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Fan Art / Lucca and Robo
« on: November 29, 2023, 04:03:07 am »
Hey everyone! It’s been a while.
Thought I’d drop by to share this lil’ drawing of Lucca and Robo I just finished.
Thought I’d drop by to share this lil’ drawing of Lucca and Robo I just finished.
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Trigger HD-2D remake rumors
« on: November 24, 2023, 01:55:56 am »
I mean at this point, nearing the end of the Switch lifecycle, maybe we're looking at a Switch 2 release. Assuming this project is real that is, which I honestly don't think it is considering Zippo's track record, where's the Kid Icarus Uprising Switch re-release bro?
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Trigger HD-2D remake rumors
« on: July 12, 2023, 04:51:14 pm »...I would much rather a Chrono Trigger remake use whatever graphics engine the newer Dragonball games are using. Those mimic the Toriyama style perfectly.
I couldn't agree more. I do not love the HD/2D style with the ridiculous bloom and blur effects everywhere, and the awful stiff movement that comes with it.
That being said. This guy also said that Kid Icarus Uprising was getting a remake on June of last year. I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: April 11, 2022, 03:09:38 pm »
Razzly's another one of the few I've spotted to also have gotten some 3d modelling touch ups. In this case they added more polys to her hair and changed up her face (for the better), along with new face and hair textures.
Also attached a Nikki comparison
Also attached a Nikki comparison
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: April 10, 2022, 04:15:10 pm »One thing I've been curious about is the redrawn portraits for characters who don't have full concept art. Evil Serge looks... interesting? He got a pointy tooth and his jaw grew approximately 2 inches.
Umm wow
I hate it lol
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: April 07, 2022, 08:02:39 pm »
There's a lot of talk going around that the game is really just an emulated version, even has the CDROM.dat files inside the data folder...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: April 07, 2022, 04:56:23 pm »
Been playing the game for a bit. I was getting to the conclusion that they didn't enhance any of the 3d models asides from Serge, Kid, Guile(for some reason), and Lynx. However during Karsh's fight I noticed that his hair had updated textures and his face also had a texture touch-up where you could see some of his complexion between his eyebrows. (Solt and Peppor got no treatment sadly).
Looking at it side by side the texture in the clothing seems slightly different and the polygons also look slightly different. I'm curious to see what other models have been updated. From what I saw in a video it looked to me like Niki's face was also re-done.
Looking at it side by side the texture in the clothing seems slightly different and the polygons also look slightly different. I'm curious to see what other models have been updated. From what I saw in a video it looked to me like Niki's face was also re-done.
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General Discussion / Re: What Are You Currently Playing? (Do NOT Just Make a List)
« on: April 06, 2022, 04:53:41 pm »
Reporting here to say I'm also a huge fan of the Lunar games. The first one I played was Lunar 2 on the Sega CD (we had lunar 1 as well but I only saw my brother play it). And then I got to enjoy the remakes on the PS1 as they were released (still got my collectors edition boxes and the sega cd CIB of Lunar 2) which were and still are amazing games that I still replay to this day.
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: April 06, 2022, 04:49:14 pm »https://blog.playstation.com/2022/04/06/chrono-cross-the-radical-dreamers-edition-remastering-a-classic/#sf255253049
New interview. It notes that the remaster took a while because the originally game was not completely saved and had parts that needed to be recreated.
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here and say he's lying about the human touch in those backgrounds. They look like the were just machine upscaled on bulk with the same settings for all of them and no one bothered to touch up any of the weird hiccups. And IF they were actually curated by a team of artists, I'd say they need to invest in a better team. What the fan community has done in their free time for the FF9 remaster mod shows a lot more care.
I find the talk about parts missing interesting and confusing. But then again I'm no game developer.
Also I was holding out hope that the release of this remaster meant something for the future of Chrono, maybe a remake(yeah i know). But with them saying they were meaning to do this 3 years ago I'm not sure that might the case anymore. @____@
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: April 06, 2022, 04:01:47 pm »
So I've been looking at a lot of gameplay and review videos of the game and so far it looks to me like the only 3D models I've noticed that were actually re-done are: Serge, Kid, Guile (for some reason?), and Lynx.
Game unlocks at midnight and I can't wait to poke and prod around but I'm mostly hoping for someone to mod it so we can replace the backgrounds with way better AI Upscaled images, 'cause some of them made me cringe in disappointment
I've heard a lot of talks about the Switch and PS4/5 versions having a lot of frame rate issues and I can't help but wonder if its literally reffering to the same frame rate drops back in the ps1. I can imagine...(at least in PC) that this is something that can be easily fixable by unlocking the frame rate maybe?
