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Through the rose-tinted spectacles: Chrono Trigger - Page 6

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NukeTheStars
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States277 Posts
November 14 2011 19:57 GMT
#101
Two words: Campfire scene. It remains, to me, the most moving and thought-provoking sequence in any video game. It actually gets you thinking about the sheer scope of your time travel and what Robo had to go through. Then Lucca's scene right after, ah! So good.

Definitely don't want to ruin it for those of you who haven't played the game. The talk about emulation in this thread makes my skin crawl. Buy it, you cheap mofos. Someone up there mentioned the PS1 version... which sucks. Loading times in my Chrono Trigger? BAH! The DS version is the definitive version, because it has all the cutscenes and everything. It's worth buying a DSi just to play this game. Seriously.
Sindriss
Profile Joined May 2010
Denmark263 Posts
November 14 2011 20:09 GMT
#102
On November 15 2011 03:22 Masq wrote:
chrono trigger is awesome, now you need to do a FF3 write up


this this this
Neurosis
Profile Joined October 2010
United States893 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-14 20:28:46
November 14 2011 20:28 GMT
#103
Chrono Trigger is definitely a classic. Also +1 for bringing up Planescape Torment. That is pretty much the greatest single player rpg ever made.
EerieNewb
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Poland73 Posts
November 14 2011 20:32 GMT
#104
Damn, long time ago I played a bit through this game, now I'll have to go back and finish, ty for minus ~60 hours of my life
.
nitram
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Canada5412 Posts
November 14 2011 20:34 GMT
#105
I love this game
These sites might be of more use than a StarCraft site, where the majority of posters look on WCIII as the dense misformed fetus produced during Blizzards latest miscarrige.
Crilljin
Profile Joined September 2011
Sweden4 Posts
November 14 2011 20:36 GMT
#106
Fantastic post, well-written and entertaining. I love Chrono Trigger, but personally FFVI holds an ever so slightly more beloved place in my heart.

I certainly agree with the people who requested an FFVI write-up, that is if your passion for that matches your love for Chrono Trigger :-).
ChApFoU
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
France2982 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-14 20:46:10
November 14 2011 20:44 GMT
#107
I recently replayed that game emulated on my cellphone and it really has a solid shot at being the best RPG ever. The OP is dead on when he says that what makes this game still incredibly enjoyable as a grown man is it's absence of pseudo-romantic teenage bullshit and having to incarnate either a social retard (FF8) or a total douchebag (FF9, FF10). It is childish, but in a good way, like a Miyasaki anime.

sitenote : the fighting/exp system rules, the character design rules (Toriyama), the music rules and you can go on and on like that.

It had a sequel named Chrono Cross on PSX which was a pretty damn good RPG but nowhere near as good as CT.
"I honestly think that whoever invented toilet paper in a genius" Kang Min
akari
Profile Joined June 2011
United States65 Posts
November 14 2011 20:44 GMT
#108
I just played this game for the first time recently, so it doesn't really have the nostalgia factor for me as it does for many people, but I must say I still really enjoyed it anyway.

Oh, and: best video game music ever.
When I say Korean, I mean plays on the Korean server. I don't care what you think it is, that's what I mean when I say it.
Khalum
Profile Joined September 2010
Austria831 Posts
November 14 2011 20:46 GMT
#109
Okay god damn it, getting out the snes emulator right now.
Boundz(DarKo)
Profile Joined March 2009
5311 Posts
November 14 2011 20:52 GMT
#110
OMG this is so amazing, I just started playing CT again, but on the Wii this time.

Thanks for a great read!
gabbegubbe
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden67 Posts
November 14 2011 20:55 GMT
#111
Reminds me that I need to pick this classic up somewhere. Played it on an emulator back in the 90's (wasn't released in eu). Guess I'll have to go for the DS version or the imported PS1 version. The NTSC SNES cartridge is way to expensive.
GosuNinja
Profile Joined July 2011
United States127 Posts
November 14 2011 20:58 GMT
#112
hmmmm.. ive never actually heard about this game, but after reading what you guys have to say it seems like i should go buy it right now.
RageBot
Profile Joined November 2010
Israel1530 Posts
November 14 2011 21:04 GMT
#113
Play Xenogears.
Neurosis
Profile Joined October 2010
United States893 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-14 21:10:17
November 14 2011 21:10 GMT
#114
On November 15 2011 06:04 RageBot wrote:
Play Xenogears.


