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I've been replaying a bunch of PS1 games on my computer lately. Until today, when the new COD4 maps came out, I hadn't touched my 360 for almost a week.
Yep, I'm also playing Chrono Trigger for most of the day :O
I can understand what you mean. I tend to get in the same predicament a lot. I've a lot of newer games I should get to, but for some reason I start up Suikoden II or Brigandine amongst many others for the umpteenth time. It's not simple nostalgia, these games are still fun to play regardless how much they've aged.
Play what you love. It's the best feeling in the world. :)
That's awesome. I'm usually playing an old game as often as I'm playing my new ones... it's great they're so timeless!
btw, it's the NOW gen!
Get it right or pay the price!
I usually end up like this, but I've spent the past moth or so purely playing Brawl and a smidgen of Proffeser Layton, Contra 4, and AW DOR. I've been replaying Super Metroid as well, as it serves as a nice alternative for when I get frustrated with Brawl. (Boss Battle mode is impossible :()
Once a year to remind you why you love video games? That's admirable, yeah, but that will diminish the whole experience if you choose to make yourself play through the game. I never finished CT, nor have I finished Earthbound, but I know that I've played my fair share of both games, (15-20 hours easy) and I loved them. But, setting a schedule would kill the whole reason those games are as great as they are.
But, I've been doing the same thing really. There's a lot of games I have yet to play, and I'm trying to pay my respects to the games I couldn't play when I was a kid.
I STILL do not understand people's fascination with Chrono Trigger. I thought that game was shallow as hell.
I *96 Super Mario World about 3 times a week when I'm at work. haha
I just stopped playing earthbound to check the site, and am about to go back right now
I'm scared of buying new games, because I'm afraid I won't play them :3
I have a list of retro games that I loved and play through them about once a year spread over the course of the year. Chrono Trigger is among them. You're not alone.
@Gen Eric Gui:
I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree. You're honestly the only person I know on the internet and real life that didn't like Chrono Trigger. I thought Chrono Trigger was one of those games that fanboy or not, EVERYONE at least LIKED that game. Did you play Chrono Cross first? I wonder if that made a difference.
@ Go Man
See, that's the point. While I do make myself go back, if they didn't hold me like it did originally, I would've stopped playing it again. Instead, it still is holding my attention, despite the leaps and bounds games have made in the meanwhile.
@Rokvillian
I just said next gen to differentiate in my mind when I speak of my gaming. Force of habit really.
@Gen Eric Gui
Some of it is having to be there, alot of it is concepts that were very interesting that have yet to be implemented in a similar way in a game since. Also probably b/c Square didn't kill it with shoddy sequels and/or spin-offs, though I wouldn't mind one right about....NOW!
Oh ya, I forgot to mention playing Persona 1 on my PSP. MORE TIME DRAINING!!!!!
Good
Im also replaying chrono trigger. GoTa Get TeH MooN ArmOR!!
I played Trigger first, and then Cross. And I played both of them when they were still new, so it isn't that I "wasn't there".
I stand by my statement. I found Trigger to be horribly shallow, full of holes, and poorly designed. Cross was pretty good though. It had a lot fewer plot holes and the handful of important characters got a lot more development than Trigger's lackluster cast. The combat system also didn't contradict itself.
I will admit, back when it first came out and it was the only thing to play other than FF4 and 6, I enjoyed it. Of course, I was like 8 years old then and liked just about everything I played. But now that I've experienced a lot more, both from that era and beyond, I can look back without my retrogoggles and see that it really isn't all that impressive at all. It LOOKS great and has some of the best visuals on the SNES period(In fact, I'll argue until I die that it's superior to most PS2 games), but as a game? Terrible.
I would be play Chrono Trigger... if I could find my SNES power cord.
playing*
@ElfAngel
As long as you enjoy it then. For me, I just don't want to spoil anything that I had when I first played it. Sometimes, when you go back, you can nitpick your favorite games to death. I'm not trying to knock what you're doing, because if you enjoy it, do it man, I just wish I had that kind of resilience to my own pessimistic side.
I have still yet to play Chrono Trigger or Cross, and only about 3 years ago played Earthbound for the first time. I think that will be changing this summer though, I'll probably pick both Chrono games up.
I totally agree with you man I'm currently going through all the Zelda and Metal Gear games at the moment even though I haven't finished Lost Odyssey or Super Mario Galaxy and I got my Snes setup the other day because I'm too cheap to buy them again on my wii and played through Super Metroid and CT because lets be honest those games are and always be the best ones, we wouldn't play them yearly otherwise. There is rarely a game I can find that I want to play through more than once nowadays and most of the times it's because theres going to be easy 360 achievements left over :S