Crowbar Man

For MZ: Multiplay has rolled out the update for Bukkit RB 953, which supports 1.7_02 If you play on MZ its okay to update now Let me know if theres any issues I need to be notified about

Here is a FC VR6 cover of One Must Fall for your listening pleasure:

RISE FROM YOUR GRAAAVE 2nd Volume of the official soundtrack is now out: http://www.thinkwithportals.com/music.php

A reminder, as with any update if you are on the MZ server: please do not update your client until further notice or you will not be able to join. Multiplay will update to the latest RB of Bukkit (which has not been released yet) once they test it out, as per usual. Anybody who has updated accidently needing to backdate their client, please PM me and i'll provide the instructions. I still find it ridiculous with how close they are the "release" date they are still releasing updates that will break your game completely as if they didn't test it at all internally. :/ Not really hard to find bugs either, just "if you use pistons, the new feature we just added, but didn't test, your game will break, possibly irreversibly"

I get your point your trying to make, but indicating chiptunes are somehow lesser than modern tunes / OC Remixes, and even suggesting crappy MIDIs w/ snares would be better is kinda off. Theres some fantastic chiptunes out there made by talented artists you'd be missing out by not listening to them just because its "not orchestrated"/"modern" etc. Just because its not on this site doesn't mean its not good. Theres fantastic Retro style games too. SE could make one (like they are having Matrix do with After Years/Legends) if only to sell TO the "Retro" audience. I dont see them ever doing it with a mainline FF for obvious reasons. Closest thing we got to that was IX and probably the last. Though, I wouldn't call XIII (or XIV) a "step ahead" either. Maybe a retro game would at least have towns. PROGRESS!! Topicish: I'd be more looking forward to something being released by a smaller, and/or indie dev than Square for a retro RPG though. As mentioned here by someone else, current audience for console RPGs want bigger and better. Its not lucrative to push something retro outside of a downloadable title or portable. Square themselves aren't exactly the house of talent they once were either way, so Retro or not, the game has a high chance of turning out bad these days

To be technical: FFIII/IV remakes for DS, Four Heroes of Light, The After, and the new Legends are mostly developed by Matrix Software, not "Square" per se. They seem to be doing a pretty decent job as of late DQIX was developed by Level 5 and was more on the "Enix" side anyways. Games actually developed by "Square" have been really hit and miss since 7 honestly. And mostly miss. They've done terrible things to the Mana series for example. Square currently has 8 production teams on the "Square" side ( and an additional 2 on "Enix" side), and only a few of them produce games worth playing anymore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Enix#Production_teams Production Team 7 + Matrix are our best hopes for Retro styled games.

Even if you like their sequels, they are still modifications to an existing engine, and PC games. They had an entire recent game to mimic, resources to borrow, and the engine to mimic it on. CT was SNES, CC was PSX. They'd pretty much have to start from scratch to make a modern Chrono Not to mention the whole JRPG vs WRPG thing

I think Team Ninja may have had a hand in making it a Ninja Gaiden-ish game. Just a hunch. Nintendo may have been the ones to force them to use only the Wiimote/Waggle/Pointer, but considering how thats a major part of the game play its hard to believe they never objected at any point Back to topic: I still question why a Western RPG team can be expected to make a good game with a license from a very Japanese RPG game series. The styles conflict greatly. It would be interesting to apply the open ended western style RPG style of gameplay to time travel, but you'd have to have a developer a lot better than this to try to pull off something like that. Wouldn't make it very Chrono ish either way being the series is focused on a linear story path

Most people here do it seems. :/ See? Though I have to say: People liking DK64 and Other M are in the rarity than the norm.

CT, Super Metroid, and DKC are classics DK64, Donkey Konga, etc are not.

Well, you have a point that they've done far better at emulating/making fun games then the parent companies that own the licenses today (the teams that made the games are gone) Improvements over the classics is a bit of a stretch though. Please dont have Team Ninja do anything, ever again, with a license they didn't create themselves lol

Can you provide an example? Yeah this is bad news if it was event rue. The Chrono Trigger team has split up long ago, some of them worked on the XenoSaga series, which is hit or miss, and some of them reassembled at Mistwalker for Blue Dragon that didn't turn out great. Also CT series = Very much japanese style RPGs. Obisdian's games = Very much western style RPGs. How would that even work? Not looking forward to anything from a developer with a history of making subpar games either. As much as I'd like some more Chrono games, at this point its looking like its going to be just shuffled off for licencing and not a through out sequel to the franchise.

Well theres a tiny bit of sanity left in the world. Lets see how long that lasts Bill was dumb to begin with though, good waste of taxpayers money.

Originally i thought this was a remake of Legend (SaGa), but i forgot that was the US name. So, yes, there is 2D FFs being made still! Also being worked on by the same team who did FFIV: The After Years (that I mentioned) So, like DarkeSword mentioned, your petition traveled through time. Congratulations! Note: This, like The After Years, is going to start out on Mobile, but like any of the FF 2d games, will probably be ported to everything under the sun. The After Years team does not comprise of any of the classic developers of FF series. And definately not Uematsu

Uematsu works for his own company, Smile Please, which is freelance. but his company can work FOR Square if they contract them to do work (See FFXIV). However, all that for a 16bit experiment probably isn't feasable, but would be very nice.

Didnt they technically do this recently with FFIV: The After Years? also all the talent at square is pretty much gone so 16bit or no don't expect a good game :/

No!!11 impossible! They were not super hackers after all??/?1! I am utterly suprised

What, no Dreamcast 2 secret plans leaked?

eilios: I wonder why you didn't just type /warp nether? or /spawn? or anything? Seems odd you would just accept your fate of being spawned somewhere random instead of using a command. Already mentioned warps/home/spawns/etc are broken earlier too :/

Egads, thread becoming "which Zelda's the best" now Which is obviously, as Damned said, LA. Tied with LttP. Everybody else's opinions are wrong /sarcasm

Dev kits go through several iterations before and after the consoles release. The 360 just got a new more powerful dev kit and that consoles been out forever. The dev kit they are using might be the grey box that was showing up in pictures everywhere. Though there's definally no evidence the hardware for consumer release is finalized since they gave us no info

Its not, 3DS VC currently only plans on emulating handhelds. 3DS VC currently has 4 Categories: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, and TurboGrafx GT (which is odd, considering its just a TG16). It would be disappointing if they didn't get GBA later on though I'm not 100% sure if 3DS has enough umph to properly emulate the N64 anyways.

Bleck: the GC and Wii also were proprietary formats. They were still based on DVD, though its not DVD at all. Its just cheaper to reuse exsisting tech It is still possible they could come up with a completely unique format. Also I forgot to add, besides not playing DVD, Wii U will keep the tradition of not playing CDs either. No cool music visualizers :/

Dead as a movie standard but they could still base their disks on hddvd, which provides 15 gb for single or 30 for dl. You do have a point there it may be just a completely general statement not related to what the hardware does or does not contain. Curse them and their lack of info If it is based on bd though I hope whatever changes they make to it makes it faster or use a faster drive than ps3 at least On a side note Im guessing it also doesn't play HDDVD movies... or laser disk

Unless Square suddenly learns how to make good games again, I don't think that will happen.