Obsidian wants to make Chrono Trigger sequel

[Magus]

The brilliant minds behind Alpha Protocol and Sequel: The Second One want to make... Chrono Trigger?!

What can possibly go wrong?

[MRevelle83]

Re: Obsidian wants to make Chrono Trigger sequel

Obsidian's a good developer when not rushed. However, if they completely screw it up with no hope of redemption, then...

it'll be in the same league as Trigger's other sequel, Chrono Cross.

[Goufunaki]

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I got as far as playing a bit as Lynx in Chrono Cross before saying, "**** this" and pretended that CT has no sequels.

Best chance of a new sequel would be to ignore the prequels and start fresh with time travel. Time travel. Not ****ing god damn alternate universes of the present to jump back and forth, I need some mother ****ing time travel. And with CC trying to be a direct sequel to CT, it didn't work for me because without Toriyama's style, it's not even the same world.

There's other points in time to explore that CT never did, so a sequel needs to take advantage of it.

[John Mora]

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Not ****ing god damn alternate universes of the present to jump back and forth . . . without Toriyama's style, it's not even the same world.

[Denmo]

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These guys did Neverwinter Nights, KotOR 2, and are doing Fallout New Vegas.

....

All hope is lost?

[DK]

Re: Obsidian wants to make Chrono Trigger sequel

KOTOR 2 and NWN2 were pretty awful :V


And I loved Chrono Cross you rubes.

[John Mora]

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So did I.

Guess we should wait for the flood of rep comments from closeted Chrono Cross fans!

Or those people could man up and post their support for it in this topic.

[Hrafn]

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KotOR 2 gets a bad rap. I enjoyed the first 90% of it quite a bit. Was it as good as 1? No. But it's still fairly well-written, introduces some fun new elements to the game (especially randomized item drops and loot, that is essential for a game like this which demands multiple playthroughs), and gave us one of the better RPG characters I can think of, G0-T0. Granted, he's no HK-47 (who is?), but if you actually take the time to gain his trust and whatnot, he instantly jumps from the least interesting character of the new additions to perhaps the most.

Chrono Cross was impressive and innovative from a gameplay standpoint, and I'd have loved to see more games explore some of what they thought up. Story-wise, yeah, it wasn't good. Bloated, meandering, and a cast so incredibly overpopulated that it had not, one, but TWO sentient pieces of vegetation as playable characters. That's just nutty right there. In any case, rather see Obsidian do it than Squeenix (I don't want to think of the abomination Square would churn out given their present day lack of quality), so let's hope something comes of this.

[John Mora]

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I liked the fact that the Chrono Triggers paid consequences for playing god and altering history. I liked the soundtrack. I liked the colorful graphics. I liked the huge cast because that meant I could pick a group of characters I, personally, enjoyed rather than getting stuck with a group of people the developers insisted I have. I like the plot of the game in general, the only criticism I have of it is that they stuck a great deal of it at the end of the game.

[Riotsword]

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At first I liked Chrono Cross enough to finish it but I never really liked it as far as a "sequel". I bought it again years later and thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it on my second playthrough. I really liked how battles, especially against bosses, became strategic rather than an Attack-then-heal-spam-a-thon.

[Magus]

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I'm replaying Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross right now. RIGHT NOW. AS WE'RE TALKING HERE TOGETHER. AT THE SAME TIME.

And hey, listen. Chrono Cross is pretty good. The music's phenomenal. The graphics are so colorful. The gameplay's ****in' solid. You can run away from every battle. It's a more complicated game than Chrono Trigger, in like, every way. It complements its predecessor pretty well. Replaying it now the plot makes a lot more sense and there's actually a fair amount of foreshadowing to everything. Worldbuilding even! And it's an interesting world.

Are the accents a little much? Sure. When Harle says you should visit your "modder" she really means your "mother." And when she says that you HAVE to do it to continue the game. Hope you understand ze French haugh haugh.

Can the fat get trimmed? Oh yeah. I just finished the S.S. Zelbess now and I couldn't give a rat's butt about Sneff or Fargo or Irenes. **** was dull. But hey, I'm on my way to the Dead Sea and I'm gonna enjoy that. Hopefully!

But WHO AM I to defend Chrono Cross next to Jeremy Parish? He's a real video game journalist. And that guy loves Chrono Cross. Why, it even changed his life!

http://www.gamespite.net/toastywiki/...ssStar-Crossed

Now read that and relax:

[Denmo]

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Chrono Cross is the only OST I own.

[AbstractOrigin]

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As much as I loved Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross,
I'd like that Obsidian and other developers should stay away from this one.
Just leave the series be as it is.

Obsidian is a solid developer (though I thought Alpha Protocol
was annoying as hell to play), but I don't think they can really deliver
the same quality that made both earlier entries classics in their own right.

[Hrafn]

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I liked the fact that the Chrono Triggers paid consequences for playing god and altering history. I liked the soundtrack. I liked the colorful graphics. I liked the huge cast because that meant I could pick a group of characters I, personally, enjoyed rather than getting stuck with a group of people the developers insisted I have. I like the plot of the game in general, the only criticism I have of it is that they stuck a great deal of it at the end of the game.

But how could you enjoy them? The vast size of the cast took its toll in fleshing out the characters; for most of them, calling them one-note might have been generous.

The music, yes. It was perhaps the last great original Square soundtrack, and in that regard at least it was a proper follow-up.

The story, really, it didn't fit together at all. It was all over the map, and that scattershot approach helped to quash the dramatic appeal it should have had from its basic premise and late game reveals.

Still, for all it did wrong, it did a lot right. It probably wouldn't make a list of my top 10 all-time RPGs, but 20, yeah. If nothing else, I like that in the age of non-regenerating MP as the norm, this was one of the first games to allow you to have 'magic' that didn't have to be hoarded for the boss. You could kill even the weakest of foes with a level 8 summon if you felt like it, why not? That, the unorthodox level system, the extremely fun monster-fight thing on the Zelbess, those were the sorts of experiences that brought me back. Not eco-drivel with dwarves and fairies or Frenchy dragons hurling big blocks of accented text while walking on walls. Get enough of that tripe with Kojima.

[highwind]

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i'm just here for this guy