Am I the only one that didn't like Chrono Cross?

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11-24-2004, 06:06 AM
LunarWeaver

Am I the only one that didn't like Chrono Cross?

Now, now don't bite my face off or anything it's just my unimportant opinion. I was so in love with the battle system, and the story and the world were all groovy too, and I really didn't expect TOO many ties to Trigger since after so long direct sequels aren't usually made but... Man, when your main character is going to go the mute route, I just think he needs a good 6-7 strong supporting cast to keep my interest. With 40 or so people running around joining my team I didn't care about the story or for anyone save for Serge and Kid, and Kid not only gets poisoned and taken out of my party once, but then shortly thereafter is taken out again for 90% of the game (in a sense). Bugger >_< Anyway I'm not sure why I'm bringing this ruckus up NOW so just ignore me.
11-24-2004, 07:21 AM
ill-fated-life

well...i can honestly say...that i have never played CC...so I can't give my opinion on it...hehehe
11-24-2004, 08:21 AM
edczxcvbnm

I understand your complaint but the Chrono series was never about the characters so much as it was the story and the world. It was just that much more evident in Chrono Cross.

I would argue that 50% of the characters got development enough and that, just like the story, you have to look deeper to find out who they are.

I didn't care much for the characters either but I viewed them as pawns that got moved about by higher forces and thus are unimportant in the overall aspect of the story.
11-24-2004, 04:36 PM
Master.Pug

jep, you're the only one :-p
I totally agree with you Edcx.... whatever
11-24-2004, 08:30 PM
Doomgaze

It was a real letdown after CT, yeah.
11-29-2004, 09:07 PM
feioncastor

I loved Chrono Trigger. It is one of my favorite games ever.

But Chrono Cross isn't that great. In fact, I can't even complete it because it doesn't captivate me the way CT did.

I'm at the part when you have to find the dragons, and I have given up there. I beat CT many times, but CC just didn't do it for me.

It's an okay game, and I can see why people like it. I just personally don't.

Feion
11-29-2004, 11:56 PM
Captain Maxx Power

Here's the math:

CT > CC
CC > many other RPGs

Ergo CT > CC > many other RPGs > Daikatana > Plucking your eyebrows > Purgatory > Hell > Macclesfield
11-30-2004, 12:14 AM
Dking'squeen

I liked Crono Cross. It was okay. I didn't like all of the characters. I stopped liking Kid a long ways back and ever since I saw him, I ha been after Glenn. (I love his and Serge renamed Manoa's special attack) And I used Orlha, named Tifa and Chevelle. Often I'd use Draggy or razzy, and I was upset that if you didn't accept to get the cure, which I didn;t, you couldn't get the cute faerie girl. But hey, what can you do?
12-03-2004, 07:29 AM
feioncastor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yazoo'squeen

. I stopped liking Kid a long ways back and ever since I saw him,

Isn't Kid a girl?

And also, isn't (SPOILER)Glenn from CC the same Glenn that became Frog in CT? I mean, the connections between the two games are just wild, you know.
12-03-2004, 07:36 AM
Doomgaze

That would make him about 440 years old, not to mention the fact that they have different elements. So, no.

Yeah, yeah, time travel. But the statement still stands, Glenn in CC is named after Glenn, the hero of Guardia.
12-04-2004, 08:26 AM
Nakor TheBlue Rider

Personaly I think Crono Cross had Amazingly great CG movies and Awsome Music.

Personaly I had only 2 Complaints.

#1 They Butchered the Crono Series Story.... the Games tried to connect to each other and ended up horribly.

#2 Crafting your own Weapons... Finding the Items to create better Weapons..... Thats one of the Same Reasons I didnt Like FF8.
12-14-2004, 11:15 PM
GooeyToast

I tried playing Chrono Cross a while back, but ater playing it for a couple hours, I didn't find it that great.

Maybe I just need to play it some more or something, but it just doesn't seem to measure up to Chrono Trigger.
12-14-2004, 11:26 PM
Crazy the Clown

Though I disagree with your opinion on Chrono Cross, it ain't for everyone.
12-14-2004, 11:36 PM
The Man

The ending blew chunks, and some of the characters like, oh, NeoFio and Skelly and Mojo and Turnip were awful, but I honestly found the entire first disc of the game to be the most rewarding gaming experience I've ever gone through on the PlayStation, with the sole exception of Suikoden II.
12-15-2004, 12:50 AM
XxSephirothxX

I'm about 15 hours into it, and am thoroughly enjoying the experience thus far. The game exudes more style and personality than most RPGs.
12-15-2004, 01:17 AM
edczxcvbnm

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Man

The ending blew chunks.

