I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.

Fight the same series of wimps in the forect for an hour or two? I DON'T THINK SO. I think I'll BEAT THE GAME 3 times.
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On one hand, I'm feeling, "fuck yes! best game ever! not forgotten by Squenix!" but on the other, "fuck, I paid $80 for this shit back in 1996, and already played it for like 100 hours, do I really want to buy it again". Oh, nostalgia gaming.

Terranigma dammit

I miss having Darra & Gzeus to kick around

yeah it's all fun in retrospect until one of them actually comes back.

El Tomboto otm. Never again.

did they get proper banned or something?

man i don't even remember why darra was such an issue... i think i maybe got here after that, when everyone was saying BAN HIM before he even opened his mouf.

I deliberately embued tombot with mod powers during ILG v1 for the express purpose of fucking with those two, and lo, lolz were had.

Darra filtered over to ILE and fell under flailing fists and cries of "THAT'S RACIST!" And lo, lolz were had.

In fact, I also fucked with GZeus enough to make him take it to ModReq. Unfortunately, due to the fact that I was modding ILG at the time, his protests fell on deaf ears (and lo, etc).

Is there an ILG Compendium of Darra vs GZeus thread, or did I dream that?

Is this that game that's like Virtua Cop except you get a pedal to hide behind a box as well as a gun?

Yer thinking of "Time Crisis."

Good to see g-kit again.

I never understood why Darra was such an issue, I must have missed the ILE thing.

"Please just ban me from even being able to read this website. I just can't take the smug neckbeard community any more."

Dunno, sounds like he had just the right amount of contempt for the boards and self-loathing for posting on them to make up your average ILE poster.

Was disappointed that Search yielded no fruitful results for "Best of Darra & GZeus".

I just found the full on I KILL YOU FOR NOT AGREEING WITH ME THING a bit mental tbh.

link?

best of the gzeus

omg <3

okay lol

"Excuse me, sir, but I've been sitting here for the past 10 minutes trying to figure out how to tell you how you've been ruining my food in this fine establishment, but then I realised you have to live with yourself, so I'm gonna leave."

okay lol that whole thread

Thsi whole incident has left ne nauseous. I'm gonn take a tums.

haa i thought it said 'I'm gonna take a turns'

all the evidence is on that other thread, though. GZeus was Chris Crocker.

Sadly OTM. Poor guy just wasn't well :(

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19795
I'm going to admit that I never played this and am very much looking forward to it.

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fuck is challops? ilx is like hit #2 on google for challops

"challenging opinions"

best game ever anyone who disagrees can eatadiccup

imo

didnt realize D&G had been banned btw - their presence kept me from posting here for a long time (possibly an incentive to unban them depending on ur pov~)

anyway, chrono trigger - revisiting a lot of older games, or just shit in general, that i loved when i was 10, 11 years old - this is almost uniformly v.v.v.v. unrewarding. except for chrono trigger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's p. unique among squaresoft bullshits in that regard too. ff7 is atrocious to me today, but i could prob sit down and HELLA dig on some chrono trigger rn. everything about it is perfect *lone, manful tear trickles down face, is absorbed by neckbeard*

I played the U.S. version of this on PC. The only turn-based RPG I've ever finished. So great. Not Secret of Mana great, but great.

Re: the original post, I had a moment like that when I watched The Ring (Japanese version) with Italian subtitles in a hotel room in Pisa. I watched the whole thing, despite speaking not a word of either language. Good times.

(on ZSNES on PC)

cankles OTM

except RPG-wise I still like to play Earthbound and FF6 (the latter has fallen off more in my eyes)

wait there's a PC version of this

Using an emulator, yes. I think snes9x is the preferred one these days. I last tried to do it in 1999 or something. Shouldn't be too hard to find the ROM.

i missed out on earthbound when i was a kid - replayed FF6 last year tho, it was ok, just kinda a lot more boring and flavorless than i recall? like, why was kefka ever considered a compelling villain?

so this game IS better than all those FF games and billion RPGs that seem like they're diverting but are actually boring chores involving talking to every NPC in a village and item management?

