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Grandia HD Collection coming soon UPDATE: RPGSite Hands on impressions and interview with GungHo, $39.99
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For what it's worth, isn't Saturn emulation super tricky since it uses tris instead of polygons? IIRC that's the reason we barely see any ports from that generation, outside of ground-up remakes like Panzer Dragoon gets
I imagine technology has come a long way since I last looked up Saturn emulation but I can't really say I'm surprised they went for the easier option if the alternative would take a lot more man hours and be harder to tack extra features onto, let alone inject the English localization.
If that is the case though, they should really say as much to clear up any misunderstandings.
I imagine technology has come a long way since I last looked up Saturn emulation but I can't really say I'm surprised they went for the easier option if the alternative would take a lot more man hours and be harder to tack extra features onto, let alone inject the English localization.
If that is the case though, they should really say as much to clear up any misunderstandings.
It sucks that this won't be a M2 level port, but eh, just seeing that Grandia title screen was enough for me to give this a look.
At the right price, I will buy day 1.
At the right price, I will buy day 1.
I can play this via my BC PS3 with my PSX Grandia 1. Same with my Grandia II. But at the very least, several of the assets will be cleaned up (compared if I played my PSX copy). It may not look like the Saturn version, but I am certain it will look better than my PSX copy.
But that Grandia II is the Anniversary edition is another big bonus for me to buy the collection. Because as I mentioned, I haven't played this version. And it was something that I had wanted to play when it was released for the PC, but wanted to play it on my big screen TV. And now I can do so.
But that Grandia II is the Anniversary edition is another big bonus for me to buy the collection. Because as I mentioned, I haven't played this version. And it was something that I had wanted to play when it was released for the PC, but wanted to play it on my big screen TV. And now I can do so.
The saturn renders quads, everything else else renders tris.
Actually, Saturn emulation is pretty straight forward and easy. The tricky fame is a heritage from the earlier days and people doesn't let it go without even trying. You can emulate it in pretty much anything but a raspberry pi.
The Switch is emulating the Saturn at full speed.
Ah ok, thanks for the tri clarification.
Then yeah that makes the decision a bit baffling.
although now I'm even more inclined to get that Panzer Dragoon remake in the hopes Sega just ports Panzer Dragoon Saga somewhere finally
One thing I would love to see is a Hard mode for Grandia 1. Maybe if we all email Gungho they will get the picture :)
That would require them to remake the game. Make new assets and what not. Doesn't seem to be the case on this. This is the case of them having access to the raw picture file (Saturn) and they using a compressed JPEG (ps1 ver).
You can't improve on something that looks that awful.
No offense but what do you know about game development and porting?
Only played it on PS1 for about an hour a few years ago. I wanted an HD remaster or port on Switch so this is great news for me.
The battles are super low res and like 2d maps. The Saturn games battles were 3d
That is totally the PS1 version. Too bad they lied.
Well, I liked the higher quality higher framerate videos but I'm not interested in a port of the ps1 Grandia at all.
I wish they would address the camera. I'm getting a headache while watching the gameplay footage....
I would have loved the Saturn version too but c'mon. This is kinda ridiculous.
Wait am I missing something? Thats, like, how every 3D game ever works?
I don't remember anything particularly bad about it? The weirdest thing I can think of was censoring the alcohol to caffeine. It was really the voice acting that was a problem.
We've gotta keep requesting better from GungHo. They've got the Puzzle & Dragons money to put out a better remaster than this.
This is awesome! Grandia has some of my favorite JRPG battle systems. Hopefully these do really well and they can port them to more platforms so more people can be exposed to these great games.
Would be really cool to have a limited run physical edition at least.
Would be really cool to have a limited run physical edition at least.
Whoa, this company owns Puzzle and Dragons? Hahaha, yeah, they can absolutely afford better.
Announced for Japan by Gung ho it seems.
Very good news !
It'll release probably a bit after the western release. What a timeline.
It had to happen really.
Very good news !
It'll release probably a bit after the western release. What a timeline.
It had to happen really.
Agreed. It's not really my favorite PS1 RPG but I'll get it again on Steam because this really looks like an upgrade.
Every time I see a bump I think a date has been announced haha. Oh well, I got plenty of games already and am only interested in 2 anyway.
you saying this in hindsight after so many year of progress in the saturn emulation scene. The tricky thing about saturn is more than just tri vs quads but also the synchronization timing between its dual chip setup. It took years and years of research and PC hardware advancement to get to where we are right now.
As a point of comparison, Dreamcast emulation are pretty much possible full speed (albeit with alot graphic and audio glitches and mistiming and crashes) in the early 2000s with a pentium 4 via the 1st release of Chankast/NullDC while the same P4 can't really run any saturn emulator decently at all (believe me, as a sega saturn owner with alot of saturn games, i've tried the :( )
No. Its just confirming a Japanese release of the collection since it was not officially announced until now. Also the end comments about Lunar being possible if this does well (eyeroll)
The sprite smoothing is ugly. Companies should spend more time applying solid CRT filters than smoothing out sprites. a Decent filter will accomplish that on its own.
Sonic Mania is literally the only game in recent memory that did this. At least of the games I can recall. Would love if more of them did it.
No but it has been officialy announced to release in Japan later.
It was western only before.
Everything you said is the exact opposite to what I think. Except for the very last part about Grandia 2 a bit I guess.
Grandia 1 is the best one. It deserves a remake that's all.
3 gets old very fast. The best characters
leave the party so early.