Welcome, friends, to the second installment in GotGame’s newest (see also: only) recurring editorial segment, Fuck Marry Kill (or FMK for short or if your boss is looking)! Chris got the ball rolling so well a few weeks ago with his…interesting…three choices that we decided, hey! There’s a lot of tough FMK choices to be had in the world of gaming! We would be doing our readership a disservice not to explore them with all of our available resources, in a manner that in no way indicates a level of romantic frustration and/or sexual desperation. I mean, c’mon, the sexually frustrated gamer stereotype? That is soooo cliché-yet-still-often-quite-relevant.

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In honor of the recent romantic spirit—James Mielke proposing to his girlfriend with the help of Final Fantasy legends, Christmas commercials begging my boyfriend to buy me jewelry I don’t want–and Chrono Trigger’s recent re-release, today’s Video of the Day celebrates the joining of these two in ways the schmoopiest RPG nerds have only dreamed of. One hacked copy of Chrono Trigger, one inserted mountain of nostalgia, and one girlfriend playing through the game for the first time make this one of the most touching and enviable proposals to date.

It has been over 13 years since Chrono Trigger was released, and three console generations later, this game still sits proudly as one of the best RPGs, nay, video games, ever made. Yet after its initial release on the SNES, the game has only been available as a part of Square’s Final Fantasy Chronicles collection that was released in 2001. Despite featuring new animated sequences by character designer and anime god Akira Toriyama, this version was dismissed by fans due to lengthy load times, terrible resolution and sound effects engulfed in static. But Square Enix has finally given Chrono Trigger the treatment it deserves by porting it to the Nintendo DS, allowing the game to perform better than its SNES ancestor. Also, it fits in your pocket. Neat!

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There are thousands of video games in the world that deserve your attention, but walk into any GameStop and one thing is immediately clear: there are a lot of games out there that simply don’t call for multiple playthroughs. It’s like eating at Taco Bell: you may have enjoyed (tolerated?) your meal, but it wasn’t so great that you wanted to go back again. Ever. But then there are those select few games that you can never get enough of, that only get better every time you go through them—the Benihanas of video gaming.

Of course, the only way to really test the replayability of a game is to let it ferment for a while, so nothing on this list is from the current generation of consoles. Also, much like any list, these choices are up for debate; while I can’t imagine anyone out there who wouldn’t enjoy another game of Chrono Trigger, it’s entirely possible that such people do exist. So feel free to disagree with or add to this list in the forums. Now, without further ado, the games I simply can’t get enough of:

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Playing through a game, a little injected eye candy for the player always helps the experience go much more smoothly. Some video game vixens can give a man the extra fuel needed to carry him through his dreams. It’s all well and good…until you read the game’s manual. One look at the character’s profile and suddenly you’re not so sure of yourself. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Here are some classic video game trannies that may have fooled you.

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Robots are as much a part of gaming as growth-inducing mushrooms and seemingly endless collectibles. In a wide variety of genres, gamers are given the opportunity to engage in cybernetic shenanigans, whether it’s building, destroying, riding, or flat-out being a robot. At first, I thought it’d be a good idea to try and rank some of gaming’s greatest robots; after all, gamers love their ordered lists. Try as I might, however, I just couldn’t bring myself to rank them. Instead, avoiding the whole apples vs. oranges argument altogether, I thought I would share with you some of my favorite robots from my personal gaming experiences in a list with only a slightly particular order.

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Manipulating the fabric of time and space is tricky business, but hoo-dang, is it ever fun! Time travel has been a favorite element of science fiction, and as such, it’s proven to be just as entertaining when applied to video games. Done right, you can not only add depth to a game’s plot, but also the gameplay mechanics. Let’s flip on the flux capacitor and take a look at some highlights from video games past.

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