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RPG said:
LO, TLR on PC, Eternal Sonata on PS3 and BD, needless to say I hated all of them. I have not played any of the later 360 JRPG since I sold my 360 a couple weeks before Halo ODST was announced, going to have to purchase the console again for that game and Forza 3.

Why is X-2 a "very apt comparsion" to Versus? Sure Versus is not a flagship game however the production values would have easily made it so had it not been for the story being mature. That is why it is not FF XIV according to Hashimoto, none the less I don't even need my time machine to know the KH team will make a game better than any JRPG on 360 or PS3.

 

If you couldn't enjoy any of those games I suggest not getting excited over any Final Fantasy, or JRPG at that. Your going to be very disappointed. Especially if Lost Odyssey couldn't appeal to you. Incidently, how did you play it on your PC?

@Stats: FFX-2 was a spin-off after the events of the original game. It can be likened to Tales of Symphonia DotNW in that regard. Theres a difference between that and a true sequel. And the same could be said of Dirge of Cerberus; a spi-off that, like a sequel, happened after the events of the original game, following different characters. A comparison between them and Versus is ery plausible, and if you believe that Versus will truly be great, you should welcome comparisons like this. If Versus is going to be as spectacular as I've been hearing, then it will put other spinoffs to shame.

Now as for the story, I haven't kept up with it, and since its not out yet (obviously) none of us know exactly how the characters from Final Fantasy XIII and Versus will intertwine, or react, or whatnot. Granted, if it truly is in a different universe altogether, then I'll ask why did they name it Final Fantasy XIII? Why not Final Fantasy XIV, or an entirely different game altogether? Is it in some way not up to par enough to be called a full-fledged Final Fantasy, or what? A marketing techinique perhaps, but I highly doubt thats all there is to the story, and I believe that in the end the game will be considered a spinoff, because it is not following the events of Final Fantasy XIII itself, thus bearing its same name but not being a sequel, it is a spin-off.