FFXIII is hardly traditional.  I'd take a true turn-based FFX or DQVIII style battle system over any of the stuff that we're seeing now, but I'll settle for active turn-based if I have to.

I wouldn't mind somehow getting squished onto the PS3 cart.  I'd rather walk beside the train than sit with those 360 guys :P

@nightdragomn

FF13 isn't turn based

its gonna have a revolutionary battle system

Hope so... I'll definitely check out the demo whenever it makes its way over to the US.

To be honest I haven't played any of the newer (PS2 era) FFs so I can't really judge or compare their gameplay/battle systems to the next game in the series, and as much as I love some of the older games from the SNES/PS1 era, I just can't stand the combination of random encounters and turn-based combat, with the exception of Mario RPG and the Paper Mario games, because their was also action and platform elements to them as well.

I just feel that if I'm going to sink 60-80 hours or more into a game, I'd rather those hours be well spent actually playing and enjoying the game and not because I have to constantly level-grind to progress or anything like that.

i want too join , because i love the ff series and everything about this game after all the trailers seems to be a epic game and beautifull as well. :)

Can I ride along with you guys? I seriously want this game, but first I must finish the ones I am currently playing, FFX and FFVIII this summer, then I'll move on to FFVII and FFIV

I'll just leave this here.

And yes I do know the irony of myself having a final fantasy avatar yet still being more hyped towards mass effect.

Huh even though FFXIII is multiplat....The majority of people hyping it are PS3 fans

Because the Final Fantasy user base mostly consist of Playstation fans.

The last 5 main games was on a PS console. (excluding FFXI)