Hell Freezes Over! Square And FF On Nintendo!

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03-09-2002, 03:01 PM
Supercharged

OMG! Hell Freezes Over! Square And FF On Nintendo!

I love it. YYYEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!! I'm so happy!!!!!!!! It has finally been anounced that the FF series are going to becoming to GBA and the GameCube. Go to this link. http://www.nintendoweb.com/news/0302/008.html Well if you didn't go I will put what you missed:

Naysayers get egg on their face... Square will bring Final Fantasy to BOTH the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance this year.

Most people thought it a safe bet that Square would develop for Nintendo's systems again after Yamauchi retired. Others thought that Square would NEVER develop games for a Nintendo console again. Well, according to Reuters and many other sources, the former turned out to be half right, Square is indeed developing games for Nintendo again, but before the retirement of Yamauchi! Even more surprising, Final Fantasy titles are on the way before the end of the year that will likely make use of the GameCube and GBA link cable!

There is an even stranger part of this story... do you remember the news some months ago about the fund Yamauchi set up to aid newly formed companies? Well, Square is starting up a new company to do the development of the at least two new Final Fantasy games and is receiving a portion of this money.

The real source of this news was an announcement today by Nintendo themselves. This is real news folks, this is no BS and definitely no joke. No specific titles have been announced yet, but the statements about the link cable and the newly formed company make me think that we can expect brand new FF games rather than ports. I'm sure we'll get more information about this very soon. But one thing is clear, it is a real good day for RPG fans!

And GameCube fans!!!!!! Im so happy
03-09-2002, 03:57 PM
Supercharged

Oh yeah the name of the game that Nintendo beleives they are going to recieve first before the second game at the end of the year is going to be called Final Fantasy Unlimited:D
03-09-2002, 04:30 PM
Snoop Dogg

Finally the long dispute between SquareSoft and Nintendo is over! I can't wait to see how FF looks and performs on the Gamecube :D.
03-09-2002, 05:24 PM
Supercharged

And the new Final Fantasy game is going to somehow able to work with the GBA using the link cabele. I wonder how that is going to work.
03-15-2002, 11:42 PM
Kintoun

Final Fantasy Unlimited? If this new game is nething like the new anime in Japan right now called Final Fantasy Unlimited, then this game is gonna be pretty "kiddy". Whelp, thats ye old Nintendo for you tho.
03-16-2002, 11:24 AM
Supercharged

Why do you think it's going to be "kiddy"? Do you understand japeneese? Have you watched the anime series? Do you know that they are porting FF Tactics the GBA. Obviously you are a Sony or a Microsoft fanboy cause you dont know what the hell you are talking bout.
03-17-2002, 07:08 AM
Kintoun

Actually you have no clue who you're talking to. Yes I can understand and speak Japanese, yes I am a freak. And a anime freak at that. And yes I've seen over half the anime series alrdy (ep 14+ has yet to be released in Japan). And everyone (yes everyone) that I have spoken with about FFU the anime says that it will most likely make a kiddy game. I have nothing against Nintendo, but only thought it was humorous that FFU would be one of the first Square games for the Nintendo considering Nintendo's history.

BTW for those of you who came to this thread for content... I got it verified. Yes FFU the game is based off FFU the anime. So in my opinion (I'm entitled to that right?) don't get your hopes up for this game.
03-17-2002, 01:41 PM
Supercharged

Well do you understand this? a;djf;aksjdf;sajfd. Sike. Let me stop. Ok. Well it's not going to be a kiddy game cause Nintendo wouldn't allow it. Think if they wanted Square to come back who would they target fist? The older gamers duh. They already have the youngins locked in their grasps. So no too bad for you. It is going to be a rpg, and it's not going to be kiddy. So there you happy!
03-21-2002, 02:18 PM
Sparky_D

Quote:

Originally posted by Supercharged
Well do you understand this? a;djf;aksjdf;sajfd. Sike. Let me stop. Ok. Well it's not going to be a kiddy game cause Nintendo wouldn't allow it. Think if they wanted Square to come back who would they target fist? The older gamers duh. They already have the youngins locked in their grasps. So no too bad for you. It is going to be a rpg, and it's not going to be kiddy. So there you happy!

Lord! Will the both of you stop? :p Nintendo has changed their policy considerably since their previous console. They are allowing companies to make more mature based games without Nintendo's absolute control. Resident Evil, for example. :rolleyes:

So, if Final Fantasy "Unlimited" (if that's what they're going to call it) turns out to be a "kiddy" game, it WON'T be due to Nintendo's doing....it will have been a decision from Square itself.
03-21-2002, 04:58 PM
Adamp44

Sorry to spoil the happiness, but you should read this:

Quote:
"The objective of the new company is to develop GBA titles, so GameCube titles are not a part of the plan."

