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News Submissions / Re: Chrono Trigger 30th Anniversary "Projects"
« on: March 13, 2025, 10:53:13 am »Good to see you, Lord J! It's always a pleasure when you pop back up.
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News Submissions / Re: Chrono Trigger 30th Anniversary "Projects"
« on: March 11, 2025, 11:01:49 pm »
Today (March 11) is also the exact 30th Anniversary of the release of Chrono Trigger in the US! I came here hoping to find a thread about it, and this one's close enough, so I'll just say my piece here:
This is a hell of a game! One of the all-time greats. People still talk about it today, and still do covers of its music, and fanart of its characters. I'll never forget it.
Some of its moments are among the best in all of video gaming. Escaping from prison only to have to dive into a mysterious blue gate and finding yourself in a ruined future. Having a final showdown with the Reptites as they declare they have no future and are wiped out by the red star, while you escape to an unknown frozen wasteland harboring a diabolical secret. Lucca just casually creating life and/or resurrecting the dead, with no fanfare at all (other than "Lucca's Fanfare," lol), to add a new member to your party. Great game; great effort by all involved.
Apropos of the original topic of this thread, I don't know what, if anything, lies in store for the future of the Chrono franchise, and anything that does come is going to come too late for the "Springtime of Youth" for those of us who were its original fans, but I for one would love to see the Chronoverse get a little attention. At this point they could straight-up remake the game from scratch, like they're doing with FFVII, and it might reach a whole new generation. I'm not a fan of remakes, but Chrono Trigger is basically the quintessential time travel story in all of video gaming. It would be easier to retrace its curves than to conceive of something completely new. That said, a sequel would be fascinating also. I was looking just a couple weeks ago at some old Chrono fanfiction I'd written a zillion years ago. There are so many directions a sequel could go in, give or take including Chrono Cross (and Radical Dreamers) in the continuity. But it would have to be a standalone game, with Chrono Trigger relegated to the role of a hazy legend from the past, because new players would be very unlikely to have played the original game. Still, if done well, it could become a classic in its own right.
And of course I owe Chrono Trigger all of the friendships that I've made over the years through this site. Here's to ya, laddies and lassies and genderqueer et ceteras! 😁
This is a hell of a game! One of the all-time greats. People still talk about it today, and still do covers of its music, and fanart of its characters. I'll never forget it.
Some of its moments are among the best in all of video gaming. Escaping from prison only to have to dive into a mysterious blue gate and finding yourself in a ruined future. Having a final showdown with the Reptites as they declare they have no future and are wiped out by the red star, while you escape to an unknown frozen wasteland harboring a diabolical secret. Lucca just casually creating life and/or resurrecting the dead, with no fanfare at all (other than "Lucca's Fanfare," lol), to add a new member to your party. Great game; great effort by all involved.
Apropos of the original topic of this thread, I don't know what, if anything, lies in store for the future of the Chrono franchise, and anything that does come is going to come too late for the "Springtime of Youth" for those of us who were its original fans, but I for one would love to see the Chronoverse get a little attention. At this point they could straight-up remake the game from scratch, like they're doing with FFVII, and it might reach a whole new generation. I'm not a fan of remakes, but Chrono Trigger is basically the quintessential time travel story in all of video gaming. It would be easier to retrace its curves than to conceive of something completely new. That said, a sequel would be fascinating also. I was looking just a couple weeks ago at some old Chrono fanfiction I'd written a zillion years ago. There are so many directions a sequel could go in, give or take including Chrono Cross (and Radical Dreamers) in the continuity. But it would have to be a standalone game, with Chrono Trigger relegated to the role of a hazy legend from the past, because new players would be very unlikely to have played the original game. Still, if done well, it could become a classic in its own right.
And of course I owe Chrono Trigger all of the friendships that I've made over the years through this site. Here's to ya, laddies and lassies and genderqueer et ceteras! 😁
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Chrono News / Re: R.I.P. Akira Toriyama
« on: March 08, 2024, 10:28:44 am »
Came here to post this myself.
I wasn't plugged into Akira Toriyama's work for the most part, but he worked on Chrono Trigger and that was a life-changing game for me, not only because it's one of the best RPGs ever made and inspired me for years but also because the fellow Chrono fans I met on the Internet over the years—mainly here!—ended up shaping the course of my life.
Hat's off for a fellow artist.
I wasn't plugged into Akira Toriyama's work for the most part, but he worked on Chrono Trigger and that was a life-changing game for me, not only because it's one of the best RPGs ever made and inspired me for years but also because the fellow Chrono fans I met on the Internet over the years—mainly here!—ended up shaping the course of my life.
Hat's off for a fellow artist.
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General Discussion / Re: The Tale of nightmare975's Old, Closed September 11 Thread
« on: October 03, 2023, 02:17:59 am »First off, nice to see you, J!
History sure is an interesting thing. You're right, the immediate affects of such events are often lost to those that aren't directly affected... especially as time goes on. Although to me, the cultural elements are surely profound... for example, the Patriot Act. It's crazy how a single event can so insanely drive cultural changes, for good or for bad.
