Yes... but still no Shemue 3 :(

Nice,not to forget bin laden got killed,Syria civil war,... :D JK .let's not forget that some games took too long time and result was disappointing such as Duke Nukem Forever. So longer doesn't mean better always. Maybe they are worried about the sale and money ? In that case release it on X360,WII U,PC,PSP,... as well but just release it. I highly doubt if it's cancelled,even if it's cancelled they can't simply announce it,because FFXIII wasn't good enough,so if they cancel this one too you can only imagine the reaction of fans.let's just hope for one last time that it will be released and let's hope 2013 will be the end of this long wait,but more importantly let's hope it's a great game,better than XIII at least.

Dr. Dre must be producing it's music score

What pisses me off is that i bought XIII(piece of crap) because they decided not to release Versus at the same time as it was supposed to be, so i used the money i had reserved for versus in XIII at launch.

And since then they've released a sequel to that piece of crap and are planing to release another sequel and have yet to release the game that i wanted in the first place Versu XIII.

They've fooled me into buying XIII the first time, didn't fooled me twice with XIII-2(even more piece of crap than the first)  but fooled my friend, we are not getting fooled by this new sequel now.

It pisses me off that they are investing they're time in sequels for XIII and not finish the product they've told us about seven freaking years ago, that they claim is not dead. After all this wait they better not cancel that game, after 7 years of wait and they still giving us hope that the game is going to be released, if they crush that hope that has carried on for 7 years it is gonna be VERY difficult to trust them ever again. 

Well, they can't cancel it, if they cancelled it could you imagine how people would react to that? If they spend too much longer though the impatient ones will get fed up and quit caring for it, but if they rush it and It's bad people will hate it!  Problems, so many problems..

My theory: They're not sure about their own game anymore since we've put so much pressure on them since FFXIII. People are like "if versus xiii turns out to be shitty like xiii, that's it I'm done with Square Enix", so of course, being afraid to lose a major part of their original fanbase, they would do everything in their power to make this game meet up to the expectations.

Now, I've read that Lightning Returns (release in 2013?) will use a HUGE CHUNK of the same game mechanics as versus XIII. Supposably it will feature a same kind of battle system and a bunch of other stuff similar to versus. So reading of this and putting the pieces together in my tiny little head, I've come to realise that (again just a theory) they are actually testing versus XIII with lightning returns. They want to know if it'll work, what would the critics make of it and how would the people handle it. And all this ONLY BECAUSE they are under so much pressure, that they want to be sure before releasing it.

Should I be right, we won't be hearing from versus xiii before lighting returns's release, and should so happen that lighting returns is dummed down by critics and fans, we won't yet be hearing of Final Fantasy Versus XIII in a looooooooooooooooong time.

GT5 finally got its release after 6 years!

It's gotten to the point where I don't really care whether this game comes out or not. When I first saw footage of it back when it was first announced, I was pretty excited. Nowadays I almost refuse to acknowledge its existence.

I guess that's the price of trying to expand outside of their comfort zone by buying out companies such as Io, Eidos, Crystal Dynamics, and more. You lose a sense of direction because you're basically firing at all cylinders with well-known IPs like Deus Ex and Tomb Raider (and recently, saving Sleeping Dogs from being cancelled altogether). Eventually, even projects like Versus XIII (or even the possibility of a FFVII remake, which I think is a waste of everyone's time anyway) gets put aside. I mean, there's nothing wrong with expanding; I feel Square Enix expanded a little too much, and they're just putting their people all over the place and don't know how to keep everything stable.

And idk, I have mixed feelings as to how Versus XIII is going to turn out (IF it's actually in development as they have stated). I played XIII-2 and wow, what a disappointment that was, so I'm skeptical more than interested because of it. But hey, maybe Versus XIII will actually be worth the wait with fun combat, actually likable characters with little to no melodrama, and an engaging story. Who knows? The only problem is I just don't care anymore.

It is the new Duke Nukem Forever imo

Suggesting Square Enix to flush out 7 years of progress, time and resources spent is a ridiculous demand, I believe this will be the best Final Fantasy of all time and one of the best if not the greatest game of this generation, I know that this is a bizarre judgement but Tetsuya Nomura has delivered perfection before and i'm sure with 8 years he can do it again then he will finally be able to make progress on the long awaited Kingdom Hearts 3 which would definitely have to come out next gen

You lost me at "Barack Obama..."

KH games were good but we've had enough of silly characters. Put its combat system in Versus along with a good story and everyone will be happy. And i hope SE just forget XIII. It was a bad game, then they made a even worse game to correct things now we will get another. Less than 8 years we got 3 ff XIII and no Versus.

