Quote Originally Posted by DMKA View Post
Yeah, I hope it means the game is nearing completion. Then again the complete lack of any new material, footage, promotional images or anything, would be incredible strange for a video game nearing it's completion.

SE does such weird things these days nothing would surprise me.

Quote Originally Posted by Nate View Post
This is starting to look like vaporware. 8 years? This should have been released on the PS3.

I'm going to try to be optimistic and hope that they get this product out the door. Between this and a million non-sequels, I'm beginning to think Square Enix has lost the ability to tell a compelling story. Maybe they should dump some money into that, and build a game around it.
I have no doubt the game will come out eventually (the fact that they turned it into a main series entry pretty much guarantees that) but how all these delays and radical changes in development over such a long span of time will affect the final product is anyone's guess.

I don't think their inability to tell a compelling story is really the problem so much as it is the corporate overlords in the company and the batty loons who get the final say over the direction of these games.
That's a solid point. Corporate interference in the direction of these games really doesn't help. There was an article on Cracked.com from someone in the industry that talked about how the CEO's make the decisions, and it's causing issues. Maybe it's why designers and programmers leave to found little indie units where top-down influence isn't as prevalent.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20727...-to-crash.html