Is anyone waiting on Chrono Trigger DS?

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:22 pm

Gil_Hamilton wrote:No, because I haven't touched my SNES cart in a few years, after playing it to death.
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And the fact that I'm not looking forward to it doesn't mean I won't wind up buying it anyways. I know me.

Square-Enix whore!

OK, yeah I tend ot fall for their shit too. >.> If I liked CT I'd probably be foaming at the mouth over this until it came out, then whine when I couldn't buy it due to being poor.

fbb · Post by **fbb** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:45 pm

good times when Square was only SQUARESOFT
and Enix just ENIX

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:01 am

Square was well into its' whoring ways long before Enix bought them. >.>

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:34 am

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/medi ... 9&MedTID=1

Judging by those screenshots, I think CT will look alright on the DS.

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:45 am

creaothceann wrote:Horizontal stretching (the "elastic band" effect) is not needed, only vertical stretching.

Way to dodge (or miss?) the point.

Never mind.

Yes, maybe not 100% pretty, but still readable.

You mean "completely unacceptable for any sort of commercial release". It's not even the text so much as the graphics. Imagine you'd have to look at that fullscreen on a DS where, due to the small size and resolution, you're much more focused on individual pixels than usual. Zoom in and look at the tiny portraits. Look at poor Marle's face! Why do this, when you can just make the viewing window smaller by a tiny bit and prevent mangling the whole screen?

Square would never do that in a million years, and if they did, they'd be lynched.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 2:16 am

or you pussies could just get a PSP, play the snes version, any number of hacked snes versions, or even the PS1 version. DS lmao.

fbb · Post by **fbb** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:22 am

oh yeah, sure.

but first i'll finish god of war 2 on my ps2 emulator.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:00 am

fbb wrote:oh yeah, sure.

but first i'll finish god of war 2 on my ps2 emulator.

Bwahahahahahahaha

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:04 am

Never played CT. Worth it?

fbb · Post by **fbb** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:19 am

Never played CT. Worth it?

Some people describe it as the best RPG of all times.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:51 am

I.S.T. wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:No, because I haven't touched my SNES cart in a few years, after playing it to death.
...
And the fact that I'm not looking forward to it doesn't mean I won't wind up buying it anyways. I know me.
Square-Enix whore!

OK, yeah I tend ot fall for their shit too. >.> If I liked CT I'd probably be foaming at the mouth over this until it came out, then whine when I couldn't buy it due to being poor.

Not so much a Squeenix whore as someone that really liked CT.

Hell, it took a conscious act of will to not buy Lunar Legends and Lunar: Dragon Song. Even AFTER I played a friend's copy of Legends and saw how fucked it was.

fbb wrote:
Never played CT. Worth it?
Some people describe it as the best RPG of all times.

Some people exaggerate.

It IS an audio-visual masterpiece(Well, visual masterpiece for an SNES game...), and has a hell of a lot of replay value, and it's reasonably well-written.
But it's not the best ever. I'd probably place it in the top 5 JRPGs, though.

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:25 am

snkcube wrote:http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/medi ... 9&MedTID=1

Judging by those screenshots, I think CT will look alright on the DS.

General and battle menus actually look like they'll be fun to use with the touch screen. Maybe I'll try this out on a kiosk or something.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:36 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
I.S.T. wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:No, because I haven't touched my SNES cart in a few years, after playing it to death.
...
And the fact that I'm not looking forward to it doesn't mean I won't wind up buying it anyways. I know me.
Square-Enix whore!

OK, yeah I tend ot fall for their shit too. >.> If I liked CT I'd probably be foaming at the mouth over this until it came out, then whine when I couldn't buy it due to being poor.
Not so much a Squeenix whore as someone that really liked CT.

Hell, it took a conscious act of will to not buy Lunar Legends and Lunar: Dragon Song. Even AFTER I played a friend's copy of Legends and saw how fucked it was.

