Not sure how tight your budget is but this would probably be around $60 total to play all Saturn games w/o fuss.
If I had $60 lying around I'd buy some more 3DS games that I'm still missing out on >w>
I sure want to get a Saturn someday, but I've only just started working (as an animator), and I'm only gonna be paid (pennies) by the end of July, I don't think I'm gonna be able to afford collecting anything this year, maybe a couple of years from now, when I'm done with college, but by then I believe the prices are gonna be even more astronomically high than they already are...
@michirin: I keep forgetting you are like, stuck in emulatorland. Playing PS1 and Saturn via emulator f*cking sucks, lol.
It sure would help if my real PS1 hadn't been broken since 2006, and as far as I'm concerned, buying a new PS1 would be cheaper than fixing mine, but let's just say I have other priorities...
Saturn is basically PCE 2.0 IMO. It's basically what the PC-FX could have been if they didnt bank so hard on FMV being the hotness that would pave the way into the future.
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly why I want to play it! I've only barely touched the Saturn, but of what I did see on the system it already feels like it would be right up my alley! So many 2D games! So many Fighting games! So many shmups!
another PS1 game that you should try at some point in your life is Parasite Eve.
I assume you have already played Valkyrie Profile via PSP.
If not, go do that. Your life needs it.
Taking notes! I'll see about trying more PS1 games next weekend, I'll be less busy by then, and no I haven't played Valkyrie Profile yet, I've mostly just been playing Street Fighter Alpha 3, Project Diva and K-on Hakugo Live...
Are you one of those people while playing games like Flashback or Prince of Persia, you end up running off of cliffs because the controls are weird? lol
Sometimes, the biggest problem with the controls in these types of games is that I think they feel stiff, you have to preemptively do what you want your character to do instead of having it respond immediately as you play like in a normal platformer...
I know they're supposed to be good, they have loads of fans for a reason after all, but due to how they play they're gonna appeal more to players who want a slower-paced more methodical game, and I'm not one of them...
Oh and, being flip-screen doesn't help matters in my book >w>
I always felt that was a step backwards in the evolution of platformers, they went from static screens to flip-screens, to scrolling horizontally or vertically only, to scrolling in 8 directions, not to mention the Parallax Scrolling that only got better and better, and now back to flip-screens? C'mon!
Yeah I know they look "prettier" now with the pre-rendered graphics and stuff, but I much prefer the more cartoony graphics often used on the 16 bit systems, those aged a heck of a lot better...
