Fangamer

I’m about to get in a fight with Heckran, so I’ll make it quick. The best time period is 600 AD, and I am basing this purely on the awesome music. Discuss!

2300 AD, because what happens to the world in the future is really surreal and really atmospheric. It doesn’t make the most sense, but besides the lame factories it’s awesome.

12000 BC with Zeal, the Ocean Palace… the atmosphere and music for that place was really, really amazing.

Also, who can forget 1999 AD?

Floating Zeal is the best of all. If only we had floating islands in real life!

Elliotw2:

None of them, I hate the game

Um, then why bother posting in the Chrono Trigger forum?

I have a hard time choosing between the time periods…I really, really wanna see 1999 A.D. It just makes me…wonder what the world was like in the CT universe before it was totally destroyed. Sure, in Chrono Cross they revealed what happened during the destruction of Lavos, but I still wanna see it.

But, I love the Undersea Palace, that’s where it all goes down. The mega climax, the big showdown, heart racing as you run, run, and run towards the ending of it all hoping you’ll make it…

I guess 12,000 B.C. but…I like most of the time periods, so I can’t really tell. The future is awesome because it’s the future. The present is a nice getaway from it all, 600 A.D. is cool medieval stuff, prehistoric stuff has cavemen and dinosaurs. They’re all pretty wicked.

Zeal all the way. It has the best music in the game by leaps and bounds.

Zeal.

But 600 AD is such a close second cause man it rules really hard

Zeal. The skill and knowledge of that era is supreme. There is no fear or sadness, just eternal peace.

65 million BC all the way, cause the reptile character from that era kick all sorts of ass!

65M BC baby

I have yet to see all the people/times but as far as I’ve ever made it into the game.

600 A.D. because of Wind Scene, Frog’s Theme, Masamune, Magus, Frog, and everything else.

I hate 12,000 BC ;__; too many dinos to fight haha….

My favorite is probably the End of Time because it’s so simple but interesting.
Also, 600AD Medina :> with the nice imps who give you cake…

Edit: I meant 64mil

12,000 bc was awesome

Okay now I have time for more in-depth analysis. Woo analysis!

65 mil BC is good times, though I agree with Jato about it being underdeveloped — but it also has two groovy dungeons (even if I still don’t get how the holes work) and your first flying transportation (even if it only goes to the lair.) I like the trading house, too, although it kinda sucks that their “ultimate item” is really quite crap by the time you can get. Basically, the only reason to go back after you’ve finished off the Reptites is to get the Silver Stone from the name-changing Nu.

12,000 BC is good during the fun bits. I always get to Mt. Woe anticipating fighting the Rubbles and being able to steal funky-fresh weapons, but by the end of it the absolutely arbitrary battles have destroyed my resolve. Zeal is fine and the Blackbird is too, but overall the whole area feels like too much of a trip; I might compare it to the the giant robot from FF2, for example. It just seems to me like a departure from the time-hopping that precedes it, I guess. But hey, Dalton’s a pretty cool guy.

600 AD is the best. The Cathedral is introductory without holding your hand too much, the framework of the Human-Mystic (or ’fiend’) war dictates the pace brilliantly, and Magus’s Castle is a perfect midpoint denouement. No other era stands alone in defining its own storyline as well as the Middle Age does. Yes, there are connections to the other times, but through Zenan Bridge and up the Denadoro Mountains you really feel like you’re instrumental in the central conflict as well as the larger story of the impending armageddon. It ultimately doesn’t matter that Magus didn’t create Lavos, because defeating him ends the war, bringing peace to the time… and there’s still Giant’s Claw and Cyrus’s grave to look forward to.

1000 AD is nifty for being an area entirely engulfed in peace. Yes, there are a few disturbances (another Yakra? Way original, stupid monsters) but everywhere you go, residents are generally chipper and life is good. That’s a rarity in the majority of RPGs.

And 2300 AD, well, what can you say about an area that exists after the chief antagonist has succeeded in their nefarious plan? I have a similar issue with it as I do with 65 mil, in that once you’ve taken off with Robo you don’t particularly go back except to drop in for the Epoch and then during the endgame subquests, but it’s got bike racing and a neat implementation of its own re-exploration drive in the pendant-powered doors. I give it 3 stars.

I like the End of Time as an exercise in the “home base” mentality that all party-based games need to have; it makes sense in the greater context of the game. But it’s no airship. I once tried a game where I only swapped party members when I was actually at the End and it made me frustrated, but I’m thinking I’ll try it again sometime anyway.

Jatopian:

I cannot choose. I like all of them for different reasons. Well, except the prehistoric era – I felt that one was underdeveloped. I think 2300 was when I got hooked, though. Oh, and I didn’t care much for the End of Time because it introduced the 3-character party limit that stopped making sense later on, and also Spekkio.

Of course it’s underdeveloped, it’s 64mil BC.

I don’t remember too much about my SNES playthrough, but I’m not so far into the DS playthrough to actually make a final decision, but so far, it’s prehistoric for me. Smash skull, caveman speech and the rockin music make it awesome, even if it would have been better with more substance.

I’ve fallen in love 12000 B.C. Those kinds of worlds fascinate me alot! Man, that brings me back to when I got to the Sky Temple in Twilight Princess….beautiful!

12kbc.
it’s awesome

I liked 2300 AD. It was a neat switch from the bustling towns full of people to total desolation. Exploring “whats left” instead of “whats possible”, hanging out with robots, racing cars.

The End of Time.
Fighting Spekkio isn’t that bad! The music is soothing too.(Of course everything that was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda is amazing.)

2300 AD is amazing, and so does it’s subquest. (Mother Brain yay.)