Link:
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...854594,00.html
03-21-2002, 11:46 PM
Bootleg

just like the good old days....*sigh*
03-23-2002, 06:03 AM
Kintoun

Actually there are 2 realy cool characters in the anime. 1 bad guy and 1 good guy. Almost none of their story is told yet. But basically the good guy is nicknamed "Kaze" (means wind) by the two main characters (who r children). The good guy seems pretty vital to the story however. Obviously cause he keeps geting resurrected and he is the source for the summons in the anime. Basically he has a metal tube covering his arm that "dissolves" and forms into a "demon gun". From here he chooses 3 bullets of diff colors and inserts them into the gun and fires aka summons a uhh Summon. So far this char is pretty cool. The other guy is pretty similar except he controls a sword thru telekenesis and uses flasks of liquid which r cut to cast spells. Cept he's not the main bad guy. More like a wandering mercenary (the main bad guy is a child).

So hopefully the game will be based on one of these 2 characters. And if it is may be a bit more than the "anime community" is expecting.
03-25-2002, 10:54 AM
Supercharged

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Adamp44
[B]Sorry to spoil the happiness, but you should read this:

Quote:
"The objective of the new company is to develop GBA titles, so GameCube titles are not a part of the plan."

UM NO. IF THEY WERENT GONNA DEVELOP GAMECUBE GAMES THEN WHY THE HELL DID THEY SAY FINAL FANTASY UNLIMITED WILL BE USING THE GBA/GC LINK???? DUH. THEY ARE MAKING GAMES FOR GAMECUBE YOU D|_|MBA$$. AND THATS THE NEW COMPANY. WHAT BOUT SQUARE AND IT'S OTHER AFFILIATE COMPANIES? DONT TELL ME YOU THINK A SMALL DINKY COMPANY COMPOSED OF 1 PERSON WILL ONLY MAKE THE GAMES FOR NINTENDO. PLEASE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT COMPANIES. SQUARE MIGHT MAKE SOME GAMES FOR GAMECUBE TOO
03-25-2002, 02:52 PM
Adamp44

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercharged
[B]

Quote:

Originally posted by Adamp44
Sorry to spoil the happiness, but you should read this:

Quote:
"The objective of the new company is to develop GBA titles, so GameCube titles are not a part of the plan."

UM NO. IF THEY WERENT GONNA DEVELOP GAMECUBE GAMES THEN WHY THE HELL DID THEY SAY FINAL FANTASY UNLIMITED WILL BE USING THE GBA/GC LINK???? DUH. THEY ARE MAKING GAMES FOR GAMECUBE YOU D|_|MBA$$. AND THATS THE NEW COMPANY. WHAT BOUT SQUARE AND IT'S OTHER AFFILIATE COMPANIES? DONT TELL ME YOU THINK A SMALL DINKY COMPANY COMPOSED OF 1 PERSON WILL ONLY MAKE THE GAMES FOR NINTENDO. PLEASE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT COMPANIES. SQUARE MIGHT MAKE SOME GAMES FOR GAMECUBE TOO

Hahaha! Sure, sure. You know it all. SQUARE WILL NOT BE MAKING GAMES PRIMARILY FOR GAMECUBE. You idiot!! Hahaha
03-25-2002, 03:44 PM
Sparky_D

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercharged
[B]

Quote:

Originally posted by Adamp44
Sorry to spoil the happiness, but you should read this:

Quote:
"The objective of the new company is to develop GBA titles, so GameCube titles are not a part of the plan."

UM NO. IF THEY WERENT GONNA DEVELOP GAMECUBE GAMES THEN WHY THE HELL DID THEY SAY FINAL FANTASY UNLIMITED WILL BE USING THE GBA/GC LINK???? DUH. THEY ARE MAKING GAMES FOR GAMECUBE YOU D|_|MBA$$. AND THATS THE NEW COMPANY. WHAT BOUT SQUARE AND IT'S OTHER AFFILIATE COMPANIES? DONT TELL ME YOU THINK A SMALL DINKY COMPANY COMPOSED OF 1 PERSON WILL ONLY MAKE THE GAMES FOR NINTENDO. PLEASE. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT COMPANIES. SQUARE MIGHT MAKE SOME GAMES FOR GAMECUBE TOO

This doesn't even deserve a response. :rolleyes:

By the way, your Caps Lock button is located right below your "Tab" button and right above your Left Shift button. :rolleyes:
03-25-2002, 05:40 PM
Supercharged

Quote:

Originally posted by Adamp44

Hahaha! Sure, sure. You know it all. SQUARE WILL NOT BE MAKING GAMES PRIMARILY FOR GAMECUBE. You idiot!! Hahaha

TELL ME WHAT SO FUNNY?
03-26-2002, 04:37 PM
janko10

WT_F are you talking about. In case you didn't know, FF started on the NES for America.

