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Grandia 2 Anniversary Edition on August 24, $20 (25% off sale at launch)
- Thread starter Robert at Zeboyd Games
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Everyone I think
Buying it. Someone's gotta support a studio who took a risk like this. We beg for so many ports then curse out studios with limited budgets to do so that they didn't do it "My way".
Good effort. Well worth my $15-$20 to not have to pull out my dreamcast from storage. Gonna stream this game to my tablet.
More health on monsters? Good. Whatever extends that fight theme and combat mechanics.
Bug that doesn't give you coins and have to keep enjoying that battle system more? Hell yeah.
Good effort. Well worth my $15-$20 to not have to pull out my dreamcast from storage. Gonna stream this game to my tablet.
More health on monsters? Good. Whatever extends that fight theme and combat mechanics.
Bug that doesn't give you coins and have to keep enjoying that battle system more? Hell yeah.
I think the update is already rolling, I'm downloading it right now. Hope they got it right this time.
ramoisdead
Member
I'm just waiting until this is playable on Windows 10 x64 bit.
Yeah, 1,5 gb. Downloading as well.
Whew! I apologize for the inconvenience everyone. Feel free to PM any issues you may run across (hopefully none!) and I will be sure our dev team is aware so we can find solutions.
If you aren't dealing with capped bandwidth or anything you might as well give it a shot. It wasn't working for everyone prior.
Unless you mean 'waiting to buy', which is simply the hassle of a refund nowadays but I hear you.
Right. Not a killer thing they didn't bump it to 60 FPS; I realize they were just porting what they had.
They've still got my money. As someone said above, it was a risk for them and I liked Grandia II a hell of a lot.
Yup! Saw your original post and watched the video. We have submitted your video to our dev team, so stay tuned on what we find out.
Nice. Hopefully the complete files update on Steam fixes it as well.
...since that is what I just bought.
Interestingly enough, the iOS port of Lunar is actually based on the Saturn version, albeit with English text and dialog from the newer releases, and the widescreen artwork in the free update is new.
I posted a video earlier ^ Basically if a battle is cleared in a few turns and if you skip through the end-battle outro too quickly, no coins of any sort are awarded (EXP appears to be lost as well, but it's not). This was reproducible on two different machines.
It wasn't really a big deal at all, just waited a moment for the battle results. If I lost some coins every now and then ... ┐(ツ
┌ . Just figured people should know. If this glitch was present in an original version of the game, I was unaware.No, you don't get any coins.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Yeah, it's a shame that Eternal Blue doesn't get any port love - I like it drastically more than the first game.
As do I. I started a replay of Eternal Blue Sega CD thanks to your comments last week. The leap in production values from Silver Star is huge, and pushes it to easily be one of the best 16-bit RPGs.
The opening hour alone of each game shows a huge leap in overall sophistication of story telling and presentation.
Well I got the intro running 30 fps @ 1080p on my laptop setup. It ran like shit at the beginning (7-9 fps), but I forgot to setup the switchable graphics so it doesn't use my eveb crappier integrated intel graphics.
My setup is an i7-2670QM and AMD HD 6770M. I just expected it run on anything, but it cleary doesn't run on old ass integrated graphics.
My setup is an i7-2670QM and AMD HD 6770M. I just expected it run on anything, but it cleary doesn't run on old ass integrated graphics.
Cat in the Hat
Member
What in the fuck does partial controller support mean?
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
I know this is heresy among many people, but I consider Lunar: Eternal Blue on the Sega CD to be the best 16-bit RPG. I really hope that a version of the game is next on the Gungho PC porting initiative.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Usually means supports controller, but there is a menu or splash window or something that doesn't work with controller.
GOG livestream seems to be starting for those of us at work
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Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Hmmm... well, if they fix the coins bug or whatever else, I'm in. It sounds like, that issue aside, it's an improvement over the DC original; if only a meager one... right?
The_Super_Inframan
"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Seems like controller support is kinda broken, when I use my XBone controller the camera spins all the time and my X360 controllers don't work at all...
Also unable to get 360 or PS4 controller working...Xbox 360 controller works in the config, but not in the game
Gipsy Danger
Member
Will have to pick this up depending on feedback on the quality of the port. Loved Grandia 1 but never played the sequel. Hopefully the port is decent. What's the default framerate? Is it unlockable? Apparently resolution can go to 1440p but you have to edit ini files, not a big deal tbh.
