Glad to see vsXIII hasn't been shit-canned. Looked like a true return to form...and I honestly think this will in many was be comparable to Final Fantasy VII, at least in story and aesthetics.

A nice change of pace from the RPG-on-Rails XIII.

Really ?

Versus looks totally like an evolution of Crysis Core but nothing like the good ol' VII.

While the "on rails" XIII was trying to re-emulate X. Unless you are talking generally about production values.

trying to emulate X?  sure, trying maybe,but horribly failing at. where are the side quests?  the minigames?  where is the deep and interesting villain?  where's the proper character development?  where's the quality turn based combat?  

FFX was linear, yes, but it wasn't 'on rails', and it actually gave the player freedom to explore and do sidequests.  

If FFVII was made today with todays production values and technology then I think what we've seen of Versus is probably a good indicator of what it would look like (similar to Crisis Core). It has a darker feel to it that's been absent from FF games for a while now.

As for X & XIII, if you list the differences between the games, I think you can see why Runa was referring to XIII as "on rails".

dead and buried in the 90s

Lol. If the progress is so amazing then why aren't you giving any updates or giving any new screenshots/videos? Oh right, you're probably bull-shitting (no offense).

i for one im glad Kotaku did what they did, at least now we are hearing SOMETHING about Versus 13, id bet that we wouldnt know anything right now. I wouldnt be surprised if it was multiplat, at this point i dont think it would matter

There's always TGS to look forward too. Perhaps we'll get some info then.

I hope so at TGS. If it does not show up at this years TGS, I am giving up until next years TGS. Then they will announce a release date for the PS3 on the same day PS4 launches just to mess with us lol.

Yeah but the two games are kinda worlds apart, don't you think ? The same battle system with minor variations has been used to death by Square.

And the much underrated FF XIII battle system introduced something I always highly appreciated in SMT games: strategy.