I just played Chrono Trigger for over an hour.

if it's chrono trigger, play it

61 mins minimum

Did we seriously never poll the OP?

shoutout to I can play it with my feet without looking directly at the creen.

palsied and horse-like, one love

i'm SURE we did poll it at some point, no?

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/14/10988880/chrono-trigger-soundtrack-chronicles-of-time-tribute

yikes. anybody listened to this?

watching the video made me a little emotional
at least two versions of the ending them, both sounded good!

http://babycastles.com/event/chrono_trigger__game_of_the_month_club_at_babycastles

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/virtual-reality-palmer-luckey-trump-inauguration

On January 4, Trump's official inauguration committee received a $100,000 donation from a limited liability company named Wings of Time. The inauguration committee filings list an office tower in Los Angeles as the address for Wings of Time, but there is no individual's name associated with the organization.

Luckey has a separate company, Luckey Arms LLC, registered at the same address as the one listed by Wings of Time in the inauguration donation records. And California corporation records list another corporation as the manager of Wings of Time LLC, an entity called Fiendlord's Keep, Inc. Luckey is listed in the records as the sole officer for Fiendlord's Keep. Luckey and his attorney did not respond to requests for comment.

And for those who are curious, Wings of Time and Fiendlord's Keep aren't random names. They're elements from a popular video game originally for Super Nintendo called Chrono Trigger. According to a 2015 Forbes profile, Chrono Trigger is one of Luckey's favorite games.

nooooo

we talked about it a bit in the casual sexism thread

Do we have a "time travel in games" thread? I read a good article and wanted to talk about it. this is the first one I could think of, naturally

https://i.imgur.com/gOrgxwE.png

it me

I picked up some SNES-style RPGs on the Steam sale - CrossCode and HEARTBEAT. Haven't played HEARTBEAT yet but Crosscode is fun and quick to pick up - I got an old Falcom game called "Trails in the Sky" at the same time and the intro is just excruciatingly long. I don't care how much time you spent on the opening FMV, I DON'T WANT TO WATCH IT.

FMVs suck so bad

word

heartbeat was good

trails is my favorite rpg series but i think it only really appeals to dedicated anime storygamers, that first game has about 20 hours of slow burn worldbuilding before the plot emerges. i dont remember it having fmv other than the standard anime intro movie in every japanese game

the way i feel is, if you can’t tell your story with sprites then why are you making a video game

Maybe they prefer vector graphics

No probably Trails in the Sky is not _that_ bad but I feel like games are more along the lines of what I want to play today than they were ten years ago or however many years ago that game came out, the difference between the trite repetitive dialogue and boring unskippable cut scene versus booting up the modern game Crosscode and jumping right into "Hey let's do some cool stuff" was night and day for me, I'm old and overstimulated. See also why I couldn't get into any Zelda games between OOT and BOTW, the whole "Hey before you start why don't you play a mandatory animal herding minigame and do a bunch of other stupid bullshit". Shit, you know what I will do if I want an infodump? I will read one of the several dozen books in my backlog.

play ys origin if you want a falcom game that would be more to your taste then

I'll probably get back to Trails in the Sky to be honest; it's just the whole steam sale thing where I have like seven new games and I can't play them all at once. Honestly I feel like this whole binging model is why I had 100 sale/bundle games that I never actually played and it's why I didn't buy basically any Steam games at all for the past three years and just played Civ V.

Anyway Chrono Trigger is a fun game even if Earthbound is more my jam.

you'll probably like heartbeat then, its more earthbound/pokemon than squaresoft

plus it's apparently one of those games where everybody is queer which i am all about

spinal function

plus it's apparently one of those games where everybody is queer which i am all about

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welp despite all this, this game's devs have been exposed as massive TERFs and are currently doubling down on it in gross ways, so i retract all my previous recommendations and C&P votes for the game

I miss Chrono Trigger.

I'm trying to beat the game again but witht the Frog ending and I just can't seem to beat Lagos - probably because I don't have some of the characters. You can go back from the end caves and grind up without messing up the ending right?

i was online shopping late last night and ordered a super famicom. sooooo excited. it comes with 5 games: art of fighting, super river fishing 2, mario rpg, yoshis island, and... chrono trigger!

coincidentally i just hacked my SNES Classic to add a bunch of sadly overlooked games, including CT. haven't let myself start replaying it yet though, what's the rush?

It so happens I am nearing completion of this game for the first time ever. I know I'm 25 years late to the party, but...it's pretty great! I don't usually have the patience for JRPGs, but this one is special.

I'm so excited for you both to be starting this excellent game. not really ready to play it again, but please report and let me live vicariously

yes!

I just finished replaying this for the first time since high school, and like, WOW.. I was worried I was too over-leveled by the time I got to the final battle with Lavos, since making it through the Black Omen and the Queen Zeal fight was a breeze. But nope, it was just as brutal, challenging and climactic as I hoped it would be. The whole game hypes up this massive showdown with Lavos and it completely lives up to the hype. What an absolute masterpiece of a game.

Except for the extra Lost Sanctum dungeons in the DS version. They really suck.

Lavos is really fuckin tough. also, lol at the OP

my own GZeus-styoe claim is that Wind Scene was my most played Spotify track for two years running, and probably will be again

style

The GZeus really made an excellent contribution to this website with that opening post, didn't he

this is a jam

https://ostilmusic.bandcamp.com/track/chrono-trigger-epic-piano-medley

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!