Square Enix to Publish Supreme Commander 2 - LOL WUT ?

Square Enix today announced that it will publish Gas Powered Games' Supreme Commander 2, a sequel to the 2007 real-time strategy game. No other details about the game, including platforms or release dates, were announced, just that these would be available "at a later time." Square Enix did note this deal would be the first of several new publishing deals, with the company looking to expand its western development portfolio. Traditionally, the Square Enix group has only worked with other Japanese companies. "We see great opportunities in European and North American markets, both of which are expected to be maintaining sustainable growth over these coming years," said Yoichi Wada, president of Square Enix Co., Ltd. "Therefore, it is crucial we create alliances with proven developers such as Gas Powered Games in order to serve these significant markets better by providing products and services in tune with customer tastes."

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After reading this i was like lol wut ?!?

Square Enix (known for making JRPG's and working with japanese companies) want to Publish a PC centric RTS :|

Well, this IS strange.

But it's not like developing the game or anything 

so...what? the commander will have xp and levels now? shadow_hosi

He was already upgradeable in the original...

With enough time, you could make him into a ridiculously powerful combat unit...

Japanese gaming market dying confirmed?Arsuz

lmao, PC gamer, right? No one else has that much ignorance.

Supreme Commander 2 can wait, the first one already has a very high system requirement for its time. And its definitely not going to be outdated any time soon/

SE should stop wasting there time and start creating quality JRPG titles again, you know like the old days? Seriously SE. You suck now. Dahaka-UK

Exactly.

Stop publishing these crappy RPG's and games that they don't develop.

Publish the games you make, and the games you're best at, which is Final Fantasy, cut the crap with all the other stupid stuff.

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]so...what? the commander will have xp and levels now? thepwninator

He was already upgradeable in the original...

With enough time, you could make him into a ridiculously powerful combat unit...

Yeah, teleport in, throw nuke, teleport out.

I love supreme commander.

But I do wonder how THQ managed to loose publishing rights... 

[QUOTE="thepwninator"]

[QUOTE="shadow_hosi"]so...what? the commander will have xp and levels now? redstormrisen

He was already upgradeable in the original...

With enough time, you could make him into a ridiculously powerful combat unit...

Yeah, teleport in, throw nuke, teleport out.

I love supreme commander.

But I do wonder how THQ managed to loose publishing rights... 

Ah, there were so many wonderfully cheap tactics in that game...yet they're still all perfectly balanced (which is something very awesome)...

Too bad they got rid of the early-game dropship raid from Total Annihilation ;)

 I still say, however, that nothing beats taking out a set of fusion reactors while the enemy commander is sitting right next to it...the look on my roommate's face when that happened was priceless ;)

[QUOTE="Dahaka-UK"]SE should stop wasting there time and start creating quality JRPG titles again, you know like the old days? Seriously SE. You suck now. angry_fork

Exactly.

Stop publishing these crappy RPG's and games that they don't develop.

Publish the games you make, and the games you're best at, which is Final Fantasy, cut the crap with all the other stupid stuff.

Yep, it's sad, Squaresoft used to be renowned for the epic JRPG games, as Square-Enix, they bloody suck. There comparable to the likes of Sega or some other low grade JRPGs developers. Infact I think Sega has gotten better than SE now.  With a game like Valkeria Chronicles. Although I haven't played it, it looks darn good from what I've been hearing. I might just get it.

Lol, wut?

Seriously, that was just out of the blue...and warrants a "WHY!?"

[QUOTE="redstormrisen"][QUOTE="thepwninator"]

 

He was already upgradeable in the original...

With enough time, you could make him into a ridiculously powerful combat unit...

thepwninator

Yeah, teleport in, throw nuke, teleport out.

I love supreme commander.

But I do wonder how THQ managed to loose publishing rights... 

Ah, there were so many wonderfully cheap tactics in that game...yet they're still all perfectly balanced (which is something very awesome)...

Too bad they got rid of the early-game dropship raid from Total Annihilation ;)

 I still say, however, that nothing beats taking out a set of fusion reactors while the enemy commander is sitting right next to it...the look on my roommate's face when that happened was priceless ;)

Now what i NEED is for Gas powered games to hit THQ until they give them rights to makes a Warhammer 40000 version of supreme commander.

If that was announced I would ejaculate.  

[QUOTE="Dahaka-UK"]SE should stop wasting there time and start creating quality JRPG titles again, you know like the old days? Seriously SE. You suck now. angry_fork

Exactly.

Stop publishing these crappy RPG's and games that they don't develop.

Publish the games you make, and the games you're best at, which is Final Fantasy, cut the crap with all the other stupid stuff.

Even with FF, SE is bringing considerable harm to it with all the remakes and spin-offs (to say nothing of the equally-milked Dragon Quest franchise). Enix has effectively swallowed Square.

[QUOTE="thepwninator"][QUOTE="redstormrisen"]

 

Yeah, teleport in, throw nuke, teleport out.

I love supreme commander.

But I do wonder how THQ managed to loose publishing rights... 

redstormrisen

Ah, there were so many wonderfully cheap tactics in that game...yet they're still all perfectly balanced (which is something very awesome)...

Too bad they got rid of the early-game dropship raid from Total Annihilation ;)

 I still say, however, that nothing beats taking out a set of fusion reactors while the enemy commander is sitting right next to it...the look on my roommate's face when that happened was priceless ;)

Now what i NEED is for Gas powered games to hit THQ until they give them rights to makes a Warhammer 40000 version of supreme commander.

If that was announced I would ejaculate.  

That would indeed be amazing, perhaps even more so than a Mechwarrior MMO ;)

OMG!! AMAZING!

i've been waiting for sup com 2, and now it will be finally released.

Quiet happy that instead of THQ SE is gonna publish it. However it dosen't make much sense, but happy with this.

As sup com is a wonderful game, which is killed by its reqs and low support from publishor.

[QUOTE="thepwninator"][QUOTE="redstormrisen"]

Yeah, teleport in, throw nuke, teleport out.

I love supreme commander.

But I do wonder how THQ managed to loose publishing rights...

redstormrisen

Ah, there were so many wonderfully cheap tactics in that game...yet they're still all perfectly balanced (which is something very awesome)...

Too bad they got rid of the early-game dropship raid from Total Annihilation ;)

I still say, however, that nothing beats taking out a set of fusion reactors while the enemy commander is sitting right next to it...the look on my roommate's face when that happened was priceless ;)

Now what i NEED is for Gas powered games to hit THQ until they give them rights to makes a Warhammer 40000 version of supreme commander.

If that was announced I would ejaculate.

i hope you're happy because of you i now have a mental time bomb image just waiting to go off

Don't be too hard on them maybe they want to take the route EA has taken with orange box and left 4 dead. Valve truly did not need ea to publish their games but it does help.

[QUOTE="Arsuz"]Japanese gaming market dying confirmed?0bscurity

lmao, PC gamer, right? No one else has that much ignorance.

when ur visiting SW, do bring along ur sarcasm detector with you :)

That's odd to say the least.