Grandia II Remastered

[replicashooter]

Grandia II HD Edition, a remastered port of the acclaimed Dreamcast title, will be available for PC through GOG.com as well as Steam, publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America has told GameSpot.


The HD Edition will include updates to the game's visuals--shown in the gallery of screenshots below--as well as a Japanese voice acting track, gamepad support, and a new, harder difficulty level.


Originally released for the Dreamcast in 2000 and ported to PlayStation 2 in 2002, Grandia II will be making its debut on PC with this new port. In April, GungHo released a survey polling fans on their interest in PC ports of classic titles by developer GameArts, including titles in the Grandia and Lunar series. In May, after an "overwhelming" response to the survey, the company announced Grandia II would be ported to PC.


Grandia II HD Edition is expected to launch in 2015.







Now this could be interesting but I do remember this was released on the PC as well and it was a crappy, buggy port (nowhere near as bad as the PS2 version) and now they announce this. Question being if its a new port/direct emulation of the Dreamcast version with higher resolution assets and graphics or if they've just used the same old tired code again...

GOG normally do things right so it will be interesting to see when this releases, especially the new difficulty level.

[BigDeadFreak]

I bought this on Dreamcast after longing to play the Saturn version of the original for years (apparently it was better than the PS1 port).

The DC game had been hyped for ages. Sadly I thought it was massively overrated. The supposedly strong emotional story line consisted of the kind of moralising that used to be tacked onto the end of cartoons in the 80s (and today kids, we learnt the importance of friendship, etc.). The sort of thing you'd probably think was deep and meaningful if you were 9 but it just felt a bit embarrassing.

[nakamura]

It was ****e but nice to see the approach taken here to update popular games.

Did you play the original Big Dead Freak?

[BigDeadFreak]

No, never got round to playing it. Was it any good?

[Team Andromeda]

Class news , would be lovely to see this gem of a game come out on XBox Live and PSN

[nakamura]

No, never got round to playing it. Was it any good?

It's magnificent. Light hearted yet grows into quite a serious caper. Slaptick comedy, serious moment and good character development.

[Cheeseman Battitude]

Wow! Can't wait!!

[replicashooter]

It's magnificent. Light hearted yet grows into quite a serious caper. Slaptick comedy, serious moment and good character development.

Really? I thought it was the opposite and not a patch on the sequel. IIRC I got about a third of the way into it and was quite underwhelmed.

[Asura]

They need to do an HD port of Skies of Arcadia now, so we can start up that argument again.

[speedlolita]

They need to do an HD port of Skies of Arcadia now, so we can start up that argument again.

Think I had enough of that game with Legends on Cube. lol

Great game though, ship battles are pretty cool.

[wakka]

I never enjoyed Grandia II and found it disappointing after the brilliant first games, which is probably one of my favourite JRPGs. It's popular with many though I know.

[BigDeadFreak]

I loved Skies of Arcadia Legends if anyone fances an argument