Author Topic: Grim Fandango Remastered (Read 2697 times)

Stoney Mason · « **on:** January 28, 2015, 01:54:04 AM »

Honestly I haven't really been following games so far this year, so I completely missed that is now released I guess. Anybody pick it up? How's the remaster?

I'm almost certainly going to buy it since Grim Fandango was my favorite of these style games but just curious.

The Legend of Sunblade · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2015, 01:55:45 AM »

I'll sit down and play this for a while on the weekend. I never got to play the game when it first came out, so it'll be interesting going through it as someone who has no idea what he's getting into.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2015, 01:57:30 AM »

Quote from: The Legend of Sunblade on January 28, 2015, 01:55:45 AM

I'll sit down and play this for a while on the weekend. I never got to play the game when it first came out, so it'll be interesting going through it as someone who has no idea what he's getting into.

The puzzles aren't the best but the atmopshere and world building and characters are phenomenal imo especially when you consider the day and age it came out in.

Himu · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2015, 02:01:21 AM »

Hope you enjoy it Sunblade. I think it is in the top 5 games I've played in terms story/storytelling.

I can play Grim Fandango in one night. I'll grab it and play it tomorrow and see how it is, if only to support a personal favorite.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2015, 02:01:54 AM »

There weren't a ton of changes made, but the updated character models and real-time lighting scheme are nice. And there's native controller support.

Bebpo · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2015, 05:31:25 AM »

Yeah, I'm fine with GOG style just re-releasing the classic game. Improved controls are a nice bonus though. Will pick this up on a sale and replay it.

The Legend of Sunblade · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2015, 10:13:20 AM »

Ok so i lied and played it for a sec just now. I'm actually really surprised by just how much voice acting there is just in the first few minutes of the game. I just spent more than a few minutes just talking to Belleza and Glottis, picking away at all the available dialogue options. Being hispanic myself, I'm really really loving the accents on characters like Manny, it's a lot more solid than I expected it to be.

Special Features part of the menu includes both Original and Remastered rendering, 4:3 (with and w/o borders) and 16:9 (which is kinda ugly, obviously) aspect ratios, dev commentary from the whole staff that you can trigger manually, a cutscene player and concept art gallery and a dialog transcript of everything that was just said in the game.

also lol

demi · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2015, 10:24:23 AM »

will wait until its on ps+

just kidding, fuck tim schafer

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2015, 11:35:22 AM »

Back in my day, we didn't get a trophy for that.

Himu · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2015, 09:19:39 PM »

The new lighting is so good

One of my favorite games in hd

Himu · « **Reply #10 on:** January 29, 2015, 12:46:11 AM »

You guy have to play this with the commentary on. As a big GF fan it really enhances this. It's incredible. Learning about the inspiration of the game and movies that inspired it - especially ones I'm familiar with like Casablanca and Gilda. It can also be changing and hilarious on top of being inspiring and informative.

TVC15 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 29, 2015, 03:21:14 AM »

One of the weakest LucasArts games. Has some of the weakest puzzles, but has (probably) the best presentation. Extremely overrated. Being that the genre is dead, it's still very easy to recommend the game since it has a lot of charm.

Still, if you have a choice, log into Steam and download Harvester instead.

Himu · « **Reply #12 on:** January 29, 2015, 04:01:59 AM »

Most puzzles are obtuse and unnatural in most adventure games anyways, and they're not the reason I play them. I like them for story and characters, and Grim Fandango does this expertly.

TVC15 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 29, 2015, 04:13:33 AM »

But still, as far as p&c adventure games go, Grim Fandango is more obtuse than most (if not all) LucasArts games. It is Sierra bad.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #14 on:** January 29, 2015, 04:32:28 AM »

While I'll agree Grim Fandango has some bad puzzles in a few cases, the reality is I never played any of those lucas art games for the puzzles. I played them because they were live action cartoons. So the puzzles don't really matter to me.

It's more something to endure to get to the funny.

Bebpo · « **Reply #15 on:** January 29, 2015, 04:33:57 AM »

Yeah I agree with himuro that most PnC games have shitty puzzles and you really only play them to get a novel reading story experience with pictures and sounds and sometimes an atmospheric sense that you're exploring around the world environment.

GF is nice because the setting was very fresh at the time and is still pretty fresh. It's a traditional (with some oddball stuff) satisfying story in a cool, hardly used setting with nice art design, great music.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #16 on:** January 29, 2015, 04:49:15 AM »

I'd say Monkey Island 2 had a significantly worse case of puzzle-itis. GF wasn't no champ, but I've played a good deal worse.

Kind of weird to think that 17 years later, GF is still damn near alone in the field of Latino cultural representation in gaming. I mean, shit, there's a game that just came out that's based on Iñupiat folklore, and after Gucameele the list of games where you could play as a Miguel instead of a Michael becomes awfully thin.

bork · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2015, 09:40:17 AM »

Have never played this and am still not sure if I want to try the remastered version. Have never cared for the little I've played of other Tim Schaefer games.

