| Zizzla_Rachet said: XenoSaga was done by a different company right? |
If you're speaking of Xenogears, then no. It's the same developer, they were a no name developer under Squaresoft, breaking away from Squaresoft and formed MonolithSoft.
| tiffac said: Grandia II was good though. Extreme was a disaster and III was boring. @TS Xenogears is a great JRPG, its a classic. You won't go wrong in playing it. |
I take it that you've played Xtreme or are you just going with what the general consensus is?
Grandia Xtreme has a garbage storyline and poor characters compared to the rest of the series, or most video games in general. Graphically it's really weak in and out of battle. However it it's gameplay was better than 2 and 3 and that's the reason it's still good to play through. Your characters could equip multiple eggs, magic oriented characters could equip more eggs, eggs could be found and fused into different eggs, you could equip passive skills to characters as well, the amount equipable determined by the character.
After you finish the game it unlocks a bonus dungeon which is pretty much a continuation of the story. Much harder and the battle music that plays during that dungeon is from Grandia 2. I thought that was awesome as it's one of my favorite battle themes. Here's a video with the music playing in Grandia Xtreme in the extra dungeon(the win music is also the same as Grandia 2's as well.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mKthhDEw9NY#t=36s
Honestly. I know only fans would like the game, but if they made a Grandia game similar to the Tales of the World games so that every Grandia character from every game were all in the same town and you could create your own party. So have a party of Ryudo, Justin, Feena, and Guido for example. Have Grandia 1 style skill system, attacking with swords levels up swords, attacking with fire levels up fire, etc. Include double and triple combo attacks, throw in some weapon creation, item sythnthesis, etc. Then go through random dungeons collecting items and killing bosses. Would be an amazing game for fans.