How'd they fucked up LL? I was under the impression it was a faithful port of the SCD version minus awesome soundtrack.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:55 am

gllt wrote:Never played CT. Worth it?

Were you born on a farm son?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:28 am

I.S.T. wrote: How'd they fucked up LL? I was under the impression it was a faithful port of the SCD version minus awesome soundtrack.

HAHAHAHAHAHA... no.

It's a remake of the Silver Star Story remake.
I could write a BOOK about what's wrong with Silver Star Story, but only because I'm an obsessive fanboy.

Unfortunately, it's a BAD remake. Aside from the poor music(NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!), lack of animated cutscenes(Not even the barely-animated Silver Star-style ones. Just static pictures.), and FOR FUCK'S SAKE, IT'S SILVER STAR STORY AGAIN!, the biggest problem is they totally pitched the old battle engine, which had already seen a major dumbing down in SSS and even further in EB Remix.
It's straight Final Fantasy now. One global item bag, location on the battlefield is meaningless except for attack/defense, limit bar, etc.

Hell, they use a Lunar 2 tune on the title screen. That's how off-track they were.
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That's also the root of what's wrong with SSS, IMO. They were trying to make it more like Eternal Blue and less like Silver Star.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:30 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
I.S.T. wrote: How'd they fucked up LL? I was under the impression it was a faithful port of the SCD version minus awesome soundtrack.
HAHAHAHAHAHA... no.

It's a remake of the Silver Star Story remake.
I could write a BOOK about what's wrong with Silver Star Story, but only because I'm an obsessive fanboy.

Unfortunately, it's a BAD remake. Aside from the poor music(NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!), lack of animated cutscenes(Not even the barely-animated Silver Star-style ones. Just static pictures.), and FOR FUCK'S SAKE, IT'S SILVER STAR STORY AGAIN!, the biggest problem is they totally pitched the old battle engine, which had already seen a major dumbing down in SSS and even further in EB Remix.
It's straight Final Fantasy now. One global item bag, location on the battlefield is meaningless except for attack/defense, limit bar, etc.

...Well, monkeyfuck.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:31 am

I.S.T. wrote: ...Well, monkeyfuck.

Indeed.

I had to actually play it to convince myself that it wasn't worth the money.

Dragon Song, I had no such problems with, though.

Sad how far Game Arts has fallen.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:15 am

Deathlike2 wrote:
gllt wrote:Never played CT. Worth it?
Were you born on a farm son?

To be fair I've never heard of CT until I started using SNES emulators (which was back in 2003) so..

Not to mention there's plenty of other good gems I haven't heard of (besides the non-US releases anyway.)

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:44 pm

Hey Gil, mind reminding me which it is already: Gideon is a traitor, or Gideon is NOT a traitor ?

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:47 pm

Why would they remake it to shitty 3d graphics like FFIV? And no, you wouldn't need to stretch anything, you'd crop it vertically and reposition some things. There's a giant empty black bar on most screens at the bottom, why wouldn't you want that cropped out?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:39 pm

grinvader wrote:Hey Gil, mind reminding me which it is already: Gideon is a traitor, or Gideon is NOT a traitor ?

I'm hoping you don't mean Louis Cypher.

fbb · Post by **fbb** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:55 am

Why would they remake it to shitty 3d graphics like FFIV?

well
i think its better than releasing ANOTHER port of the same game.
a 3d remake makes people interested in playing it again.

i tried ffiv ds and i have to say it looks like a completely new game.
and the graphics when looked through the ds screen are good

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:05 am

adventure_of_link wrote:
grinvader wrote:Hey Gil, mind reminding me which it is already: Gideon is a traitor, or Gideon is NOT a traitor ?
I'm hoping you don't mean Louis Cypher.

Agreed.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:55 am

neoblaze wrote:Needs moar Mother 3!

coming soon in the form of a translation patch download near you!

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:53 am

grinvader wrote:Hey Gil, mind reminding me which it is already: Gideon is a traitor, or Gideon is NOT a traitor ?

I'm gonna need some context.