So?  Didn't Haze came from a very talented team? And yes in fact I would not be surprised that FFXIII will be released before WKC. When was the last time we saw something about it?

I played both FFX and LO for the first time recently and played through them simultaneously and felt that LO was at least its equal and in many ways a superior game (better character development, dialogue etc). I suspect there is a certain element of nostalgia in any statement that says LO pales in comparison to many RPGs of the PS2 generation - afterall expectations have changed massively since then that one cannot reasonably use reviews as a comparison.

I agree but those aren't loading times right? If you really hate those elevator rides their was always fast travel. Those elevator rides were there for a purpose. The radio sometimes gave you new quests.

I can't say for sure, but I think those elevator rides were loading times in disguise. You can't quick travel to the ship, from town(and yes I beat it, but I can't remember names, lol).

That's a big statement. I can't say I agree, but I do respect your opinion, and it almost makes me want to go back and replay the game.

I wish I had a large enough HD to install it, and I would probably purchase it again, but I just can't deal with the battle loads again, lol.

Haze was a game on the PS3, a system that is known for being very hard to develop for and I think Haze could've been a victim of poor programming. WKC, on the other hand has one advantage that Haze didn't, it's being published by the manufacture of the system, in this case, Sony, who unsuprising know a lot more about the PS3's artitechture then third party developers.

EDIT:Look at Uncharted, Resistance 1 and 2, and Ratchet and Clank Future. All four of those games were published by Sony and are AAA games

While you're right for the most part as far as the quality of those games.....just to clarify publisher =/= developer.  Granted that most of the developers of those games are very talented I don't think the publisher of the games (ie: Sony) have a great influence on the developer's work.

Sony don't have any influence on the game design but they can still help Level 5 with the technical stuff like how to program games on the system

I just hope Level5 hired some new writers since Rogue Galaxy. Go check out the Rogue Galaxy review on gametrailers, they go off on Level-5 for making great games with bad stories in that review. I agree. Dragonquest, Dark Cloud 2, and Rogue Galaxy would have been fantastic jrpgs(and DC2 was fantastic), if they would have given us a good narrative.

The stories in their games has improved since Jeanne d'Arc(even if you didn't like the story in the Professor Layton games).