xDerekRx wrote:grolt wrote:That's quite the haul, Derek. Nicely done.
I never played the original Panzer Dragoon as a kid, either. When I bought my system I sent away for the free demo, got it, played it to death and then decided to wait to spring for Zwei instead. Well, Zwei was and is amazing, but after getting the first game anew five years ago or so, I was pretty amazed by how good it both looked and played. As far as colors and level design goes, I think I actually prefer some levels in PD to anything in Zwei. It's actually a real blast to play with the Mission Stick, too. What a fun peripheral that thing was. I still play Congo with it!
You can play Congo with the mission stick Grolt?
I laugh that you mentioned the Congo game. I thought I was the only person in the world that liked that game. Im afraid to tell people Congo is one of my favorite Saturn games
Basically the story behind that game is back when the Saturn came out I was a HUGE FPS fan. This was back when the genre FPS actually meant something. Now there are so many that its not fun just to play a game beacuse its an FPS.
I had beat Quake, Duke (for the first time on Saturn not PC). Played Alien Trilogy, Powerslave, Doom (all versions of doom are loved regardless), Hexen. But I always would read this gamepro review for Congo. It said it was awful but the pictures looked great. It was the only FPS I hadnt played, it was Saturn exclusive. And I love jungle settings. Match made in heaven for me. I got it about 5 years ago for the first time. Its tough but I just enjoy running around in the jungle in an FPS for once.
Heh, you're basically describing my history with the game, too. I still have that Gamepro mag, and yeah, despite the pans I thought it still looked like fun (and that all those sprite-based graphics weren't all
that horrendous). I used to play Quake to death on the computer, so I was all over FPS games at the time too. I even had a Congo poster in my room that I snagged from a theater when it left. I was pretty jazzed about the game, especially since it was produced by SEGA themselves. Hell, it was even featured on the back of the system box at launch. Unfortunately, I never could find it whenever we'd take the trip into the big city and my brother and I would pit stop at Toys R Us.
Flash forward a decade and I'm in the midst of trying to acquire a full first-party Saturn set. Even then, Congo was a game that eluded me. It ended up being one of the very last games I got for the system before I got my set. When I finally did get it, I threw it in right away. I don't care what the haters say - it's a fun game! The control is pretty good, and the on-screen maps and secret areas really help make things interesting. The presentation is really solid, too, with all those FMV transmissions from that dude lost in the jungle. It's like a
good version of Corpse Killer.
Believe it or not, Congo is one of the very few games that was actually designed for play on the mission stick. Look on the back of the box, it has the mission stick icon there. It's certainly an experience with it, at any rate. But yeah, I'll stand by the game for sure. Congo is great fun, I hope to finish it soon once I get all these RPGs out of my system.
That's fly.
. and i also picked up D along with it. two games most of you already have in your collections here 
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