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
― thomp, Saturday, 25 July 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― la saucisse est une femme? (Euler), Saturday, 25 July 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit he cut a mountain in half
― la saucisse est une femme? (Euler), Saturday, 25 July 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, this isn't really capturing my imagination yet? I have barely started but it feels real static. I will soldier on.
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 July 2009 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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 ;____;
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
also its probably not captureing ure imagination because ures is the imagination of a jaded 40 year old or w/e
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
nm, found the adapter!!!!! time to son some fools
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
[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 ;_;
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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
~_~
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
damn i could really use a new controller, my down button and start button have to be pressed super hard to work :[
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i love that you bothered to find the character for the star
― thomp, Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i futzed around in the fair for a while and then said fuckit and started a new game of KOTOR :/
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
mmmmm hmmmmm!
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 26 July 2009 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― la saucisse est une femme? (Euler), Sunday, 26 July 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Still playing this, just got out of jail free.Everybody still going?
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 July 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Thursday, 30 July 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 July 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 July 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Lamp, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm looking for the doll to resurrect Chrono.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Lamp, Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
kickass, will start in a few mins
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking skeleton motherfucker in the sunken desert, cannot beat
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― Nhex, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― thomp, Thursday, 30 July 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Saturday, 1 August 2009 08:09 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Saturday, 1 August 2009 08:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Sunday, 2 August 2009 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
MKDS is the best
xposts ;_; i remember
― Nhex, Sunday, 2 August 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― thomp, Sunday, 2 August 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Sunday, 2 August 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― yes! no rabies! (Lamp), Sunday, 2 August 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― wide swing juggalo (Euler), Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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~
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
hey Euler, you got the "secret" character, right?
― Nhex, Sunday, 2 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
only the secret tech called having a soul
― Nhex, Sunday, 2 August 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it's been so hard not to spoil that for euler
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm playin thru the factory rn, and can i just say that this game owns as hard as ever?
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
the part where robo gets gangraped by his old buddies.... d-damn
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
this game is so evocative, moreso than most modern stuff i've played... the time traveling noises, the fukkin end of time, everything.... dang
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
fukkin spekkio
scott spekkio
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 2 August 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ade r u going to finish this within 24 hours now
― thomp, Sunday, 2 August 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link