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Most Prized In Collection - What you got + How Much $$?
wiggy:
Man, speaking of great soundtracks, Panzer Saga is one of my absolute favs! It's so subtle but always manages to do its job so perfectly without being invasive or overbearing. Love it!
Also, one of my favorite RPGs ever. I would love a remake of it more than pretty much any other game.
That actually is a pretty rare game. Even when it launched it was hard to track down. Those last few solid Saturn titles seemed to barely even make it to retail :(
games-go-round:
--- Quote from: wiggy on August 03, 2012, 10:53:47 AM ---Man, speaking of great soundtracks, Panzer Saga is one of my absolute favs! It's so subtle but always manages to do its job so perfectly without being invasive or overbearing. Love it!
Also, one of my favorite RPGs ever. I would love a remake of it more than pretty much any other game.
That actually is a pretty rare game. Even when it launched it was hard to track down. Those last few solid Saturn titles seemed to barely even make it to retail :(
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I hear ya on the soundtrack - I have the battle theme memorized! I loved the use of flutes and other woodwinds in the soundtrack, as it gave it a back-to-nature feel which was, as you pointed out, pretty subtle.
It's definitely one of my favorite RPGs, too. I know this will get me a lot of heat, but I'd take it over any Final Fantasy game, any day. It's a very unique game, and unlike a lot of other JRPGs, it's long enough to tell its story, but paced well enough that it wraps up fairly quickly, too. I remember it clocking in at about 15 hours which, for me, is almost a perfect length of time for a game.
It is crazy rare, but you're right, it was next-to-impossible to get when it was released. I remember the FuncoLand by my house had a copy sitting on the shelf for a good six months before anyone bought it. It was the only copy they received, and Saturn interest was so low where I lived that the game just sat there and sat there. Looking back, I should have gotten it... even though I had already traded my system for a Nintendo 64.
What else came out around that time, House of the Dead? I think Shining Force III was one of the last games, too. I know for a fact Magic Knight Rayearth was *the last* US Saturn game released, just because I remember reading about it when it came out, and thinking, "WTF? They still make Saturn games???"
A very underrated system, the Saturn. In keeping with this thread's theme, the three Saturn games I own are definitely prized possessions of mine. I have Earthworm Jim 2, NightWarriors, and Panzer Dragoon II, all complete with manuals, foam blocks, and intact cases. I feel like I will *never* see any of them again in the same condition, which is why I keep them. About once a month, I break out a Saturn controller and spend some time with each of the games, just to remind myself of why I hang onto them. Great stuff!
AO007:
--- Quote from: wiggy on August 03, 2012, 10:53:47 AM ---Man, speaking of great soundtracks, Panzer Saga is one of my absolute favs! It's so subtle but always manages to do its job so perfectly without being invasive or overbearing. Love it!
Also, one of my favorite RPGs ever. I would love a remake of it more than pretty much any other game.
That actually is a pretty rare game. Even when it launched it was hard to track down. Those last few solid Saturn titles seemed to barely even make it to retail :(
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To be fair, I can understand the high price for most Saturn games. The thing had an even smaller lifespan that the damn Dreamcast, and while it had few releases, most of them were well-received, like Panzer Dragoon, NiGHTs, and Sonic Jam, but had limited releases compared to other console libraries.
Earthbound's excuses, by comparison, are weak.
wiggy:
Man, there were no 6 month old copies sitting around here in Cleveland LOL! I think Cleveland is a really big gaming city though. We have craptastic weather so much of the year that staying indoors becomes the norm for about 6-7 months of the year.
The only other late US release that I can think of is Burning Rangers. Cool game, but mondo painful to look at today in comparison to modern games.
The Saturn is still the undisputed king of 2D in my opinion. Games like Princess Crown still look incredible 15 years later! Sega had a realy knack for making great consoles that just couldn't make it in the US market for one reason or another :-[
Mick Dundee:
How dare you Wiggy!!! Earthbound trumps Mario RPG any day....that stupid lvl cap bothered the hell out of me (and still does)
Despite having a copy of Earthbound and knowing it may drop slightly in value if a digital were released I would like to see that happen as slim a chance as it may be