Bartholomuse
Member
I've never played Grandia 2 before, so they don't really mean anything to me, but they look like typical completionist fare to me. Recruit so and so into party, get to max lv, get special gear etc.
Is there more to it than that? How long do you thing they'd take to complete? I could go for another JRPG right now, provided it didn't take too long to finish.
As for fixes increased deadzones would be nice, there's a lot of devs that forget 360 controllers are still very popular. xinput so I can set the right 360 stick to camera control would also be very nice.
30 fps locked and tied to logic, so no unlocking for you.
It's VERY similar to the dreamcast version emulated, they just slapped the 360 button prompts on it.
30 fps locked and tied to logic, so no unlocking for you.
It's VERY similar to the dreamcast version emulated, they just slapped the 360 button prompts on it.
ldcommando
Banned
GhostTrick
Banned
Good news, seems like you can access the textures of the models just in the files of the game. I think it will be really easy to put out some HD textures packs
Out_Of_Ammo
Member
Sorry if this has been asked before but do you need to play Grandia 1 first to understand this one or are they completely independent?
tim_pkmn89
Member
Usually it means the game supports it fully, but when you launch the game from Steam there's a Windows box of "Start Game", "Options", "Exit" etc.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Completely independent
There's remapping in the pre-game config, but I haven't tried to see if that'll allow thumbstick mapping.
Some initial impressions:
- Intro video is 16:9 letterboxed into a 4:3 'display', so with the port's pillarboxing on widescreen, it results in an annoying double-border. Gee :|
- For reasons probably related to language support in the original the STAFF listings and main logo are applied on top of the intro FMV. I'm not sure if they were touched up for this port or not, but they're very definitely higher resolution than the FMV itself. (The logo is obviously new considering it says "Anniversary Edition". See: quote images)
edit: On closer inspection the elements mentioned above may actually be baked into an upscaled version of the 480p footage. "Remastered" I guess.
I get that little touches like this increase the port's presentability especially considering the intro is the first impression, but it kinda falls flat on the counts of the double border issue mentioned above (heh) and other, far more commonly seen things like even the "Loading" text are left in their low-res glory. Oh well
- There seems to be volumetric shadows, or at least some fancy lighting shenanigans not present in the original Dreamcast version. You can more clearly see this in the first ingame cutscene when Ryudo is walking away from the employers after collecting his bounty.
- Saving and Loading insists on pausing a ridiculously long (by today's standards) time while "Checkng Save Data". We're not reading stuff off a memory card anymore. It's 2015
- The way quitting to desktop is handled in the menu is hilarious hahahah
- I'm using a loaned wired X360 controller. Works fine.
All in all, it works, combat doesn't crash, Japanese audio (omg!), and the possibility of simple mods like higher resolution UI and text is high. I don't regret throwing $15 at this in the least both in support and because I want to play Grandia 2 again.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
fix for controller problems
go control panel, devices and printers, find 360 controller for winfows, right click and game controller setings, click advanced and it should come up with a box saying select device you want to use for older programs and click 360 controllers for windows. load up the game and 360 controller works
go control panel, devices and printers, find 360 controller for winfows, right click and game controller setings, click advanced and it should come up with a box saying select device you want to use for older programs and click 360 controllers for windows. load up the game and 360 controller works
Out_Of_Ammo
Member
Cool thanks! It's been a while since I played a JRPG so this looks interesting.
It does't work for the right stick or the triggers, or the left stick (though that does work in game).
It's kind of weird, because the intro characters had some very dynamic shadows, but after that characters don't seem to have the same lighting effects applied. Did they add that manually and gave up after the intro or something?
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Other than the battle system and all having music by Noriyuki Iwadare, there's pretty much nothing in common with any of the Grandia games.
Currently #9 on Steam's Best-Sellers list.
Most of the achievements are automatic. Most difficult is probably going to be defeating Melfice only attacking with Ryudo, 250,000 coins is pretty high but since you never actually need to buy anything in the game it's not too bad. The nut gathering one is missable but easy.
The game is about ~30 hours.
Out_Of_Ammo said:
Totally separate. Closest reference are throwback BGMs in minigames like the aforementioned