Together Retro: Grandia

[Vant3c]

Well I just made it to the Luzet mountains section and saved the game. I think I am about close to the end now and should have it beat by the end of the week. I am having such a good time with it and cant wait to see the story wrap up.

I have been playing on a slim PS2 late model and I have had some freezeing issues as well. Not a lot but it is annoying to say the least. I do find however for me; that enableing the diagnosis setting seems to keep the crashes to a minimum. Now it could work but then again it might not even make difference but it seems to help. I always set that on and put texture smoothing to "on" it makes the game world look so much better. I tried it with out and it was pixilated as hell!

[ninjainspandex]

I'm just curious if the freezing is just happening on late era Slims, sony took alot of cost cutting measures on that model and it wouldn't surprise me if PS1 compatibility was affected.

[Vant3c]

I'm just curious if the freezing is just happening on late era Slims, sony took alot of cost cutting measures on that model and it wouldn't surprise me if PS1 compatibility was affected

It would not surprise me if they did. I have a early model slim PS2 for just PS2 games and a late model for PS1 games. It would be a interesting test to see if one is better than the other for PS1 games.

[alienjesus]

I'm just curious if the freezing is just happening on late era Slims, sony took alot of cost cutting measures on that model and it wouldn't surprise me if PS1 compatibility was affected.

I have a fat PS2. No idea if it is an early or a late release. I seem to have had the most freezing issues.

[Nemoide]

It took roughly 51 hours but I'm now FINISHED.
I'm normally not so great at packing in multiple hours of gaming into a day, let alone keeping that pace up for almost a month, so I'm pretty surprised I managed to do it before the end of the month!

I really liked the game. I wouldn't put it at the top of my list of favorite 32-bit RPGs and would actually rank it closer to Final Fantasy VII as "pretty good." Towards the end where there's a lot of dramatic dialog, the bad voice acting became pretty painful. But I liked how they used sprites and 2D animation in addition to 3D CGI for cutscenes; it helped give the game's visual style an interesting flavor. There's a lot of story-structure similarity with Lunar and that's certainly not a bad thing; I love the Lunar games and am totally fine with Game Arts tapping that creative vein! But the dungeons could get annoying, especially since there's no overworld to break things up between towns and dungeons.
I'm looking forward to checking out Grandia II later this year!

[BoneSnapDeez]

Nice work.

I doubt I could handle Grandia II this year but you never know. Maybe this fall?

[BogusMeatFactory]

So....I put in some serious hours and feel like I am coming close to the end here. I left off just before entering.....

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Slightly confused about the bad guys motivation for being a bad guy. Doesn't make much sense yet and is in all honesty, the biggest pitfall most JRPGs fall for and is a big downside to the experience. Still it is all about those protagonists and I enjoy them immensely. Hopefully will finish the game by tomorrow night.

[Xeogred]

Nice work.

I doubt I could handle Grandia II this year but you never know. Maybe this fall?

I'd be curious to see how people rank the two.

Grandia 2 is the one I've beaten and I enjoyed the heck out of the combat, but everything else... I'm not sure. A lot of it was hilariously bad.

[BogusMeatFactory]

So I spent the last 4 hours playing thinking, "Oh I'm close to the end, shouldn't be too long." Nope! NOPE! NOPE! Got to the final boss and was killed. It's 2 AM. I'm taking a break.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Down to the wire d00ds! How we doing?