This thread is primarily about Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross.

[arcaine91]

For those of you who don't know (read: everyone) I am a major Chrono fan.

This is basically a thread for other Chrono fans to preach about the awesomeness of Chrono Trigger. You can preach about the awesomeness of Chrono Cross too, but just know that it's awesomeness can't match the awesomeness of Chrono Trigger.

I said awesomeness four times in this post. Make that five. wOOt.

[Drace]

Never played it, don't care.

[SaiKar]

The vote for banishing Drace from the RPG player's community is now open.

I vote AYE

[fruckert]

Haven't finished it yet

[Drace]

The vote for banishing Drace from the RPG player's community is now open.

I vote AYE

=P Really though, I've not played all too many RPGs. On the top of my head:

Several Final Fantasies
LOTR: The Third Age
KOTOR 1 + 2
Baldur's Gate
Jagged Alliance 2
Lost Odyssey
World of Warcraft

That's about it.

[arcaine91]

KOTOR 1 + 2

you've just alleviated a degree of the hostility i was feeling.

[fruckert]

KOTOR's kickass, dude
BIOWare rocks

[arcaine91]

KOTOR's kickass, dude
BIOWare rocks

so true.

KOTOR and Jade Empire own.

The only next-gen rpg ive played that even comes close to those is Fallout 3, and it's a VERY close game.

[WarxePB]

The DS remake of Chrono Trigger was a bit disappointing, in the fact that they didn't redo the graphics, and the Lost Sanctum was just one giant fetch-quest for items that weren't even that great.

But the new secret ending was pretty cool, I guess. If you're curious, Sai, I'll put it in spoiler tags:

[SPOILER]You have to beat the three different versions of the Dimensional Vortices (which are new dungeons exclusive to the DS version). Afterwards, you check the bucket at the End of Time and go to "Time's Eclipse", where you fight the Dream Devourer - a red recolor of Lavos with Schala floating above it. Once you do a certain amount of damage, Magus shows up, and Schala tells him that he won't be able to defeat Lavos with any sort of strength - so Magus "fades into the darkness" or something and reappears in some forest. It'd probably make sense if I played Chrono Cross.[/SPOILER]

Wow, that sounds like one of those so-called methods to revive Aeris in FF7.

[SaiKar]

I've seen it Warxe, and yeah, it makes considerably more sense if you've played Cross.

I approve of the DS remake on general good principle that, if SE makes enough money off Chrono remakes, the possibility of a third game may become a reality.

[Grandy]

*reads Warxe's spoiler*

Wait, this all is leading to Magus is Lynx. Is that the case?

never finished Cross either but got up to CD2

[WarxePB]

I approve of the DS remake on general good principle that, if SE makes enough money off Chrono remakes, the possibility of a third game may become a reality.

This. If they aren't developing the third Chrono game now, those guys at SE are idiots - sure, they'll probably make a lot of money off of FFXIII and DQIX, but I would guarantee that at least 90% of people who would buy those games would also buy Chrono Break.

[SaiKar]

*reads Warxe's spoiler*

Wait, this all is leading to Magus is Lynx. Is that the case?

never finished Cross either but got up to CD2

Magus was supposed to be Guile, a floating magician guy. The developers said that they didn't have enough time or energy to devote to the Magus subplots to make it work so they made Guile just a random throwaway character. I'm calling BS on this one, since Magus/Guile should have been a major plot point from day one considering the fact the rest of the game revolves around Schala, but whatcha gunna do. I'm vaguely comforted by the fact that Serge and Kid eventually meeting up and getting married is actual canon.

[Djanki]

Magus was supposed to be Guile, a floating magician guy. The developers said that they didn't have enough time or energy to devote to the Magus subplots to make it work so they made Guile just a random throwaway character. I'm calling BS on this one, since Magus/Guile should have been a major plot point from day one considering the fact the rest of the game revolves around Schala, but whatcha gunna do. I'm vaguely comforted by the fact that Serge and Kid eventually meeting up and getting married is actual canon.

Actually, as I recall...

[spoiler]Serge's Dad was Lynx.[/spoiler]

As for Magus/Guile...
[spoiler]There is no link, although now that SaiKar brought it up, things are interesting. As I see it, Guile was based off of a character from Radical Dreamers, a Crono Trigger spin-off. It could be called an early form of CC, as the main characters were Serge, Kidd, and Guile, and it took place in the Snakebone Conservatory (Viper Manor in the U.S.). Also, as I recall, Guile's name in Japanese was 'Alf', after Magus' cat, Alfador. No news if Guile has to do with the flat-headed Street Fighter from the U.S., though.[/spoiler]

Now, Sprigg? I'm curious about her. Is she related to Ozzie and co.?

[Red Giant]

All your Chrono Cross talk befuddles me to no end, but I am wholeheartedly a lover of Chrono Trigger and wholeheartedly not a fan of the decision of Squenix to squash Chrono Resurrection under their evil corporate boots while remak porting the damn thing onto DS. Shove your bonus content up your diseased whorifices.