I originally had a much more robust response in mind, but at this point I don't really have the words in me.
I KNOW THE FEELING!!! I used to have so many words in me and now I can rarely be bothered to write nonfiction anything. It's not that I don't have opinions; it's that I've just lost the need to be heard. 😭😭😭
Nice to see you too. I'm glad there's still a spark here and there on the Compendium and you seem to be one of the people at the crux of it!
Bizarre. I guess he himself was likely the one who locked it. We usually don't do that around here...
Gotta love, Krispin's name is still in that thread as a poster. Who even remembers RPGPlanet anymore? Or was it PlanetRPG? The GameSpy spin-off. I imagine we could all get smashed pretty quickly on drinks if we found ourselves in a room reminiscing about the Compendium.
That Cross remaster didn't do much for traffic here, no doubt because everything's on Discord these days. Which is still a step down. Discord's vulnerable like every other for-profit institution out there; the moment the plug is pulled, congratulations—decades of history will be instantaneously lost. It's also a nightmare to try and find anything of value there, since everything's a constant stream of consciousness chat. It irks me how much good research is shared on Hidden Palace/TCRF etc. that doesn't make it into the Wiki, because people just dump it on the Discord.
I miss message forums so much! Social media sucks, full stop.
I was posting this thread, and I had to re-learn how to do it! It had been that long! I was like "Where the $@%# are all the buttons?" I was stumped for quite a while on nightmare's thread before I realized it had been locked.
I owe you an e-mail reply!!! I think about it like every week. We should just do a video call. That's how I keep in touch with most folks these days. Then I can sorta reread your e-mails as we go and say whatever I want to say without writing it all down, which is singlehandedly why I haven't replied to you yet! I caught up on all my e-mails at New Year's except for yours because I wanted to really put some effort into it, and now it's almost New Year's again, fuck me!! Send me an e-mail at your leisure in a couple weeks if I don't do it first and let's get something going.
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General Discussion / The Tale of nightmare975's Old, Closed September 11 Thread
« on: September 11, 2023, 11:29:25 pm »
I logged into the Compendium for the first time in years a few days ago, and didn't find anything to reply to—except for Boo's existential dread thread, where I had left someone hanging on the promise of a lengthy reply that never came (and which there's no point even replying to now, since the person I left hanging is themselves gone!).
But when today came around I thought of nightmare975's September 11 thread and knew that I'd still be logged in to the Compendium. I was going to go to that thread and comment about how even at the time (though I don't recall if I ever voiced my thought) the notion of "Never forget!" had struck me as a vain folly, and how time had borne this idea out, with the last annual remembrance being in 2010 with the literal words "blah blah never forget" and nightmare himself not having logged in since 2012...but I didn't do that. Because the whole thread was closed. You can't post in it anymore.
So much for eternity!
Today, most college graduates weren't even alive for September 11. I was in college myself at the time, and it was a very surreal day. But the sanctimoniousness of it has long faded. It may have been prominent in our own minds and lives, at the time, but it was just another day, wasn't it? The 2000s would go on to show us wars and genocides and tsunamis and earthquakes.
22 years on, September 11 is a testament to how events are only important in the minds of those who care about them, and cares are often fleeting and in-the-moment. Today, with American fascism in ascendancy and the Bush years long since repudiated and rents doubling and redoubling, it would be positively quaint to imagine that losing a couple of buildings and getting a bit of a scare might be the worst of our problems.
Not to gloss over the impact of that day on those who were there, and those who died or would die from it, or who lost loved ones or would lose loved ones. The deaths of so many firefighters in the line of duty is something I don't think I ever fully wrapped my head around. But that has been long dwelled on, and it's not the only tragedy in the world.
Such is the benefit of having over 20 years in the rear-view mirror, and the wide perspective of life experience entailed thereby: Beyond the passions of the moment, things aren't always what we make of them at the time, and all things pass. It's kind of fitting that you can't even post in nightmare's thread anymore.
From Nu all things come, and to Nu they return.
But when today came around I thought of nightmare975's September 11 thread and knew that I'd still be logged in to the Compendium. I was going to go to that thread and comment about how even at the time (though I don't recall if I ever voiced my thought) the notion of "Never forget!" had struck me as a vain folly, and how time had borne this idea out, with the last annual remembrance being in 2010 with the literal words "blah blah never forget" and nightmare himself not having logged in since 2012...but I didn't do that. Because the whole thread was closed. You can't post in it anymore.
So much for eternity!
Today, most college graduates weren't even alive for September 11. I was in college myself at the time, and it was a very surreal day. But the sanctimoniousness of it has long faded. It may have been prominent in our own minds and lives, at the time, but it was just another day, wasn't it? The 2000s would go on to show us wars and genocides and tsunamis and earthquakes.
22 years on, September 11 is a testament to how events are only important in the minds of those who care about them, and cares are often fleeting and in-the-moment. Today, with American fascism in ascendancy and the Bush years long since repudiated and rents doubling and redoubling, it would be positively quaint to imagine that losing a couple of buildings and getting a bit of a scare might be the worst of our problems.
