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Posted on 8/17/16 at 6:28 pm to
Posted by MFn GIMP
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Posted on 8/17/16 at 6:28 pm to
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GOAT


Greatest RPG all time

Greatest game all time


Is this a thread about Final Fantasy IX?

Chrono Trigger is easily top 5 though.
Posted by Broseph Barksdale
Member since Sep 2010
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Posted on 8/17/16 at 7:01 pm to
What an amazing game. It was my GOAT forever and is easily in my top 5.

Magus is such an awesome character. That was my dude in the early teen years. Dark Matter son.
Posted by ZacAttack
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Posted on 8/17/16 at 9:44 pm to
GOAT
Posted by Freauxzen
Washington
Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 8/17/16 at 10:25 pm to
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If you enjoy Chrono Trigger, you should look into I Am Setsuna (PC and PS4). It's modeled a lot after CT and a throwback to old school JRPGs.


Noted. Thanks for the tip.
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 1:22 am to
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Magus is such an awesome character


Were I to pick a favorite character, it would be the frog *name redacted for spoilers*.

Tons of moving back stories.

I failed with Lucca's mom on so many play throughs.
Posted by oauron
Birmingham, AL
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 2:07 am to
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Noted. Thanks for the tip.


Square opened up a new studio with the sole purpose of making older styled RPGs. I hope you enjoy it.
Posted by Broseph Barksdale
Member since Sep 2010
10571 posts
Posted on 8/18/16 at 7:16 am to
Frog's story was amazing also.

I think 400AD was the best part of the game, if for nothing else Frog's theme and the overworld theme.

Sure wish we'd get Chrino Break....it'd do ridiculous sales. The Chrono nostalgia is strong.
Posted by musick
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 7:49 am to
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Greatest RPG all time Greatest game all time
Posted by musick
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 7:51 am to
Also to note the character designer was Akira Toriyama of DBZ fame. The character designs and the story and gameplay make this one of my favorite all time games.

Chrono Cross is great as well, I wish square would crawl out of their own arse and revive this series.
Posted by musick
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 7:54 am to
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Coming from someone who has never played it before, what would be the ideal console or handheld to purchase it for?


Ideally, play it on a SNES or SNES emulator. The playstation version added FMV videos, but has terrible load times.

If nintendo has it on a VC that's probably a good way to go as well.
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 7:56 am to
We need a true sequel.

Chrono Cross was a decent game, but the story was super confusing, iirc. I can remember bits of that story, but remember pretty much all of Trigger.

Need a game that maybe starts in the antiquity era of Zeal? Do a whole magical timecop?

Or maybe start in the Proto Dome, find a time machine and try to change the past yourself. . .to disastrous result?

Chrono Cross' story felt more like FFVIII and FFIX, where at the end you are scratching your head, going "uhhhh, well alright."
Posted by Freauxzen
Washington
Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 8:09 am to
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Were I to pick a favorite character, it would be the frog *name redacted for spoilers*.

Tons of moving back stories.

I failed with Lucca's mom on so many play throughs.


Every character was kind of amazing. Frog is clearly the best, Magus was great, Robo's story had a nice dose of sadness that worked.
Posted by Broseph Barksdale
Member since Sep 2010
10571 posts
Posted on 8/18/16 at 8:13 am to
Chrono Cross had IMO the best score of any game ever, so there's that. I'm also an enormous sucker for tropical locales. There were some great characters and the game play was fun (could have used way more double/triple techs).

But yeah, that story. Yeesh.

I really want to see them do the next game. I mean the story and protagonist write themselves (Schala looking for Serge, Magus looking for Schala across worlds).
Posted by goldennugget
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Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 8:33 am to
Guess I have to be the contrarian here and say that this game was Meh

Tried to like it, tried to enjoy it, but I thought it was just average

On the flipside, I loved Earthbound and Super Mario RPG though.

I guess Chrono Trigger wasn't my style.
Posted by Mystery
Member since Jan 2009
9098 posts
Posted on 8/18/16 at 8:41 am to
First of all yes, this game is in my top 10 JRPG for sure.

quote:

Coming from someone who has never played it before, what would be the ideal console or handheld to purchase it for?


The DS version is the best. It has all the added features of the playstation port without the issues. It also has an updated more accurate translation.

The SNES version is still really good, and some will argue it is the best because of nostalgia of the original translation.

You can't go wrong with either. Just stay away from the playstation one. As the loading times are pretty bad if you have ever played the other versions.
This post was edited on 8/18/16 at 8:42 am
Posted by The Dudes Rug
Member since Nov 2004
14080 posts
Posted on 8/18/16 at 8:50 am to
600 AD theme, "wind scene", is such a good track.
Posted by The Dudes Rug
Member since Nov 2004
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Posted on 8/18/16 at 8:54 am to
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Chrono Cross was a decent game, but the story was super confusing

Chrono Cross looked awesome and had an amazing soundtrack. The main reason I did not like it as much is because you have 9,000 characters to pick from. When an RPG has a ton of characters, you fail to get "attached" to them.

I really wasn't a big fan of the battle system either. I beat the game without fully understanding how to manipulate the elements/field, which probably made it more difficult for me.
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
78480 posts
Posted on 8/18/16 at 9:54 am to
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I Am Setsuna
Started playing this last night. Like it so far.
Posted by Mystery
Member since Jan 2009
9098 posts
Posted on 8/18/16 at 9:54 am to
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I Am Setsuna

Started playing this last night. Like it so far.


Okay game. I beat it last week. Please don't expect anything remotely close to as good as Chrono Trigger.
Posted by Scruffy
Kansas City
Member since Jul 2011
78480 posts
Posted on 8/18/16 at 10:11 am to
No problem there. I've never played Chrono Trigger.

I was going to, but I don't have the classic Wii remote and I can't play it with the Wii U game pad.
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