Panzer Dragoon Saga: is it REALLY worth $500+?

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sin2beta:

--- Quote from: turf on September 05, 2016, 01:37:46 pm ---Off topic: Can a game not be reverse engineered to get the source code? I'm asking because really don't know.

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It can. However, the Saturn hardware is a pain in the ass to understand. There is still not a good emulator. YABAUSE has made some progress but still pretty bad. And understanding the hardware is where reverse engineering is made possible.

For well understood hardware, source code is reverse engineered. Still not always easy, so it is usually just the popular games. The source code for the sonic games are readily found with a google search for instance.

kamikazekeeg:
I don't think I can think of any game that would really be worth $500 lol When you are getting games at that price, I think it comes down to how badly you really want something for your collection rather than whether it's a good game or not, though there are cases where I think it's harder to justify a crazy expensive bad game, to a crazy expensive good game. (Like Flinstones compared to Little Samson).

Flashback2012:
Ugh. Seeing this thread makes me regret not buying more copies of the game YEARS ago when Toys R Us was clearing them out for $20 each. :P

I picked mine up at launch because I pre-ordered it from EB Games. My friends all thought they'd be able to get one easily and thought I was giving EB free money to earn interest on but when the game came out they were all scrambling to source a copy while I just walked in, picked up, and walked out. ;)

Killer game though I never finished it (I think I am at the near end of disc 2? ???). I remember that was one heck of a send off for the Saturn in the US with that game, Shining Force III, Burning Rangers, and Magic Knight RayEarth. ;)

spac316:
Glad I bought it 15 years ago for $150+...that's still pricey but compared to now, I lucked out.

But yeah, no game is worth that much, no matter how good it is. Whether it's Eathbound, Little Samson or Cotton(TG16) I don't see myself forking over that amount of cash for one game.
It's ridiculous! :-\

turom:
In my opinion it is. I had the chance to play it at the time it came out and since then it has never been matched by any Role Playing Game for me.

The price tag is justified, it's an awesome game, it has an aura unlike any other, emulation for this game is unstable - yes i'm looking at you Sestren boss cutscenes crashing SSF emulator - and of course not much people are willing to sell it, making the few copies + lost source-code factors raising the price. It's just the law of the market and the price tag is still low compared to a lot of NG-AES games.

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