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Posted By Shaun K. about 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Relax man. Your game appears to still be coming out after all.
Over the weekend rumors of the cancellation of Final Fantasy Versus XIII began flying fast and furious across the net. Nor is it hard to see why such talk so quickly took hold with such ferocity. After all, Versus XIII was first announced back in 2006 alongside Final Fantasy XIII and while the latter has not only come out but had enough time to produce a sequel, the former does not even have a release date/window. Heck, Versus XIII was not even mentioned, much less shown, at this year’s E3. So concerns of the game turning out to be vaporware or perhaps having its various assess and whatnot being incorporated into whatever Final Fantasy XV ends up being makes a degree sense. Thankfully however, it now seems that the reports of Final Fantasy Versus XIII‘s death have thankfully been greatly exaggerated.
President and Representative Director of Square Enix Yoichi Wada definitively shot down the idea of Versus XIII being canceled today via his personal twitter feed. In the post he commented that the team working on the game had just held their most recent staff meeting. He said the meeting even had included a presentation of the various towns in the game, which he fully expected to impress fans greatly. A rough translation of the full post follows:
So there you have it and Square Enix, Final Fantasy, and action-RPG fans the world over can breath a deep sigh of relief. Admittedly Final Fantasy Versus XIII still does not have even a remote release window and any kind of real details about the game remain scarce at best, but hey, it could worse. It could be much, much worse. Stay tuned to Blistered Thumbs for continuing coverage of all Final Fantasy related news and be sure to share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section below.
Source(s): @yoichiw. http://www.novacrystallis.com.
GOOD. Now announce an XBox Port so that yours truly can buy your product.
Good. FF V XIII is the only Final Fantasy title I’ve looked forward to in a positive way since IX. They’d better not cancel it. Knowing Squeenix, they still might screw it up, but at least the modern-era fantasy setting and the gameplay have potential to be awesome. (I still don’t like the character designs though… Nomura’s designs are still too broody and S&M for my tastes.)
So I’ll eventually get to play as an moody, emotionally-repressed, badass dude with big spiky hair? I mean, in high definition this time? Joy!
Well, that settles it then. Just like when they denied the FF7 rumors a few weeks ago…
Oh man, I never thought a single post would make me so happy. Square Enix, there is hope for you yet.
Scare = scarce.
But yeah.. still not holding my breath. While I’m marginally glad to hear the game does still exist in some fashion, at this rate I’d expect FFXV or StarCraft Ghost to come out long before Versus.
Personally, I’ve gone through the stages of grieving the loss of SquareEnix’s talent and competency long ago. I would almost be relieved to hear the game was canceled so I could let that tiny iota of hope I have die.. then they could shovel out KH3 and bury that series to.
Star craft was announce more than 10 years ago
Yep, and I’d still say it has higher odds of getting released.
I am surprised you are more optimistic towards Blizzard and not Square considering SE has pulled out really good games not necessarily in the console when one of the big ones from Blizzard ended up with DRM
Frankly to say that Squareenix is incompetent when it comes to making games is a bit off, they suck at making Final Fantasy games, the Dragonquest series is still pumping out good games, the biggest problem with FInal Fantasy is that it’s become less about making a good GAME and more about making a pretty STORY (The quality of aforementioned story being dubious at best).
That is the #1 reason I ignore all rumors.
‘You wouldn’t be able to stand from surprise lol’ Did that guy just make a boner joke? Well at least the game isn’t cancelled.
Actually, that’s a pretty bad translation (as far as…readability in English goes, the meaning is pretty much the same). Here’s a slightly better one:
“It seems that someone’s been spreading rumors about Versus being cancelled. Hehe. And yet just today we held a regular meeting about the game. If you were to see the towns and whatnot that were presented to us today, you’d be floored, man. lol”
Team Fortress 2 and Duke Nukem Forever took forever and eventually was written of as Vapourware, but both came out in the end… one was much higher quality than the other, but it got released. Hopefully Versus XIII will come out soon.
Why do I even read anything with the “Rumor” in the title…