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Chrono Cross and three other new PSOne Classics coming to Playstation Network

The Entertainment Software Rating Board has revealed four new PSOne Classic games, including the highly-requested Chrono Cross, for the Playstation 3 and PSP that will be released on the Playstation Network.

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koehler835014d ago (Edited 5014d ago )

After this week's gaff regarding Chrono Trigger and FFVI, I'll reserve anticipation until I see them on the store.

(Even though I already have Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross and FFVI on disc.)

Acquiescence5014d ago

After all these years of yearning, I'll finally be able to play Chrono Cross. Life is good.

NukaCola5014d ago

Chrono Cross is great. A lot of people kind of hated on it for not being a direct sequel to Chrono Trigger, but once you get in the game you'll see why it's great. The gameplay is pretty cool on how it works. I never personally understood the leveling system, but I like a game where the enemies are always on screen until you touch them...It helps with being able to get from point A - B without triggering a ton of random battles, especially when your in a hurry.

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JellyJelly5014d ago

I loved Chrono Cross. I remember thinking "this looks just as good as any Dreamcast game" the first time I played it :)

Agent_hitman5014d ago

Chrono cross is a good substitute for FF series

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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_B161d 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

goken159d ago

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

Retroman159d ago (Edited 159d ago )

You forgot Viewtiful Joe ps1 and Silent Bomber

Terry_B159d ago

VJ was a Gamecube /PS2 game

indifference84110d ago

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

Scissorman160d ago

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

Alos88160d 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_forever159d ago

Parasite Eve
Vagrant story
Dino crisis
The legend of dragon

goken159d 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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banger88826d 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.

phoenixwing824d ago

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

CantThinkOfAUsername824d ago

Emulation will always be worse than a native port.

sadraiden823d 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.

Pedrof824d ago

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

FallenAngel1984824d ago

Why wasn’t Chrono Trigger included in this?

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

DivineHand125824d 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.

FallenAngel1984824d ago (Edited 824d 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

shinoff2183824d 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.

Chard824d 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

Ronmaest824d 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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Ronmaest835d ago

Square isn’t what it used to be.

CrimsonWing69835d 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.

porkChop835d 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.

CrimsonWing69834d 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.

Ronmaest829d 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.

GoodGuy09835d ago

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

franwex835d 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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