I only own infamous and kz3 so dont take it to harshly lol

so much greatness in these pics. Cannot wait any longer.

I bet you guys thought I was going to come in here and hate, right? Wrong! I'm actually looking forward to FFXIII-2  

I am underwhelmed by the screens because the battle system ,to be honest, looks more of the same. However I truly believe squeenix will address the lack of exploration and weak battle system in the sequel eventually. Too many people complained about those for it to be ignored.

The more I look at the screen, the more reality sinks in and tells me it's going to be the same dreadful system. As much as it tortures my soul to say it, I could turn a blind eye on the poor battle system if they decide to keep it the same. As long as they throw in some rich exploration. Believe it or not, I did get to Gran Pulse in the original because I was promised side quests. And when I realized the sidequest were more battles (something I impatiently grew sick of for at least 30 hours) I finally threw in the towel.

I really tried to like the game, I genuinely did.

Looks great! Now a new trailer please!

OH MY GAAAAAAAWD!

This will be me when I'm unboxing the collectors edition!

After scouring more forums and their speculation I have copied n pastes some here.

It seems being able to change characters may be there.

Noel is attacking in the game but on the health bar side he is below Serah while in XIII the leader was always at the top of the health bar. 

Next there seems to be no stagger bar at the moment, either thats because its very early in the game (but XIII's first enemy had a stagger bar) or its not there anymore....if this is true the entire idea of the whole battle system changes as the point was to change paradigms, build up the stagger bar and then do massive damage.

The "count 2" thingy that popped up may be a combo done with other characters in your team if you time your attacks...but this isn't possible unless you control more than one character in a wait type battle system.

Finally the icon with the blue sword could indicate an elemental attached to a weapon or class type....can't assume any more

Thats as much speculation as can be done from these screens which have conjured up more questions than they answered about the battle system.

The stagger meter was very important to the whole concept of the battle system so it would be a disappointment to see it go but I trust them too much to be worried!

One thing that they NEED to keep is that inactive party members still gain EXP.

jo sauce be 404 mon