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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:
Miguel is probably the coolest character Square ever made. The story of this game is incomprehensible and so many characters are just nothing, but here's a middle-aged nobody fisherman who has been enslaved for eternity by an evil supercomputer from a dead timeline because he accidentally walked into a top-secret listening post from the future, and now he's going to kick the poo poo out of you and all your friends with his Cthulhu power.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:There ought to be an RPG where you recruit a ridiculous number of people, and they can fight every random encounter and boss, balance be damned. Star Ocean: I&F  let you run all 7 party members in combatshame about everything
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Apr 12, 2022 22:15
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When the launcher starts up and the cover of "Sailing (Another World)" plays, the only option is to hear it in full on repeat. It's a missed opportunity there's no "Delete Korcha" mod. Inspector Gesicht fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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Apr 12, 2022 22:26
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This is the remaster CC fans deserve
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worm girl posted:Miguel is probably the coolest character Square ever made. The story of this game is incomprehensible and so many characters are just nothing, but here's a middle-aged nobody fisherman who has been enslaved for eternity by an evil supercomputer from a dead timeline because he accidentally walked into a top-secret listening post from the future, and now he's going to kick the poo poo out of you and all your friends with his Cthulhu power. 
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Apr 13, 2022 07:26
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the story isn't remotely incomprehensible if you're willing to pay attention
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Apr 13, 2022 07:36
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“incoherent” might be more accurate. it’s a story desperately in search of something meaningful to say and spends thousands and thousands of words failing to say it
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Apr 13, 2022 12:38
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Here is an attempt at a mostly non-spoiler summary of who is first recruitable in each section: so basically aside from orange comments that exclude some characters, you SHOULD be able to get everyone under a header before moving onto next header if you are thorough.
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Apr 13, 2022 13:03
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The moral of Chrono Cross is that all dwarves are cunts.
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Apr 13, 2022 13:43
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You can actually get Draggy far earlier by just going back to Dragonia before the game wants you to
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Apr 13, 2022 14:51
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An Actual Princess posted:the story isn't remotely incomprehensible if you're willing to pay attention Eh there is some stuff that's kind of confusing, like "How did FATE make Miguel a Guardian in the Dead Sea and also destroy it after his defeat if FATE doesn't exist in Home World?" Oxxidation posted:“incoherent” might be more accurate. it’s a story desperately in search of something meaningful to say and spends thousands and thousands of words failing to say it I don't know that it's trying to say anything meaningful. It's a story about how Belthasar enacts a 10D chess plan to save Schala after she was absorbed by Lavos at the Ocean Palace. I guess it does touch on a few other topics, which I'll grant it doesn't spend any time on really. I guess one of them is "Humans are destructive" which we see with stuff like the Hydra Marshes, but also with the dragon gods who came from a future where the Reptites coexisted with nature. The big one isn't touched on much either but Lucca's ghost talks about it a little bit, about how she felt sort of guilty because denying the future where Lavos destroyed the world also inadvertently caused a bunch of people who would have existed in that future to cease existing, almost as if they'd killed those people off themselves. She doesn't think that it means it was wrong to defeat Lavos, but it was almost like a "What right do we have to dictate what the future should hold and who should get to exist?" thing. Again, though, it doesn't spend much time on it, I'm not saying it addressed the issue well.
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Apr 13, 2022 14:59
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I think someone either earlier in the thread or in the RPG thread mentioned it, but Chrono Cross' story, such as it is, is mostly a collection of emotionally evocative set pieces moreso than it is a coherent or thought-provoking narrative. It's the equivalent of, say, going into a gallery and staring at Guernica without prior knowledge: it evokes sadness, desperation, and grief, even if the actual context behind those emotions is absent.
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Apr 13, 2022 15:27
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Take that, Guernica!
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Apr 13, 2022 15:35
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I've come around on the remake since it comes with the first legit and objectively best version of Radical Dreamers. Game preservation and all that.
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Apr 13, 2022 15:47
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New overworld map upscale for the remaster from the M&M modding discord: https://discord.com/invite/bSnpVBV https://imgsli.com/MTAzNTg5 There are a couple other releases so far like a pack for upscaled cutscenes, a framelimiter hex edit, portraits https://discord.com/channels/371784427162042368/941109097049235549 Every .dat asset in the remaster is a simple archive that can be opened and modified with 7zip/winrar edit: the hex edit info is also here https://steamcommunity.com/app/1133760/discussions/0/3274688652643641688/ Make a backup of your exe if you're going to apply it with a hex editor like HxD The second option of setting 83 46 14 01 at the first offset and 83 46 14 00 at the second offset has a noticeable difference in fps consistency on my end Gyoru fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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Apr 13, 2022 17:00
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I wanted to play this on ps4 but PC looks to be the way to go if things get modded
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Apr 13, 2022 17:34
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Electromax posted:Here is an attempt at a mostly non-spoiler summary of who is first recruitable in each section: Because you're allowed to access Home Fort Dragonia early, you can recruit Draggy as soon you get the boat as Lynx.
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Apr 15, 2022 18:47
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I took the time to evolve pip into holy beast form once. Still didn’t make Pip worth using, really.