I would be happy just to see Kingdom Hearts 3, Final Fantasy was ruined for me when they released Final Fantasy XIII i would go as far to say that i enjoyed Final Fantasy X-2 and was a better game than XIII yeah i said that and what 

I say cancel and begin KH3, will be much better anyways.

Taking longer to develop than each World War. I wonder if anyone in the gaming press has ever sat down with the people in charge of SquareEnix and asked them "Why? Why Lighning? Why is she SO important that she needs three games to tell her story?"

now, which comes first? Half Life 3 or Final Fantasy Versus XIII?

You know a company is pretty much dead when the best they have done in years is a rhythm spin-off game on a portable system.

i really hope they announce a release date and show us some new footage at the next E3

Square-Enix is not even a mere shadow of Squaresoft. That explains it all. Period!

Ah yes i still remember i was a 360 player back then and got really happy when they announced FF XIII for the x-box

Then some PS3 fanboy came shouting "AH you can have it we are still getting FF versus XIII as exclusive thats the real deal HAHAHAHA"

So i padded him on the back and told him to have fun with it (guess he is still waiting)

I was never a fanboy i own both consoles now because i love RPG games, but this delay is getting insane.

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I believe they are planning on releasing it on the the PS4, possibly even a launch title. That explains the lengthy wait, probably had the game on schedule then decided it would be best to wait for next gen.

Thats because square has gone from making few but amazingly brilliant games to chugging out mediocre stuff like FFXIII and its sequels assembly line-style. Sad as it is to say, square isnt what it once was, and final fantasy might never again rise to the quality that the earlier games in the series are remembered for.

There is truth in the rant that I am sure most share outwardly or are at least agreeing to this on the inside (e.g. me) but at the end of the day, if we get it, we get it, if we don't, we don't. Just chill and go back to forgetting about it. SqaureEnix will remind us when the time is right. There is obviously a resource problem in the company. I'd rather they kept releasing games albeit slowly, one at a time than all games taking several years to come out. 

Whilst I was looking forward to the release of Versus XIII, I'm not holding my breath now. When XIII came out I wasn't crazily disappointed with it like so many others were, it was a great game but just not as great as other installments. With that being said I just can't understand the over hype Versus XIII has garnered in the wake of the mediocre reception of XIII and subsequently XIII-2. One of the biggest gripes I heard and read about XIII (besides being linear) was the battle system being 'dumb', 'simple' and needing a return to turn based combat.The combat shown in what little of Versus XIII that has been shown seems to be the direct opposite of the old battle style these people want. In fact the whole game doesn't look Final Fantasy, it looks like Kingdom Hearts. Whilst I hope this does well if it ever comes out, I feel that people expectations will crush and I believe that Square-Enix is scared of that and wouldn't be surprised if that is a contributing factor it's inactivity. Final Fantasy: Vaporware XIII.

I still can't see why anybody would be looking forward to Versus XIII when XIII on its own was so terrible. I usually tend not to regret purchases at all, but that has been one of the few that has stuck with me. Such potential to fall so flat on its face right from the get-go.

I definitely agree that they should be making some progress with the game - and give the fans at least some kind of clues from time to time what's going on, and of course, when. I still would like to see the game someday, 'specially after waiting for so long :P I still can't believe they made the fourteenth installment before even finishing up with the thirteenth. -sigh-

Yeah at least when they finish Versus XIII, they can finally start development on Kingdom Hearts III but i doubt we'll ever see that game until 2025.

not to mention that over this time period, several KH games were released, three 007 movies came out, the end and resurrection of Halo, and the fall of MegaMan.

It seems like Square Enix is just spreading itself too thin these days. They've bought up a number of Western development studios to broaden their catalogue, they've may efforts distribute Western games in Japan (I believe they published Black Ops II in Japan), and their working on numerous projects at once. I know gaming is a business, but spreading resources too thin causes all productions to suffer as a result.

Thing is: it seems that this has caused quality to suffer. The XIII games thus far have been met with generally lukewarm reactions. I don't know if the same team is responsible for all the games in this subset of the franchise, but if that is the case...it's time for some new blood. They can't expect a team whose ideas haven't been embraced by the community to sudden strike gold. Blaming the community for "not getting" said ideas isn't helping either.

Worse still: all these XIII games are partially to blame for Versus XIII's delay. They keep pulling staff from a project that has already been long in development, and all we fans see is another game we didn't ask for while nothing of the one we've been waiting for.

My first reaction to the announcement of Lighting Returns?

"Great. Another few years added to the wait for Versus and Kingdom Hearts III. Hope the Playstation 4 isn't as expensive as the PS3 at launch."