Oh.my.god.

If they can't get the Final Fantasy games right and they take ages to put them out. Imagine having their teams working on a whole bunch of games with the quality of Mindjack. I'm fearful already.

Are you dumb? These are all different teams they bought, they are not going to make some global effort toward ONE game. There is a reason SquareEnix bought up all these NA and EU developers.

Do you expect all games to be final fantasy? That's like saying Just Cause 2 was and Deus Ex 3 will be terrible because Square can't focus on one thing some other team is doing.

Actually no I'm not dumb, however I have not passed my point across correctly though (since I was doing something else).

What I meant is that Square-Enix' standard of quality has greatly decreased over the years (mainly due to the fact they want to get many games out quick) and that has been quite clear in releases of new IP's developed by them such as The Last Remnant, Mindjack and NIER (even Kane & Lynch 2 sucked, but then again the first one wasn't really that good anyway xD). The fact that Square has been buying up as many dev teams as they can is just to strengthen their position in the gaming industry and to be able to own a few good IP's (Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Legacy of Kain) that will probably be good and rake in some millions so they can waste it all in dubious new IPs. First then need to fix their current IPs before delving into creating a bunch of new ones.

Obviously they aren't going to concentrate all global effort towards one game xD I haven't play Just Cause 2, but I do have a feeling that Deus Ex 3 is going to be good, even if I do have a soft spot for bashing on Squeenix lately.

I hope that clarifies what I meant.

I don't think that them working on 5 new IPs will take anything from their other work. I think working on any new IP is a pretty big risk and the only way to find out if it'll be successful is to release it out there and get feedback. There aren't many publishers out there these days that will take big risks like this and I believe it can only be good for the industry.

I totally agree. I'm just fearful of the quality of those same IPs (that's what I've been saying xD).

God knows the gaming world needs more new IPs, since it seems every year we see more of the same.

NIER is cool.

I get what you are saying, but it all depends on the studio that is producing it. Square Enix is a huge company and has quite a few studios that make really good games.

Eidos Montreal, Crystal Dynamics are two good ones that I know of, who knows about the those though, I don't remember anything OI has done and have not heard of Wimbledon.

IO is responsible for the Kane & Lynch series. =P

But I would love a grand comback of Crystal Dynamics with a new Legacy of Kain.

I too would love a Square funded Crystal Dynamics produced Legacy of Kain, it would be amazing. The series is clearly not dead since they keep throwing Kain and Raziel references in random Tomb Raider things.

I thought the Kain & Lynch series were innovative but poorly executed. If Square threw some new management into their studio I'm sure they could produce some great games.

So maybe that FF7 HD remake will finally get released.

/me runs

FF7 for NGP would be cool.

FF7 isn't a new IP though so I doubt it's related to this.

Also, given how SE games have been of late, I'm sure they'd find some way of screwing up FF7.

They even managed to screw up Parasite Eve.

I was just saying in general, not a legitimate guess as to the new IPs.

Soul Reaver is my all time fav game

Sadly a new Legacy of Kain does not count as a "new" IP. Or I'd be excited for that.

I'd give up all the Final Fantasy in the world if it meant more LoK

http://kotaku.com/5803573/

Best article Kotaku has put out in quite some time.