ITT: games that are touted as the best in genre but no one can back up why
ITT: games that are touted as the best in genre but no one can back up why
Noah Lewis
Other urls found in this thread:
Dylan King
PROS
>frog character
>robot character
>music
CONS
>miserably clunky combat
>shallow depth
>slow pacing
>anime art style
>mindless combat
James Mitchell
Chrono Trigger is honestly not very good.
It has a boring combat system that is a clunky hybrid of turn-based and real-time (ATB). Enemies pose no threat and deal a fraction of the damage the player character is capable of dishing out. There's almost no interesting spells or status effects, almost every ability simply deals damage. Dual/triple techs are just boring variations on the same 'do tons of damage' or 'heal tons of HP' template.
There's barely any exploration, it's a time travel game that is somehow completely on rails. Your only choice is how soon you want to end the game by teleporting to Lavos, and even that is realistically only a choice on New Game Plus.
It has incredibly shallow writing. Not a single character has a distinct voice, apart from Frog's heavy-handed Ye Olde English shtick. Everyone is a cliched archetype, the rebellious princess, the geeky scientist anime girl, the noble knight suffering from a curse, etc. We don't even know a single thing about Crono, ostensibly the main character. What does he do for a living? Does he still go to school? That's how barebones the narrative is.
The multiple endings are even shallower than the overall narrative: they're either superficial variations on the same happy ending, or even worse, easter egg/joke endings. They're completely pointless and contribute nothing to the game.
Time travel is not even used in any meaningful way: instead of traveling back in time to prevent Lavos from becoming a threat, the characters travel forward in time to face him at the height of his powers and beat him up. The doom of all mankind, that destroyed a sci-fi civilization with advanced weaponry, can be punched to death by three teenagers. How does that make sense?
It's not awful, but the fact that its voted as nr. 1 rpg of all time in literally every top rpg list is absurd. I can only assume it's because of nostalgia due to people having grown up with it in their formative years.
Michael Moore
there are at least five documentations on Chrono Trigger being an effective video game which are held in esteem by major critics
Henry Cook
>miserably clunky combat
>shallow depth
>mindless combat
>>hurr lemme repeat myself 3 times to make it seem worse
>slow pacing
Wrong
>anime art style
Cringe amerifat o
David Anderson
It has been validated for decades but obviously a retarded piece of shit zoomer would not know this.
Ryder Phillips
It's actually one of the worst RPGs ever made.
>2d graphics
>made in japan
>dragon ball artstyle
>generic grpg gameplay
>world is very empty and boring
Andrew Walker
I recently got into Nintendo RPGS and completed and loved Earthbound and i tried Chrono Trigger but it really wasn't that fun, all the bosses had some gimmick which when you found out, you could just spam aoe heal and do the one move other and other til dead
the other battles were easy and boring, i love time travel stuff but the story was too simple, like it was made for kids (guess it was)
Thomas Reyes
This might be the absolute laziest bait I have ever seen
Michael Foster
>DUDE THE GAME PEOPLE LIKE IS BAD PLEASE FOR CHIST SAKE LISTEN TO ME ITS FRIGGIN BAD its bad not good! Ugh its just so overrated, good thing I was here to give it a real second look. Hopefully the internet's opinion will now shift that I, the main character of life, has made my declaration
Fuck this gay site, especially this board. Even this on topic discussion is so passive aggressive and pathetic.
Brody Edwards
I love it when someone tries so hard to samefag by changing his IPs every post but have no one actually talk to each other so you have an equal amount of IPs and posts with no one responding to each other
Cameron Garcia
Maybe they have different IPs because they're literally not the same person
Nolan Price
Why wouldn’t they be agreeing with each other about how bad the game is then?
Justin Garcia
Does it really bother you that I like the game?
Hunter Morgan
I played it as an old man on an emulator with no nostalgia.
