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Site Updates / Re: Good News Bad News
« on: June 06, 2009, 10:50:56 pm »
The problem isn't so much that you were spoiling, it's that the alpha sucks, to speak crudely. We never wanted it to leak, because of legal reasons (obviously), but also because it's riddled with bugs and typos and unpolished maps/events/sprites/battle system. Playing this alpha gives a false view of what the game was meant to be. It doesn't even have the right ending (we changed it a few times during development).
Quote from: http://www.crimsonechoes.com/
While [the alpha] version has a lot of the dialogue and events skeletoned out and rough versions of all the maps, it predates the over 2,000 bug fixes and improvements made during the beta testing cycle. It's also missing a number of more significant features, such as several of the new endings, the dialogue for a lot of the sidequests, and some of the mini-games. There are also a number of known showstopper bugs that freeze the game or make it unplayable past certain points in the early alpha that were carefully caught and fixed in the beta-testing cycle. As you can imagine, we're quite embarrassed that such an early version of the game has been leaked, since it lacks all of the polish and refinement from the months of hard work and hundreds of playthroughs done by the beta testers and developers.
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Site Updates / Re: Good News Bad News
« on: June 06, 2009, 09:02:23 pm »
Ah, I'm not sure. I'll let JP comment on that one.
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Site Updates / Re: Good News Bad News
« on: June 06, 2009, 08:46:49 pm »But since destroying the Dragon Tooth will restore the time line, technically, Marle, Lucca, and Robo should loose all the experience they got.C99 originally wanted to avoid that. But reverting their levels was considered too annoying or something like that.
Yeah, there was plan to revert their levels AND items (and Gold and Techs...everything), but since JP put the optional superboss in this part of the game...it would have been annoying for the player. From a coding standpoint we would have recorded all the necessary variables before the Reptite chapters and would paste back the old values over the new ones after the timeline restoration.
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Site Updates / Re: Good News Bad News
« on: June 06, 2009, 08:39:48 pm »
Zeality did a fantastic work on the dialogue in general, and on King Zeal and Magus in particular. I think we went with a really nice direction with Magus by avoiding the cardboard, Vegeta-esque Magus figure of CT. He's closer to Magil here (or a Magil that doesn't need to hide his identity anyway). Emo Magus is not the way to go for Chrono fangames and fanfiction IMHO.
Yourgingerestfan, you'd have the same choice but this time it's for real.
Acacia Sgt, since you're an astute viewer, I hope you'll catch the few plotholes that are in the game in some later chapters
Everything before the Reptite chapters was thought out pretty thoroughly, but after that there are a few plotholes that I didn't fix due to college and other real life factors, essentially.
Yourgingerestfan, you'd have the same choice but this time it's for real.
Acacia Sgt, since you're an astute viewer, I hope you'll catch the few plotholes that are in the game in some later chapters
Everything before the Reptite chapters was thought out pretty thoroughly, but after that there are a few plotholes that I didn't fix due to college and other real life factors, essentially.
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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: Square Enix Not Impressed by CTDS Sales
« on: June 06, 2009, 07:30:47 pm »
Found this on NeoGAF:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16203277&postcount=15
"Apzonerunner" matches with the MSN address shown in Alex Donaldon's profile.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16203277&postcount=15
"Apzonerunner" matches with the MSN address shown in Alex Donaldon's profile.
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Site Updates / Re: Good News Bad News
« on: June 06, 2009, 05:05:11 pm »
FaustWolf, personally I don't see where they're coming from. Hashimoto gave this answer "when asked by RPGSite staff if he could forsee Square handing off other much-loved but neglected franchises to external developers as with Front Mission".
CT:DS sold .88 million units.
The Front Mission game which sold most units (Front Mission 1) sold .60 million units, while the most recent installment, Front Mission 2089, sold barely .05 million units.
http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=front+mission&console=&publisher=&genre=&minSales=0&results=50&sort=Total
Basically, the FM series sells like shit yet it's getting a revival, while the Chrono series does well and gets nothing. I'd have accepted yet another cliché answer about how the development team can't be reunited, but this...is just frigging surreal. It makes no sense whatsoever.
CT:DS sold .88 million units.
The Front Mission game which sold most units (Front Mission 1) sold .60 million units, while the most recent installment, Front Mission 2089, sold barely .05 million units.
http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=front+mission&console=&publisher=&genre=&minSales=0&results=50&sort=Total
Basically, the FM series sells like shit yet it's getting a revival, while the Chrono series does well and gets nothing. I'd have accepted yet another cliché answer about how the development team can't be reunited, but this...is just frigging surreal. It makes no sense whatsoever.
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Submissions / Re: CE Tribute
« on: June 06, 2009, 04:53:58 pm »
Nice medley! I love remixes and rearrangements that deviate from the original melody slightly, adding a new spin to the original tracks.
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General Discussion / Re: Chrono Compendium Dōjinshi Circle! Let's do this!
« on: June 06, 2009, 04:32:39 pm »
Crono and Marle's wedding was necessarily in 1000 A.D. We know that Lucca found Kid a few years after 1000 A.D., so the wedding could have been after CT too.
Source? The Compendium doesn't have this information, this sounds interesting.
I've read that officially, Lucca is 19 years old in Chrono Trigger. (Crono is 17, Marle is 16).
Source? The Compendium doesn't have this information, this sounds interesting.
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Chrono Trigger DS Analysis / Re: Square Enix Not Impressed by CTDS Sales
« on: June 06, 2009, 03:06:24 pm »
Fucking hell. Was that some kind of provocation or is he not aware that SE America just shut down their third Chrono fangame in the span of five years? And CT:DS sold more than ANY Front Mission game ever did you fucking vice-president.
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General Discussion / Re: Chrono Compendium Dōjinshi Circle! Let's do this!
« on: June 06, 2009, 09:02:55 am »
Aha, nothing wrong that! However since Lynx "kidnaps" Lucca in 1015 AD it might be difficult for her to meet an old enough Norris.
Well, I just checked Norris's age and that could happen in +1010 AD I guess, though we don't really know Lucca's exact age.
Well, I just checked Norris's age and that could happen in +1010 AD I guess, though we don't really know Lucca's exact age.
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Site Updates / Re: Alpha Leakers Banned
« on: June 06, 2009, 08:30:34 am »the vast majority of everything in the Chrono series has been analyzed to death.
It hasn't.
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General Discussion / Re: Chrono Compendium Dōjinshi Circle! Let's do this!
« on: June 06, 2009, 08:29:22 am »Lucca x Norris / Tushantin (Don't blaim me, that's all that they said! Although it might be cute)
Lucca is, like, 10 years older than Norris...
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General Discussion / Re: European Trip Memoirs
« on: June 06, 2009, 07:57:25 am »
I concur on Lyon. Brittany is nice too, with its regional culture, the landscapes, Celtic vibes and whatnot.
Good thing you don't bring this up, because it's banned in France, Germany, the UK, Canada, and several other countries too.
Scien...scien...ok I won't get into that sc...
Good thing you don't bring this up, because it's banned in France, Germany, the UK, Canada, and several other countries too.
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Site Updates / Re: Alpha Leakers Banned
« on: June 06, 2009, 07:42:28 am »
Bad news indeed. What's baffling concerning Justin and PSZ is that they had their own fanprojects going or planned, and yet they didn't respect our own project. I would have thought they could have put themselves in JP's or Zeality's place for a sec and see what their actions entailed, but they didn't.