Morning Discussion

Kerry Turner's new game Coverlet is absolutely delightful. Controls and content come together to make a game that's sheer elegance in its simplicity. It's so very lovely.

If you only play one traditional textile crafts game this year, make it Coverlet.

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    May 19, 2010 5:00 AM

    I schooled Magus in the Middle Ages in Chrono Trigger DS last night. Now I'm back in the stone age. Crazy.

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      May 19, 2010 5:02 AM

      I'm currently playing Final Fantasy II on the PSP. Trying to get the Ultima Tome to use against the empire. Old school RPG gaming!

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        May 19, 2010 5:07 AM

        I've never played Chrono Trigger through before, so this is all new to me.

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          May 19, 2010 5:22 AM

          I love that game so hard. There is nothing I can critique or imagine improving about it. It's everything good about Japanese RPG design, the correctly understated main character, the pixel art, the music, the branching paths that generally lead to the same point, really all the characters....

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            May 19, 2010 5:26 AM

            Some of the best 16 bit music for sure.

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            May 19, 2010 11:20 AM

            I really do appreciate what they did with the characters in that game. Instead of most JRPGs' approach of trying waaaay too hard to establish deep characters (often falling completely flat --- I'm looking at you, FF13, you big bitch), CT opted instead for simpler characters that each had their unique charm. And it worked! You can't help but love those little bastards.

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          May 19, 2010 5:38 AM

          It is on my list of games to play one day. Trying to get through my current backlog first.

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        May 19, 2010 11:14 AM

        Oh good god. I finally beat the PS1 version of that game, and it was a fucking nightmare the whole way through. I heard they changed some of the gameplay in it from the Dawn of Souls port onward, though, so maybe those games don't require such a massive amount of grinding/"cheating the system". I appreciate what they were trying to do with the game, making it so skills develop with practice, and it was probably hell to pull this off on the NES. But still, fuck that shit.

        To make it bearable, I played it through ePSXe and frequently abused the "cap/uncap FPS" shortcut, because there's no way in hell I'd play that in regular speed.

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      May 19, 2010 5:24 AM

      I played that on an emulator on the PC and put like 15 hours in to it- the first 12 were good and then it just turned to monotonous shit, I was (I believe) quite close to the end too.

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        May 19, 2010 5:52 AM

        Ill fucking ban you. I'll fucking ban you till the universe dies a goddam heat death.

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          May 19, 2010 5:55 AM

          I was up to a section going down this giant elevator - I had just visited the sky people or something? and I had just taken a teleport or stairs down a whirlpool which appeared in the ocean? To the right of an island, if I recall.

          These stairs or elevator had battle after battle after battle after battle of the same shit, maybe it was the final crunch of the game but it was really, really annoying - yet the rest was really good (and that's saying something since I'd never played the game before and was only 3 or 4 years ago!)

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            May 19, 2010 5:57 AM

            Deeeeeeeeaaaaaaattttttthhhhhhh

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              May 19, 2010 5:58 AM

              Also, that section soon pays off when you're on the wing of a giant flying carrier and start fucking shit up. Omg abrasion.

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                May 19, 2010 6:00 AM

                How close was I? Good game till then - It was just such a lull in the battle mechanics, I swear I got the same fight over and over and over in waves, serious sam style for an hour.

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                  May 19, 2010 6:08 AM

                  you were ABOUT to hit the halfway mark.

                  quitter.

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                    May 19, 2010 6:11 AM

                    Get the fuck out of here, I was up in the sky with the sky people and they gave me something (I can't recall) and then something hapenned and the big big big big long long (oh god so long) lift went down - big mechanical one and then at the bottom I umm was in some kind of fortress and the battles were remaining mononotnous unfortunately so yeah :(

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                      May 19, 2010 6:18 AM

                      yeah you weren't very close to the end, man...there's SO much more to this game. Please pick it up again.

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                        May 19, 2010 6:20 AM

                        You should come over to the house today and play Red Dead Redemption all day

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                  May 19, 2010 6:10 AM

                  You should try it again, Zeal is awesome =].

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                  May 19, 2010 6:18 AM

                  About 60-70% and you quit JUST BEFORE THE BEST PART >:(

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                    May 19, 2010 6:21 AM

                    ^^^^ this.

                    you quit before most likely one of the BEST EXECUTED plot twists in JRPG history

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            May 19, 2010 11:46 AM

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      May 19, 2010 5:25 AM

      I love Chrono Trigger so much.