From what I've gathered, it's one of the best implementations of the boring chore style of RPG.

because gamers were like "waaooo i can hear him laugh, motherfucker is CRAZY! POISONING WATER WAT" (re: kefka)

s1ocki, the great thing about CT is that there's virtually no running around in circles to get experience points, there's almost no item management (aside from buying new weapons when you can, and at the beginning you need to buy potions sometimes) and the talking to villagers or w/e is pretty fucknig entertaining because the settings are so interesting that they don't waste your time with MEDIEVAL VILLAGER #457 FROM THE TOWN OF LUHIM or whatever.

Secret of Mana is the best of the chore-based RPGs, but that's an action RPG like Zelda. Chrono Trigger is the turn-based RPG for people who don't like turn-based RPGs.

It's something like this, from pick up and play fun to bring a spreadsheet and a twelve-pack of Mountain Dew, imo: Zelda 3, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, all those shitty Final Fantasy games.

Re: the original post, I had a moment like that when I watched The Ring (Japanese version) with Italian subtitles in a hotel room in Pisa. I watched the whole thing, despite speaking not a word of either language. Good times.

Subtitles??? Wow! Every time I watched a film in Italy it was the same voiceactors. Maddening! Appears (like in France) the big actors are all dubbed by the same people.

I have not played CT. I do not miss GZeus but I'm sure HI DERE is regularly saddened by the loss of his friendly sparring partner...

I had no opnion one way or the other on Darramouss...

chrono trigger is secret of mana perfected - better production values, more engaging, ~*kewler*~. i played secret of mana a few years beforehand and i'd loved it, and it was certainly easy for me even as a 10 yr old to see the parallels, but CT just jazzes everything up imo

and ya, no random battles in CT - u see bad guys on the screen and u run into them to start a fight or u just walk around them to get to the next area. there's 10 different endings but unlike other multiple ending games a.) you actually want to replay it b.) the game's way easier/faster to beat every time u go thru it again.

Where does one find this CT for use on a modern system?

idk man i still play my snes cartridge - iirc there was a playstation rerelease that had gay animu cut scenes added, and a spruced up version is coming out for the DS in a coupla months (november)

I might wait for DS. Cut scenes are such a pain in the face!

http://www.chronotrigger.jp/

chrono trigger is secret of mana perfected

I disagree with this with the very core of my being. The basic reason that everyone can get behind is that CT has turn-based battles, which are tedious and fiddly. But there's more, and yeah, it comes down to atmosphere and other intangibles.

Maybe it's whichever game you played when you were 14. In my case that was SoM. Perhaps I was too old to be completely overwhelmed by CT when I played it.

well, they're close to neck-and-neck for title of most important game of my formative years, trust me, but i just thought CT was less drab and sad and also looked and sounded way better. but yeah, intangibles. also, the battles in SoM are still somewhat turn based - the fact that the game pauses when you open up the rotary menu kills any hope of frenetic zelda type action imo

I’d love to have my kid try this out and like it one day. Terranigma too, but Chrono Trigger seems more likely.

a memory card failure and other mishaps have prevented me from ever having finished this game. does anyone know if the PC version is acceptable now? or is an emulator the best way to play if i don't have a console its been ported to?

SPINAL FUNCTION

xpost ROM loaded onto hacked SNES Classic Mini

bump this thread whenever you play a game for over an hour

yeah i played on the SNES Mini and it worked great. Couldn't get Terranigma to work sadly.

i have an 8bitdo snes style controller so i think i can just use that with the rom on my PC

for terranigma you'll need to do some additional hacking, iirc --- installing another emulator 'core' or something like that. as i delved into this i realized i could also make my Mini act as a Genesis emulator, or any other system for which that controller is enough, and i got distracted.

