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The game was recently remastered and released on Steam. It's an incredible game, with some of the wittiest writing I've seen, and I couldn't recommend it more h

The game was recently remastered and released on Steam. It's an incredible game, with some of the wittiest writing I've seen, and I couldn't recommend it more highly. http://store.steampowered.com/app/316790/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/316790/

eridius 12y ago
It was also released on PS4 and PS Vita. I'm rather curious to know what the "best" platform to play it on is. PS4: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/grim-fandango-remastered/cid=UP2154-CUSA01319_00-GRIMFANDANGOPS04 https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/gr... PS Vita: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/grim-fandango-remastered/cid=UP2154-PCSE00547_00-GRIMFANDANGOPSVI https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/gr...
- oms1005 12y ago
  I got it for my PS4 and I think it controls great. The only problem I do have is that because it lacks a manual, there is no tutorial for anything. It doesn't take many button guesses to figure out what they do, but it just throws you into the game. Took me about half an hour to realize you can run if you hold R1. But this is not a fault of the game's controls, just a lack of button layout by me.
  - eridius 12y ago
    Awesome, good to know! I was considering getting it on PS4 but I wasn't sure how well the adventure game style actually translates to that. Your comment makes me feel comfortable enough getting it there. Speaking of manuals, I could swear that I once accessed a manual for a PS4 downloadable game. But I've never since been able to figure out how I did that, to the point where I question whether it ever even happened. But it seems absurd to believe that they decided that games simply don't need manuals. I get that console games are trending towards having a very minimalistic manual in the game box (often just a page with the control layout), but not every game does that.
_JamesA_ 12y ago
Ars just had a write-up on the remake as well. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/grim-fandango-remastered-is-a-flawed-remake-of-a-considered-masterpiece/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/grim-fandango-remaster...
shmerl 12y ago
It's also on GOG DRM-free: https://www.gog.com/game/grim_fandango_remastered https://www.gog.com/game/grim_fandango_remastered
- leoc 12y ago
  It's on GOG, Humble Store and Steam, but GOG got special acknowledgement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrIN5yIaOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrIN5yIaOk : Grim Fandango was #1 on GOG's community wishlist http://www.gog.com/wishlist http://www.gog.com/wishlist for a long time and it seems this had something to do with the new edition.
  - shmerl 12y ago
    Yeah, I saw that. Good to see Tim Schafer ridiculing DRM :)
    - mr_sturd 12y ago
      I always thought he'd be that way. I remember an old copy of The Secret of Monkey Island had a comic take on anti-piracy protection [1]. [1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Secret_of_Monkey_Island_Manual_%26_Dial-a-Pirate.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Secret_of_Mon...
      - makeset 12y ago
        Ironically, growing up in the Third World when software legality wasn't even a thing yet and game stores only sold cracked copies on Maxell floppies with handwritten labels, Monkey Island was the first -and for a long time, the only- game I bought in the official box.
- sandGorgon 12y ago
  Runs on Linux - official Ubuntu 14.04 compatibility.
  - 12y ago
ekianjo 12y ago
"remastered" -> a lot of the assets were not really remastered. I know that is what they are calling it but they are overselling the actual changes.
- PhasmaFelis 12y ago
  So? It's not called Grim Fandango Every Single Asset Remastered. They updated the controls, made hi-res versions of all the character textures, added dynamic lighting, re-recorded the entire score with a full orchestra, and of course made it run smoothly on modern machines. It would have been nice if they could have updated all the backgrounds as well, but I think what's there counts as "remastered" by any reasonable definition.
  - ekianjo 12y ago
    > They updated the controls, made hi-res versions of all the character textures, added dynamic lighting, re-recorded the entire score with a full orchestra, and of course made it run smoothly on modern machines You forgot one thing: they updated the price as well. Instead of costing 5 dollars like every game older than 10 years mostly does, it's 15. But hey, there's no little profit, and they got a lot of free press coverage on top of that just because it was a miserable mess before to run this game on modern computers (Thanks ResidualVM folks for doing their work).
    - PhasmaFelis 12y ago
      So that's the real issue? You're bitter that they're charging all of $15 for what's been called the best adventure game ever made?
      - RunningWild 12y ago
        I don't think that's what he said or meant.
    - 72deluxe 12y ago
      I haven't tried ResidualVM yet, but do have my original Grim Fandango CD so am looking forward to trying it out.

