Talk:Bandai Namco Entertainment/@comment-30816816-20180303084903

Namco will always be my favorite game developer, as they've given me great childhood memories, especially with the Tekken, Ace Combat and Ridge Racer franchies (Tekken being my favorite). However I wasn't exactly a proponent of the Bandai Merger back in 2006, it just seems like after the merger took place the company couldn't get back to that late 90's and early 2000's greatness it once had.

Prior to joining Bandai, Namco was a superb Developer/Publisher who rarely put out bad games, but they seemed to have gone the way of westernization, sloppiness and poor business decisions ever since the merger took place. There's still signs of that excellence in the recent Tekken and Tales games, but their output really doesn't reflect their identity anymore, which I find is a shame. So I hope their upcoming "super titles"  Ace Combat 7 and Soul Calibur IV brings back that 90's/2000's magic. Namco was a mark of quality back in the fifth and sixth generations. The value of the company was diminished from the middle of the 7th Generation Era to now-ish.

I'll always cherish and support the company though, but I gotta call it hour I see it.