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[burgundy]

Then where could you stick a story? Chrono and pals all die a few years after Trigger, nothing much happens to Serge, and between both games we've covered the entire stretch of time and all alternate dimensions remotely connected to the plot. Unless you make a significantly smaller-scale plot, it'd be hard to make a huge threat that wouldn't have theoretically already been encountered by either Chrono or Serge at some point without some really hardcore retconning or outright contradictions.

Um, none of the shit that happened in Cross was remotely alluded to in Trigger, and designers could work with the entire time-space continuum in any given sequel. And so what if they retcon or contradict, who cares? A bunch of nerds on GameFAQs?

I don't know why there's no sequel, but I'm pretty confident this isn't the reason. Nobody ever let a little reconning stand in the way of printing money.

[sethsez]

Um, none of the shit that happened in Cross was remotely alluded to in Trigger, and designers could work with the entire time-space continuum in any given sequel.

Well, that's why Cross dealt with alternate dimensions, because they couldn't really do much more with time travel in that universe. Now that they've covered time travel AND alternate dimensions, I'm really struggling to think about what else they could pull out here.

And so what if they retcon or contradict, who cares? A bunch of nerds on GameFAQs?

This is pretty much the only worthwhile series Suare has with any sort of consistent world or plot. If they abandon that, why call it a Chrono game? Final Fantasy has had time travel before too, and it's not like the battle system is consistent from game to game.

[burgundy]

Since no previous Chrono game covered the...I dunno...entire breadth and width of the time-space continuum, there is plenty of room to work in events that that tie into the plot of either or both games.

[sethsez]

Eh, I guess they could show another planet dealing with its own Lavos, but that would be pretty redundant.

[burgundy]

This isn't cold fusion. Have you seen Back to the Future Part II?

[MarkRyan]

This isn't cold fusion. Have you seen Back to the Future Part II?

They made two of them!?

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Eh, I guess they could show another planet dealing with its own Lavos, but that would be pretty redundant.

Hasn't every RPG storyline since, i don't know, the first one ever made been redundant?
RPG's have (to me anyway) become less and less about story and more and more about graphics/battle system.

[Changeling]

Half-Life (series) is still the bench mark of the first person shooter game, though I think it's unfair to lable it just a shooter. Every FPS since uses HL(2) for it's model. If not, then they should be.

Bullshit. If I used that logic, I could say Ninja Gaiden is a benchmark for the way cutscenes are interwoven into games. Half Life isn't the benchmark for anything EXCEPT rejurgitation on a series, or better yet, resting on a series laurels. Halflifes main mods are also guilty of this, and before you say most popular FPS's on the internet, I say its because almost ANY machine can run them.

Play Undying.

[sethsez]

This isn't cold fusion. Have you seen Back to the Future Part II?

Yes. In the first movie, they went to the past. In the second movie, they went to the future. Both were small-scale and focused on a couple characters and locations, so it would be perfectly possible to assume that a lot of shit was missed to make for many more movies if someone wanted.

Chrono Trigger covered the prehistoric era to the end of time and plenty in between, with each era covering the entire globe, in addition to focusing on a huge, time-spanning threat to the world (a threat equal to Lavos would have been hard to miss). There are significantly fewer places to stick an equally expansive story.

It's not the time travel aspect alone that makes it extremely hard to create a worthy sequel, but the sheer scope of what the game covered and the scope a worthy sequel would require. When you've covered every period of time, every dimension and every physical location on the planet, you're kind of fucked when it comes to expansion without doing something drastic like setting the next title on a different planet entirely, which is the only way I could see it going (who knows, maybe space exploration was mastered and they colonized another world, bringing parts of their civilization with them).

[burgundy]

Chrono Trigger covered the prehistoric era to the end of time and plenty in between, with each era covering the entire globe, in addition to focusing on a huge, time-spanning threat to the world (a threat equal to Lavos would have been hard to miss). There are significantly fewer places to stick an equally expansive story.

Yeah, but not only did the CT crew miss a huge threat...they fricking created it...which is the basis of CC. Plus CC did some ridiculous retarded temporal backflips that don't all work out, but it doesn't bother me.

And frankly, when you're talking about the entirety of the game universe, there's plenty room to work in a new story. It would just take some effort.