Himu · « **Reply #18 on:** January 29, 2015, 01:00:10 PM »

Monkey island 2 is far more obtuse, as hyper zone said. I'd even say the original MI as well.

The only adventure games I've found have natural puzzles are day of the tentacle and shenmue, maybe maniac mansion.

Anyways, I think GF's only bad puzzles are in the petrified forest. Everything is pretty fun.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #19 on:** January 29, 2015, 06:51:03 PM »

I played the first monkey island for the first time a few years ago (The idea of that one never seemed to cool to me so I always skipped the series) and there is no way on earth I would have been able to beat that game on my own or solve a lot of the puzzles.

bork · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2015, 09:06:03 PM »

I played both Monkey Island games when I was a kid. Had to get lots of help on both. I want to say that I was actually more lost in the original than the sequel. I remember when MI2 came out, my dad got rid of AOL since my brother and I were running up the hourly bills. All we had was some shitty free Mac user online service that literally had like 10 people on at any given time. I was desperate for hints/help and was so happy when we got AOL back a short while later...just for help with that game!

Also since I was playing these on Mac, they came out a year or two after the PC release. There was a kid I made friends with in summer camp who beat the original on PC and would always give me hints. I went to his house once and he fired up his PC and showed me Monkey Island 2. My jaw hit the floor. Had no idea it existed!

Monkey Island was created by Ron Gilbert, who only made the first two games. I have three and four and have never been able to get into them. Come to think of it, I think MI and MI2 are the 'third person' point and click adventure games I have ever beaten. I also finished Shadowgate and Univited, but never did beat Deja Vu. I should get that collection on Steam...

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #21 on:** January 29, 2015, 10:20:19 PM »

I played several of Lucasarts' adventure games recently and I think the one that my view on changed the most was The Dig. I mean, I liked it before, but in playing through the whole thing I really appreciated just how great an experience it really is. They perfectly captured the feeling of exploring an alien world and trying to figure out what happened to the former inhabitants. And it's got one of those soundtracks that's just so absolutely unforgettable.

But even The Dig can't pry me away from Curse of Monkey Island, I'm just way too attached to it, for a lot of reasons. It was one of those games that I played when I was younger that really opened my eyes to what was possible. It was like playing a cartoon! And not like one of those gimmicky Dragon's Lair things either, but a proper game. Yeah, a lot of it's from nostalgia, but the presentation, and humor, and characters really were among the best that Lucasarts ever did, and it generally had puzzles that weren't too difficult to figure out.

Himu · « **Reply #22 on:** January 29, 2015, 11:10:45 PM »

Can't hate on Disney when they helped revive this Grim Fandango thing to begin with.

Here's hoping Day of the Tentacle and MI3 are next.

The Legend of Sunblade · « **Reply #23 on:** January 29, 2015, 11:28:05 PM »

Day of the Tentacle IS next. It got announced at PS Experience alongside more Grim Fandango talk.

Himu · « **Reply #24 on:** January 29, 2015, 11:58:11 PM »

Positive Touch · « **Reply #25 on:** January 30, 2015, 12:57:06 AM »

never got in to dott. was disappointed that it wasn't freeroam like maniac mansion was.

Himu · « **Reply #26 on:** January 30, 2015, 01:49:23 AM »

Beat it.

Still one of my favorite shots/moments in a game.

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This looks really bad in jpg form but on an hdtv it looks pretty good.

Cheddahz · « **Reply #27 on:** January 30, 2015, 11:00:51 AM »

I'm a huge fan of the point and click games from Lucasarts, but I never got to play this one...guess I'll just have to decide if this or Resident Evil is worth playing more right now

demi · « **Reply #28 on:** January 30, 2015, 12:06:34 PM »

Resident Evil, duh. Fuck tim schafer

The Legend of Sunblade · « **Reply #29 on:** January 30, 2015, 01:08:32 PM »

Finished Year one. Pretty smooth progress, with the only times I got stuck being the pipe part (cause I never noticed the deck of cards in Manny;s office) and for a little bit in the crossroads sign in the forgotten forest.

I mentioned it before, but I really really like the voicework in the game, couple together by all the top-notch work on all the little animations on the characters. I make sure to exhaust all the conversations options with people cause I love just listening to them talk, thanks to the range of accents and tones that every new character introduces. The whole presentation is top notch, really.

chronovore · « **Reply #30 on:** February 02, 2015, 08:07:08 AM »

I've heard so frequently what a great game this is, it makes me wish that I liked PnC adventures. I don't though. I backed Broken Age but still haven't played it.

Himu · « **Reply #31 on:** February 02, 2015, 01:20:21 PM »

Depending on what you don't like about pnc adventure games you may enjoy grim

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