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        May 19, 2010 6:51 AM

        ditto. Got an SNES cartridge, prolly gonna replay it this summer.

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      May 19, 2010 5:29 AM

      Such a great game. I need to finish it again.

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      May 19, 2010 6:28 AM

      nice, you're about to get the best party member in the game!

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        May 19, 2010 6:29 AM

        Ryu Hayabusa?!

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          May 19, 2010 6:56 AM

          you could name her that!

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            May 19, 2010 7:33 AM

            Are you talking about the cave girl? If not, don't tell me any more haha.

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      May 19, 2010 6:40 AM

      BEST GAME EVER EVER

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        May 19, 2010 6:42 AM

        I bought a boxed copy of Chrono Trigger on ebay (manual and both posters included) and the seller wrote "Handle with care: Best game EVER inside!" on the shipping box. Can't argue with that.

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          May 19, 2010 7:21 AM

          I bet that guys wife made him sell it. He was probably sobbing uncontrollably when he dropped it in the mail.

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            May 19, 2010 7:26 AM

            Yup! I get to reap joy from his misery. It's like a free bonus.

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        May 19, 2010 6:51 AM

        I second this enthusiastic sentiment.

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        May 19, 2010 10:55 AM

        When I played chrono trigger, it became my favorite game for the snes. This is from someone who easily gets bored of rpg's. My previous favorite was f-zero

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      May 19, 2010 7:26 AM

      OCRemix's Chrono Trigger Remix: http://chrono.ocremix.org/

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      May 19, 2010 7:58 AM

      My favorite game of all time.

      FIrst time I played it, I was at a friends house and we played from the beginning to just to the point where Crono sacrifices himself in the Ocean Palace without stopping, basically played from the time we gout out of school until the next morning. Problem was, he was moving that day so we had to stop playing and return the game to the video store (he had rented it) and for reasons I can't remember I wasn't able to re-rent it to take it home to finish it. I was fucking bummed as all hell.

      Finally like a year or something later I remembered about it and rented it, played through the whole game in like two sittings.

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        May 19, 2010 8:31 AM

        first time i played the game, my friend started a new game on his cartridge even though he had been playing it for a while. after a couple hours he wanted to show me his progress (was at a save point just outside the 2nd battle w dalton.) in his excitement, he didn't realize he was on the 'save' screen rather than the identical 'select a game' screen and saved over his progress with the brand new game D=

        we were done for that day and i don't think he ever finished it.

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      May 19, 2010 8:57 AM

      I still have to finish this. I'm ready to do the final stretch/bosses etc. but it just sounds like such a fucking chore, which is a shame because the rest of the game was spot on with difficulty and variety.

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        May 19, 2010 10:45 AM

        there were so many different ways to approach the TRUE end bosses that alot of people thought they were really having to trudge through a bunch of stuff that wasnt really required.

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      May 19, 2010 9:16 AM

      Everyone hates on me when I say it, but I don't like Chrono Trigger at all. And I've tried it in 4 year increments since the 90s to play it with no dice. The dialogue is ho hum, characters inventive I guess but nothing that special, but the combat.....the combat is super boring. Nothing puts up a fight, you just destroy everything and you get in alot of fights.

      I'm really not trolling, becuase I've actually played this game 5 or 6 times, or tried to....nothing doing.

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        May 19, 2010 11:03 AM

        You can avoid many of the fights, but ya regular combat can be a chore at parts of the game. Boss fights can be a nice challenge at points, but being able to avoid enemies helps prevent it from being as much of a dungeon grind.

        Course this isn't applicable to every area, but many of them.

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      May 19, 2010 11:02 AM

      As much as I like Chrono Trigger, it definitely has some pacing issues that come out when you first get to 2033 AD.

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        May 19, 2010 11:02 AM

        or is it 2300? I forget.

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          May 19, 2010 11:04 AM

          2300, sir.

          I absolutely hate the early areas of that time zone. So boring.

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            May 19, 2010 11:26 AM

            IMO that and the last major dungeon were the worst paced areas of the game.. everything else was top notch

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        May 19, 2010 11:07 AM

        Yeah, there are a couple spots where it gets pretty lame and trudging. Fortunately, the game tends to follow that up with going FULL BALLS OUT AWESOME.

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      May 19, 2010 11:44 AM

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