I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.

I'm about 6 1/2 hours in on my first play-thru ever too. It definitely gets a bit more strategic and a bit more challenging as you move through the game, at least on the boss battles, you can't just hit "a" or you will die. Keep going - I'm enjoying it more and more.

ya, the boss battles seem like the most interesting/challenging/game-like bits.

im definitely into it, just wondering what it is i'm into.

ive never played this game but the OP is prob. in my top five ILX OP's of all time

i can't defend it since i haven't played it for years, but in my memory there was (avoidable!) action-y combat and choices about where to go next that made it more fun than your average rpg of the time

ive never played this game but the OP is prob. in my top five ILX OP's of all time

― ♪㋡♫㋡ (gr8080), Thursday, January 8, 2009 6:44 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

def

I love console RPGs but I don't get how any skill other than persevering at level grinds can help you to beat them i.e. I still don't really understand what the GZer was on about up there.

You know how the first 30 minutes of Royal Tenenbaum's is just montage? The first few hours of Chrono Trigger is like that. No rhythm. Really weird.

huh.

well it's like... walk around. open chest. encounter enemy. press "attack" or "magic"... i dunno...

... it's like this video game is nothing but a series of stimuli requiring me to input the same buttons in different sequences. over and over and over!

i know i know

but at least in action-oriented games there is the challenge to do it better, faster, more elegantly... sometimes with games like this i feel like i'm just walking through a really rigid set of motions/actions

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.

i think you have to buy into the story, at least a little, or enjoy grinding as a perfectionist, repetitive joy in and of itself.

i remember having this discussion on ilg before but i like playing rpgs esp SNES ones as low-level challenges. it makes the strategic/mgmt aspect of the game important esp in CT you really have to learn which combos work well and you start to see the value in more obscure moves.

ya i definitely feel the enjoyment there on some level, there are just points where i'm like what am i doing here?

trying to help a cavegirl save her ppl from reptiles, duh! u have to pay attention!

REPTITES.

now who's not paying attention!!

have you played SofM, s1ocki? it sounds like you would prefer that.

super of mario?

secret of mana

sucreats of mario

servicio a mañana

super of man-ya

Sign on for Mammaries

Streak out for Mango

Schlep of Mongolia

Sluts of Morality

Shit or for Motherfucker

s1ocki give it time, unlike most games of its ilk its story will actually capture your heart [ <3 ] <-- see how it's captured?

how far are you?

A little frustrated with some of the more obscure sections of the game where I've been wandering around lost for an hour w/o any idea of what I'm supposed to do next to make some progress and have had to resort to gamefaqss twice :(

Also a bit too much backtracking and covering the same ground over and over - though part of that may have been the result of my aimless wanderings trying to figure out what I am supposed to do next (oh yeah, talk to that one kid in a house somewhere / sometime so he'll give you a medal so you can go talk to a frog and get a sword hilt).

ya i hear that but its not been that much of a prob for me cuz usually the places you can actually go at any given time are pretty limited..

im in the floating magical kingdom now... game is getting pretty cool

so many bosses tho eh

the boss:regular guy you fight ratio is really low compared to most RPGs i feel

this thread has reminded me that i still need to play terranigma

that's a huge plus, since fighting regular guys is usually pretty boring

Agree

It wasn't until the floating kingdom that I REALLY fell in love w/ that game. w/ the sole exception maybe of the 65M BC bits, those are great.

for me the point where u first get the ship is when i fell for the game. once the game opened up a little i def got more into it the ability to pursue each of the character's individual stories at yr own pace is crazy rewarding and made for such an immersive experience - also just the fun of creating random parties and discovering new abilites was superfun

also contra to FF games they designed the side quests in such an a+++
fashion a bunch of them are so unobstrusive its a real joy to figure out the where and when. i mean they make total sense but it does require actually paying attention to things that have been going on in the early stages rather than unfocused expoloration or totally random "hey guess what!" and the actual effort/payoff ratio of each of the quest's is near perfect

cool so is the point where the game really takes off?

.. cannot remember any of the side quests in chrono trigger at all, remind me? / :

idk wtf that unibrow emoticon is about but okay

SPOILERS *!*!* SPOILERZ *!*!* SPOILERS *!*!*

mainly thinking of the frog's backstory quest with his girl's ghost and shit but both the sun stone and rainbow shell sidequests have character talk in them. even remembering where all the black boxes are at adds something to the early stages

!

it is not a unibrow, it is a serious face. it never occured to me it could be read the other way

also thanks! i don't think i ever did the last two, maybe i should buy the DS version

also i really want that youtube to not be real :/ serious unibrow

i screwed up.

i think i wandered into a boss area (mountain of woe?) way too early in the game. so now i have to find my way ALLLL the way back and figure out what to do. annoyed

Got to these two goloms that are just kicking my ass. I mean, before I even get a turn I already got one man down. I guess it's time to start grinding :(

http://hardcoregaming101.net/chrono/chronotrigger.htm

i cant even remember last nite never mind my thought processes and wknd plans from when i was eight...

really though