will ignore your tanks and go for the caster in a heartbeat) the entire class system feels balanced, and kind of new, while also retaining that old feel for those that played the original.

Now if this is how they are gonna treat, all their re-make's i welcome then, and wish ever team was on charge of this ******* should be in charge of FFT2 or atleast the remakes, they really made an already epic ******* feel even more Epic.

SE+1 (Now fix this game <.<)

Really....? What's this have to do with the price of Tea in China?
Isn't there an Ogre Battle forum, or a general Square Enix discussion forum someplace that this topic would be better suited for?

I entered the thread thinking 'could this be the first time I dont rate down one of ostias posts?' I was wrong. Ostia is just a troll here to wind everyone up. Go away

I think that for now, its good that SE"s getting back to their "core competency", repackaging their old games and selling them to new audiences and capitalizing on nostalgia. But it won't last forever, people aren't going to buy a 3rd remake of FF tactics, and just about everything now has been rereleased on psone and playstation store. The right track would be selling quality games that aren't relying on the FF name.

Really though, I think they're just going to keep picking up studios and acquiring the rights to sell other studios games in asia.


This is at least somewhat relavant to FFXIV, its its studio, the game currently needs strong financial backing, and the company just showed a very poor year, a portion of which was blamed on FFXIV's launch.

My head exploded from poor grammer...

But yea, this is really irrelevent.. different teams working on different products... etc etc...

Technically, spelling is not grammar.

In b4 lock

Wow, an Ostia thread not trolling XIV in the XIV forums....






Oh wait, nm...

A whazzit?

postmodern randomising of words that doesnt mean anything

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

Indeed telling Se to fix a game that needs fixing is trolling <.<

Oh and english is not my first language so yeah, some spelling errors, but that does not mean what i said is totally irrelevant

Damned if you do and if you don't, eh, Ostia?

I actually rated you up, though. I think War of the Lions was by far the best game I've played this decade - which is easy because it was the best game I played last decade also, only better.

I never really got into Tactics Ogre, but I'm thinking of picking it up.

To be honest, though, I don't really give SE a lot of points for re-hashing old junk. I love FFIV (and the DS version is fun; the After Years is also nice). I love Chrono Trigger, but their newest port of that is an embarrassment.

I really wish they would make a NEW game that truly WOW me like they used to. I haven't been impressed with a SE game since FFX (and that was a stretch - though over time that game has grown on me a lot, especially compared to XI-XIV). Back in the day I loved Squaresoft so much I bought all their games and saw good in most of them. Secret of Mana sereis, SaGa series, Einhander - anything they slapped their name on came out pretty good. Well the SE name means a lot less to me (and they own half the game industry now so I couldn't keep up with every Tomb Raider and Just Cause if I tried, nor do I wish to).

I'm just (overall) not impressed with their performance. The Final Fantasy series keeps pumping out "ok" games (if you're in the right mood) but to me they fail to be true to JRPG roots and they also fail to be successfully innovative. It's like XIV - it tries too hard to not be XI, but then reuses so much from XI it's hard to see it as a stand alone world. I feel like everything coming from SE is half-assed still.

The ports keep them afloat because the old games they inherited from Squaresoft & Enix remain good - which proves to me their healthy rivalry kept them on their toes, making games people care about and love to play. I figured their merger would end up like this. I hoped it might make Enix games slightly better (never a HUGE Enix fan) but instead it just watered down all their games - like any monopoly would do.

Honestly Atlus & NIS have filled the niche-void in my heart and they continue to please - but I still feel no one writes a scenario as well as Squaresoft used to. They don't even try to throw in plot twists anymore. Probably because Tetsuya Nomura makes every villain look like Sephiroth so you aren't really surprised when you're good pal Seymour, Kamlanaut, the 12 **** and Barthandalus end up being the villains. You're more like "oh, so no surprises, huh?" Feels like an Enix game really. "I AM THE EVIL BOSS. COME DEFEAT ME IF YOU DARE." Even Final Fantasy (1) had more plot twists than XIII.

/end rant & thanks for the really good post/thread

PS: Sorry you got crapped on for posting it in the wrong forum. Though if you didn't, I wouldn't have read it. :)