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Apr 15, 2022 21:18
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Kara Comparetto released a 1.5 hour video of Chrono Cross's entire soundtrack on piano today. It's pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ZriJ8FTp8
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Apr 15, 2022 21:32
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Serious protip that I didn't realize until now: if you trap an element from an enemy, you keep it even if you run away. And since you can run away from any fight, you can trap as many elements as you want from bosses.
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Apr 15, 2022 22:19
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Official Twitter confirmed today that the idea of the final battle's mechanics with the Time Devourer was thought up first and the rest of the battle system was decided as a result of that.
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That's pretty funny. Interesting that no other battle had a mechanic involving a specific order of elements iirc. Idk, maybe fire then wind on a wooden boss to fan the flames or whatever.
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Alxprit posted:Official Twitter confirmed today that the idea of the final battle's mechanics with the Time Devourer was thought up first and the rest of the battle system was decided as a result of that. Yoko Taro reads this tweet and expresses confusion at the idea of having the final boss use the same mechanics as the rest of the game.
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Apr 15, 2022 23:21
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Beat Miguel the first time, having been warned of him. Just never stay white. The unskippable monologue is nearly as bad as Seymour Flux. Cross doesn't asks the player to actually to customise the grid unless you're using traps , given that there are 40 different ones. The trap system seems poorly thought out given you have to metagame for it.
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Big Scary Owl posted:This is the remaster CC fans deserve  Is there a Chrono Trigger 2 anywhere? Fan Made obviously, but like a SNES rom hack, or a stand alone, or a spiritual successor or anything? CC Has nothing that made CT special and that's a shame.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Beat Miguel the first time, having been warned of him. Just never stay white. The unskippable monologue is nearly as bad as Seymour Flux. You don't really. You can run from any battle so if you want an element you just can hop out and change a trap in.
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Not sure why the Dragoons brought a six year old to a dangerous corner of space-time, but there you go.
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i dont think any jrpg will ever top the miguel scene emotionally
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Beat Miguel the first time, having been warned of him. Just never stay white. The unskippable monologue is nearly as bad as Seymour Flux. Holy Dragon Sword is scary for newcomers but I think the real bitch of the fight is the insta Meteor Shower when he is low on health followed by his next turn being Holy Light, a move you haven't even seen yet. I think the odds of this combo taking most players by surprise and wiping them out is pretty high, especially if MS killed somebody. I can't think of a single other boss in the game who does this, either. Maybe Marcy....I think her double Ice Blast might be linked to her getting low health. But it really is a "welp, time to start over again with this vital knowledge" moment. Inspector Gesicht posted:Not sure why the Dragoons brought a six year old to a dangerous corner of space-time, but there you go. Ahem, that 9-year-old is a beast and one of the best party members.
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Apr 16, 2022 11:26
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Isn't there a save point there? The monologue is "skippable" if you just run away when the fight starts then save.
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Are there XCOM odds to accuracy? 95% hit rate my arse.Argue posted:Isn't there a save point there? The monologue is "skippable" if you just run away when the fight starts then save. Miguel doesn't let you leave the screen. NikkolasKing posted:Ahem, that 9-year-old is a beast and one of the best party members. Her Home self gets frozen three years before the game starts.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Her Home self gets frozen three years before the game starts. Oh yeah, good point.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Are there XCOM odds to accuracy? 95% hit rate my arse. I think this is just "Humans are bad at mentally understanding statistics" in play. 95% means that statistically speaking, you will miss 5 out of every 100 attacks. This sounds pretty low but you're probably attacking a couple thousand times over the course of the game, meaning you're probably going to miss about 50-100 attacks on average, which probably means you're going to miss at least one every couple of battles. As I recall some games will actually make a second check on high accuracy attacks if it comes up as a miss, purely because the developers are worried people will think the odds are incorrect if they use a single check. Final Fantasy Tactics A2 didn't do this and that's why you can sometimes see people complaining about how much they missed 99% accuracy attacks in that game.
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ah, good old Fire Emblem Thracia 776, where hit rates couldn't get more accurate than 99% and less accurate than 1%. I could count the amount of times I actually missed at 99% on my two hands but it happened and it upset me!
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So I've played this game multiple times when it came out originally and on my first remaster playthrough I decided to take another world Leena to the Home world "monument" that isn't a grave. She actually had a short speech about it and a scene. Are there any other missable scenes like this that other people know about? Seems like it'd be easy to miss with as many characters as there are.
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Apr 16, 2022 18:40
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If you have Razzly with you after Kid is poisoned, they do that whole scene about Serge being the only one from Home World and Razzly is like "Wait no I am too"
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modders are getting wild
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THE HELMET STAYS ON DURING SEX
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I heard the PC release of this game just has a couple of archive files of disc 1 and 2 of the Playstation game, but has anyone confirmed whether or not they'll run in a regular PSX emulator?
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A good poster posted:I heard the PC release of this game just has a couple of archive files of disc 1 and 2 of the Playstation game, but has anyone confirmed whether or not they'll run in a regular PSX emulator? they don't
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