Final fantasy creator joins microsoft

[Hivetyrant]

Woah!! this is possibly great news!

"Microsoft Corp. today announced that Hironobu Sakaguchi, video game legend and president of Mistwalker game studio, has joined with Microsoft® Game Studios to develop role-playing game (RPG) video games exclusively for the next-generation Xbox® video game platform. Sakaguchi is best known as the creator of the “Final Fantasy” franchise, which has sold more than 60 million units worldwide, and was executive vice president in charge of game development at Square Enix Co., Ltd. until February 2001."

Shweeet, Microsoft have put alot of quality games, and this combination (hopefully) could not be a bad thing.

(didnt think this really fitted in the misc. games forum)

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

..if only they could make better software than Word, Outlook etc..

[Hivetyrant]

..if only they could make better software than Word, Outlook etc..

Yeah, Im glad the software department and the games department are completely seperate.

[Beaumanoir]

Originally posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood: ..if only they could make better software than Word, Outlook etc..

Word? You type, it appears on screen, you can format the text and it's spell checked (Although the grammer check can be a bit spurious) What more could you want? (Apart from columns formatting which isn't pretty hard to get done).

Oh yea, this is great news! I love the Final Fantasy games. Pure brilliance [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 02-25-2005, 07:48 AM: Message edited by: Beaumanoir ]

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by Beaumanoir: Word? You type, it appears on screen, you can format the text and it's spell checked (Although the grammer check can be a bit spurious) What more could you want? (Apart from columns formatting which isn't pretty hard to get done).

Finally someone who sees the point

[Spirits Reborn]

so basically square is dead.. nobuo left (meaning music left) and now this dude leaves (meaning good games gone) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

and on the plus side, maybe there'll be a Word processor with a final fantasy theme

[Sythe]

YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!

With this new enlightened prophet he would further empower the power of the next generation of the holy X . This is really really good news! Xbox gamers everywhere REJOICE!

[Kakero]

Cool! Maybe I can start playing with my xbox then. It's been gathering dust.

[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Beaumanoir: Word? You type, it appears on screen, you can format the text and it's spell checked (Although the grammer check can be a bit spurious) What more could you want? (Apart from columns formatting which isn't pretty hard to get done).

Easy to find options (ie, less sub-menu depth). Better interface (it has gone downhill completely in the newer versions... makes me nautious to try to use it). Better pricing. Less paperclips thinking I'm writing letters. Better webpage authoring (if it must be in there at all).
In general, everything that makes Open Office so good.

[Seraph]

Originally posted by Beaumanoir: quote: Originally posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood: ..if only they could make better software than Word, Outlook etc..

Word? You type, it appears on screen, you can format the text and it's spell checked (Although the grammer check can be a bit spurious) What more could you want? (Apart from columns formatting which isn't pretty hard to get done).[/QUOTE]Something that would allow me to produce a document for publication that wouldn't get me laughed at. In other words something like LaTeX. I've yet to encoutner a word processor that made it easy to type in an equation.