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Classic Square Enix PSOne JRPGs go on sale

The disc copies of Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy Anthology and Final Fantasy Origins are currently on sale for $9.99 apiece.

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Magicite3923d ago

I want chrono cross sequel or at least remaster so badly...!

Qrphe3923d ago

>my first console was the 360

These people can vote too now, I'm old

Revengeance3923d ago

Just another Xbox drone who bought the wrong console last gen. Nothing to see here.

dboyman3923d ago

There are PS1 games that are better playing games than some "next gen" titles...

BillytheBarbarian3923d ago

2-D 32bit era games are still good but those early days of 3-D are just crusty crap. Saturn, 3do, jaguar, CDi, and Ps1. N64 is when things started to shape up and Dreamcast saved the world from Sony jaggies. I'll take the SNES or Genesis over PS1 all day.

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gigoran3923d ago

oh DISC copies? Worth it for that price. I thought "why pay that much when I already got them for $5 a piece on PSN?" Collectors and their discs. Inseparable lol

PiNkFaIrYbOi3923d ago

A physical copy is always better for those of us who like to collect or to replay games later on.

Sy_Wolf3923d ago

There are no Square Enix games on the PSOne. Square and Enix were two separate companies at that time.

ShadowWolf7123923d ago

But they merged and the titles are now property of Squeenix.

So... yay, I suppose.

Sy_Wolf3923d ago

Yes, but it says "classic Square Enix JRPGs." So we're both right. Isn't it nice when things work out like that? :)

EverydayGuy3923d ago

Square Enix owns the ip because of the merge.

Sy_Wolf3923d ago

Obviously, but they aren't Square Enix games. It's a technicality but still matters.

DeadManMMX3923d ago (Edited 3923d ago )

That merger was the worst thing that ever happened to the quality of their games. I miss square soft by itself and Enix can stick with star ocean, dragon warrior and Valkyrie chronicles.

hkgamer3923d ago

you should put all your blame and hatred onto sony pictures, squaresoft and hironobu sakaguchi.

they messed up your precious squaresoft.

Spotie3923d ago

Gotta work that Sony blame in there somehow.

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10 PS1 Games That Deserve Sequels

There are plenty of games that were released on the PS1 that deserved some kind of sequel or follow-up, yet never received another game.

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Terry_B163d ago

The List there is not bad..but my top ten PS1 sequels would be:

Battle Arena Toshinden 5
New Parodius
New Bust A Groove
New Kensai: Sacred Fist
Bushido Blade 3
Xenogears 2
Biofreaks 2
Jumping Flash 4
Cardinal Syn 2
Tobal No. 3

goken161d ago

Woah bust a groove. Loved the music of this game haha!
Xenogears 2… one can hope.

Retroman161d ago (Edited 161d ago )

You forgot Viewtiful Joe ps1 and Silent Bomber

Terry_B161d ago

VJ was a Gamecube /PS2 game

indifference84111d ago

Good list. A few games I had completely forgotten about.

Scissorman162d ago

Man, Silent Bomber is such a gem of a game, and massively underrated.

Alos88162d ago

There was actually at attempt at a new Hogs of War kickstarter last year, but it did really poorly and failed to make it's goal.

on_line_forever161d ago

Parasite Eve
Vagrant story
Dino crisis
The legend of dragon

goken161d ago

Actually there were a bunch of monopoly like board games on PS1 that i really enjoyed, like momotaro dentsetsu, dragon money etc.
wish someone would make more of these games

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Chrono Cross was remastered because the devs feared the classic JRPG becoming "unplayable"

Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition owes its existence to the fact that the devs at Square Enix were afraid that the original version of the classic Japanese RPG was about to become "unplayable."

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banger88827d ago

I don't know why they were worried. Emulation has ensured the game (and every other PS1 game for that matter) will live on forever. Maybe they're so out of touch they aren't even aware emulators are a thing.

phoenixwing826d ago

I think they want to be in mainstream not just emulation niche

CantThinkOfAUsername826d ago

Emulation will always be worse than a native port.

sadraiden825d ago

PS1 emulation is essentially perfect. Maybe not frame perfect in the same way that hardware emulation can deliver, but you can't tell the difference. You can run epsxe or duckstation on a potato PC.

Pedrof826d ago

So many games are way more "unplayable" than Chrono Cross, which at least had a rerelease as a PS1 Classic on PS3.

FallenAngel1984826d ago

Why wasn’t Chrono Trigger included in this?

This should’ve been a celebration of the entire Chrono series

DivineHand125826d ago

Based on Square's logic, Chrono Trigger had no risk of being lost to time because you can currently get that game on Android, iOS and PC while the only version of Chrono Cross that existed was on the original PS1 and playstation classics for PS3, PSP and PS Vita. Those consoles are discontinued.

I would love to see them give Chrono Trigger the ff7 remake treatment minus it being episodic.

FallenAngel1984826d ago (Edited 826d ago )

Square Enix has no problem rereleasing their Final Fantasy titles as often as they do. Should apply that logic to CT as well

If Chrono Trigger did get a remake it’d be on the scale of Trials of Mana, Live a Live or DQIII rather than FFVII

shinoff2183826d ago

I'd be fine with that. Stay truer to the original. Combat , everything. Although I enjoyed ff7r the combat nearly put me off the game. I didn't mind the changes to the story.

Chard826d ago

The Steam port of Chrono Trigger, since all of the updates it received, is quite close to being flawless, I wish they’d go the final mile and make the remaining fixes, which should be easy for them to do

Ronmaest826d ago

The most epic game Square has made.

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Mobile Games Killed The Dream Of Chrono Trigger 3

A third Chrono series game called Chrono Break was planned, but Square prioritized an MMORPG, and Chrono Break’s concepts were used in mobile games.

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Ronmaest837d ago

Square isn’t what it used to be.

CrimsonWing69837d ago

It’s true.

Squaresoft used to be like the equivalent of Naughty Dog back in the day. When you heard Squaresoft was making a game you knew it’d be a banger.

god I miss those days.

porkChop837d ago

Yeah they used to be the best in the industry. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the worst decision they ever made. While they had previously talked about merging with Enix, that film flopping so hard left them with no other option.

CrimsonWing69836d ago

@porkChop

My understanding is that merger was happening before the film and the flop of the film freaked them out because they thought Enix would call it off.

I personally wish Square Pictures was a success. I thought the Matrix shirt they did was cool and they were pushing computer animation into a more mature realm.

Unfortunately, Spirits Within noted many and wasn’t the FF movie a lot of fans wanted. I thought it was decent, but something like Advent Children should’ve been the direction they went.

Ronmaest831d ago

To me, Naughty Dog is now Naughtycucks.p after that god awful story in LoU 2.

It was people like Yasumi Matsuno that held it for me, at Squaresoft. The company thought them too radical and ran them out. And now they yearn for people like that. They’re short sighted and pathetic.

GoodGuy09837d ago

Square ruined pretty much every great old franchise they've had.

franwex836d ago

Kinda misleading title, even from reading the article itself.

The staff and management couldn’t come to an agreement and the team moved on. Part of the team went to creat ff11 and the rest to Monolith software. Ideas for this game were implemented in some form to mobile games-later on. Which make sense as early 2000s mobile phones were not as powerful.

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