Board 8 > I'm gonna play Chrono Trigger for the first time.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I bought the DS version. It's arriving on Monday.

I know very little about it. I know there's Crono, Frog, Magus, Robo, and time travel. Nothing specific.

I hope it lives up to expectations!
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Robo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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i want in!
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still want in btw
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tag
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Ah yes, I remember MY first time.

Tag.
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Excellent game. Should be an interesting topic
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Peridiam posted...

I hope it lives up to expectations!

Probably not
It's overrated because it was most people first RPG
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That's just dumb, Nanis. Not that anyone here would expect otherwise though
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Tag
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FF7 would be my bet for the most common "first RPG" of us, and I'd imagine many of them played at least one other FF game before playing CT. It was probably my third or fourth when I played most of it in 2003, and I played a few more RPGs by the time I beat it on the DS around 2012.

For people whose first RPG was on the SNES, I bet there's a good chance SMRPG was their first too.


(Makes me wonder how many people's first RPG was made by some company other than Square, yeesh)
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My first rpg was Final Fantasy 1 and I played it on the NES.

Chrono Trigger was so many years later and is still amazing. It WILL live up to all the hype but you'll still be hungry.
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Nanis23 posted...

Peridiam posted...

I hope it lives up to expectations!

Probably not
It's overrated because it was most people first RPG

Wait, what

What makes you draw that conclusion
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Nanis23 posted...

it was most people first RPG

This is simply not true. FF7 or SMRPG holds that honor.

FF4 and FF6 probably both over it as well. And that's even with excluding the PAL markets that didn't get a version until the DS. If you include them Mystic Quest probably even has it beat.
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kevwaffles posted...

If you include them Mystic Quest probably even has it beat.

Chanukah '92.

And that was 2.5 years before CT.
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HashtagSEP posted...

Nanis23 posted...

Peridiam posted...

I hope it lives up to expectations!

Probably not
It's overrated because it was most people first RPG

Wait, what

What makes you draw that conclusion

Nanis opinions
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I doubt I would consider it one of the best of all time if I played it for the first time today.

However I finished Chrono Cross about 4 or 5 times before I tried Chrono Trigger. I used to really love Chrono Cross, but now I can't see it as anything else than a not worthy sequel.
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HaRRicH posted...

FF7 would be my bet for the most common "first RPG" of us, and I'd imagine many of them played at least one other FF game before playing CT. It was probably my third or fourth when I played most of it in 2003, and I played a few more RPGs by the time I beat it on the DS around 2012.

For people whose first RPG was on the SNES, I bet there's a good chance SMRPG was their first too.


(Makes me wonder how many people's first RPG was made by some company other than Square, yeesh)

you're looking at it with a 90s perspective. I'd be a little surprised if someone under the age of 21 had the same experience.
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pretty sure harrich is referring to the population of b8

the under-21 population of b8 is near-statistically-insignificant
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If you're looking for under 21s it's probably P4 or ffx
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or Pokemon, that's almost definitely it for anyone under 25
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True, for some reason I don't think Pokemon when I think JRPG, but I absolutely should.
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Shining Force 1 was my first. I was 6 and my brother had in on our computer but I don't think that was the theme of this topic lol
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Yeah, I was running with the B8 perspective because I didn't think Nanis actually believed CT was the first RPG for people in general. I could probably broaden this to GameFAQs in general, but not like the world or anything.
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Back in my day, playthru topics were about the actual playthru. Not sure I care for this newfangled trend.
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I'm not 100% sure I'm gonna make a playthrough topic. I just wanted to make this topic cause it's been a long time coming.

But maybe I'll share my thoughts as I go through it.
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Got the game! And it comes with an instruction manual! :D
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hype.

what are your expectations for it?

i won't comment on them!
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Zylothewolf posted...

However I finished Chrono Cross about 4 or 5 times before I tried Chrono Trigger. I used to really love Chrono Cross, but now I can't see it as anything else than a not worthy sequel.

*deep breaths*
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Prepare for one of the best JRPG experiences ever.
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Prepare for one of the best experiences in your life. Nothing else that could ever happen to you will compare. You might as well lie down and die after the end credits because there will be no point in doing anything else.

But I don't want to overhype it.
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It's a fine game -- I don't have many flaws with it. #1 RPG? Nah, there's several I prefer and this isn't really my genre of choice anyway...but it's put together well and you may be humming its music by the time you're done.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

hype.

what are your expectations for it?

i won't comment on them!

I'm expecting old school FF. But... I guess better, with time travel.

I really don't have a lot of experience with old (or new) JRPG's like the rest of B8. I've only played FF1 (and beat it!).

Growing up my favorite RPG's were Golden Sun, The Lost Age, and Lunar Legend. I also liked Dragon Warrior. I feel like I've played more but it's been a while.
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you'll like it. CT is probably the easiest Japanese RPG to like. it does a whole lot right and, most importantly, very little wrong.
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I played it for 20 mins. Feels like the Golden Sun intro. Woke up to a festival happening! Game seems pretty standard. I'm Crono, I named Lucca, and then went to the festival.

I bet on the GI Jogger and he won! Exciting. I spoke to everyone, learned some lore, and then bumped into a girl who dropped her pendant. Marle, right? She really likes that pendant.

And now I've time traveled in order to find her. That was a bizarre turn.
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Peridiam posted...

And now I've time traveled in order to find her. That was a bizarre turn.

it begins!

this description of the millennium fair was disturbingly lacking in metal joints and silver points though
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The real question is did you eat the lunch?!?!?!?!
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I didn't encounter a lunch, I think!

I had accrued about 22 silver points, spent 10 trying to guess the right soldier in the tent on the right. Got it wrong. Didn't realize I was actually trying to guess who was who.

I have a bad habit of playing my 3DS late at night in bed, right before I fall asleep. I'll have to change that.
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I had accrued about 22 silver points

So you beat up Gato 1.4 times?
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Peridiam posted...

I didn't encounter a lunch, I think!

Good man.
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SmartMuffin posted...

I had accrued about 22 silver points

So you beat up Gato 1.4 times?

I won the race and hit the bell twice.
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someone didn't go left in the fair poor gato :(
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man you already missed the best part of the game
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Go left when you come back from time.
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I'll do my best not to disappoint.

No promises though.
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Playing more. Actually focusing a bit this time and not playing at midnight.

So I've gone back 400 years to around 600 AD. After Death? Same town. Guardia? The war with the Fiendlord (love this name) is waging. Queen Leene (does that rhyme?) went missing but then returned. A Bell is being built in her honor. Crono brings up the Millenial Fair but that's crazy talk.

I like how how this one guy in town is chugging a pint and you can't interact with him until he finishes. Also how Crono shakes his head to indicate 'no' all the time.

I'm getting strong Golden Sun vibes which I love. I suspect GS was inspired by this game given it started to get produced a few years after CT came out.
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Golden Sun is so much better than Chrono Trigger though
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if anything, "overrated game because it was most people's first RPG" fits golden sun way more than chrono trigger
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