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    Robots We Love: Chrono Trigger's Robo

    Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original

    Robot Crane Game. (Yes, ROBOT!!)
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    Image of phinehas phinehas
    05/28/09

    In reply to Robots We Love: Chrono Trigger's Robo
    Best game of all time.
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    05/28/09

    @phinehas: Let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's no Halo or anything.
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    Image of phinehas phinehas
    05/28/09

    @BubbleF**kingBuddy: I'm not ahead of myself, I know exactly where I stand.


    Best game of all time.

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    Image of Saint Anima Saint Anima
    05/28/09

    @phinehas: Meh. Let me know when you have played Chrono Cross.


    If you have, then congratulations, you were right all along.

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    05/28/09

    @BubbleF**kingBuddy: Thank God it's not Halo....... yet another reason Chrono Trigger is the greatest.
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    Image of Saint Anima Saint Anima
    05/28/09

    @phinehas: Actually, I disagree. Yes, it's the best Chrono game. But best game of all time? Ha.
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    05/28/09

    @Saint Anima: I have. Unfortunately flawed echoes of a former greatness, but still a good game nonetheless.
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    05/28/09

    @Saint Anima: Not sayin' anyone has to believe me, but I'm not here to argue about it or anything. Just here to state that it's the best game of all time.
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    Image of Saint Anima Saint Anima
    05/28/09

    @phinehas: Heh. Don't wanna argue either. I love Chrono Trigger! Chrono Cross was a great game, but not too good of a sequel.


    Don't mind my Lunar fanboyism. Bad habits.

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    Image of phinehas phinehas
    05/28/09

    @Saint Anima: \(^_^)/
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    Image of fanboyish fanboyish
    05/28/09

    @phinehas:


    I'm really sorry, but THE best game of all time is "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" and that's pretty much common knowledge.

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    05/28/09

    @henri1kk: Hey, no need to be sorry or anything, you're just stating what you believe to be true. I don't hold that against you.


    I'm just stating what I know to be true.


    Best game of all time.

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    Image of the7k the7k
    05/28/09

    @BubbleF**kingBuddy: I just have to assume the Halo comment was case of the "Forgot the sarcasm tag".


    Because we all know that the best game of all time is Half-Life. Chrono Trigger is up there though - it's probably the best RPG on the SNES, at least. (I personally put it neck-and-neck to Breath of Fire II - BoFII's characters and shamanism system made it just as replayable as Chrono Trigger's multitude of endings.)

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    Image of Shindokie Shindokie
    05/28/09

    In reply to Robots We Love: Chrono Trigger's Robo
    He deserves his own song and dance!
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    Image of BubbleF**kingBuddy BubbleF**kingBuddy
    05/28/09

    In reply to Robots We Love: Chrono Trigger's Robo
    He's no stranger to Sci-Fi.


    He knows Asimov's 3 rules, and so do I

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    Image of Neo Deus Neo Deus
    05/28/09

    In reply to Robots We Love: Chrono Trigger's Robo
    You know, I've never given it much thought before, but why does Robo wear a loincloth?
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    Image of phinehas phinehas
    05/28/09

    @Neo Deus: It's steampunk!


    Plus, it's not really a loincloth.

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    Image of NoBullet NoBullet
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    Wow that is a complete rip off. What a liar to say he hasnt heard it.
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    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    Oh, right, and I bet that the Team up Technique ROCKET ROLL (Chrono + Robo) was just a coincidence too!
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    Image of Nobuyuki Nobuyuki
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    This cannot be unheard!
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    Image of Daisuash can´t comment and doesn´t know why :( Daisuash can´t comment and doesn´t know why :(
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    Of course Yasunori Mitsuda, being the musical and composer genius creator of all those great songs for superb games, stole the one hit wonder of a sad singer who´s only relevant because his shitty music created a meme to mock him, come on it´s clear as water...
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    Image of doubtful doubtful
    12/05/08

    @Daisuash:


    It was a top ten hit in nearly every chart world wide in 1987 and number one in most of those. It was the best selling single in England the year it was released.


    It was also not Astley's only number one hit. Together Forever was number one in the US in 1988.


    Just because you were probably still filling your diapers when it came out doesn't mean it wasn't relevant.


    If you think about it, a lot 21 year olds reading now were probably conceived listening to this song! Lots of moms got Rick Rolled all night long in '87.

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    Image of SmilingPolitely SmilingPolitely
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    My life is now complete.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    On songs that sound like music in games...

    Does anyone else think the chous of Gone Away sounds like the verses of Mad World, only harder and faster?


    I've definitely heard the comparison made online before, but it seems people either totally hear it or totally don't...





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    Image of balls187 balls187
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    So really, Chrono Trigger is really the first Rick Roll.


    Bad ass.

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    Image of ph15h ph15h
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    Ah, Square Soft, Robo Rolling us since forever. >.> Playing it again on the DS made me realize how eerily similar the song is.
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    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    I must say that I do prefer this Chrono Trigger remix to the original. And that is saying something as the pure genius of Never Gonna Give You Up has always appealed to me. In fact it even ranks up there with the works of Phil Collins especially songs like In the Air Tonight and, uh, Against All Odds, or even Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite in fact.
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    Image of phinehas phinehas
    12/05/08

    @EmerilLIVE: Phil Collins rocks.
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    Image of Cheesewheel Cheesewheel
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    Well he rushed out of that conversation mighty fast. "Thanks for your time... RUN!" He's saying the exact tempo, instrument choices, and arrangement of the different phases of the song just happen to be the same as the Astley original? Hmm mmm.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/05/08

    @Cheesewheel:
    Oh, please. Techno (or, 80's White Hip-Hop, if you prefer) has to have a very simplistic tempo or you won't be able to dance to it, so the tempo is more unlikely to _not_ match. The instruments were also primarily...well, just the synthesizer spewing out electronic sounds (and a lot of video games use that same sound, though I'm not sure which group was copying which on that one). It's possible that he blatantly ripped it off, it's possible that it was purely a subliminal thing, or it's possible that it's just a freakish coincidence. Go look up The Dark Side of Oz someday, and check out the wide variety of _other_ instances people have found where one or more songs played over the original soundtrack of some section of a movie produces a lot of really odd symmetry between the two.
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    Image of hondo hondo
    12/05/08

    In reply to Chrono Trigger Composer Never Heard of Rick Astley, Robo's Theme Completely Original
    This can mean only one thing... Rick Astley is a robot.


    I called it! ^_^

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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    12/05/08

    @hondo: Hi, I'm Rick Astley, I am a Robot. I can put my arm back on, you can't, so Rick Roll safe.
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    Image of Chalkdust Chalkdust
    12/05/08

    @hondo: This is very possible.


    Remember, those who deny the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves!

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    12/05/08

    @MrBionic: I laughed out loud at that. Did they have that commercial in the US?
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    Image of MrBionic MrBionic
    12/05/08

    @unobservant: I have no idea, as I'm Canadian, but I bet if it was, it was only in towns near Ontario or border towns that got Canadian TV.


    So yah, it'll not get the love it deserves ;)

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