guys versus xiii, has already got an over world, towns ans they made an actual working airship for the over world lol, if anything it is returning everything that all us original FF fans have been asking for, now the battles will be action based like in KH, so this really will be the ultimate FF it it keeps to this formula:)
As for FF XIII, can all the haters stop it now already, I think we all should reserve our judgment until we play on the game, there is some amazing feedback coming from gamers despite all the negative things said here, so I am sure that FF XIII will still be great ok.

Is there no one else who thinks having no towns could actually be a good thing? :(.

Shitiest excuse ever. I'm sure I made the right choice preordering White Knight Chronicles instead of Final Fantasy XIII.

13 sucks!!!!

I hate this number!

I really enjoy towns in RPG's. This gen Fallout 3, Dragon Age or Mass Effect have been excellent at showing living, breathing cities with loads of interesting characters. Shame that SE simply ignored that , because it could've added extra depth to the game. Cities were prominent in Lost Odyssey and they were done ok (not as deep as in WRPG's). So i really think they were just lazy

Was reading that the site that translated this can't be trusted. Apparently they have spewed false mis-translations before out of spite against the game. People over at FF-XIII.net are saying this. and they have irriterated that there ARE towns in the game on the scale of FF X.

Well what do you know.... They said it! Probably that's what they meant when they said removed contents which was enough to make a full game.

Kinda makes sense.

What FF13 has no towns, what kind of crap is that?!.... I may not buy the game after all then!!

I'm afraid it's too late, Wagram. People have already made up their minds. Even when the game comes out and people finally see that there are towns... well, they will probably complain about something else.

'Cause even though they haven's still played FFXIII, it's already a disappointment.

Where the hell did people get this idea? People keep saying it has FFX towns because they saw someone else say it has FFX towns who saw someone else say it had FFX towns, etc. This idea has spread like wildfire among apologists, and it's completely false. I've got two friends with import copies of the game and it doesn't even come close. FFX, already, had less towns than most FF games, but still had half a dozen places to enter, shop, interact, and complete sidequests. Such a place does not exist at all in Final Fantasy XIII. Towns are static and linear entities in the game. Just a place to pass through on the way to the next cutscene. You cannot explore, you cannot shop, and you cannot complete sidequests in them. This is a blatant lie. 

This is a city in Final Fantasy XIII

http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/final-fantasy-xiii-city/337279

It is a husk. A path on the way to the plot. There is no interaction here, and it's not what people are talking about whent hey ask for towns in Final Fantasy. If you don't care there are no cities, fine, but don't lie to the people who do care. So stop spreading the FFXIII = FFX bullshit. It's not true.