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lestatdark on 14 February 2012
oniyide said:
lestatdark said:
TruckOSaurus said:
hatmoza said:
Death to the person who says Chrono Cross!


My pick is Uncharted 3.


Thanks for reminding me!!!

Chrono Cross. It was an okay RPG but with many issues, it's not worthy of the Chrono name. When you're expected the follow-up the Chrono Trigger you can't help but feel terribly disappointed.

Indeed. It would have been a good RPG if it was a stand alone IP, but coming off CT and it's impact, it was a massive disappointment. The fact that they put the entire plot of CT and Radical Dreamers as a "Oh it happened on a Parallel Dimension, so we can mess up with this as much as we want" was not a good move.

Well to be fair, isnt that essentially just like all FFs? Just a parallel dimension after the next?? Hell i think even BOF went that route with number 4

Not exactly, there is no connection between FFs (numbered FFs) basically because each one is a standalone game and universe.

FFs aren't sequels from one or the other, while Chrono Cross was made with the purpose of being a sequel to Chrono Trigger and ended up botching that entirely. Not only that, Chrono Cross was an immense departure from Trigger in the gameplay department as well, for the worse; while CT was a fast, fluid and well constructed RPG with some good and inovative mechanics for the time, Cross was basically a very slow turn based RPG which had no unique characteristic to it.



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IIIIITHE1IIIII on 14 February 2012
o_O.Q said:
PlaystaionGamer said:

i couldnt finnish it, it should have been called Taxi Driver 4. and the whole mobile phone thing was pathetic. 


totally agree, for me it just lacked the freedom and diversity that made gta san andreas one of my favourite games of all time

i really hope they get in gear for gta 5 and bring back the aspects that made san andreas great

The fact that it's taking place there is a good start =)



TruckOSaurus on 14 February 2012
MonstaMack said:
Biggest disappointments I can think of:

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Train wreck on 14 February 2012

Actraiser 2, the original game was so refreshing, life sim, rpg rolled into one. Part two was like eh.



pariz on 14 February 2012

Dragon Age 2 by a thousand miles.



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enditall727 on 14 February 2012

i'm convinced that some of you in this thread don't know what the hell you're talking about lol

but i thought Yoshi's Island 2 for the DS was disappointing



oniyide on 14 February 2012
lestatdark said:
oniyide said:
lestatdark said:
TruckOSaurus said:
hatmoza said:
Death to the person who says Chrono Cross!


My pick is Uncharted 3.


Thanks for reminding me!!!

Chrono Cross. It was an okay RPG but with many issues, it's not worthy of the Chrono name. When you're expected the follow-up the Chrono Trigger you can't help but feel terribly disappointed.

Indeed. It would have been a good RPG if it was a stand alone IP, but coming off CT and it's impact, it was a massive disappointment. The fact that they put the entire plot of CT and Radical Dreamers as a "Oh it happened on a Parallel Dimension, so we can mess up with this as much as we want" was not a good move.

Well to be fair, isnt that essentially just like all FFs? Just a parallel dimension after the next?? Hell i think even BOF went that route with number 4

 

Not exactly, there is no connection between FFs (numbered FFs) basically because each one is a standalone game and universe.

FFs aren't sequels from one or the other, while Chrono Cross was made with the purpose of being a sequel to Chrono Trigger and ended up botching that entirely. Not only that, Chrono Cross was an immense departure from Trigger in the gameplay department as well, for the worse; while CT was a fast, fluid and well constructed RPG with some good and inovative mechanics for the time, Cross was basically a very slow turn based RPG which had no unique characteristic to it.

 


I honestly do not remember, Square saying it was a sequel, I had just assumed that it was its own standalone game just like the FFs, so I was personally not let down in that department, you're right about the combat



Moren on 14 February 2012
enditall727 said:
i'm convinced that some of you in this thread don't know what the hell you're talking about lol

but i thought Yoshi's Island 2 for the DS was disappointing

Forgot about that game, not only disappointing, but garbage overall.

The baby system was horrible, the level design was abysmal, the music was composed by deaf, talentless monkeys, the balance was laughable and it was a pain from start to finish.



lestatdark on 14 February 2012
oniyide said:
lestatdark said:
oniyide said:
lestatdark said:
TruckOSaurus said:
hatmoza said:
Death to the person who says Chrono Cross!


My pick is Uncharted 3.


Thanks for reminding me!!!

Chrono Cross. It was an okay RPG but with many issues, it's not worthy of the Chrono name. When you're expected the follow-up the Chrono Trigger you can't help but feel terribly disappointed.

Indeed. It would have been a good RPG if it was a stand alone IP, but coming off CT and it's impact, it was a massive disappointment. The fact that they put the entire plot of CT and Radical Dreamers as a "Oh it happened on a Parallel Dimension, so we can mess up with this as much as we want" was not a good move.

Well to be fair, isnt that essentially just like all FFs? Just a parallel dimension after the next?? Hell i think even BOF went that route with number 4

 

Not exactly, there is no connection between FFs (numbered FFs) basically because each one is a standalone game and universe.

FFs aren't sequels from one or the other, while Chrono Cross was made with the purpose of being a sequel to Chrono Trigger and ended up botching that entirely. Not only that, Chrono Cross was an immense departure from Trigger in the gameplay department as well, for the worse; while CT was a fast, fluid and well constructed RPG with some good and inovative mechanics for the time, Cross was basically a very slow turn based RPG which had no unique characteristic to it.

 


I honestly do not remember, Square saying it was a sequel, I had just assumed that it was its own standalone game just like the FFs, so I was personally not let down in that department, you're right about the combat

It wasn't a direct sequel, even both Kato and Tanaka said they didn't want to make a Chrono Trigger 2. The problem was that they still utilized lore elements from Trigger to put some heavy emphasis on the plot of Cross as well, so it became a mix-up of some sorts (like the vision that Serge has with Chrono, Marle and Lucca and a whole lot of fuck ups with Lavos and the Time Devourer).

I believe they fell somewhere in between of making a sequel and making a standalone game and didn't quite knew where to go with it.



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NintendoPie on 14 February 2012
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
NintendoPie said:

Why didn't you like it?

Well, I really did at first. But as time went by I realized that Mario Kart 64 was way more enjoyable for me. Then the awesome Mario Kart DS released and it was confirmed that something just wasn't right about DD. God knows what. (Maybe the awful soundtrack? :P

Scough! The soundtrack was awesome! Or maybe at least to my 6 year old mind...

I actually hated the DS Version. XD