Update: I started a New Game+ and beat Lavos just with Crono and Marle at the start of the game to get the development room ending.. weirdly enough it was much easier than when I played it with three characters? I guess by then I knew the strategies for beating it so that made it easier

I never got too far into Terranigma. I have beaten Soul Blazer though!

Update: I started a New Game+ and beat Lavos just with Crono and Marle at the start of the game to get the development room ending THE GAME 3 times

i remember thinking Terranigma was super charming watching a buddy play it on a computer in high school. started it once on emu myself and got up to a fight with a big... bird? on top of a mesa? (might be mixing this up with Seiken Densetsu 3) and lost track of it.

Soul Blazer i tried out recently on the aforementioned hacked SNES Mini. i liked the feel of the combat, but the linearity of the quests became truly oppressive --- go into the dungeon, beat some monsters, this releases someone back in town, go back to town, they give you something you need to get a little further in the dungeon... repeat. and then the difficulty of the bosses was off the charts disproportionate to everything else... just not my bag.

Wow, how have I never even heard of Terranigma before now? Looks good!

it was never released in the US is probably why, only japan and europe

unless you're from europe and then i dont know

I've now finished the (surprisingly underwhelming?) Dream Devourer ending. I've done it. I BEAT THE GAME 3 times

i could never get v far in terranigma

i like its music and Ideas more than the actual gameplay

same for actraiser

Just got through Magus’s shitty-ass castle. Man that was a SLOG. You finish a battle, walk up three steps, and start another goddamn battle. Repeat the process a zillion times.

this genre might not be for you

ehh 90s ones had way higher forced encounter rates than the genre ended up settling on in the ps2 to present era

The high random encounter rate was always something you put up with, unfortunately, thanks for Dragon Quest setting the standard for so long. CT at least gave you the option to avoid many of the fights

what's the closest thing to CT in the modern era? preferably something i can play on PS4...
I tried Nino Ku Ni and enjoyed it for a few hours, but it felt a bit samey after a while and the battle system was extremely laboured and confusing.

I Am Setsuna uses a Chrono Trigger-esque battle system but I find it hard to get invested in the game/story

Dragon Quest XI is the most "modern jrpg for people who like 90s jrpgs" game available i think. plus shares the toriyama character designs and vibe with CT of course.

unless you want actual retro stuff like uhh Cosmic Star Heroine is an alright one, indie games that are mimicking 90s games

ah cool. yeah i'm not fussy about it being topdown/old-style, just looking for a similar vibe. i really miss CT but i'm not quite ready to dust down the SNES and play it again yet.

Dragon Quest XI on switch has an interesting feature which I've never tried myself: the default is a 3D world, but you can switch the graphics/level layouts over to topdown/old-style, with all the same characters, enemies, items, stats, etc.

I can't remember if you have a switch, DL, but if you do it might be a good option!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzOLsMoojQ

sadly don't have a Switch, although might be worth me looking out for a s/h one at some point. I love my PS4 but there's something about those Nintendo games, it's a different vibe. From what I can see, most modern JRPGs are just a bit too... I dunno, there's something a bit dorky and hollow about a lot of them

i hear you

i have trouble getting through them. i also don't absolutely love playing a silent 10 year old boy who walks around with other precocious children before realizing a)he must become the chosen one, b) he has to defeat the chosen one, c) but he's not sure if he's really the chosen one. that sure is the plot to every single game of all time, yikes

persona 5 was legitimately good.

the ones without silent protags are the best ones imo (yes this excludes dragon quest. and persona. and chrono trigger.)

anyone playing the re-release of chrono cross? i'm downloading it now

ive heard pretty mixed opinions about this game and this port, so i have no idea what to expect

everyone seems to be complaining, so i'm waiting to see if it gets patches or abandoned

my first impression so far is that the game is incredible but the frame rate sucks ass. i have no idea how it compares to the ps1 original though