Also off-topic but, I've gone through several reviewers (who are self-proclaimed big time fans of the game) and all of them were mind blown by the fast forward and slow mo feature and none of them seemed to be aware this was actually a feature of the original...u just had to earn it by beating the game... @____@
Game unlocks at midnight and I can't wait to poke and prod around but I'm mostly hoping for someone to mod it so we can replace the backgrounds with way better AI Upscaled images, 'cause some of them made me cringe in disappointment
I've heard a lot of talks about the Switch and PS4/5 versions having a lot of frame rate issues and I can't help but wonder if its literally reffering to the same frame rate drops back in the ps1. I can imagine...(at least in PC) that this is something that can be easily fixable by unlocking the frame rate maybe?
Also off-topic but, I've gone through several reviewers (who are self-proclaimed big time fans of the game) and all of them were mind blown by the fast forward and slow mo feature and none of them seemed to be aware this was actually a feature of the original...u just had to earn it by beating the game... @____@
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: April 03, 2022, 02:43:44 am »
Heard talk that the new songs aren’t gonna be in the game and are only part of a vinyl album release?
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: March 24, 2022, 07:38:23 pm »
Saw the post this morning, wow I genuinely thought we were getting just 1 track.
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Chrono News / Re: Chrono Cross Remaster and Radical Dreamers Localization Announced!
« on: February 10, 2022, 08:17:11 pm »Look, I will be the "that" guy...let's be real... huge disappointment; calling this "remaster" is just lying. It is a port. An HD Port, as they used to call, before the marketing department chose to use the wrong definition to se if it sticks. This is just the same game in HD, something that can be achieved with any emulator and swapping the background for 4K upscaled ones. Search Youtube for "Chrono Cross 4k" and there will be plenty of videos from 2018-2020 showing graphics better than this. Trying to use the wrong definition will not change what it is.
If this become successful, everthing now can be a remaster just by up scaling the resolution...
Edit: I saw the tweet about the graphics comparison and i literally couldn't tell which one of the Kid models was the "remastered" one. I kept going back and forward trying to guess. This is a fact. The other image is possible to see just because the background.
We expect for any remaster at least new models, graphics, textures. The Spongebob Rehydrated game did a remaster 10 times better. Sponge. Bob. Look for it and you will see what I'm talking about.
Again, Square Enix is showing little respect for the series and barely doing the work that fans did years ago. I would not be surprised if these ps4/switch versions are just being run by an emulation software (probably, let's be real).
The only thing good about this is that people are talking about the Chrono series again, and just that...
And I expect a price of US$20 or something like this.
Well I do share some of your opinions in regards to the quality of said upscale backgrounds. There was someone on the internet ( I think it was this same forum ) who had painstakingly AI Upscaled every single Chrono Cross background (literally one of those is my current PC Wallpaper) and they looked soooooooo much better than what we saw in this trailer.
There's many different AI Upscaling technologies and within those many settings to be tweaked that will alter said quality and I can safely say that they either used the worst one available or they just went with the default settings without a care of the output. I've used Topaz Gigapixel in my job and I can say that you can get some ugly results if you don't properly play with the settings.
The lack of widescreen support is also hugely disappointing.
In regards to the music I had seen a website where Square outlined all of the remaster's features and within them they specified that there's only ONE new track which is also very disappointing in my opinion.
And making claims that Nobuteru Yuuki re-drew ALL of the old artwork...I don't see it. I see that he may have drawn over some of the main characters drawings...but the rest look like they only went through the same AI Upscaling as the backgrounds did. I could be wrong about this though? Point is...why not just make new drawings of the characters if its almost unnoticeable that its a new drawing T___T
At the end of the day...I already pre-purchased it on Steam and am waiting for a play-asia physical release to pre-order. I gotta support what little effort they put into anything chrono related...even if it leaves a lot to be desired. Especially right after seeing what they're doing with Front Mission, Live a Live and the full 3d Remake of Trials of Mana
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Chrono News / Re: Rumor - Chrono Cross Remaster
« on: February 09, 2022, 06:36:22 pm »
Lowkey disappointed it's just a remaster though...and the quality of some of those upscaled backgrounds was a bit disheartening...
But, I'll take the bread crumbs :I
Front Mission remake looks great tho! :I
What about the rumors regarding it being JUST a PS5-PC thing? :I
ALSO! Didn't Yasunori Mitsuda work on this? The music is still the same... Enhanced Audio means literally nothing except maybe a different file format lol
But, I'll take the bread crumbs :I
Front Mission remake looks great tho! :I
What about the rumors regarding it being JUST a PS5-PC thing? :I
ALSO! Didn't Yasunori Mitsuda work on this? The music is still the same... Enhanced Audio means literally nothing except maybe a different file format lol
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Chrono News / Re: Another Eden x Chrono Cross Collaboration
« on: January 24, 2022, 05:14:06 pm »
I tried playing the game almost on a daily basis to lv up and get to the point where I could do the Crossover but maaaaaaaaaan did I get bored :X I just can't even with these mobile games...and unskippable cutscenes in nowadays climate is a sin...