>I want to wait an indefinite amount of time for something that may never come because I can't be bothered to follow one of two simple methods
Ok zoomie
>"I don't know anything, but I've heard rumors, probably the same rumors you've heard"
You have wasted my time.
Formerly lost, recently found.
https://i.imgur.com/XTl4d7O.jpg
>Panzer Dragoon Saga's source code is lost
Just reverse engineer it Sega
It was never lost, gametap had access to it in the late 2000s. There's even a PC port prototype. The only source for it ever being lost is a journalist making something up after interviewing futatsugi "idk what they did I haven't worked there in 10 years"
It's 4 disc because it has shitloads of voice acting and FMVs that the Saturn was poor at compressing. Without the FMVs and the music / voice acting, the game is only a few megabytes.
It'll give you a little more appreciation for what the combat system is (they straight up adapted PD gameplay to a unique form of RPG), which is neat but non-essential. There's also a few moments that'll have more weight if you've played Zwei.
That said, I'd never played a PD game and still loved Saga.
is this game legit GOTG or just notably rare?
I played it twenty years after the fact and found it a contender for greatest game of all time. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable saying it's worse than Chrono Trigger (it hits higher highs and lower lows, IMO).
-Your party consists of only one character, for the entire game.
-Positioning is a key part of combat.
-Designers set out to deliberately make enemy designs as original as possible, and this is palpable while playing the game.
-Environments that were (for the time) massive, and which still have a highly unusual sense of scale and isolation to them.
-Soundtrack on par with Chrono Trigger, IMO.
Story is it's weak point, but it still isn't bad. It tackles a lot of the same thematic material as FF7 (vengeance, humanity VS the environment) but in ways that are marginally less juvenile (albeit still fairly shallow).
Formerly lost, recently found.
Yes it was totally recently found in 2019 and swiftly re-lost again
Anyway who gives a frick unless you're a zoomer or coomlector.
>only zoomers want to play games in higher resolution or without paying for an ancient console or setting up a potentially inaccurate emulator
>I want to wait an indefinite amount of time for something that may never come because I can't be bothered to follow one of two simple methods
Ok zoomie
It was never lost, gametap had access to it in the late 2000s. There's even a PC port prototype. The only source for it ever being lost is a journalist making something up after interviewing futatsugi "idk what they did I haven't worked there in 10 years"
>"I don't know anything, but I've heard rumors, probably the same rumors you've heard"
You have wasted my time.
>just reverse engineer it bro
have you ever tried to reverse engineer a 4 disc game?
It's 4 disc because it has shitloads of voice acting and FMVs that the Saturn was poor at compressing. Without the FMVs and the music / voice acting, the game is only a few megabytes.
>few megabytes
Come on now.
Do I have to play the other panzer dragoon games before saga?
you should, they're only an hour long.
It'll give you a little more appreciation for what the combat system is (they straight up adapted PD gameplay to a unique form of RPG), which is neat but non-essential. There's also a few moments that'll have more weight if you've played Zwei.
That said, I'd never played a PD game and still loved Saga.
I played it twenty years after the fact and found it a contender for greatest game of all time. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable saying it's worse than Chrono Trigger (it hits higher highs and lower lows, IMO).
is this game legit GOTG or just notably rare?
It's an incredibly overrated bog standard JRPG.
Compared to other turn based RPGs:
-Your party consists of only one character, for the entire game.
-Positioning is a key part of combat.
-Designers set out to deliberately make enemy designs as original as possible, and this is palpable while playing the game.
-Environments that were (for the time) massive, and which still have a highly unusual sense of scale and isolation to them.
-Soundtrack on par with Chrono Trigger, IMO.
Story is it's weak point, but it still isn't bad. It tackles a lot of the same thematic material as FF7 (vengeance, humanity VS the environment) but in ways that are marginally less juvenile (albeit still fairly shallow).
>Your party consists of only one character, for the entire game.
And this is considered a classic RPG? Cringe!!!!!
>standard
yeah so you haven't played it
Decent Acecombatvania
Literally who cares about some homosexual jarpig weebshit that no one bought