The Grandia Series

[Drizzt]

Yeah it seems Grandia 3 has some high potential to go far, and hopefully success booms afterwards and the series has life anew and only more sequels come out later on. Yeah a Lunar 3 would be great, as the first two were quite excellent, even still to this day for me even though they may be seen as a little outdated. RPG revivals are always good, lets hope we continue to receive old favorites made on the PS2 (Vandal Hearts 3, Lunar 3, Final Fantasy Tactics 3 (well it would not be #3 but a third installment...) but we can only hope.

After I start/finish my Suikothon, I think I might do likewise for Grandia 1/2/Xtreme and play them all again in waiting for Grandia 3 to refresh my memory and get myself hyped for the new sequel. But the news of Grandia 3 is excellent for me because I seriously thought Grandia Xtreme was the end of the series and we would never see another installment again. How glad I am that I was wrong. I only hope I am wrong about certain other dead series that may one day be restored as well...
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“Firbolgs die with honor,” Morten explained as the logs beneath Tavis began to burn. “We don’t beg for mercy. We don’t show pain. We just die.”
“Maybe we skin you alive,” Noote warned. “That hurt plenty." - The Twilight Giants, Book I.

[Beethoven4567]

[Drizzt]

Well considering these days if any game in a series does not do too well and has a vast majority of players who did not like it, that alone can be enough to kill a series unless it was from a rather 'famous' or popular series where it could be forgiven (say Final Fantasy and Suikoden, thank god.). And it all usually boils down to sales as well, so us Grandia fans are quite lucky to receive another Grandia installment.
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“Firbolgs die with honor,” Morten explained as the logs beneath Tavis began to burn. “We don’t beg for mercy. We don’t show pain. We just die.”
“Maybe we skin you alive,” Noote warned. “That hurt plenty." - The Twilight Giants, Book I.

[Beethoven4567]

[Drizzt]

Nothing wrong with that. Did anyone ever play Grandia: Parallel Trippers for the Gameboy Color? What was that like and how did it play? It was like a dungeon crawler right? One good thing I heard about it was that some of the characters from Grandia 1 were in it, and Justin helped you out a bit with information and such or something like that.

Actually looking through the Gamefaqs site I noticed this is the complete Grandia game listing (that I found anyway):

Grandia 1 (Saturn/PSX)

Grandia Digital Museum (Saturn, supposed be a bonus disc and a form of an expansion pack for the first Grandia)

Grandia: Parallel Trippers (GBC)

Grandia 2 (DC/PS2/PC)

Grandia Xtreme (PS2)

and last but not least... Grandia 3 (PS2, TBA for US)

So if anyone has some comparisons and/or knows the extras between the different Grandia versions (Grandia 1 for Saturn/PSX, and the three Grandia 2 formats.) if there are any that is.
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“Firbolgs die with honor,” Morten explained as the logs beneath Tavis began to burn. “We don’t beg for mercy. We don’t show pain. We just die.”
“Maybe we skin you alive,” Noote warned. “That hurt plenty." - The Twilight Giants, Book I.

[Beethoven4567]

Do any of you guys here know who's composing the music for Grandia III? I hope it is the same guy that made Grandia 2's music, Noriyuki Iwadare. I also hope there is a good vocal song in GIII.
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[Arcana]

Iwadare was also responsible for Grandia I. He had some great tunes in Number 1 that were rather buthered in Grandia II. I didn't enjoy Grandia II's music that much. If you listen to the two OSV's, there's such a dramatic difference in the scope.
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[Beethoven4567]

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[Cedric]

I only played Grandia 1 and not Grandia 2 or Grandia Extreme. From what I've been hearing, is 2 the best and Extreme is garbage? If that's so I'll have to pick up number 2 someday and play it.

I place Grandia 1 really high in my all time RPG list. I'm not sure, but I think it was the colorful and interesting characters in that game. Rapp's portrait sometimes had him picking his nose. Sue was always so cheery. And many other portraits to name.

I beat the game, but I still have a save file with Justin, Guido, and Rapp before they take on the Female Generals. That was one of of favorite fights of all time. Somewhat challenging if I don't use "Dragon King Slice" Besides, Mio's cute. I didn't like Justin as a main character, though. He acts like a 7 year old. (which is not a bad thing, it's just he LOOKS like one to boot)

But with this new Grandia coming out, I expect good things from it. Hopefully we won't all be dissapointed.
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[Kohaku]

I only played Grandia 2, and it becomes one of my fav. RPG. But there's something that really annoy me from the RPG.

SPOILERS ALERT :

Ryudo's total change of personality in the 2/3 part of the games is really annoy me. It comes out as very unnatural. The other things is Ryudo's inconsistensy for always choosing the middle way showed us a lack of determination.

I also really didn't like when Millenia was alive again, that she's actually inside of Elena. That is one of the worst plot I've ever seen in an RPG. This is not a child's tale where every good character comes alive again.

While I like the epilogue, I really didn't like the ending. The scene of Winged Elena and Millenia with Ryudo in the middle is very Disney-like, but in the bad way.

SPOILERS ENd.

But I still like the game, and I remember falling in love with Elena :mrgreen:
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[Beethoven4567]