less ridiculous but still hideously overblown.

@dobby

why do you even care

aren't you going to NOT buy FF13 because of one 4 minute song?

Yeah that and horrible uninspired cliche storyline, crap graphics, outdated battle system w/e

I might play it on my hacked 360.

1. So you have played FF13 since you know about the storyline

2. Graphics hailed as one of the best by every media site & people who played the demo, but no don't listen to them dobby

3. roflmao

It's an RPG.

am I the only one who can't stand turn based RPG's that use anything else than a Pokémon-like battle system?

The new "innovative" Active time battle systems are one of the things that scare me away from newer RPGs

They were going somewhere with the FFXII battle system. But they are taking a step back with XIII. It's 2009!

Also, I should probably delete my last post as I am going to get flamed!

You probably are.

But am I'm the only one that can't stand ATB with 3 characters (CT, FF VII/VIII)? 4 is ok, 5 is great (FF IV) and ATB + real-time movement (PE/Vagrant Story) is just awesome, though.
And that is also the reason why I'm not hyped for FFXIII much. The battle system itself. 

It depends, for me. I absolutely love the Tales-battle system, but with many other games it falls short and I just can't enjoy it. Turn-based is pretty good even if it's old, for example I loved Lost Odyssey to death.

I prefer Action, but a well done Turn Based is great. FFXIII battle system looks good to me.

I prefer it when I can just hit an enemy with my sword or shoot them without having a transition into a battle.

It's so annoying especially when you are wandering around the world map and you trigger a battle every five seconds.