FFXIII had a terrible story, and bad writing, but solid character concepts. If they could just get their story concepts as good as X, their writing as good as XII, and their characters as good as XIII... all at once, they'd have a KILLER game.
No, not gonna happen. Just wait for some random J-Pop stuff with pretty graphics and maybe a nice battle system for your expectations and you just might not get angry or disappointed when the game is released.
...or you just could play Uncharted and Mass Effect 3 by the end of the year. ;)
Also, I can't take seriously characters that looks like this:

Besides, Deus Ex 3 looks better than XIII-2 and Versus combined.
FFXIII didn't have random battles ;-)
Who cares, I just want to jump through that window and I know that is going to be
great.