I'm sure he's referring to the fact that it lacks almost the entirity of the staff responsible for developing the vast majority of that series. I guess it depends on what you think defines the franchise more... the people who made it or the name attached to it.

I could have sworn that it was made by the same staff as X, certainly the same lead men

But the makers of Final Fantasy 13 compose of the majority of people who made Final Fantasy X.

lol, what?  I've never had any such issues.  That sucks for you dude.

It's much closer to X in staff than any of the games before X at least. It has 2 of the 3 designers of X, a different writer, and the composer Uematsu dumped the last 1/4 of X's music on after he got bored with it is the main composer for this game.

Beating Lost Odyssey shouldn't be too much of a problem. Heck, they wouldn't even have to try too hard to beat Lost Odyssey.

I think Final Fantasy XIII will beat Lost Odyssey in every category, with a strong win in the most important category by far (gameplay). I look forward to it.

It's impossible to play Lost Odyssey without those issues, even installed. I didn't say the FR dropped to 2, but it falls to 20 or lower fairly regularly, and if you didn't see screen tearing then you don't know what it is.

Not everyone notices, cares about, or is tech saavy enoguh to see technical issues when they play a game. I personal am not too bothered by them in a game like LO, but I definitely see them.

Where are you getting this info from? These are the makers of FFXIII

"Final Fantasy XIII is made by Square Enix Production Team 1 (led by Yoshinori Kitase), meaning that the development team will look more like it did when Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 were made, rather than Final Fantasy XII. Several of the game's developers have worked on previous installments of the series. Yoshinori Kitase, director of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII and producer of Final Fantasy X and Dissidia: Final Fantasy among others, will once again return as producer for the game. Motomu Toriyama, director of Final Fantasy X-2 and director and scenario writer of Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, will direct the game and write the story. Eiji Fujii, previously the movie director of Final Fantasy XII, will return in this position. Isamu Kamikokuryō, previously the co-art director of Final Fantasy XII, will return as well, with Tetsu Tsukamoto designing the weapons. The main programmers will be Kazumi Kobayashi and Yoshiki Kashitani. Occasionally, developers from Final Fantasy Versus XIII assisted with the development of Final Fantasy XIII. Final Fantasy X's battle director Toshiro Tsuchida will return as the battle system director for the game."

This is from Wikipedia. This game will be made by nobody else but the people who made the previous FF games.

Characters: Final Fantasy XIII
Story: Final Fantasy XIII
Music: Tie
Gameplay: Final Fantasy XIII
Style (atmosphere/setting/feel of the game):Lost Odyssey
Overall: Final Fantasy XIII


This is huge expectations as I absolutely loved Lost Odyssey.

From the same wikipedia page that you didn't bother reading...

FFX

Designer(s) Motomu Toriyama
Takayoshi Nakazato
Toshiro Tsuchida

Writer(s) Kazushige Nojima

Artist(s) Tetsuya Nomura
Yusuke Naora

Composer(s) Nobuo Uematsu
Masashi Hamauzu
Junya Nakano

It's exactly as I said. Two of the designers are on FFXIII, the writer for FFXIII is different (toriyama is doing it), one of the two artists is present, and the composer is Hamauzu, who wrote up the 4 or 5 songs in FFX that Uematsu didn't do.

You really need to chill out. Don't pop a vein about anything that could possibly negatively impact FFXIII.