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Just what the fuck was going on with squaresoft in the 1990s?

Holy shit they had such a wide breadth of variety and amazing games that really pushed game design boundaries. Even today I still can’t find modern games that had this level of creativity and visual design. Not all of them were winners, but Jesus Christ I have not seen a hot streak like this from any developer except maybe Capcom, Rare or Konami, and even then those guys still don’t hold a candle to what Square was doing.

Has there ever been such a profound renaissance like what square was cooking in the 90s?

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Their ads were even riveting and stylish

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>> No.4852330

I think a lot of it was giving freedom and good sized budgets to internal teams to try experimental shit.

>> No.4852341

>>4852330
Yeah the shit they were producing was definitely experimental and daring.

Things like Saga Frontier, Vagrant Story, Einhander, the Tobal Games and even Chocobos Racing stand out.

>> No.4852343

It blows my mind that they managed to make TWO busihdo blade games

>> No.4852389

>>4852310
>really pushed game design boundaries
the things you people believe!

>> No.4852404

/vr/ has the biggest and hardest boner for Squaresoft, holy fuck

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>>4852404

>> No.4852536

>>4852389
no this is true videogames were baby mode shitgarbage for kids with developmental disorders and failure parents before FFVII came and changed everything commercially

>> No.4852539

>>4852320

It's like they were shitposting before it was cool

>> No.4852552

>>4852539
magazine ads in the 90s were like an insane arms race with no morals or restraint man

>John Romero's about to make you his bitch

>> No.4852580

>>4852539
that's what video game advertising was like in the 90's

>> No.4852586

>>4852310
That FF movie killed them both financially and creatively.

>> No.4852589

>>4852310

What happened is that back then game production was of a manageable size.
Coding a game engine, designing/writing a game, creating assets and so on could be done by a sensibly-sized team in a sensibly-timed manner.

These days games have become a bloated mess. The directors want to make a movie, there's thousands of pages of script that needs to be voice acted, a near-infinite amount of 3d assets need to be created, sometimes they need to work on the 3d engine itself for years because it's a buggy mess, the marketing department needs to spend a crazy amount of money including paying off gaming journalists, etc...

It's easier to take risks when you can manage the production in a more sensible manner and it's not a black hole of manhours.