*collapses* "- RUMOR: IGNPS2 reported that Square Enix will release the US version of Final Fantasy XII for PS2 on February 14, 2005, this is not confirmed by Square Enix." From Magicbox

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't think this is true, but it would be a gigantic surprise. Completely uncharacteristic of Square to release a Final Fantasy game without 6 months of hype behind it. Either way, Square dropped the ugly Roman numeral thing for FF12 (unless that's changed), I wish these videogame sites would too.</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, it WAS at E3 and it IS Final Fantasy, what more hype do you need?</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>43,000 screenshots, released music samples, movies progressively getting more interested released every 3-5 weeks, trickling of news on various features and clarifications, and minor plot details.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Square hasn't hyped each FF equally; FF7 and FF10 both got more hype than FF8, FF9 and FF11. I think they tend to hype the first FF for a console, since it's the most dramatic change from the previous one.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Pretty much.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Yep.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Aye. I was thinking the same thing for a while, but an exception is FF3e. This is another exception, primarily because it's gone through enough changes from FF10 that FF3e had with FF2e.</div>

[M'k'n'zy]

<div style='font: 9pt "copperplate gothic light"; text-align: left; '>Another reason I kinda doubt the validity on that is that SquareEnix is extremly pissed at Sony right now due to the new PS2's not supporting the hard drive...its a punch in the face to square.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Why should they? Only one game uses them and they are an added expense to the system.</div>