Chrono Trigger, one of the best JRPGs of all time, is on discount right now (70-75%, depending on platforms)

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I'm never going to replay this game, but I would like a proper soundtrack that hasn't been mangled from the days of Napster.
 
Bought it on steam. It's literally the price of a coffee.

Will probably hold off on replaying it just yet in case Square actually has some new version to announce this year (99% chance they don't but, hey, you never know)
 
Unfortunately, I can't get into the combat system, I'm fine with traditional turn based combat (like Pokemon games) but this has a waiting bar and active time combat stuff which I didn't enjoy so much.
 
Bought this along with RE: Village during the sale.

I'm gonna beat Village first so I can settle in with Chrono Trigger. My girl is out of town this weekend, so it's on boyieeeeees.
 
Instead of buying breakfast at Chick Fil A I bought this instead.
I beat it back in the day but you never know when I may want to play it again. The experience will feel fresh since it's been so long.
 
adamsapple said:
What's "upgrade ver" and how is it different?
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There used to be a super-duper bare-bones port on Android (WAY back in the day). It was basically a wrapped SNES ROM with a touchscreen overlay. The "Upgrade Ver." that's available now is more like the PC port - added PS1 anime cutscenes, added (most) of the DS end-game content, added controller support, etc.
 
For me, its the absolute GOAT in every genre or generation. I truly hope they bring it back somehow.
 
jshackles said:
There used to be a super-duper bare-bones port on Android (WAY back in the day). It was basically a wrapped SNES ROM with a touchscreen overlay. The "Upgrade Ver." that's available now is more like the PC port - added PS1 anime cutscenes, added (most) of the DS end-game content, added controller support, etc.
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Gotcha, thanks.

Looks like it's the version to get for future proofing.

The PS1 port version is absolute fucking TRASH.
 
BennyBlanco said:
This game is something else. SNES was peak gaming.
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Bro...you're top tier real shit bro. Why you always have on point taste and opinions? We had the raddest childhoods dude, I want the 90's back. Simpler time for the industry, but in a way it was a much healthier environment for nurturing true creativity and exploration of the medium. Small teams meant far less budget being at risk, so big publishers really took chances back then and dared to he completely different. That's still alive today, but mostly in the indie scene, and only to an extent, as it's still incredibly risky to even develop anything these days with how expensive just getting by is compared to back then. I like the graphical advancements, but I'd almost trade slower progress in the industry to have had more generations of gameplay and story innovation like we did in the late 80's through the early 00's. Eh....random thought. Excuse my rambling.
 
Square deep discounting this game alongside their recent comments about the 30th anniversary is giving me hope for some kind of HD-2D remake/remaster...

Don't play with my feelings like that...
 
Rocinante618 said:
Unfortunately, I can't get into the combat system, I'm fine with traditional turn based combat (like Pokemon games) but this has a waiting bar and active time combat stuff which I didn't enjoy so much.
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Turn on Wait mode and it'll do what you want when you're in an item or tech menu during battle.
 
poodaddy said:
Bro...you're top tier real shit bro. Why you always have on point taste and opinions? We had the raddest childhoods dude, I want the 90's back. Simpler time for the industry, but in a way it was a much healthier environment for nurturing true creativity and exploration of the medium. Small teams meant far less budget being at risk, so big publishers really took chances back then and dared to he completely different. That's still alive today, but mostly in the indie scene, and only to an extent, as it's still incredibly risky to even develop anything these days with how expensive just getting by is compared to back then. I like the graphical advancements, but I'd almost trade slower progress in the industry to have had more generations of gameplay and story innovation like we did in the late 80's through the early 00's. Eh....random thought. Excuse my rambling.
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Hell yeah bro. This is why I loved GBA, DS, and 3DS. We had a solid extra decade of great devs making games that had to run on potatoes. GBA was like a SNES successor to me. I love the modern indie scene but it's not the same. You just had to be there.
 
adamsapple said:
Gotcha, thanks.

Looks like it's the version to get for future proofing.

The PS1 port version is absolute fucking TRASH.
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Sounds like you heard that somewhere... the PS1 version running on something OTHER than a PS1... like with faster loading so the gaps calm down a bit when you open the menu - is actually fine. Remember that port is the closest CHRONOlogically to the original release anyway... but yeah in its base form on PSX the load times were weird -but the cutscenes are a gift they keep using in future ports that wouldnt exist without that port.
 
loktaiextatus said:
Sounds like you heard that somewhere... the PS1 version running on something OTHER than a PS1... like with faster loading so the gaps calm down a bit when you open the menu - is actually fine. Remember that port is the closest CHRONOlogically to the original release anyway... but yeah in its base form on PSX the load times were weird -but the cutscenes are a gift they keep using in future ports that wouldnt exist without that port.
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I've extensively played the PS1 version on EPSXE back in the day, the frame skipping to make the game run at 300% speed makes it BEARABLE but it is still atrocious how they ruined the port. They added load times on a fucking SNES rom. If you insert the PSX CD in a PC CD-ROM, you can actually see the SNES ROM file in there.

Fortunately the other game in that collection, FF IV, did not have that kind of issues on the PS1 port.


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Turn on Wait mode and it'll do what you want when you're in an item or tech menu during battle.
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Do you still have to wait for each characters bars to fill? imo this is my main grip.

ah, fuck it, I'll retry playing this, let me buy it and try it again, everyone unequivocally says this is one of the best games. I never played more than ~2 hours, so let me push ahead.
 
For that price, I'm interested. I have an Android phone and an ipad... So where do I get it? Android or iOS?
 
Gamer_By_Proxy said:
Bought it. If this game on steam deck can't get me into turn based jrpg's, I don't think anything will.
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It doesn't work very well on steam deck, most proton versions have a severe frame skipping bar one which just has minor frame skipping when playing portably. Playing it docked induces the stuttering again, haven't found a proton layer to fix it.
 
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I owned this on ds and got quite far but my save got corrupted so I sent it back to the shop in frustration. Just brought the steam version.
 
BennyBlanco said:
Hell yeah bro. This is why I loved GBA, DS, and 3DS. We had a solid extra decade of great devs making games that had to run on potatoes. GBA was like a SNES successor to me. I love the modern indie scene but it's not the same. You just had to be there.
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Bro, countless hours on GBA. The GBA and DS is like peek Nintendo to me, they were firing on all cylinders and the 3rd party support was insane. What a great time for portables back then man. I still got my New3DSXL here, plugged in and ready to go with tons of games on there, and of course if I get a physical game I can pop them in too. I love the Switch, but there's something about the games of that previous era. It didn't feel like you were playing cut down versions of a game meant to run well on an aging Tegra chip, or great running Nintendo first party titles that would probably look better and run better on PC through emulation, it felt like you were playing perfectly running games that were designed explicitly for the GBA or DS, because they were, so they just worked absolutely flawlessly for the system and the game was completely designed around hitting those specs, and you never felt like that wasn't the best version of the game, well at least not usually. I love PC, glad everything goes to it now, but damn that was a special era, when games were truly made around hardware in a very specific manner, and they didn't feel compromised by said hardware.

Halcyon days.
 
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