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Is Chrono Trigger the Greatest RPG Ever Made?

Yes 117 42.86%
 
No 111 40.66%
 
I haven't played it so I can't say. 45 16.48%
 
Total:273
Malt4zar on 30 September 2015

Yes.

I like to call it the most perfect RPG ever made, i really can't find find any flaw in the game whatsoever.



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AEGRO on 30 September 2015

IMO, no. I dont think so.

The game is great, but the best RPG ever? I dont agree.



painmaster212 on 30 September 2015
ps3-sales! said:
Sprash said:


I'm confused, so chrono trigger is ONE of the best rpg's of all time but THE best rpg it is not even close?

Yes.

 

It's in the discussion of the great RPG's. but that absolute greatest no it's not close. I maybe could have worded that a bit differently. I have mad respect for Chrono Trigger but I could name 10 RPG's from just the 7th gen that are superior to it.


Well what would you consider the greatest jrpg of alltime then? I couldn't name a single game in the genre from the last 2 maybe 3 generations that are better. I'm saying this and Chrono Trigger isn't even my favorite JRPG but I do know how good it is and how not many games in the genre pass it.

 

On topic, I don't personally think it's the best but I would not blame anyone for placing it there.



Alex_The_Hedgehog on 30 September 2015

At least on SNES, yes. I think it's better than FFIV and way better than FFVI.

I don't know about other consoles, though. There's a lot of RPGs I still have to play out there.



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NightDragon83 on 30 September 2015
bigtakilla said:
NightDragon83 said:
Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III (VI) are the two greatest JRPGs of all time, and are up there for the greatest RPGs of all time overall.

You should play Xenoblade Chronicles if you haven't.

I have, bought it for my sister when it was finally released in North America, but I've only spent about 3-4 hours with it and honestly it didn't grab me the way I was expecting it to.  One of these days I should give it another shot.



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Frogger on 30 September 2015

Haven't played.



2Quick on 30 September 2015

Chrono trigger is definitely one of the best games I have played, and definitely one of the best RPG's I have played. But I don't think I have played enough RPGs to know for sure it is one of the best. Also, a lot of the RPG's I have played aren't necessarily considered "classic".

Have played:
Pokemon
Mario & Luigi
Paper Mario
Kingdom Hearts
Moster Hunter


Favorites:
Chrono Trigger
The World Ends with You

Still Playing:
Chrono Cross (amazing)
Xenoblade Chronicles (seems slow and drawn out... about 10-20 hours in)

I think The World Ends with You needs to be in the conversation of best RPG of all time.
Great graphics, music, style, story, setting
Fantastically complicated battles system
The only problem is it might be too complicated to newcomers of the genre



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AEGRO on 30 September 2015

I would like to know, of all the people that voted YES, how many of them played/finished the game recently for the first time?

I finished the game a year ago for the first time on my Vita, and i think that the game is really good but nowhere near the Best RPG of ALL TIME.

I think that Nostalgia is a realy big factor when it comes to these type of "Best of all time" threads.



bigtakilla on 30 September 2015
NightDragon83 said:
bigtakilla said:
NightDragon83 said:
Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III (VI) are the two greatest JRPGs of all time, and are up there for the greatest RPGs of all time overall.

You should play Xenoblade Chronicles if you haven't.

I have, bought it for my sister when it was finally released in North America, but I've only spent about 3-4 hours with it and honestly it didn't grab me the way I was expecting it to.  One of these days I should give it another shot.

Definitely. Well worth the time you invest in it. 



JWeinCom on 30 September 2015

Eh... nah...

I played the game about 10-15 years after it came out. I enjoyed it but I didn't think it was like amazing. A lot of the things they are talking about in the video are things that Chrono Trigger did to advance the genre, but not necessarily things that hold it up today. I actually think FF6 and Super Mario RPG hold up better out of the SNES RPGs.

My favorites are Skies of Arcadia, Xenoblade, Paper Mario TTYD, and Tales of Symphonia in no particular order.