Comments on: After Five Years Of Development This is Grandia Online

By: Trotmeister

Trotmeister — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:56:24 +0000

The reason why only specific job/sub-job combinations are accepted into parties is because they work, while most of the others don't. Red Mage/Thief is an example of completely useless sub. I'd say it's not so much narrow-mindedness, but rather the desire to make most of the time you can spend on the game.

By: CleruTesh

CleruTesh — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:51:18 +0000

I have bought WoW and Guild Wars, and I did not enjoy either of them.
The primary reason I bought this computer I am typing to you on right now, was so I could play SMT: Imagine Online.
Hated it.
And just last week, I was "lucky" enough to get into the closed beta for Atlus' NeoSteam.
I love Atlus, I love steampunk, I really thought I should like it.
But I couldn't stand it.
I do not know if it's because I am antisocial, or because I prefer to play with a gamepad.... probably a bit of both, but I must say, I simply cannot seem to enjoy MMOs.
It's a shame, cos I love Grandia.

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:42:40 +0000

Wii's getting DQX, there's an assured JRPG market there eventually. Besides, restarting a Gamecube project for Wii might actually be cheaper than going ground up PSP or DS, and GameArts already is pretty familiar with the platform. I'd say Wii's likely the best bet all things considered.

PSP already has the original game anyway via PSN, a remake there would be doubly worthless. A DS port might be interesting though.

By: 2dere

2dere — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:03:04 +0000

With the quality of other MMO's on the market. Its really hard to see the effort five years have gone too. I loved the first two Grandias (All I've played.) And was quite excite hearing of this MMO. But It really failed to grab my interest. Ragnarok Online 2 looks much more appealing in comparison.

By: Malek86

Malek86 — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:26:02 +0000

With Grandia now being a relatively low-seller series, their best bet is probably a new DS or PSP game. Making it for the Wii could end up costing too much for what it would gain. Especially because the Wii's demographic isn't nearly as well suited.

By: jarrodand

jarrodand — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:57:56 +0000

Well, that hasn't seemed to stop Klonoa or Silent Hill.

Early on, it was rumored that GameArts were doing a cellshaded Grandia remake for GameCube… maybe they should just restart the project for Wii?

By: NickyD

NickyD — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:29:59 +0000

I found FFXI pretty shoddy not because of the game itself, but the players. They simply don't let you in a party unless you're a specific class with a specific sub-class. There's no room for experimentation or creativity, which irked me so much I had to quit.

Why let someone be a Red Mage / Thief if nobody will ever let you play as that in a party? I could solo enemies "preferred" class combos couldn't survive against. But no. It wasn't normal. MMO = lame until the people on them loosen up.

Sorry for the rant, but since then, I'm also not sold on MMOs - because of the narrow-minded players.

By: squall3031

squall3031 — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:53:40 +0000

Online sucks! game never ends! ><… FFXI should have been made offline. not mmorpg ><…

By: Kuronoa

Kuronoa — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:44:55 +0000

It's nice that Square-Enix made what seems like a great adaptation to MMO genre. However, I'm not quite sold on MMOs in general and never want to play one exactly and makes me sad to skip a game because of genre preference. FF MMO should of been a spinoff, not titled as a main game (at least I think so.)

Unless there's a decent off-line single player mode I will be skipping all these MMO adaptations of RPG series.

By: lostinblue

lostinblue — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:19:36 +0000

wow looks worse graphically than Grandia 3.