The Square Enix Griefing Thread

TVBForever said:
Regardless which came first, and this is a point I'm trying to tell @Pissmaster here, they're still not Guitar Hero ripoffs at the end of the day as they came out a decade prior, even if they are rhythm games.
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Yes, that's why it's funny that Xplay called Beatmania a ripoff of Guitar Hero. A little bit of cursory research could have clued them in that Guitar Hero was a ripoff of Konami's own Guitar Freaks, originally released in 1999 and ongoing as a biyearly franchise. Shieet, according to Remywiki, the 13th version of Guitar Freaks was released the same month as the first Guitar Hero. Xplay sure hates them nips, lol.

whatever I feel like said:
Somewhat related, I was disappointed to recently learn that Rhythm Heaven's art is incredibly directive of Pop'n's. Like close to flat out stolen how near a match it is.
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I always figured both series just use that general cutesy Japanese chibi artstyle that's everywhere. If anything, Rhythm Heaven's closer to Taiko no Tatsujin

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Pissmaster said:
Yes, that's why it's funny that Xplay called Beatmania a ripoff of Guitar Hero. A little bit of cursory research could have clued them in that Guitar Hero was a ripoff of Konami's own Guitar Freaks, originally released in 1999 and ongoing as a biyearly franchise. Shieet, according to Remywiki, the 13th version of Guitar Freaks was released the same month as the first Guitar Hero. Xplay sure hates them nips, lol.


I always figured both series just use that general cutesy Japanese chibi artstyle that's everywhere. If anything, Rhythm Heaven's closer to Taiko no Tatsujin

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Thats even closer. So much for RHfags and their oh so original game series.
 
Pissmaster said:
Rhythm Heaven is literally just Warioware but as a rhythm game

Wait, shit, this is the Square Enix thread.

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I didn't realize just how many rhythm games have flat chibi characters with featureless dot eyes, it's like a format
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Lol, I never actually looked at Theatrhytm. That looks so souless and shitty, like FF funkos.
 
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whatever I feel like said:
Lol, I never actually looked at Theatrhytm. That looks so souless and shitty, like FF funkos.
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It's animated like all the characters are marionettes, and the gameplay's... okay. Lots of songs, but no memorable charts. It's best enjoyed pirated, so you can pirate the enormous amount of DLC. Still not great, though, and the game's totally worthless to anyone who isn't already invested in Final Fantasy. I never got the impression there are very many people who like both JRPGs and rhythm games, so I'm kind of surprised it stuck around and got a few sequels.

But, yeah, it's about as deep as a Funko Pop, You can customize your party and have them level up, but all that seems to do is make the lifebar more generous, which is ironic, considering it's a rhythm game, and you're gonna get intrinsically better at it, so you'll need less extrinsic help the more you play. It's like a system for retards to feel like they're getting better when they've been stonewalled all along
 
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whatever I feel like said:
Lol, I never actually looked at Theatrhytm. That looks so souless and shitty, like FF funkos.
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Actually the first two Theatrhythm games are really good; but with the one caveat being that you need to like Final Fantasy/Square music.

The second game is especially fun and the multiplayer was very competitive. Their biggest flaw was their DLC scheme which blocked some good stuff (Chrono Trigger/SaGa) behind a one-time fee. But even taking that into account the series is one of my personal favorites on the DS. The third game in the series is a Dragon Quest variant that I want to play but of course it never came out beyond Japan.

The series ends up being a fully fleshed-out take on Elite Beat Agents with an exhaustive number of good songs to play. No clue how the fourth one came out. It looked like they changed the controls and I was already satisfied with the library of songs on the previous games and wasn't buying them again.

Give Theatrhythm a shot. Probably Theatrhythm Curtain Call which is the second game.
 
The Zekenator said:
Iirc that time period being talked about, that Yoshi-P is saying when he first heard the term, that was when JRPGs were in a notable slump after the PS2. FF13 was a thing that was obviously hated in the west, Skyrim took the western world by storm. I don't fully remember the full extent of discourse back then, but I do remember people finding JRPGs to effectively be old hat and that stuff like Skyrim or Fallout were to be the next big movers and shakers of the RPG genre going forward.

