Another day, another top RPG list where Chrono Trigger ranks #1. And having recently played it for the first time, I don't get it.
Combat is just boring. 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. ATB just encourages mindlessly bashing the attack button as soon as possible to prevent enemies from getting hits in.
There's barely any exploration, it's a time travel game that is paradoxicallty 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? Where did he learn swordplay? 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?
Post nudes of yourself holding a copy of the game for proof.
Justin Johnson
Shut the fuck up zoomer. Your opinion is as irrelevant as your existence.
Christopher Taylor
>it's completely on rails >Everyone is a cliched archetype >The doom of all mankind can be punched to death by three teenagers The explanation to all your questions is Japan.
Dominic Diaz
Your story complaint garbage can be explained by supplementary material. It's a nifty RPG from 20+ years ago that doesn't overstay it's welcome. Not every RPG needs to be Wizardry.
Kayden Gomez
>There's barely any exploration, it's a time travel game that is paradoxicallty completely on rails There's literally nothing wrong with it
Isaiah Davis
Shut the fuck up.
Oliver Nelson
>It's a nifty RPG from 20+ years ago that doesn't overstay it's welcome. Not every RPG needs to be Wizardry. So you agree with the OP then? Because the OP didn't say it's the worst RPG ever, they said it isn't deserving of the nr. 1 spot.
>Your story complaint garbage can be explained by supplementary material.
>you need to read material outside the game for the story to make sense >this is supposed to prove the story is good
It's pretty good but I don't get the magic people feel about it. Maybe I've just been spoiled with more complex/enthralling RPGs.
Landon Bailey
You seem like the type of dude that enjoys a rough cornholing.
Jace Perry
I don't know if this is copypasta or what, but either way it is completely true. Most people could agree that Chrono trigger is a good rpg, probably even one of the best, but even putting it in top 20 rpgs of all time, in 2019, is just pure delusion
Compare it with divinity 2 for example, lol
Zachary Reed
I can see how you think such a thing being such a dumb bitch.
Christopher Wright
Not him but can you stop being a butthurt fanboy and provide an actual argument?
James Turner
Can you stop chugging cock?
Cooper Richardson
Someone did a retranslation of the game from the original Japanese.
The official English translation was a fucking hatchet job.
See if you can find the rompatch for that translation - it was a hell of a lot better, and the game was much tighter as a result.
Justin Garcia
look mom I'm being le edgy boomer in the internet again xD
I as well enjoy the taste and smell of twink boipusy.
Brayden Torres
>Time travel is not even used in any meaningful way: T. Ignored all the side quests
Carter Nelson
You are the product of incest.
Jordan Sanchez
Good for you but I don't know what that has to do with anything.
Nathaniel Rivera
you're a jackass
Nathaniel Phillips
This morning my mother poured hot frying grease all over my chest, ass, & genitial. Then I fell down the stairs & my shoes fell off. ,
Nathaniel Gonzalez
I've never really seen chrono trigger but everytime I see the mc I think its a fan made dragonball character
Blake Perry
You're a retard.
Ian Thompson
I don't like Chrono Trigger.
Nicholas Williams
What about the DS retranslation? Is it any better?
Daniel Wilson
It's OK. DS version as a whole is kind of like Beamdog's Baldur's Gate though - mostly the same game, but they just couldn't help adding some new shit content on top.
Brody Watson
This post is why DQ games don't sell outside of Japan.
Tyler Wood
That's an disingenuous comparison given how extremely optional and unintrusive the two new things are.
Hudson Hernandez
Doesn't matter. I love the game , I laugh while playing it, I rage while playing it, I cry;_; when playing it.
>Compare it with divinity 2 for example, lol >Compare a 1995 SNES game with a 2017 PC game It's not like D:OS 2 is a good game either, ironically enough it also shares many of the same problems as CT and a fanbase that is just as deranged.
Eli Kelly
>Compare it with divinity 2 for example, lol >Compare a 1995 SNES game with a 2017 PC game It's not as if CT holds up even when compared to RPGs that are even older than it.
Good gried, you still haven't killed yourself? It must be one hell of an existent to be 24/7 in this shithole, infesting any kind of thread that mention JRPGs to post your retarded image macros. You've been doing this for over a year already.
Brody Bennett
Complexity kills RPGs and games in general. Go stroke your braindick on the last remnant or something, some people play games to have fun.
Liam Morris
>Compare it with divinity 2 for example, lol >Compare a 1995 SNES game with a 2017 PC game How are turn-based games affected by the age of a game, aside from graphics? The original X-COM came out in 1994 and it's still vastly more complex, simulationist and tactically deeper than the modern XCOM games.
Carter Johnson
CT is so good it managed to sneak its way into my top 5 games of all time despite the fact I don't like JRPG's