eridius 12y ago

It was also released on PS4 and PS Vita. I'm rather curious to know what the "best" platform to play it on is. PS4: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/grim-fandango-remastered/cid=UP2154-CUSA01319_00-GRIMFANDANGOPS04 https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/gr... PS Vita: https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/grim-fandango-remastered/cid=UP2154-PCSE00547_00-GRIMFANDANGOPSVI https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-us/games/gr...

oms1005 12y ago
I got it for my PS4 and I think it controls great. The only problem I do have is that because it lacks a manual, there is no tutorial for anything. It doesn't take many button guesses to figure out what they do, but it just throws you into the game. Took me about half an hour to realize you can run if you hold R1. But this is not a fault of the game's controls, just a lack of button layout by me.
- eridius 12y ago
  Awesome, good to know! I was considering getting it on PS4 but I wasn't sure how well the adventure game style actually translates to that. Your comment makes me feel comfortable enough getting it there. Speaking of manuals, I could swear that I once accessed a manual for a PS4 downloadable game. But I've never since been able to figure out how I did that, to the point where I question whether it ever even happened. But it seems absurd to believe that they decided that games simply don't need manuals. I get that console games are trending towards having a very minimalistic manual in the game box (often just a page with the control layout), but not every game does that.

_JamesA_ 12y ago

Ars just had a write-up on the remake as well. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/grim-fandango-remastered-is-a-flawed-remake-of-a-considered-masterpiece/ http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/grim-fandango-remaster...

shmerl 12y ago

It's also on GOG DRM-free: https://www.gog.com/game/grim_fandango_remastered https://www.gog.com/game/grim_fandango_remastered

leoc 12y ago
It's on GOG, Humble Store and Steam, but GOG got special acknowledgement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrIN5yIaOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swrIN5yIaOk : Grim Fandango was #1 on GOG's community wishlist http://www.gog.com/wishlist http://www.gog.com/wishlist for a long time and it seems this had something to do with the new edition.
- shmerl 12y ago
  Yeah, I saw that. Good to see Tim Schafer ridiculing DRM :)
  - mr_sturd 12y ago
    I always thought he'd be that way. I remember an old copy of The Secret of Monkey Island had a comic take on anti-piracy protection [1]. [1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Secret_of_Monkey_Island_Manual_%26_Dial-a-Pirate.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Secret_of_Mon...
    - makeset 12y ago
      Ironically, growing up in the Third World when software legality wasn't even a thing yet and game stores only sold cracked copies on Maxell floppies with handwritten labels, Monkey Island was the first -and for a long time, the only- game I bought in the official box.
sandGorgon 12y ago
Runs on Linux - official Ubuntu 14.04 compatibility.
- 12y ago

ekianjo 12y ago

"remastered" -> a lot of the assets were not really remastered. I know that is what they are calling it but they are overselling the actual changes.

PhasmaFelis 12y ago
So? It's not called Grim Fandango Every Single Asset Remastered. They updated the controls, made hi-res versions of all the character textures, added dynamic lighting, re-recorded the entire score with a full orchestra, and of course made it run smoothly on modern machines. It would have been nice if they could have updated all the backgrounds as well, but I think what's there counts as "remastered" by any reasonable definition.
- ekianjo 12y ago
  > They updated the controls, made hi-res versions of all the character textures, added dynamic lighting, re-recorded the entire score with a full orchestra, and of course made it run smoothly on modern machines You forgot one thing: they updated the price as well. Instead of costing 5 dollars like every game older than 10 years mostly does, it's 15. But hey, there's no little profit, and they got a lot of free press coverage on top of that just because it was a miserable mess before to run this game on modern computers (Thanks ResidualVM folks for doing their work).
  - PhasmaFelis 12y ago
    So that's the real issue? You're bitter that they're charging all of $15 for what's been called the best adventure game ever made?
    - RunningWild 12y ago
      I don't think that's what he said or meant.
  - 72deluxe 12y ago
    I haven't tried ResidualVM yet, but do have my original Grim Fandango CD so am looking forward to trying it out.