Ctrl Alt Del Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Sold! And so SE keeps surprising me, on a good way. Crystal Tools engine, attempts of fusing with other japanese companies to make them more significant against the ever growing western corporations. They're just proving to be the most enterprising japanese group on Japan, in my eyes and those of the world.
GeneralPloKoon Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Well, that is very odd...and surprising.
Sabretooth Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Wait, WTF? That' s one of the most random acquisitions I've heard of in recent history. Well not that random, perhaps. Not quite sure how much I'd like the Square Enix logo on my copy of Deus Ex 3. >.<
Jeff Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Very happy to hear this, Eidos is such a ****ty company. Tomb Raider is the main franchise of theirs that I play and maybe if they didn't try to get a release on every platform possible and instead gave the dev team more time to polish a 360/PS3/PC only version, they would have garnered higher review scores and had better sales.
Ctrl Alt Del Posted February 13, 2009 Author Posted February 13, 2009 Sabretooth said: Wait, WTF? That' s one of the most random acquisitions I've heard of in recent history. Maybe, but Squeenix has been dying for buying an american corp. as of late, and at least they had had contact before, with Eidos publishing the PC version of FFVII and VIII on this side of the world. Darth Moeller said: Very happy to hear this, Eidos is such a ****ty company. Tomb Raider is the main franchise of theirs that I play and maybe if they didn't try to get a release on every platform possible and instead gave the dev team more time to polish a 360/PS3/PC only version, they would have garnered higher review scores and had better sales. QFT, QFE. Never liked Eidos at all. Maybe this will change now.
igyman Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Well that was sudden. Hopefully the quality of their games will only change for the better.
swphreak Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Hmm, I like the Hitman games. Blood Money was pretty sweet. We'll see what "Squeenix" does with Eidos.
igyman Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 Agreed. After they were finished with the Legacy of Kain series Hitman became my new Eidos favorite. Rumor has it there's even a fifth installment in development, so I hope Square Enix keeps those successful franchises going.
Rogue Nine Posted February 13, 2009 Posted February 13, 2009 I'm salivating at the notion of one of my personal fantasies coming true, namely a Final Fantasy/Tomb Raider crossover. What? Don't look at me like that. >.>
DeadYorick Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 Ctrl Alt Del said: Maybe, but Squeenix has been dying for buying an american corp. Isn't Eidos British? Quote I'm salivating at the notion of one of my personal fantasies coming true, namely a Final Fantasy/Tomb Raider crossover. What? Don't look at me like that. >.> Eh I don't personally like crossovers since they tend to suck Honestly this is actually a very good thing. Maybe Square Enix will revive some long dead franchises that developers want to create but Eidos completely forgot about. Like Legacy of Kain. (It was even going to have a sequel recently until Eidos decided against it). Eidos has been going majorly downhill since the 90s and I hope Enix will put some of that spark back into gaming
igyman Posted February 14, 2009 Posted February 14, 2009 As far as I know, the decision to discontinue the Legacy of Kain series was made due to the series' story writer Amy Hennig's departure from the company.
DeadYorick Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 igyman said: As far as I know, the decision to discontinue the Legacy of Kain series was made due to the series' story writer Amy Hennig's departure from the company. Amy Henning did depart from Crystal Dynamics shortly after Defiance. As did a few other developers. Then Tony Jay died of course. But that doesn't explain why they were planning on creating a new LOK game recently but discontinued it. It is possible that Square Enix can revamp the franchise with a completely new development team
Mav Posted February 15, 2009 Posted February 15, 2009 RakataDark said: Isn't Eidos British? Yes The acquisition doesn't bother me, the only series I've played that came out of Eidos was the Hitman series, I too thought Blood Money was quite enjoyable, but for right now, I mostly just want Squeenix to finish FF13
Serpentine Cougar Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Hmm, that's interesting. Squeenix is sure getting big...
jrrtoken Posted February 16, 2009 Posted February 16, 2009 Serpentine said: Hmm, that's interesting. Squeenix is sure getting big...I'm pretty sure Eidos will be developing more FF spinoffs. Like we really need anymore.
DeadYorick Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 PastramiX said: I'm pretty sure Eidos will be developing more FF 7 spinoffs. Like we really need anymore. Fixed Square is never going to stop bleeding FF7 dry. There are too many fangirls and fanboys for them to milk. I have barely seen any spin offs for other games. At least none of them as prominent as the FF7 ones
Mav Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 RakataDark said: Fixed Square is never going to stop bleeding FF7 dry. There are too many fangirls and fanboys for them to milk. I have barely seen any spin offs for other games. At least none of them as prominent as the FF7 ones Maybe but I don't mind spin-offs if they turn out to be great, which Crisis Core was... Dirge on the other hand... yea not so much. Dirge is like the red-headed bastard child, you're better off ignoring it...
GeneralPloKoon Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 I dont like FFVII anymore because they just kept adding and adding....
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