So since they finished a small slice of the game that means they're almost finished with the entire game?  Games aren't made all at once, they are made in milestones and often times even have something called a vertical slice (it also goes by other names).

Milestones

For the milestones, it isn't always x part of gameplay has to be finished, sometimes it's also things like levels 1-6 must be shippable quality while levels 7-12 are still being worked on.

By that, about 50% of the game would be done and there is more than likely a demo candidate in that first half of the game.

Vertical Slice

A vertical slice is generally the first level that gets made (not always the first level).  That level is made by a small core group and is used as the bar to measure the quality of the rest of the game.  That level is made is shippable or near shippable quality and then you use that level to decide if every other level is good enough.

From that, you have an obvious demo if the vertical slice was an early piece of the level.

^ did you just let a secret identity slip?

well as this gen has gone I'm willing to trust this random 65% stat as won't be seeing FF13 in japan this year over SE telling us that the game is gonna be out in 2009 (and how long ago was that?)

2009 is super broad, and any time I hear just a year as a release date I automatically assume the next year.  And as for us, why do we car eand bitch about this so much, we have liek a year longer to wait for localization anyway.  So sorry if i'm not super pissed or hyped for this game that I won't get to play till holiday 10' at earliest imo.

I mean jeez some of you guys take final fantasy like your a little girl looking forward to your wedding.  i prefer to take the mans route in the wedding, let the girl (developers) do all the work and I just show up on the date and marry the girl (buy the game)

^ not to mention nomura is the vs guy and a 13 guy said they were 80% done in sept

Well, if we talk only about Japan then that's true, but worldwide is Square - FF and Capcom - RE

I believe this 65% info. There are a lot of people speaking japanese at neogaf and all the info from Japan gets there as soon as it's available.

But the game takes that long not because Square are "slow". The programmers and designers working on both games are all the same people who made FFX and KH, including Ken Narita, the lead programmer of FF since FFIV. They didnt just become "slow" all of a sudden.

For some reason this fact is being ignored all around, but making an impressive looking and polished 40 hour long game is much harder than making an impressive looking 6-12 hour long game we are used to this gen.

At this point, that is a terrible percentage.

maybe they ment the demo was 65% done. Or the demo we play is going to be 65% through the game? Lol

This is just PR.

And the fact that so much is done in that last push is why I would think it's so hard.

Wow this game semms so far away.