>mid tier jarpig on PS1 that barely gets mentioned
>released first on Saturn with slight graphical improvements
>le best and most impressive game on the system!! if only it released in the west everyone would have bought Saturn instead of Playstation
Genuine insanity. Bernie was right.

>>11876495 (OP)
The sequel was like that too. Grandia II was one of the biggest JRPGs on DC but just an another JRPG on PS2.

Low effort bait. OP is a fag

Western insects can’t into taste. It made the reader voted top 100 list on Famitsu.

What's with all the threads making fun of the idea that certain games would've saved the Saturn?

I mean, if it's not called Sonic Xtreme, and it's not a miraculously good version of it, then no, it wouldn't have saved the Saturn

Can we please stop the threads now?

>>11876495 (OP)
I played a few PS1 JRPGs, at least 15-20 different ones ranging from highly celebrated to mostly forgotten, and I would consider Grandia to be one of the best ones

>>11876523
It's an epic meme

>>11876523
It's shitposting, like floigan or sega system. It's not going away.

What's up with the Saturn hate spamming as of late?

>>11876694
OP is le epic troll!

>>11876523
Two months ago, there was a barrage of threads of people saying how the Saturn could be saved. It started with the usual transparency/dithering crap, then it devolved into the usual Shenmue/Virtua Fighter spam. There were 4 or 5 at once in the catalog. In some of them you could even see that the OP was losing his argument and opened up another thread just to start another barely related argument.

Basically, it was utter chaos. We always had threads of schizos who are still stuck in the '90s trying to win an argument against an imaginary opponent inside their heads, but that month was a specially tough one on /vr/.

>>11876528
I doubt you can name the final party members without looking it up.
And I'm not saying the game is bad - just that it starts really good, but once Sue leaves the party, it's a barely coherent mess, specially because... who the fuck are those two that decided to tag along anyway?

>>11876743
Fair point, I can't remember their names but my memory is generally terrible and this was years ago. Maybe the new guy was named Rapp or something? I remember one was a cavewoman who yells I'M GONNA KNOCK Y'ALL DOWN AT ONCE but completely forgot her name. Most of the good memories I have are from the earlier parts of the game too. Now that you mention it I can't remember the names of characters in a few games but all the more reason to replay them one day

>>11876754
The cavewoman is a temporary party member. The final two are boomerang boy and that mage lady who you talked to way back at the beginning.

>>11876743
The worst part is they tease you towards the end by making you think you’ll be able to switch back to your old party members. But no

>>11876495 (OP)
Idk i thought it was pretty good when I played it.

>>11876498
Grandia 2 was a pretty shitty port as well, every single town/village made the framerate go down to 10 on the ps2

Grandia 3 is the underrated one and the best game in the series by far.

>>11876495 (OP)
Part of the reason it's just kinda there on PS1 is that it wasn't ported to it until 1999. For 1997 it is pretty impressive, I can't think of an earlier RPG with a rotatable camera.

>>11876495 (OP)
Grandia was a pretty popular game back then

>>11876495 (OP)
Seeing preview images on someone's website (probably from Anime Web Turnpike), I preordered the game, didn't know it came with the extras like the cloth map and mini-CD. I actually like the game and I think it has a charming sense of adventure. I'm a sucker for the 2D sprites on 3D backgrounds aesthetics, as I was with Final Fantasy Tactics and Ragnarok Online. The musical score was pretty good too which also conveys a grand adventure as well. There's a lot that I like on the Saturn, so I cannot say it is the most impressive game but it is up there for me. I guess it falls into that typical category of games I like that most people don't.

>grandia
>mid tier
(You)

>>11876495 (OP)
great disc 1, mid disc 2

>>11876523
The idea that the Saturn "needed saving" is a false premise because the whole idea is from the point of view of the modern gaming era in which casual gaming, baby games and movie games won.
The Saturn and the Dreamcast were the last bastions of oldschool gaming, what needed to be saved was everything else, but Sega's efforts weren't enough.

Kill OP

>>11877819
Nice collection. Bet you got lunar too.

>>11877623
managed to play some 3, it was cool how your mom is a party member
but i didn't have a memory card at the time, can't remember why
was x-treme good?

>>11876521
>Western insects can’t into
bitch you're from pennsylvania

Both it and Grandia 2's actual gameplay is way to braindead easy to be compelling.
In our modern times were you can just look up a compilation of the story moments on youtube there is no reason to suffer trough the sleep-inducing combat anymore.

>>11879635
cringe anime writing

>>11877623
I agree that 3 is underrated, but it's not better than 2, or 1. The original has the best sense of adventure(better than most jrpgs) and 2 has the best characters by far. 3 is a combination of the two along with the best combat. Xtreme is a lot of fun if you like the battle system but the characters and story is the most bland.

>>11880383
I'm cringe.

>>11880396
>and 2 has the best characters by far
i can't recall any character beside the alter ego demon chick (and that's because she saved my butt against one of val's part, the core I think, when i soft locked myself

>>11876495 (OP)
>if only it released in the west everyone would have bought Saturn instead of Playstation
>Genuine insanity. Bernie was right.

It's all about building a catalog of games, you stupid nigger. Try to not engage in bad faith next time.

>>11879758
>was x-treme good?
NTA but yes. It's maybe the best Grandia game if going by the combat and character building alone. Just approach it knowing it's a spinoff focused around the combat system and not a traditional jarpig like the other games.
Most negativity about it comes from the story side of things, and yeah it's by no means a masterpiece, but I'd still take it over whatever the fuck 3 was trying to achieve any day.

>>11879798
Game's about the adventurer's spirit and overcoming adversity in impossible odds, and this faggot can't even press his own buttons. Sad.

>>11879620
It was from the same devs, GameArts. Therefore it was not a totally blind preorder of Grandia, due to their experience working on the Lunar games. GameArts also did a couple other games I liked such as Silpheed and Alisia Dragoon.

>>11883557
Sorry about your hoarding disorder

Why are Playstation fans like this? You won, relax.

Loved the battle system in these games, got 1 on Switch recently, had 2 on Dreamcast when I was a kid. This shit bangs
https://youtu.be/FQvWkL4n6ag?si=tH6wN9J8h3lsiAUF
The Dreamcast US release came with a whole-ass soundtrack CD along with the game, pretty sweet. I remember noticing even back then that the voice cast had a lot of overlap with Metal Gear Solid. I always wondered if that was merely a byproduct of whatever union they might've been in, or if the Grandia localizers said, "we want good voice acting, let's get the Metal Gear guys."