It's too emo imo.
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3615 Posts
November 14 2011 21:13 GMT
#115
OMG WHY NO SPOILERS
lol j/k, I absolutely loved this game, and I only played through it a year or two ago. There aren't many games I enjoy nearly as much.
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
November 14 2011 21:15 GMT
#116
Good lord you are the biggest Chrono Trigger fan I could conceive of existing. 5/5 for inhuman levels of dedication.
"How are you?" "I am fine, because it is not normal to scream in pain."
UniversalSnip
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
9871 Posts
November 14 2011 21:17 GMT
#117
On November 14 2011 18:51 Aylear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 14 2011 17:35 ZaplinG wrote:
ever play chrono cross?

Alas, no! Which is strange, I guess, but I just never got around to. It seems to be alternately loved or hated by fans of CT, though. What did you think of it?


Show nested quote +
On November 14 2011 17:50 MrHoon wrote:
up to this day, there has never been a game music more memorable to me than the 500 ad overworld song

I've met some people who disliked Chrono Trigger, but I have yet met one man or woman who claimed Chrono Trigger had bad music.

Same here. The soundtrack is just that phenomenal!


Show nested quote +
On November 14 2011 18:36 UniversalSnip wrote:
I might ask the same question of you. I mean, the whole theme of your review is how inexplicably good this game is despite these things. I guess that's not what you actually think, it's just a literary pose, so I won't argue with you anymore.

If you think that, then I failed in my writing and I should work on that. My point was that the game is really good despite incidentally having elements that are typically a solid indication of it being crap. Moreover, logic failure is always a good way to take me out of the game, read:

"Without the nostalgia goggles, Chrono Trigger is a Japanese RPG about teenagers saving the world. They pose their way through danger, acquire magic powers from a Furby, bring hope to the people of a dying future through sheer unbridled optimism, and battle an eldritch abomination. Oh, and the main character is a mute."

and

"Still, in the case of Chrono Trigger, it's not about horrible characterization, never-ending ineptitude, or characters being obviously superfluous to the story. It's just that at no point in the game does the Old Man at the End of Time go, "You know what? This is getting a little too rough for you kids. Maybe we should find some ancient cyborg ninjas to battle the endless minions of evil. I mean, this is the fate of the entire world we're talking about, right? Hell, the mental stress alone must be overwhelming!""

That was the point. And then I made the point that, while I logically have a problem with this, it didn't detract from the experience for me, be it because of nostalgia or because the characters are simply entertaining (which I claimed, going against your argument that I think these elements are always horrible).

The tirade against Final Fantasy was because of the horrible characterization, endless logic failures, and all the other stuff I complained about in my retrospective.

If you took something else from it, sufficient to attack me out of an erroneous belief that I think these elements are always terrible (they aren't, but it heavily depends on the genre), then you either misread or I was unclear.


Only reason I can think of for you to take this so personally is that you misunderstood me... which the rest of your post backs up. So there we go.

My point was that the game is really good despite incidentally having elements that are typically a solid indication of it being crap.


It's like, this is repeating exactly what I said.
"How fucking dare you defile the sanctity of DotA with your fucking casual plebian terminology? May the curse of Gaben and Volvo be upon you. le filthy casual."
Gary Oak
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada2381 Posts
November 14 2011 21:19 GMT
#118
Loved it. Fantastic work as usual, Cane.
[14:15] <+Skrammen> I like clicking Gary's links, kinda. Its like playing with lava.
hacky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States63 Posts
November 14 2011 21:22 GMT
#119
5/5, would like, +1, RT, and everything else.
http://raptr.com/hacky
Pvvned
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States405 Posts
November 14 2011 21:31 GMT
#120
Instant 5/5

I was late to the party in my little group of friends regarding CT. They had all played it way before I even found out about it.

Needless to say, it was an incredible RPG despite how simplistic it was.
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