So it was at probably the arguably lowest point in JRPG history that the term was first heard in Japan itself, so I can kind of see his perspective as back then being a "J"RPG was an indictment that it was going be some cringey shitty garbage linear turn based rpg you've seen 700 times, doesn't allow for "meaningful choice", and is too old.

Which that is kind of true today too if you see some discourse around things like newer Xenoblade games for being quirky weeb trash or KH3 being too confusing, but obviously with the somewhat recent mainstream acceptance of anime complaining that something is "anime" isn't really quite the insult that it used to be back then. That and the mainstream WRPGs have to my knowledge entered their own slump too given the state of Bioware and Besthesda in the last five or years.
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persona is technically a jrpg too and everyone is going apeshit over it.
attaching value to labels like that was always retarded, especially when it comes from clueless western players and journos that have a single digit IQ. same reason they think "first big game invented the genre", like WoW was the first mmo ever, their opinion is more than useless.
 
A Grey Cat said:
Wanted to bump this thread with this little tidbit


I think this proves my theory that time is a cycle that constantly repeats back around to itself. In this case the video game crash of 1983 with those cartridges of et for the atari 2600 buried in the Mojave desert.
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Square died after 2001. It was buried in 2003.
Now I'm here to pick up that old legacy. I'm not lying either. I'm not making it my mission, its just someone's gotta have that eye vision of what made the games good then, versus now.

whatever I feel like said:
Lol, I never actually looked at Theatrhytm. That looks so souless and shitty, like FF funkos.
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Cause it is shitty. chibi bullshit
 
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What makes it funny is that between this, selling their Eidos/Crystal IPs to Embracer just for said Embracer to make them even worse, the endless NFTs they keep selling and yearly bad releases, they're never gonna survive this year or even the next.
 
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TVBForever said:
What makes it funny is that between this, selling their Eidos/Crystal IPs to Embracer just for said Embracer to make them even worse, the endless NFTs they keep selling and yearly bad releases, they're never gonna survive this year or even the next.
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Oh, Square Enix will survive. But only because Yoshi-P will keep FF15 going (and fun) while the rest of the companies burns down all around him. I'm actually hoping everything dies around him until it just him and the FF IP left.
 
A Grey Cat said:
Wanted to bump this thread with this little tidbit


I think this proves my theory that time is a cycle that constantly repeats back around to itself. In this case the video game crash of 1983 with those cartridges of et for the atari 2600 buried in the Mojave desert.
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Except people actually wanted the ET carts enough to dig them up.
 
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A Grey Cat said:
Wanted to bump this thread with this little tidbit


I think this proves my theory that time is a cycle that constantly repeats back around to itself. In this case the video game crash of 1983 with those cartridges of et for the atari 2600 buried in the Mojave desert.
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They're actually in a very good place, financially. They've pared down to just Japan, mobile and western publishing of other developers' games.

Also, this guy is totally wrong about steelbooks for games. They're shit and fuck up collector's shelves by looking different than regular games. Most console-specific collectors would prefer the real version.

And now the guy is claiming that comic book companies actually depend on Funko Pops (as opposed to movies...) aka he's a retard who knows nothing. You have made everyone here stupider for having posted it.
 
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whatever I feel like said:
Also, this guy is totally wrong about steelbooks for games. They're shit and fuck up collector's shelves by looking different than regular games. Most console-specific collectors would prefer the real version.
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If they came with fricking sleeves like steelbook blurays do then I wouldn't have any issue with them. Most of the time though they pick ugly art for them. Reverse cover games usually have better art, and don't make you paranoid about scratching them or damaging them (which a sleeve would solve)
 
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Epoch said:
If they came with fricking sleeves like steelbook blurays do then I wouldn't have any issue with them. Most of the time though they pick ugly art for them. Reverse cover games usually have better art, and don't make you paranoid about scratching them or damaging them (which a sleeve would solve)
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They also rust too, without even getting wet. Show me the good Halo 2 (or was it 3?) steelbook and I'll show you the one that's still sealed.
 
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Back me up! said:
Oh, Square Enix will survive. But only because Yoshi-P will keep FF15 going (and fun) while the rest of the companies burns down all around him. I'm actually hoping everything dies around him until it just him and the FF IP left.
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If Squeenix luckily survives (albeit only with their FF and Dragon Quest shit IPs left), then they'll go the same way as Konami and sell Vegas-esque gambling slots.
 
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