octavius
DraQ
BTW GUYS, SINCE I KNOW MOST HERE DON'T CHECK OUT JRPG FORUM:
THE HIGH-DEFINITION / HD UPSCALED ARTWORK OF the Japanese Windows PC re-release/remake/port of ELMINAGE: ORIGINAL...
...IS COMING OVER VIA STEAM IN ENGLIHS (obv. since it's already in english on psp and on 3ds).
the ecisiting part is that this Windows PC version
looks fucking beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeautiful. They didn't make new assets aside from new ui icons (a lot of them, actually, but ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING from the dungeon rock walls or dungeon castle tapestries to the first dungeon b1f zombies and slime enemies: ALL of the game's 2d artwork was given HD treatment up the ass.
I have the japanese ISO (of this re-release/remake) but I never posted much about it since i doubted it would ever cross th ocean + the game itself does not feature much new content aside from fluff like new songs, portraits, stuff like that.
But... dem GRAFFIX. It is funny to be graphics whoring over a Wiz-clone dungeon crawler but, just fucking look:
:drool:
NOTE: remember that the animu portraits for party members is a 100% optional thing. actually you can upload whatever the fucking image u want to use. it's one of the new things added to the PC version of E: Original ( i think ??? p. sure the PSP version, i.e. the first one in english, did not allow that). but anyway!
2d art in a good definition!
sser
Zed Duke of Banville
EDIT: MAAAYBE the Elminage: Gothic Windows PC releae prooobably overall features much better graphical package, but remember that Elminage: Original came out in 2007 thereabouts, and no amount of upscaling 20x times those 2-polygon textures that make up most of Original's rustic environments look "high def".
When I say "drool" it is because it is a TREAT to enjoy the game's 2d artwork, the enemies and the town npcs AND all of the NPCs you meet while adventuring who pester you to help them, etc, in what I assume to be at least a competent 720p upscaling of the assets.
I'm gonna use this re-release as my final attempt in clearing the E: ORiginal post game
completely. I've finshed it, but I've never been able to kill ALL six of the gods walking the demon world. That shit is crazy.