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From collecting retro games (particularly of the PS1 era) I can tell you from experience that price is not always commensurate with quality. More often, it's ti
by AdmiralAsshat 3y ago
From collecting retro games (particularly of the PS1 era) I can tell you from experience that price is not always commensurate with quality. More often, it's tied to rarity, which in turn then raises the perception of quality because, frankly, there often aren't enough copies to dispute it.
Modern ports and especially Emulation has helped knock down some of those artificial barriers and let people more honestly assess how good the games are.
For example: Panzer Dragoon Saga. I managed to play it on a Saturn emulator. Great game? Honestly, yes. Is it a $500 great game? Eh...
- JohnBooty 3y agoI think PDS is special partly (mostly?) because of its part in gaming history. It was symbolic of the end of "peak Sega", a beautiful and ambitious RPG better (or at least more ambitious) than Final Fantasy 7 in many ways, released to virtually zero sales as Sega sunsetted the Saturn. (In retrospect, the failure of the Saturn was really the last nail in the console of Sega's console business, and the Dreamcast just couldn't overcome that inertia.) Or at least that's what Panzer Dragoon Saga represents to me anyway...