That game made me FEEL something, something special I only felt with the best games. I use it as a reference for other games. I wish I was a better wordsmith but damn this was a good fun game with a fantastic score
Thomas Rodriguez
I've never finished a JRPG, or SRPG, or what have you pick-the-attack/magic/buff/debuff/item-from the-list game other than Pokemon Red when I was too young to know better games. They're all so tedious.
Angel Murphy
I only played the DS version. Did I play it wrong?
Samuel Morris
You should try CT, it’s not really much of an actual jrpg but a solid time with music and pixel art
Brandon Carter
I did.
Grayson Price
hi its me the dipshit contrarian
Aaron Moore
How much time did you put on it?
The only bad versions of the game are the PS version and the original Steam version.
They’ve actually cleaned up the steam port quite nicely. I prefer SNES translations but it doesn’t matter much
Levi Sanchez
Meant to address
Jace Peterson
so much samefagging
James Price
It's too far back to remember much, maybe 10 hours.
Brayden Perez
It was popular then and it is popular now. It doesn't matter whether you can articulate the reason behind it or not.
Juan Wright
ur mum was popular then and your (half) sisters are popular now lmao
Bentley Cruz
It's a great game. Better than FF6 in every way.
Thomas Allen
>held in esteem by major critics
>major critics
>of video games
Jason White
asking Yea Forums about games or reading videogames reviews?
which poison should i pick?
Blake Rivera
Chrono Trigger was the first SNES game I ever finished and I loved every second of it. I was born in 1999, the nostalgia argument is invalid.
Landon Gray
Ask for something in the middle of a semi-related thread.
That way you don’t attract dedicated autists
Aiden Torres
SPBP. This is why I can't take people seriously when they treat Chrono Trigger as the Holy Grail of RPGs. It's so overly simplistic. There's no strategy. There's no challenge. It's a time travel game, but it is extremely linear.
James Wood
>>>rules/2
Daniel Martin
samefag
Cameron Perry
Try again, kid. Do you need a safe space so no one criticizes your precious Baby's First RPG?
Logan Cruz
Every Square game is extremely linear. Not sure where this muh linear meme came from after FF13 came out. They're all like that.
Gavin Morris
ok OP
Anthony Ward
This entire series, basically. They claim it's the best in the genre yet Fire Emblem fans can't even agree on which games in the series are good lol
Elijah Anderson
Ian Diaz
Grayson King
lol excuse me?
Jose Hall
>using Baby First as an argument
opinion discarded.
Jack Jackson
>expecting a dumb CTbaby to even know what SaGa is
Grayson Murphy
obsessed
Mason Lewis
>great artstyle
>memorable characters
>great music
>gameplay is the best of its era when compared to other top dogs (Dragon quest, Final fantasy 456)
and before you say its nostalgia, it came out a year before i was born.
Nicholas Rodriguez
>>gameplay is the best of its era
>simplistic menu-based combat (with the added shittiness of ATB)
>best of its era
Eli Gomez
>miserably clunky combat
I fucking stopped here.
Mason Perez
FUCK OFF WRPG-KUN
Gavin Jones
Good post. Agree 100%
Christopher Diaz
Bad post. Disagree 100%.
Logan Harris
FF6 is a better game than Dark Sun. And I am a CRPG fag.
Luis Flores
>It has incredibly shallow writing
I guess the game and you have something in common.
Jaxon Evans
>FF6 is a better game than Dark Sun.
>And I am a CRPG fag.
Well the last word of that sentence is certainly accurate.
Grayson Anderson
whatever wrpg fag.
Josiah Morgan
Andrew Clark
Based and t'rang-pilled.
Logan Ross
Cameron Taylor
Shitty thread
Kevin Phillips
This is a high brow insult
Christian Sanders
>japanese game
>best at anything
Fucking wrong. They will forever be trying to play catch up to the West.
Luke Rodriguez
>The definitive Zelda game.
>It improved so much over the first Zelda.
It's not that difficult to improve on a mess of a game.
Benjamin Ward
keep seething wrpg-kun.