Sad that it's just a remaster and not a remake. But I'm glad a bunch of new people will be able to play this game. And I hope it's a sign that Square has finally woken up to possibly making Chrono 3.
Sad that it's just a remaster and not a remake. But I'm glad a bunch of new people will be able to play this game...
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Noah Barnes
>bunch of new people
>4:3
>AI upscaled 16bit backgrounds
I'm ok with old graphics but this is pathetic
Jordan Walker
I wanted something more than just an enhanced port, so it was a major letdown to see my worst scenario come to fruition.
Also:
>no FPS fix
>shitty AI upscale backgrounds
>no new content
Why does Square Enix despise Chrono Cross so much?
Samuel Rivera
I remember hearing they did somethibg with the soundtrack. Is it just reprocessed or did they butcher it?
Oliver Ramirez
>Why does Square Enix despise Chrono Cross so much?
Not just Cross. They also look down on Trigger.
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It's a management problem. But since most of the management has been changed after 2014, this might be why they're bringing it back. Same as Mana and Live a Live.
Carson Powell
Even some of the remastered art looks off. This was posted in a thread a few days or so ago. Square is so fucking pathetic. The one game I hoped would get the remake treatment gets a shitty FF8 port where Live A Live gets an amazing remake. Square is schizophrenic when it comes to the quality of their games.
Who the fuck knows what "enhanced soundtrack" means. Yasunori Mitsuda said that he made a couple new tracks for the game on his twitter account.
Aaron Morgan
great game. one of my favorites
i mean that, but i have to be honest i put the game down about 3/4th of the way through. still a personal kino favorite but i think finishing it isn't even something to encourage.
Isaiah Wright
>And I hope it's a sign that Square has finally woken up to possibly making Chrono 3.
Only if people surprise SE like they did with Trials of Mana or Nier Automata.
Eli Williams
best PS1 RPG. better than FFVII
I'll say it and stand by it.
Luke Stewart
>Why does Square Enix despise Chrono Cross so much?
If they do a low cost port and it sells well, they make tons of money. If it doesn't sell well, they can do their usual "well, no one likes the Chrono games" excuse. And then feel justified for killing the franchise. Same exact shit Hollywood pulls.
Christopher Barnes
>better than FFVII
Definitely.
>best PS1 RPG.
Wouldn't go that far. Suikoden I and II exist. But it's definitely better than any of the FF games. In many ways, Chrono Cross feels like what FF8 should have been.
Easton Ward
Square has been "testing" the waters for more Chrono games since the Trigger port, and every few years after that when they put it on phones, iOS, etc. They're honestly just milking the franchise for easy money, and I doubt they are considering anything beyond maybe releasing Trigger on the Nintendo Online shit.
Xavier Turner
>Why does Square Enix despise Chrono Cross so much?
They're too busy with the FFIX Remake.
Lincoln Robinson
I get that, but look what treatment Live A Live received. Most normies have no idea what the hell that game even is and more money was thrown at that remake than Cross. I'd argue that Chrono Cross has more of a legacy than Live A Live mostly due to the soundtrack and (maybe) character designs alone.
John Howard
What's funny is, they'd probably make Chrono 3 a budget game like Bravely Default. And honestly, if they did it in the Chrono Trigger engine with the same level of sprites, it would actually be a huge hit with the fans. Or do a Chrono 3 in the same engine as Dragon Quest XI (with Yuji Horii and Akira Toriyama working on design/story). So in some situations, it could be made even cheaper than the Trials of Mana remake. But since this is Square, they wouldn't give Chrono that kind of chance.
Adam Jones
>They're honestly just milking the franchise for easy money
It must be because there's an endless supply of children that wander into Any Forums and think it's the coolest thing in the world, but learn this lesson once and never again: EVERYTHING is milked. There is nothing that is NOT milked. So, please pick up another phrase to use when you are trying to criticize an entertainment company for failing to entertain you enough for you to whore yourself out to it.
