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All Square Enix Games To Include Social, Multiplayer Gaming
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Square Enix has been looking at the future, and that future is either stuff from China that's cheap and is played online, or on Facebook. Expect all future Square Enix games to incorporate at least some of those aspects. In an interview with Forbes, Square Enix boss Yoichi "Imperial Hot" Wada says that from here on in, every single game the company develops will incorporate "some element of multiplayer or social gaming". Even the traditionally singleplayer ones. Which would include the core Final Fantasy series.
To do this, Square Enix will embark on a slight restructure. "Frankly, the people who excelled at creating game software about 10 years ago are really not good at making multiplayer games. We are striving to change the old culture, and as a part of such effort we are trying to bring in fresh blood."
Hopefully, at least as far as Square's role-playing series go, restraint is exercised, and this just means they'll bolt some Facebook compatibility into their achievements/trophies.
I knew it, it's the only reason they're doing this.
But doesn't Final Fantasy have enough fans? I would like to have two-player elements in Final Fantasy games so I could play with one of my only two friends who like the series. I don't care for multiplayer at all. Why would I want to play with people I don't know?
No problem with that at all, so long as they are 'decent' multiplayer games. I would love for games to implement the system that IX used.. have two people control a certain amount of characters.
I think multiplayer would be okay as long as they don't substitute it for single player story, Final Fantasy series has always been about the story and I feel if they take this new multiplayer approach and more people start to like it then they'll continue their efforts in making better multiplayer content and not on single player content just like every other game out there minus a few exceptions
I think that Versus would be really cool if it was co-op, seeing as how big this landscape is and the size of the monsters, it could be quite entertaining to play. That is the only thing I see coming from Versus though. Agito I could see having PvP instead.
I think multiplayer would be okay as long as they don't substitute it for single player story, Final Fantasy series has always been about the story and I feel if they take this new multiplayer approach and more people start to like it then they'll continue their efforts in making better multiplayer content and not on single player content just like every other game out there minus a few exceptions
Hopefully, the multiplayer aspect won't overshadow the single player. Quite, a few games (especially fps) put way more emphasis into the multiplayer part. Whereas, the single player part feels very lazy, poor and neglected.
Also, there seems to be less multiplayer done offline. Maybe more people don't like split screen anymore. I still think it is very fun to play offline multiplayer. Online may be fun. But, there's more types of annoyances and problems that can come with it.
All Square Enix Games To Include Social, Multiplayer Gaming
