Only recently have I begun to read some of the stuff over at Bitmob and I have to admit that they are different. And while I do respect other peoples' differences, there is a particular aritcle that just does not sit well with me.
It is titled "The Second Time Around with Chrono Trigger: Millennial Fair."
My problem here isn't the fact that the person writing about Chrono Trigger dislike of the game. To each his or her own. What disturbs me is the fact that he claims to be a RPG fan of games from both East and West. His two examples? Final Fantasy Tactics and Baldur's Gate.
To compair those games with a game like Chrono Trigger is practically impossible, as far as I am concerned. Yes they are all considered RPGs, but they play no where near the same. And by the sounds of it, the person writing was expecting a game like they are today: Filled with choices and options to chose where and how you proceed through a story. Hell, Chrono Trigger was released back in 1995! Chrono Trigger was cutting edge back then! There was no free roaming, no skill trees to work your way through. You just had what you had before you and that was it.
I just think the person who wrote the article went into Chrono Trigger with an impossible expectation. As I mentioned earlier, what he expected and what was during that time period was just unheard of really. For something of its time, Chrono Trigger was easily one of the best RPGs out there. It is just too bad some people can't give it a try with an open mind.
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I agree that someone who lists Final Fantasy Tactics and Baldur's Gate as two of their favorite games ever probably isn't as big of an RPG fan as he or she thinks. ;-p
On the other hand, although Chrono Trigger is probably my favorite game of all time, I, too, find the Millenial Fair boring as all hell. Still, I'm totally willing to suffer through it since the rest of the game kicks so much ass it's not even funny.
My son will be 16 in January, so he has no recollection of these old SNES games. He LOVES RPG's. His favorite of all time is probably the Kingdom Hearts series. He also adores action games, fighting games, and all the new pretty graphics. But he's obsessively playing through all the old Final Fantasy games "because they're full of awesome." After he finishes that, he plans on playing Chrono Trigger, which he started and loves.
So the guy that wrote the article. Probably not really a fan of JRPG's, I'm thinking... =P
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