Andrew Gutierrez
Just make sure you simp as hard as you can, user. Your favorite game isn't unpopular. It's just unprofitable. You can be the difference!
Nolan Mitchell
My favorite game is Dragon Quest VIII and was very profitable. But so was Chrono Cross. Square dropped the Chrono series for other reasons.
Jose Clark
I wish.
Like FFIX and Chrono Cross, nothing can replace my memories of playing these games on the original console with a crt and my friends. I have zero expectations that this CC will be "good", but I hope someone out there gets the same magical experience I did.
I'm the soundtrack fag. Even if I don't bother with buying the remaster, I hope to give the ost a few listens when it comes out. I've listened to the same copy of the OST i copied from my friend who grabbed it from limewire or something for years. Pretty sure the same copy thats been passed around the internet for 2 decades, cd scratch sound and all.
Landon Flores
I don't trust them to make a Chrono 3.
And technically it was made anyway.
Joseph Barnes
Wasn't as profitable as DQ8.
Easton Harris
The thing that I don't get is how Trials of Mana got a full blown remake when I don't even think the series even sold that well in the first place. The Chrono series carry a crap ton of baggage that we're not aware about because the series barely gets any effort put into it.
Aiden Martin
>At the time, the PlayStation used an internal sound source to play the music, but this time I remastered the data from scratch and removed the noise. To be honest, the music in the Chrono Cross game was already complete, so I decided that there was no need to rearrange it.
songs are the same
Jeremiah Richardson
you ok, bro?
Kayden Turner
>them
If it was done by some secondary group in Square or worse, Nomura and Nojima, of course it would suck. But if they got the original core members back (Horii, Toriyama and Kato) then it would probably be good. This is also why the executives big excuse of "we can't make a new Chrono game because the core people all left" is such bullshit. They have literally everyone working in the combined SquareEnix except Sakaguchi. And they could even get him back if they dropped their stubborn pride and just asked him.
As with most problems in SquareEnix, it's the management that's the problem.
Ethan Nguyen
SE hasn't done any remixes or orchestral versions of CC's OST over the years? Xenogears has gotten lots of stuff for its music over the years.
Colton Ross
Lazy fuck lol
Jace Baker
But I thought AE was shit.
Isaiah Allen
what the fuck is he going to do, write a new soundtrack for a $20 port?
Jonathan Bailey
That's the joke.
Nathan Fisher
There was that Millenial fair album a while back.
Josiah Hughes
>Sakaguchi
Don't worry, Yoshida will get him back.
Juan Morris
Yeah, you're right, but even AE lacked the gravitas that Trigger and Cross had. Maybe those two games were lightning in a bottle. I'm the weird type of person who liked Cross 100x more than Trigger, so I care more about Cross honestly.
Pic related says otherwise.
>And another one. Chrono Cross remastered has been released. This was recorded by remastering the sound that was sounding on the PlayStation. And there are new songs. Stay tuned!
Colton Morales
Nah, I have ass cancer.
Grayson Taylor
Christopher Jones
..wuh? Are there people who would call that an improvement?
David Gray
>better than FFVII
>I'll say it and stand by it.
DIE for it even?
Christian Garcia
YES FAGGOT. WHY ANY PROBLEM?
Juan Roberts
At least for the people really unhappy about it, it's getting a PC release. So maybe mods.
Landon Lee
Just use this next time.
Hudson Morris
>doesn't understand that the original game was in 4:3, and to expand it to 16:9 would require entirely reworked background rendering.
>types "16-bit" when it's actually 32-bit.
My only qualm is the still-shitty framerate in battle.
Jeremiah Thompson
i really, really wish this game hadn't been announced. CC is one of the most obnoxious fanbases, grasping at strings only genofags would grasp at
Logan Edwards
>Mana
I've liked the ports so far and LoM was goat as fuck.
Asher Parker
>Pic related says otherwise.
I said the songs weren't changed, I didn't say shit about there being new songs or not