Chrono Trigger

[Maxx]

Cross is incredible, but I've got a thing for RPG's with massive amounts of recruitable characters. 60+ for Cross and 108 for Suikoden

Clearly we need an awesome RPG Megathread

Edited March 3, 2009 by Maxx Is Awesome Teammate

[apsham]

Trigger has characters that you really grow to care about though.. at least that's the way I see it. I have a hard time choosing my party.

PLUS, it was like.. one of the first that let you NOT play as the main, silent protaginist.

[wrathofcarnage]

I'll give you Suikoden (and Suikoden II for that matter) but Cross being better than Trigger? No no no no no.

I've played through CT over and over again to try to get all the different combinations. I could barely make it through one run of Cross, and could not see how it related to CT at ALL, COMPLETELY different games and worlds. Crono, Lucca and Marle scampering around as midget ghosts? Way to screw all the GOOD theories about Schala over too...

Decent music though.

[Pizza]

Yeah, that's part of the appeal of Trigger over Cross. Cross might outnumber Trigger 60-7 in number of characters, but as far as interesting characters go Triggers up 7-0. (At least as far as I've made it through, like I said, I can't sustain interest in it. The only characters I remember are the silent protagonist, the girl with the red jacket who reminds me of Marle, and the dog with the accent.) But whatever works for you is great. I love Phantasy Star 4, and I've never even heard anyone else talk about it before.

[Sousa]

Having never play Chrono Trigger, I can say with confidence that Chrono Cross is better.

If Chrono Cross's storyline didn't turn into a nonsensical fucking mess in the last five hours or so, and if the characters who were cool before joining your party remained interesting afterward (Karsh, ZOAH, Fargo, Viper, etc.), then Chrono Cross would be a force to be reckoned with. But yeah, no, Chrono Trigger is MUCH better.

[Maxx]

I'll give you Suikoden (and Suikoden II for that matter) but Cross being better than Trigger? No no no no no.

I've played through CT over and over again to try to get all the different combinations. I could barely make it through one run of Cross, and could not see how it related to CT at ALL, COMPLETELY different games and worlds. Crono, Lucca and Marle scampering around as midget ghosts? Way to screw all the GOOD theories about Schala over too...

Decent music though.

Suikoden 2 is my favorite game ever, true story. Everyone should get themselves a PSX emulator and play it, as its ridiculously expensive.

[wrathofcarnage]

I'm glad I found Suikoden II about 5-6 years ago at a used game store. Best $15 I ever spent!

But then the third one sucked so bad that I didn't even bother with any of the rest...

[Maxx]

3rd one was great if you commit to it. 4th was horrible, horrible, horrible. Hopefully the DS one is good.

[Captain Kirk]

Suikoden V was back to Suikoden's best. I'd rate them II > V > I > IV not played III so can't rate it.

[Maxx]

So, should I emulate Chrono Trigger or buy it for DS? That same money could be used for a copy of remade 3D FF4 that I can't just get with an emulator.

[Sousa]

I had to take my wife to the emergency room last night (she's okay), so I had lotsa time to finally sit down and play. Crono, Frog, and Lucca are barreling into Casa del Magus, and fuck me if Frog/Glenn's story isn't one of the best told in RPG canon. So much build toward Cyrus being Frog, and then you find out that Frog is actually Cyrus's cowardly buddy--and you get to spend the game aiding his redemption. That, folks, is a character arc. I'll take Frog over your spiky-haired Cloud Strives (I'm pretty sure that's how you pluralize it) any day of the week.

[hugobomb]

HELP!

I'm completly stuck. I'm on the 'Tata and the Frog' chapter, I've met Tata and gotten the Frog's Hero Badge back. Gone to Frog's place and got the piece of the sword (got the other piece on the mountains), where do I go now?

[apsham]

If I remember right, it's really friggin' obscure. You know the little house where the woman says that she is protecting the forest or what not on the same continent? It's between the two towns... walk right from there and there will be an area called the "Magic... something". It doesn't look like a mountain piece that you can USUALLY walk into, but just go there and it'll pop up. Frog FMV and then you'll go to Magnus'.

[Sousa]

No, the sword says Melchior, and to Melchior it must go.

Go to Medina Village in 1000 A.D. Leave the monster's house and go west. Melchior's Hut is at the base of the mountain, and he'll tell you how to get the Masamune reforged.

[apsham]

Oh right, I assumed he had reforged it for some reason. Yeah. Then go do what I said.

[Sousa]

No, then you go back to caveman times and Ayla has implied lesbo secks with Lucca.

[apsham]

God dammit. JUST REMEMBER MY THING THEN.

[Sousa]

FUCK YOU GIGA GAIA

Seriously, I hated forgetting the extremely easy strategy for this wide-eyed bastard. I died about ten times before I remembered Falcon Strike.

[apsham]

I'm stuck right now on trying to beat the Lavos spawn to get Chrono back.

[Sousa]

Attack the heads and you'll be past that shit like I am, ready to smash the Colossal Spike-Bug of Time your own damn self.