Not to gloss over the impact of that day on those who were there, and those who died or would die from it, or who lost loved ones or would lose loved ones. The deaths of so many firefighters in the line of duty is something I don't think I ever fully wrapped my head around. But that has been long dwelled on, and it's not the only tragedy in the world.
Such is the benefit of having over 20 years in the rear-view mirror, and the wide perspective of life experience entailed thereby: Beyond the passions of the moment, things aren't always what we make of them at the time, and all things pass. It's kind of fitting that you can't even post in nightmare's thread anymore.
From Nu all things come, and to Nu they return.
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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: CHRONO COMIX
« on: September 22, 2018, 03:19:38 am »
YES!!!
It can't just be my stuff. CHRONO COMIX lives only in the hearts of all. Only BY OUR POWERS COMBINED can we summon Gato!
I love the Schala--er, Scahlda--one.
It can't just be my stuff. CHRONO COMIX lives only in the hearts of all. Only BY OUR POWERS COMBINED can we summon Gato!
I love the Schala--er, Scahlda--one.
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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: CHRONO COMIX
« on: September 14, 2018, 03:22:00 am »
Crud, I missed the whole thing didn't I? Ugh, I was afraid that'd happen. Well...I hope we got some rad entries! Maybe we'll count my CHRONO COMIX as penance for not making a submission of my own.
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Chrono / Gameplay Casual Discussion / Re: CHRONO COMIX
« on: September 14, 2018, 03:10:44 am »
Haha, you just know she's one who knows how to rave with the best of them. Hell, we even saw it in the game!
I gotta post more here. The place has gone quiet again! The other night I had the choice of posting on a bunch of threads, or doing 1 CHRONO COMIX and I regret nothing!! But I do wanna get my butt in gear.
So. Friggin'. Swamped.
I gotta post more here. The place has gone quiet again! The other night I had the choice of posting on a bunch of threads, or doing 1 CHRONO COMIX and I regret nothing!! But I do wanna get my butt in gear.
So. Friggin'. Swamped.
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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: August 09, 2018, 10:35:21 pm »
My frustration is that I keep meaning to spend more time here and contribute to the GLORIOUS CHRONO-SSANCE, but I'm so darn busy that I just haven't been able to make it stick. And the thing is, I think that's a cop-out. I hate it when people use being busy as an excuse. Makes me wanna slap 'em upside the head and say "You fool! If something's important you make the time!!!" But the fact remains that I am just ridiculously busy. Which makes me a hypocrite! Which I don't like being. Ergo frustration! RAWR!!!
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General Discussion / Re: Stuff you LOVE, baby
« on: July 25, 2018, 12:26:02 am »
Don't mind me interrupting--I'm just currently loving the fact that my sister's coming out to visit me! I'm going to pick her up from the train station in a few minutes. Haven't seen her in two years, so I invited her out here for my birthday. (I made her play a mock version of The Price Is J, and she won the all-expenses paid showcase vacation to Washington.) I've been ultra busy leading up to her arrival, and therefore also loving the chance to slow down the pace for a few days to something more civilized.
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General Discussion / Re: The $%*! frustration thread
« on: July 21, 2018, 03:26:03 am »
Just from the way you describe the situation, Boo (i.e., I could be super wrong), it sounds like there's actually a correct answer here: You should keep the current job. The few percentage points of pay increase are nothing compared to a job you like and coworkers you like. Could it be that what's troubling you deep-down is the sense that you're missing out on something better? Because if so, the solution for that is a lot more complicated than whatever choice you make in this case.
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General Discussion / Re: Anime Suggestions Thread
« on: July 19, 2018, 12:30:26 am »
I hope you enjoy it! It took me a couple episodes to really commit, but the cleverness and absurdity eventually won me over. =]
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General Discussion / Re: Stuff you LOVE, baby
« on: July 18, 2018, 03:44:49 am »I love that feeling of pride you have when you're really happy with the end product of something you create.
Not to toot my own horn, but I finished a writing project tonight that has been giving me hell for the past several years.
I have been writing screenplays off an on for the past decade or so, both to develop my craft and eventually build a portfolio. I've had a particularly troubling concept that takes place in medieval Japan, but certain story elements have evaded me and work on it has been touch and go for several years.
Anyway, I finally finished the first draft of part one tonight!
Congratulations! That's a big accomplishment! I remember finishing my first book in 2015--like, all the way done, slap a cover on it, put it up for sale--and thinking to myself, "Hey, I'm a published author now!" If I'm honest, it didn't feel glorious as the dream had promised...but it was still fuckin' rad.
Just dipped my feet into the Fire Emblem franchise, starting with Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones.
I love it!
The characters generally bond IN the battlefield, rather than outside of it (well, they bond outside too based on scripted narrative, but still).
I came to Fire Emblem: Awakening a couple years ago (and I see it got some discussion below your comment) and really loved it. I love how the characters bond in battle, like you say, and I absolutely loved the female avatar, who--in my version--was humble and really down-to-Earth. "Hey, you guys need a tactician?" Despite the added game-over risk of doing so, I kept her in battle formations throughout the game.