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Grandia and Grandia II HD Remaster coming to Switch; Grandia HD coming to Steam as well (Still no new news)
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Yeah, I'm pretty surprised by how good it is !
Nier A is on my list too :)
Damn, what a bump!
Anyway, I hope the following is true: GungHo was completely surpirsed by the amazing reception the announcement got and realized they had to put some extra efford into the project to make sure this ends up being an amazing remaster.
I mean, Grandia is in the Top 5 best JRPGS of all time. This remaster is a HUGE DEAL!
Anyway, I hope the following is true: GungHo was completely surpirsed by the amazing reception the announcement got and realized they had to put some extra efford into the project to make sure this ends up being an amazing remaster.
I mean, Grandia is in the Top 5 best JRPGS of all time. This remaster is a HUGE DEAL!
I'm working on Wild arms, although considering starting chrono cross too
Chrono Cross is truly a one of a kind experience. Loved the combat, characters, and story. Classic game I definitely recommend.
:( I was so excited until I clicked and saw that we had no update
Nice. Great game <3
Nice. Great game <3
So how would you play Chrono Cross? I have a BC PS3 (and the original game), but I hear there are a lot of issues playing Chrono Cross on a PS3, even the original BC version. I remember reading about issues in using the elements causing the game to freeze/lock up.
But if you've found a good way to play it, and not homebrewed, I would love to hear how you are doing it. Really want to play Chrono Cross, but not if there are going to be issues trying to run it on my BC PS3.
My heart stopped for a second after I saw the bump.
A PS1, a Sony Trinitron. That's the best way to experience it.
A PS1, a Sony Trinitron. That's the best way to experience it.
No, I'm talking about through what system/means is he going to play it. Not which TV.
Searching online, I am seeing posts as early as last year that people are having problems with the game locking up when using the elements (on their PS3).
Yeah sorry I wasn't clear, what I meant was that the best way to experience the game is with an original PS1 and a good CRT, because otherwise, unless you're willing to go homebrew, the game doesn't fare well in modern systems. I tried, and resorted to getting a CRT for that.
Not really a viable option for me. No space for CRT and not even sure where you could buy one now.
Is that with the disc or the PSN version? Sometimes those fix compatibility problems that the discs have.
I don't own a PS1, but how about a PS2 or PS3 on a CRT?
PS3 has some issues with the game, but the PS2 seemed fine to me ( though I must've played pretty much just an hour on it)
We will be waiting until E3, they announced this way too early.
So that confirms it's a 2-in-1 pack? Interesting. Surely it's a retail game right? Wish they'd include Grandia 3. Just give us the whole trilogy.
Or April, because why the fuck not? There's only like 40 other Switch games that month.
I'd rather have Grandia Xtreme myself since that's the least accessible one. Grandia 3 is at least available on the PS3.
I both want and don't want 3. Either way, that's probably a licensing issue with Square Enix since they published it.
Doesn't hurt that Grandia Xtreme uses revised version of Grandia II's combat system which I consider to be one of the best incarnation of turned based combat with real time elements.
Small steps and all that. Hopefully after Grandia + Grandia II HD Remaster are successful than maybe GungHo can do Grandia Xtreme.
Although considering GungHo is putting in the work to remaster the original Grandia, hopefully this also leads to the potential revival Lunar 1 and 2 for a modern platform since they retain the rights to it.
I've been waiting for a Lunar 2 port for years and years. I buy the first wherever it pops up including IOS.
Same. So criminal that it's consistently overlooked in favor of Lunar 1, when it improved on its predecessor in virtually every way.
Xtreme had the best combat of all the Grandia games. The animations were simpler and more predictable, so it was easier to judge cancel timings like Grandia II, but also had the cool new IP gauge featured in Grandia III sans the accompanying embarrassingly exaggerated anime-ass battle animations actively working against your ability to judge cancels that made Grandia III's combat the poo icing on the crap cake that game turned out to be.
Yes. IMO The first two Grandia games are amongst timeless RPGs greats like Suikoden II, Chrono Trigger, and FF6. They come close / or are near that level in terms of quality. Their mechanics in mixing real time and turned based elements in being able to time your commands to interrupt or delay enemy actions or spell casting times makes it stand out among it's contemporaries.
I suppose the same could be said for a lot of RPGs produced and released during that time line from the late 90's and early 00's, though.
I can only speak for Grandia 2, which I played on the Dreamcast. To this day I feel like the battle system is among the best in the JRPG genre. The characters might be a bit cliche and one dimensional, but I absolutely enjoyed it and am def. getting this remaster on Switch.
Yeah, wanting a physical release here, too.
It should have both games on cart if that's the case though, both games are like 4GB total. Unless they remaster a bunch of textures and have uncompressed audio, it shouldn't be really bigger than that.
Well the texture work I can see increasing the size of Grandia II but Grandia is mainly 2D sprite game the exception being the backgrounds being flat textured backgrounds like many of the earlier PSX RPGs that utilized 2D overlayed on top of a 3D element.
Unless they have completely redrawn all of the sprites for Grandia I, which seems outside the scope of a remaster, I don't see this games file size being much larger.
Putting things into perspective Grandia II Anniversary Edition on Steam is under 2.6GB in entirely and I expect even with the remastering work for Grandia 1 to be smaller than Grandia II. So fitting both games even fully remastered with updated texture work and higher res FMV should reasonably fit on even a 8GB Switch Cart.
Keeping positive, maybe the wait is to localise and add digital museum lol
2 holds up decently
1 is one of the greatest rpgs ever made
2 holds up decently
1 is one of the greatest rpgs ever made
What? You don't like it when they respond with non-info on twitter?
Thanks I might give this a try on Switch. Not sure how I missed these games at that time I was only into RPGs released by Square.
I have great memories of playing grandia 1. Still salty about the ending tho. If these ports are decent, then I'll bite.
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