:cry: I thought that it was one of the best.
12-15-2004, 01:39 AM
The Man

eh. By "ending" I meant the second disc, which was a complete mind:skull::skull::skull::skull:. The actual ending itself wasn't that bad, but it left a lot more plot issues unexplained than I'd have liked. I should've been more specific. :smash:
12-15-2004, 02:31 AM
Dking'squeen

Quote:

Isn't Kid a girl?

Yeah, but i was talking about Glenn. it's supposed to go i had stop liking Kid a ways back and ever since i saw him i had been after Glenn
12-15-2004, 03:10 AM
Rabid Dogs

Right, Yazoo, but you don't use a pronoun to preced a noun if you've used an opposing noun prior to the pronoun. You sentence should be: "I had stop (sic) liking Kid a ways back and ever since i (sic) saw Glenn i (sic) had been after him." Or if you wanted a coherent sentence you could have said: "I had stopped liking Kid a while back and ever since I saw Glenn I have been after him."

Anyways, I loved CC, but I did have difficulty staying remaining involved in the story about halfway through. I thought there were too many characters, with little development for the majority of them. Sadly, what the Suikoden series executes well with their 108 "Stars of Destiny," CC did not do that great. I didn't like most of the characters that much. I barely used a lot of them. Oh well. I still liked the game a lot and would still give it high marks even when comparing it to today's RPG's, because the plot requires a significant amount of thought to fully comprehend, but is quite excellent one understood. CT is better, though.
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12-15-2004, 07:20 AM
edczxcvbnm

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Man

eh. By "ending" I meant the second disc, which was a complete mind:skull::skull::skull::skull:. The actual ending itself wasn't that bad, but it left a lot more plot issues unexplained than I'd have liked. I should've been more specific. :smash:

Like what issues. Maybe I can explain them :confused:
12-15-2004, 09:51 PM
The Man

Lynx's entire role, for example, seeing as (SPOILER)he's Fate AND Serge's father AND somehow the main antagonist of the game, even though Fate is a GOOD thing. I guess it's not so much that they weren't explained at all, it's just that they weren't explained well - you'd need to play the game several times to understand it satisfactorily.
12-17-2004, 05:50 AM
edczxcvbnm

Well it all really came like a comet in your face during disc 2 but it also really needed to more or less happen that way and be unveiled the way that it did.
(SPOILER)
It just comes out that now the dragons are really the bad guys and fate was good all along but now that the dragons have the Frozen Flame all hell breaks loose and we have to stop it really fast. Its hard to think of a way to explain things really well given how everything just kind of happened.

You have to admit that Chronopolis is http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifing awesome though. The music and all the awesome side areas that explain so much about the world and history. I love that place.
12-17-2004, 02:24 PM
Super Christ

Quote:

Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm

You have to admit that Chronopolis is http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifing awesome though. The music and all the awesome side areas that explain so much about the world and history. I love that place.

You've got that right.

Anyway, I enjoyed Chrono Cross a lot. Not as much as Chrono Trigger and Radical Dreamers, but it brought back some of the feel nicely, as long as you ignore most of the characters.
12-17-2004, 09:54 PM
The Man

Quote:

Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm

Well it all really came like a comet in your face during disc 2 but it also really needed to more or less happen that way and be unveiled the way that it did.
(SPOILER)
It just comes out that now the dragons are really the bad guys and fate was good all along but now that the dragons have the Frozen Flame all hell breaks loose and we have to stop it really fast. Its hard to think of a way to explain things really well given how everything just kind of happened.

Indeed; my thoughts when I played that part, though, were that Chrono Cross was a three-disc game that Square tried to squeeze onto two discs. A lot of those ideas deserved more attention than the story gave them.

Quote:

You have to admit that Chronopolis is http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gifing awesome though. The music and all the awesome side areas that explain so much about the world and history. I love that place.

Can't argue with you there; that was chillingly effective.