Squeenix is asking what fans want to see in a Chrono Trigger remake

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Curious little buggers...  But you know, they'd have found out EXACTLY what fans wanted in a remake if they hadn't shut that fan remake down several years back.

For my part, at this stage I'm not sure I really need a straight remake but-in-3D.  I also don't think I need some kind of meta-narrative where they try to avoid the consequences of the first game (murderers of whole timelines).  What I would like to see, if I were asking for a modern remake, was to turn the game into a CRPG with lots of real choices that dramatically affect more than just a bunch of joke endings.

It's interesting.  A few years back, it was refreshing to see a remake that was actually a remake and not just a port with the rendering resolution turned up a few notches.  Now, the industry is all over these full on remakes, which have been done to varying quality.  Heck, I recall absolutely resenting the notion of splitting up a game like FF7 into multiple games, until I realized it went beyond a remake to a reimagining with a meta-narrative where midway through the first "chapter" the characters find out how the story is "supposed to go" and then KILL FATE to break away from the original story.  Now an alternate reality Zack is... anyway point is I'm glad to see some creativity and actual graphical improvement being applied to these things, but yes it's rather sad that the few games that are actually games and not just slot machines with a game skin wrapped around it are just remakes of what gaming was before the whole of industry decided products themselves had to be sub-monetized. It does get to be "a bit much".