J
03-26-2002, 04:58 PM
Supercharged

YES I DO KNOW THAT FF AND OTHER RPG'S STARTED ON NES. BUT ARE YOU STUPID? HAVE YOU BEEN UNDER A ROCK? SQUARE WENT TO PLAYSTATION.:mad: WHAT IM SAYING IS SQUARE WILL NOW COME BACK TO NINTENDO AND DEVELOP FOR IT. OBVIOUSLY YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT THE HISTORY BETWEEN SQUARE AND NINTENDO. AND IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THEN DON'T CRITISIZE SOMEONE WHO KNOWS MORE THAN YOU.OK:)
03-26-2002, 05:05 PM
janko10

I KNOW SMART@SS. The only reason (other than Sony) that FF didn't stay with Nintendo was because the games were too big to fit on the damn N64 cartridges. :rolleyes: Noob. Wurm, can you smack this guy around for me?

J
03-26-2002, 05:24 PM
Supercharged

IM THE NOOB :rolleyes: PLEASE GO AHEAD. FF DIDNT LEAVE NINTENDO DUMBA$$ ITS CALLED SQUARE!! THEY LEFT FOR SONY. THY DIDNT LEAVE BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE CARTRIDGE YOU BUM. SQUARE WENT TO PLAYSTATION YEARS BEFORE NINTENDO 64 CAME OUT. SQUARE LEFT NINTENDO CAUSE NINTENDO DIDNT STICK WITH THE CD FORMAT IN THE BEGGINNING LIKE THEY SAID THEY WERE. SONY WAS ACTUALLY WORKING WITH NINTENDO ALONG WITH PHILLIPS TO MAKE THE FIRST CD BASED CONSOLE. DUH. THEY CAME OUT WITHT THE CONSOLE, IT PLAYED CD'S AND SNES CARTRIDGES AND THE NAME WAS PLAYSTATION. BUT NINTENDO SAID THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT AND SAID THEY WOULDNT MAKE GAMES ON THE CD SO SONY LEFT AND MADE THE PLAYSTATION X. (NOTICE THE NAME IS DIFFERENT THEN PLAYSTAION). THEN THATS WHERE SQUARE DEFECTED YOU BUM. THEY LEFT CAUSE NINTENDO WOULDNT STICK WITH THE CD FORMAT. SQUARE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE F@#$%&* CARTRIDGE. LOOK WHO'S THE NOOB :rolleyes:
03-26-2002, 05:37 PM
janko10

Quote:

Originally posted by Supercharged
IM THE NOOB :rolleyes: PLEASE GO AHEAD. FF DIDNT LEAVE NINTENDO DUMBA$$ ITS CALLED SQUARE!! THEY LEFT FOR SONY. THY DIDNT LEAVE BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE CARTRIDGE YOU BUM. SQUARE WENT TO PLAYSTATION YEARS BEFORE NINTENDO 64 CAME OUT. SQUARE LEFT NINTENDO CAUSE NINTENDO DIDNT STICK WITH THE CD FORMAT IN THE BEGGINNING LIKE THEY SAID THEY WERE. SONY WAS ACTUALLY WORKING WITH NINTENDO ALONG WITH PHILLIPS TO MAKE THE FIRST CD BASED CONSOLE. DUH. THEY CAME OUT WITHT THE CONSOLE, IT PLAYED CD'S AND SNES CARTRIDGES AND THE NAME WAS PLAYSTATION. BUT NINTENDO SAID THEY DIDN'T LIKE IT AND SAID THEY WOULDNT MAKE GAMES ON THE CD SO SONY LEFT AND MADE THE PLAYSTATION X. (NOTICE THE NAME IS DIFFERENT THEN PLAYSTAION). THEN THATS WHERE SQUARE DEFECTED YOU BUM. THEY LEFT CAUSE NINTENDO WOULDNT STICK WITH THE CD FORMAT. SQUARE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE F@#$%&* CARTRIDGE. LOOK WHO'S THE NOOB :rolleyes:

