ILG Player's Club plays Chrono Trigger

btw that reminds me, for the guy who was like "Still don't get the fanatical devotion this thing inspires" earlier, i think u can pretty much sum it up w/"production values" - there's nothing mind-blowing about the game, i could tell it was treading well worn territory even when i was 10 years old, but it's just incredibly well executed on every level; art direction, design, music, writing, presentation, basically everything is polished to a sheen. plus it's got an abundance of ~*~*hEaRt & sOuL*~*~

cankles is right about "production values" - this is maybe kinda sorta the first 32-bit RPG, apart from, you know, not being 32-bit

i have not been able to download this because my broadband stopped working. hrmph

Yes on production values; and while I'm happy to play more RPGs like this after I finish it, I wonder when the next big leap in RPG construction will be. Oblivion sure wasn't it, with a basically linear quest that revolved around your character. I'd like to play an RPG where my character is just another character in a vast drama, where my decisions won't ultimately determine much about the fate of the kingdom/nation/planet/galaxy/whatever. I want there to be big events that happen independently of my character, and that I can take part in to a limited, human-scale extent, without being a leader or whatever. Like let me be a foot soldier in a massive army campaign, but make it an RPG: you could even work in character progression/leveling somehow if you were wedded to that. If I could get some venture capital I'd put together a team and try to build one of these, though my friends in the industry say the money's really only in MMORPGs nowadays.

holy shit he cut a mountain in half

I dunno, this isn't really capturing my imagination yet? I have barely started but it feels real static. I will soldier on.

i beat kotor yesterday, so today i dusted off my snes (had to whip out the compressed air actually~ ::adjusts glasses::) so i could join u guys and found that i no longer have an ac adapter for that shit. and nintendo stopped selling replacement shit for the nes/snes like literally last year ;____;

also its probably not captureing ure imagination because ures is the imagination of a jaded 40 year old or w/e

nm, found the adapter!!!!! time to son some fools

[10:27] me: what should i name crono
[10:27] me: i'm thinkin BALLZ
[10:27] jumaan: wake up NIGGER its the day of the millenial fair
[10:28] me: lol, i wish
[10:28] me: five char limit tho ;_;

i went with Nelly

i'm doing new game+ so i can school u lil nublets

crono is level ★★ with ★★ power, ★★ speed, ★★ mag, ★★ stam, ★★ m def, rainbow armor and rainbow weaponz, 254 attack 224 def

~_~

damn i could really use a new controller, my down button and start button have to be pressed super hard to work :[

i love that you bothered to find the character for the star

i futzed around in the fair for a while and then said fuckit and started a new game of KOTOR :/

mmmmm hmmmmm!

beat Magus tonight; combat wasn't too tough in the Fiendlord Keep b/c I've figured out the rhythm for healing. But the story is great, with a Back-To-The-Future moment (spoiler for the few of us who haven't memorized this game) where Marle is now my babe in the present. Now if only I can get Ayla to be my backstreet girl...

Still playing this, just got out of jail free.
Everybody still going?

hell yes I'm still going; got the Wings of Time tonight after some good luck in renegotiating the future world (I had a flash-back-forward-whatever-I-can't-tell-what-direction-time-is-going-anymore showing me a dome with a magic door I could open, and the first dome I tried was right). After a little joyriding I went back to antiquity and the Mountain of Woe where I got my ass handed to me; so saved there and will try again tonight.

Am I the only one playing this? Eh, it's still very fun. The latest fights have been pretty tough: those Golem sisters were brutal. Without getting into massive spoilers, I'm enjoying how I'm forced to shuffle my party around, because my instinct would be to bunker down with the same characters regardless of their suitability. Once you have the Wings of Time there's a fair bit of non-linearity in the game should you want it, but for the most part I'm just following the main plot and going to the prescribed next era after each cataclysm.

I've just gone into the future. The linearity you're digging on upthread feels like rails to me. Dunno, I promised myself I'd finish this, but it honestly just feels like work. Having not played this before, there's no nostalgia buzz.

i didnt see the goonies when i was a kid, and now i probably never will because i'm an adult (technically), so between that and the lack of nostalgia there's just probably not much i would get out of it. u kno wut im gettin at?

told u we shoulda done secret of mana btw~

yeah, that's kinda what I'm feeling here.
Let's soldier through with it for another few days and then do psychonauts? unless there's more to discuss on this one?

