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Xxain said:
sc94597 said:

I can list ten or so PS1 RPGs that I liked more than Chrono Cross. 

- Xenogears

- Final Fantasy IX

- Dragon Quest VII

- Vagrant Story

- Grandia

- Valkyrie Profile

- Wild Arms

- Suikoden II 

- Final Fantasy Tactics (if we are to include SRPGs) 

Meanwhile Chrono Trigger is up there with Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy VI, Earthbound and Terranigma as far as SNES RPG's go in my opinion, they were all of similar quality. 

I find Chrono Cross to have been relatively boring and lifeless in comparison, but still a pretty decent game with highs much more than lows.  Hence the good score of 8/10. It was not Chrono Trigger for me though. 

Almost all of them are working on mobile games and spinoffs these days. The people actually developing SE's AAA games are practically all new. 


You need to explain your definition of quality. The quality of something vs whether you like it or not is two diffrent debates.

 Example: Im not going to argue the quality of Uncharted, but I could give rat ass about series. Im not asking how you feel  about CC vs CT as a game but the quality of its parts. 

CC has the higest of quality in every part. ( presentation, sound, writing, story, battle system). If I knock CC for anything it is the extremely easy difficulty. Every boss should of been garai/Miguel 

Yes, I liked Chrono Cross less than Chrono Trigger because it was a lower quality game. It was relatively boring and lifeless, hence less quality of a release. And this whole quote tree was about what I, sc94597, would prefer. I would prefer a Chrono Trigger remake to a new Chrono because I doubt Square-Enix in 2015 can make a quality release. This is partly because they put their developers who would be relevant to such a game on the backburner, but also because of how poor their games have been for the last ten years. I also think that if Square in the PS1 era, couldn't make an Chrono game as enticing as they did with Chrono Trigger (no matter how good it was on its own) I doubt today's Square-Enix could even match Chrono Cross. 

And you respond with your opinion as if it represents some objective "quality." Presentation and sound were excellent (I preferred Chrono Cross music to Trigger's), writing was atrociously messy (in my opinion), story was hurt because of said atrociously messy writing, and the battle system while OK wasn't the focus of the game and I find the battle systems of countless other RPG's to be better. Hence, it was a slightly above-average game because it didn't mess much up, but not so great as I found the story to be poorly executed. Another gripe I had was that not many characters were fleshed out and there were just too many of them to deal with. The premise was also not as interesting and fresh as Chrono Trigger's.