RRRRIIIGGGGHHTTT. Noob alert. Also, incase you didn't know, the Caps Lock key is right under the Tab key. I know, you don't have to apologize, it's hard to find sometimes.
03-26-2002, 05:39 PM
freedon

dude just one thing
could you please not use caps lock
03-26-2002, 07:20 PM
Sparky_D

Square and Nintendo both had a falling out, for a few reasons. The first, was Nintendo's decision to abandon the CD-addon for the SNES. The second, was Nintendo's decision to limit cartridge sizes for cost purposes. Square wanted more to work with, Nintendo wouldn't budge. They cited how Square was able to pull of great feats with Final Fantasy III/VI on a SNES cartridge, so a cartridge size 10-15 times the size of SNES cartridge should have been fine. :rolleyes:

Third, Square and Nintendo had arguments over artistic and content control. Nintendo saw the pre-alpha Final Fantasy 64 and liked the format of the characters. Square, afterwards, decided perhaps they wanted more grown up looking characters. Nintendo disagreed.

Nintendo also wanted control to oversee the content of the game. Squaresoft wanted to add more "adult" themes into their games and Nintendo simply refused. No negotiation, simply a refusal. I guess Nintendo was just a little headstrong after their immense success with the SNES and they felt that whatever decision they made, it would fly with everyone. :rolleyes:

So, Square, just a little ticked off at Nintendo, especially having brought Nintendo major revenue (Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III were HUGE SNES system sellers), they decided to go to someone else who would respect them a little more. Sony was the first, namely because by this time, the Saturn was already showing signs of inherrent failure. Having CD-technology was also a huge bonus.

Ironically enough, Final Fantasy VII WAS censored when it came to North America. :rolleyes:

Anyways, this was not a Nintendo bashing session, I still am a very strong supporter of Nintendo and I believe they are learning from their mistakes, slowly but surely. :)

First thing they need to do is force Yamauchi to retire (President of Nintendo). Whenever that guy opens his mouth, sheer madness ensues. :D

By the way, Supercharged, if you're even bothering to read this, I'm going to state this again, even though it's been stated a few times now and you keep ignoring it. :rolleyes:

YOUR CAPSLOCK KEY IS LOCATED RIGHT UNDERNEATH YOUR TAB KEY. PLEASE DO US A FAVOUR AND TURN IT OFF. :rolleyes:
03-26-2002, 07:30 PM
janko10

Quote:

Originally posted by Sparky_D
Square and Nintendo both had a falling out, for a few reasons. The first, was Nintendo's decision to abandon the CD-addon for the SNES. The second, was Nintendo's decision to limit cartridge sizes for cost purposes. Square wanted more to work with, Nintendo wouldn't budge. They cited how Square was able to pull of great feats with Final Fantasy III/VI on a SNES cartridge, so a cartridge size 10-15 times the size of SNES cartridge should have been fine. :rolleyes:

Third, Square and Nintendo had arguments over artistic and content control. Nintendo saw the pre-alpha Final Fantasy 64 and liked the format of the characters. Square, afterwards, decided perhaps they wanted more grown up looking characters. Nintendo disagreed.

Nintendo also wanted control to oversee the content of the game. Squaresoft wanted to add more "adult" themes into their games and Nintendo simply refused. No negotiation, simply a refusal. I guess Nintendo was just a little headstrong after their immense success with the SNES and they felt that whatever decision they made, it would fly with everyone. :rolleyes:

So, Square, just a little ticked off at Nintendo, especially having brought Nintendo major revenue (Final Fantasy II and Final Fantasy III were HUGE SNES system sellers), they decided to go to someone else who would respect them a little more. Sony was the first, namely because by this time, the Saturn was already showing signs of inherrent failure. Having CD-technology was also a huge bonus.

Ironically enough, Final Fantasy VII WAS censored when it came to North America. :rolleyes:

Anyways, this was not a Nintendo bashing session, I still am a very strong supporter of Nintendo and I believe they are learning from their mistakes, slowly but surely. :)

First thing they need to do is force Yamauchi to retire (President of Nintendo). Whenever that guy opens his mouth, sheer madness ensues. :D

By the way, Supercharged, if you're even bothering to read this, I'm going to state this again, even though it's been stated a few times now and you keep ignoring it. :rolleyes:

YOUR CAPSLOCK KEY IS LOCATED RIGHT UNDERNEATH YOUR TAB KEY. PLEASE DO US A FAVOUR AND TURN IT OFF. :rolleyes:

Well put Spark :cool:
03-29-2002, 05:58 AM
Supercharged

HUH????????????

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