Online Price Madness: $80 for Elemental Gimmick Gear (Dreamcast)

[sfchakan]

"zomg guiz this game is sorta kinda like zelda but on da dreamcast!"

"zomg -- buy, buy, buy!!"

"waitaminute -- no one is wearing a tunic here! To the shelf it goes!!"


Imagine all of the above text in all caps, before DP forum settings neutered the effect.

[Garry Silljo]

Am I the only one who actually liked this game. I don't think it's worth $80 but I think it is worth playing and legitimately fun. Pricewise the Dreamcast is just a nightmare to collect for. Anything you would actually want to play is too much $$$$.

[Tanooki]

I think the DC much like the Sega CD has fallen victim to the Ninten-collectards who have found they ran out of overpriced shit to buy or decided to 'beat the curve' and dove in on their mortal enemy of the 90s knowing both had a niche sized market and total titles of which some were excellent games so they snapped up the stuff, promoted them being great online, helped stir up interest and to see their collections gain value. At least with the small pool of SCD and DC games it makes more sense compared to the stupid prices on very mass produced Nintendo /SNES stuff but whatever. It's kind of like the wrecking ball just needs to swing and crash into something once some market gets violated so bad you have to look elsewhere to be early or foul up another in advance of it.

I hope my new interest in the Genesis doesn't see those things explode over the next year as that would really suck. I think the cart only stuff will remain pretty suppressed because those clamshells and stuff are durable and collector's want that. It may even just end up being like mostly ignored like Gameboy stuff too for similar reasons of cart only being common and complete isn't.

[FieryReign]

I'm waiting for ps3 and x360 games to hit the $100+ mark. Any day now...

[SparTonberry]

Probably not going to happen for at least one more generation. Not at least until GameStop stops taking them and they're suddenly "rare".

There might be a few obscure Japanese PSP games to hit $100+ not certain.
The only other stuff I imagine would hit that price is Gaijinworks' preorder-only physical games (Class of Heroes 2 as well as Summon Night 5 and CoH3 when those are actually released, though it sounds like for the latter two they needed a higher print run).

[PizzaKat]

I got this game on Kijiji for probably around $5 along with a bunch of other games. Game is pretty meh. I can't stand the controls.

[Nz17]

Am I the only one who actually liked this game. I don't think it's worth $80 but I think it is worth playing and legitimately fun.

Oh don't get me wrong. It's not that I hate the game nor that I think it is bad. It is more like I kind-of sort-of like some of it, but even so, it wasn't good enough for me to complete a play-through of it way back when. I probably played about 5 hours into the game from what I recall. It seemed like I was 40% - 70% of the way through.

[Retronick]

I bought this dirt cheap, like so many others, and was still disappointed somehow when I attempted to play it. Been meaning to revisit it. God knows my copy is near mint since it only ever saw my Dreamcast MAYBE twice. I actually just found this value when I was going through my collection for insurance purposes. Can't believe this fetches more than Street Fighter III Third Strike!