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| sakuranbo
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|  "Re(2):Overhyping rare & decent games" , posted Sun 13 Mar 11:17:
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Overhype occurs ALL THE TIME, but generally the games are still good and are worth picking up (especially to a collector). When you're looking for this sort of game, always assume it's being overhyped. Rondo of Blood is a good example, but it's hardly mediocre (it's great.) I think people in the 'states pay a bit too much for it (you can get it in Japan for much cheaper), but then again, money in and of itself doesn't bring happiness, does it? ;D Castlevania 3 and x68000 are still my favorites in the series, though.
Actually, Vampire Killer (Bloodlines in the US) became more expensive than Rondo in Japan nowadays,up to 20.000yens sometimes (more than Radiant!) even if you can get the european/us version for almost nothing. But I don't think anybody would consider it the BEST of the serie, regardless of its insane rarity level.
Makes me sad...
Oh well, thanks to that, I was able to find a copy of Rondo for half the usal price ;D
Rarity isn't always related to to the gaming value. I almost collapsed the first time I saw some obscur 100 copies produced architecture saturn game sold for 100.000 yens.
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| Maou 493th Post
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| "Re(9):Re(10):Overhyping rare & decent games" , posted Tue 15 Mar 13:50
Failing to this day to get my hands on it, I can't say, but I have the impression that the famous Tenchi Souzou for Super Famicom might qualify (it did make it somewhat to the UK or Australia maybe I hear, under the name Terranigma). It's got a mystique as a huge huge cart (100 megs was it?) with a good story and high adventure....or so I hear. The truth may be different if I find a copy.
Iggy: your beloved Unlimited Sagas were hyped but aren't rare or hard to find. Disqualified!In fact they're very accessible, as they're all piled out in a pyre outside of my house to pay for the sins of Saga Frontier.
FFVI as overhyped? こちらこそIggy/異議あり！ But that's a different (and dangerous for Rid) conversation. Don't think that it suddenly became overhyped and hard to find when VII became "popular" either...VII was just the first popular one in America. VI sold at least a million on its first day in Japan as I remember, and it's super easy to find. In the US, though, it was a massive struggle finding that (very justly) hyped game in US cartridge format.
Tengu: any RPG is always better in its original language, agreed, but didja have to pick the heinous PSOne failure of a FF VI ROM conversation "PSOne special edition" to play it in?
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| Amakusa 590th Post
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| "Re(9):Re(10):Overhyping rare & decent games" , posted Tue 15 Mar 13:56
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I think it was lost between FF5 and FF9, personally. I prefer old school setting for the FF games, and FF6 started the "modern" ones and dropped the jobs.
Until I played FF9 I felt for a very long time that FF5 was way better than FF6. FF5 retained something which the succeeding Final Fantasies lacked, and maybe it's the fact that the succeeding games forgot their roots in favor of a more steampunk-ish style. That is to say, to make another game with different values and slap the Final Fantasy name on it as if someone was afraid that it wouldn't fly on its own (and I assure you, FF7 would have indeed taken off without the name slapped on it-- the marketing blitz is what clinched everything).
As for the topic, Radiant Silvergun IS overhyped. It is a good game, sure, but it's not worth its asking price. Neither is Valkyrie Profile, although I never had the benefit of playing the game myself. It's hard enough to get me to buy a $50 game as things go these days... and I only buy a $50 game if I know for sure that I really wanted it (in which case that game was Star Ocean 3, and I'm STILL playing it). I am a rather picky buyer.
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| Mosquiton 1542th Post
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| "Terranigma" , posted Tue 15 Mar 21:38
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I can't say, but I have the impression that the famous Tenchi Souzou for Super Famicom might qualify...
Personally I couldn't keep myself playing Terranigma. The first few hours of the game I was absolutely enthralled, as you start out in the world of an the inside of a globe and the mechanics are immediately fun...
It has strong puzzles and a cool feel to it, but for me the combat just got really old. You start the game with all the moves you'll ever know (basically), which isn't a bad thing at all, but there's just no depth to it (that I can remember). There's variety, and you can block, amazingly, which is very cool, but using the same strategies for about 16 hours and watching my spear change colors every once in a while (yay), I just got really bored.
Maybe I don't remember well enough, but to me most of the finesse moves seemed really unnecessary. Even though Secret of Mana had much simpler action I somehow found its battles much more involving. Maybe it was the slime herding... either way Terranigma just started to drag for me around halfway through, and I didn't feel like going on.
I hear I missed some nice plot twists, though.
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| OmegaDog 1467th Post
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| "Re(5):Re(10):Re(10):Overhyping rare & decent" , posted Wed 16 Mar 08:37
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Ah, you have the patience of a Buddha. Those loads take longer than FFVII, which is disgraceful.
When you've played through Sonic 3D Blast on the Saturn, load times like that don't mean much.
Load times on the Saturn Sonic 3D Blast were absolutely horrendous. They were commonly 15 to 30 seconds long, whenever you did ANYTHING -- start the game, beat a stage, go to a special stage, return to a special stage, even lose a life. If you died, I'd swear it would erase the entire stage from memory and spend time loading the exact same stage back up.
I'm surprised I held myself to beat the game the entire way through, given the load times and the mediocrity of the game. These days I'd just quit and never play it again.
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Hahah the music--after owning the FFVI soundtrack on CD, it was nice to hear the PS version play the songs in full Commodore 64 quality audio, along with the maddening SHRIEK of the menu cursor's movement.
Wait, I seemed to remember the songs being played back in full-quality -- and my roommate had a pretty good sound system too. It was just the sound effects that I remembered being recorded at a low sample rate.
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