Square-Enix President Yoichi Wada Resigns

[Finch]

You'll get no argument from me on that.

I saw someone on another forum state that it was the fourth best console of that generation. It warmed my heart.

But that generation destroyed the 32-bit one, so this nonsense about that being the best time for everyone must be chemically driven.

No fucking way. The only way the 16-bit crap was even close was if you were Japanese or you're including stuff that wasn't translated until recently. Even Square playing it safe (and it was usually just going batshit crazy like every other developer on the PSX-Saturn) was better than the US SNES market. Now if you include the later SFamicom period with the entirety of the PSX, up until the time when video games became a liiiitle too expensive to fuck around with, you've got one of the best videogame companies ever.

that was a lot better than Sega, always horrible except during the Saturn and occasionally during Dreamcast and like a couple times with Westone and Phantasy Star IV.


Now you're convinced

[GohanX]

Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 were the best RPGs Square ever made, but those are also available on PSX so Finch is right.

[Fe 26]

that was a lot better than Sega, always horrible except during the Saturn and occasionally during Dreamcast and like a couple times with Westone and Phantasy Star IV.

Finch, we can't be friends anymore.

[No One]

I think if I sat down and made lists of all the games I really loved during both generations, the 32-bit list would probably be longer. I loved Ys, Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, but there was so much experimentation going on during the mid-to-late 90s (the likes of which we'll probably never see again in "mainstream" game development) that yielded awesome games. The Square of today would never take chances on games like Einhander and Bushido Blade.

Working Designs and Atlus published a lot of good stuff during that time as well.

Edit: Despite the Saturn going full retard domestically, Sega made some great games too. Shining the Holy Ark, Shining Force III and Panzer Dragoon Saga immediately come to mind. I think Finch is bagging on Genesis-era Sega out of pain. Secretly, deep down, he loves them.

[Finch]

It was pain caused by playing Genesis games...

Oh, i probably like Land Stalker.

[No One]

All the Shining games were neat.

The Turbografx was better than the Genesis and SNES anyway.

[Diff-chan]

Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 were the best RPGs Square ever made, but those are also available on PSX so Finch is right.

I'll agree that those are their to best, but Square's 32-bit output was incredible. Not just the RPGs, most of their other games were good too.

[A Robot Bit Me]

The Genesis Shinings kinda haven't held up very well. The SRPGs Square and Atlus did for the SNES are still among the best.

That's actually pretty sad considering the advancements in AI over the past twenty years.

[bVork]

16-bit includes Amiga, therefore it is the best generation.

[Finch]

ZX Spectrum imo.