I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.

There's a pre-release free rom on that site.

u guys ever walked through the Chrono Trigger beta ROM w/Game Genie hax? v. interesting stuff, missing levels and whatnot.

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oh shit, chrono trigger ds comes out this week?

Next week (supposedly Nov. 25th). I'm looking forward to it, as I've never played Chrono Trigger before.

oh awesome

Just got this for DS. Starting to play for the first time on the plane ride home for Thanksgiving tomorrow. At this point the expectations are pretty damn high.

im playing this now.

pretty good!

i mean... im kinda struggling with my feelings on the whole snes-era rpg genre... besides phantasy star 2 i never really played these...

heh... sounds like it might be too... DEEP for u...

It's one of my all-time favorites! Try not to let the nostalgia/hype faze you - either you'll enjoy it or you won't, in the end.

You're starting with probably the most distilled essence of the SNES DQ/FF formulas at the end of an era, so if you're not already into that genre, it may turn out not to be your thing, especially over a decade later. (I'm not sure I'd put Phantasy Star near the Square/Enix/SNES style of RPGs) In some ways it was great because of the lessons it picked up from Secret of Mana, FF 4-6, the DQs, etc.

not so much deep as just... what is the gameplay here really? i mean... i dunno what i mean

i've tried playing some of those FF remakes, they are kinda fun but i always lose interest cuz they all seem exactly the same

this one though seems to be pretty thoughtfully made and careful to avoid the kind of things that always annoy me, like poor item management that lets you accidentally sell all your shit etc

what is the gameplay here really? i mean... i dunno what i mean

what do you mean? like, that there's not enough to actually...do?

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

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

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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