Quote (Dragonox @ May 19 2011 04:43am)

wall of text lol

lol its not like they have changed from when they where Soft to when they changed it to Enix its just the market and consumer that has changed
sure most of the game that came out when they where SquareSoft where good but there was some weak ones also. personally i commend Enix and there
hard work to put out one of these games every few years because since FF:VII came out there Animation been really top line and enjoyable.
i even enjoyed there smaller games like Chocobo dungeon and even there Facebook game, but when it comes to a full on RPG with 100+ hours of gameplay no one
can do better than SquareEnix in my opinion sure Dragon Age and Mass Effect where good games but i never did feel for the characters
as i feel for the characters in a Final fantasy game they just pull me into the game more instead of just Hack and Slashing in DragonAge
to Shooting aliens like in a FPS in MassEffect for me i couldn't sit and play those game for more than a few hours because it got boring
but when i start playing a Final fantasy game i can sit there for hours on end figuring out my next moves like in a chess game and thats what pulls me into these games
its just not the great stories they tell but also the fact it's a thinking game and doesn't just require you to pound on buttons for hours with no pattern.

Quote (FunSize @ May 20 2011 05:07am)

10 was the last game like you  described.

The  animation is now the focus of the game, not the story. FF-13 took less then 25 hours to complete, and they sped the battle up so quick it was impossible to plan it like a chess match. You literally just pressed triangle, watched them auto attack and if you suddenly somehow lost health you pressed l2, got out a sentinal and a medic and then repeated said process.

I miss everything you talked about, but that won't come from an Enix game.