Also: you're not missing that much with the goonies. Except the video game. Which was dope! but not now. only if you played it then.

Yeah, I have no nostalgia for this, or really for any RPG like this; the only RPG I've played like this for like 20 years is Golden Sun 2 (oh, and I mudded like hell in college). I've never played an FPS except in teeny doses, so the combat in this is no prob. for me. The plot is convoluted but interesting. Gameplay is straightforward, I guess: hack and blast and heal, but without the tedious need to wait while regenning like in Oblivion. So this is hitting a fun spot for me, but I'm 16 hours in and I would guess close to winning, maybe a night or two away.

This compares badly to a Zelda game? I'd like to play a Zelda if they're that good; I've not played once since 2, I think.

told u we shoulda done secret of mana btw~

lol a friend and i have started replaying som

euler where are u @ ~~~ game is longer than u think cuz if u just beat magus, tortured soul, u still have some hourz left esp if u want to hit the big sidequests (rec'd) and get u characters 2 cankles lvl double stars

I'm looking for the doll to resurrect Chrono.

i think this is the best time in the game to finish most of the sidequests (sun stone, frog ghost) ~~~ v. much worth it imo

kickass, will start in a few mins

fucking skeleton motherfucker in the sunken desert, cannot beat

haha

good progress euler!

i've not played anything other than peggle for the past week. i woke up and didn't want to play videogames anymore. i don't know why peggle is an exception. it seems weird to me too.

beat that skeleton finally; it helped when I just went for the head, as probably is obvious to fps fans

popping through the sidequests, spent way too long getting the damn "L-A-R-A" thing to work but I couldn't stand the idea of not healing Lucca's mom so I did it like 15 times. Which was a bad idea because I meant I heard that awful scream when she got her legs cut off like 15 times.

oh duuuuude i empathize w/u so hard on that - saving lucca's mom was such a big deal 2 me, and her scream WAS HORRIBLE

I'm way behind everyone now, because the boy has chosen this week to fall in love with Mariokart...which means that every time I pick up my DS, the battery is flat.

MKDS is the best

xposts ;_; i remember

i think i FAQ'd the lara puzzle - it wasn't very obvious on emulators, bcz lol l and r buttons who uses those

am i right in thinking there's almost no in-game benefit for saving her? i mean, other than her being saved - there's no secret tech you learn or anything?

yeah I think it doesn't matter qua bonuses, but the promise of fixing a past horror was too seductive for me to pass up...although after screwing it up for 20 minutes or so, I briefly considered...

still doing sidequests...got the upgrade Masamune now so Toad is kicking ass...it's tough to decide who to use now b/c they're all totally awesome now

am i right in thinking there's almost no in-game benefit for saving her? i mean, other than her being saved - there's no secret tech you learn or anything?

only the secret tech called having a soul ~~~ also i think u get the life 3 relic or w/e

masamune sidequest was def my fave altho the sun stone one is pretty dope too. have u been getting the rocks (gold rock, black rock &C) those are the items that give u the "hidden" triple techs

I got one of the stones (gold, I think); there are still some places I haven't been so I figure I'll find some more of them. But I just got Rainbow and so I'm aching to get Chrono back...and then prob. play this mf again with my badass powers.

i'm playin this now - it turns out that i am basically that crazy guy who was screaming about playing it in japanese, because i haven't played this in at least a decade and yet i still remember every single beat and detail of this motherfucker. opting to play newgame+ was probably a bad idea too, because it just makes an already-easy game kinda boring.

figuring out the hidden triple techs was one of my fav things back in the day, back before walkthroughs it just seemed like such a cool little thing and idk man~

hey Euler, you got the "secret" character, right?

only the secret tech called having a soul

it's been so hard not to spoil that for euler

i'm playin thru the factory rn, and can i just say that this game owns as hard as ever?

there are parts of it that still give me, like... ~*emotions*~

http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/052/558/400000000000000052558_s4.jpg

the part where robo gets gangraped by his old buddies.... d-damn

this game is so evocative, moreso than most modern stuff i've played... the time traveling noises, the fukkin end of time, everything.... dang

imo the key to this game is that it's just paced insanely well... no grinding... every jprg is manbaby central but chrono trig doesn't waste your thyme, no spreadsheets necessary, its not gayass bullshit

also giving you the option to literally walk around fights = awesome (what a fukkin concept)

fukkin spekkio

scott spekkio