I personally thought VIII, IX and X were the best of the series to date, XII was great for the Hunts i must agree but i still have my reservations about the quality of XIII and VXIII but here's hoping that they will turn out to be just as good as the brilliant FF games!

The Dev teams that did TLR and IU are not the top class Dev teams like those led by Kitase and Nomura.

Also, if you want to view FFXII as a disappointment, that wasn't Kitase or Nomura either as that was Hiroyuki Ito and Hiroshi Minagawa. (it was originally supposed to be Matsuno) But I liked FFXII anyway...

Worse than runescape? Such a game exists?

Does anyone know who is the scenario writer for the two games? I wish it was Nojima, but he went freelance after FFX-2. Although he still did the writing for KH:CoM, KH2 and Crisis Core.

It likely isn't Watanabe as he is doing the 3 KH spin-offs.

I'm worried about the direction they've been going, too, but these are the games that are the most likely to be good. Besides, FFX was excellent, X-2 was decent, apparently XI wasn't a bad MMORPG, XII was good except for the story. So much for your arguments as they're all opinions and the majority (including reviewers) seem to think otherwise.

Square fucked up so bad because they took the path of microsoft.

Sounds very trollish, but it's only true.

BUT i still have faith for FFXIII and versus.

FFX was one of the best games I have played.

I think at least XIII will be an AAA game. You cannot underestimate FF's fanbase.

Tri-Ace is usually hit and miss and Last Remnant was there first attempt at the unreal engine.  Mistwalker had problems with the engine as well when they made Lost Odyssey.

The Final Fantasy games are always top notch and are never rushed to production like some of there other titles have in the past.

I disagree about FFX as that, in my opinion is one of the greatest games ever made (other than the voice acting) i didnt really like XII but that was made by a different development team than the ones making XIII and VS. XIII (and dont forget Agito!) I have no doubt that with the time they are taking to make the games, and with who is behind making them that these will be some amazing games

Except back in the SNES and the PS1 eras, Japanese developed games were the best games out there.  Western games have surpassed Japanese games in several ways.  10 years ago, JRPGs was considered to have some of the best storytelling of any genre.  Now, many feel that a lot of the stories in JRPGs are carbon copies of past JRPG stories.  You will be suprised by the fact that Western developers have surpassed Japanese developers when it comes to storytelling(some exceptions aside) despite the fact that Western developers used to think stories were unnessessary in games.