Collecting Goal

[scottykick]

Scooters collecting goal of obtaining every domestic release for the 32X has inspired me to have a set goal insted of blindly buying games here and there. After factoring my taste in gaming, how much I am comfortable in spending, the challenge of completion and system library, I have narrowed it down to Dreamcast, Gamecube, Genesis or Saturn.

I play sports games, fighting games, I am a wrestling fan so I like wrestling games as well, and I like RPG's but not to the point of wanting to play every rpgs that comes out, I have played Faxanadu, Lunar The Silver Star, FF 7, FFX, Skies of Arcadia


Since there are quite a few collectors here, that I am sure have attempted taken up similar challenges, I would like to see some opinions and thoughts on each system.

I know it is a personal decision, and nobody knows what I will like other then me, but I am looking more for your own persoanl thoughts on those systems, and if you were going to take up the challenge to do it, which of them would you attempt and why.

[ott0bot]

It was a toss up between the Dreamcast and the Genesis. You said sports, wrestling and fighting games so I went with dreamcast. It's more afforable and easier to find complete copies than the Genesis.

[The Apprentice]

I would go for the Dreamcast, since I believe it has the smallest library of the three, and its games are usually cheaper than the rest. The Genesis has too many games for me to try to collect them all, and the Saturn has games that would kill my wallet.

[Hatta]

I don't think I'd want *every* US release of any console. Every console has its stinkers.

Of the 3, the dreamcast is probably what I'd do though. There are too many Genesis games to bother, and the awesome to crap ratio is a bit lower than the others (larger library = more filler). The Saturn, well I can burn bit for bit perfect copies and play them on my modded saturn. The Dreamcast, it has a managable library, a very high awesome to crap ratio, and burned games are usually compressed to fit them on a CD, or broken up across discs, or in some way inferior to the real thing.

[Bootaaay]

Collecting every release for a console hasn't really ever appealed to me, like Hatta said there are too many stinkers. A much more sensible goal imo would be to collect every game that interests you personally, i'm nearly at the end of my 5 years of collecting SEGA stuff, just a few more Megadrive games and my collection will be complete. If you definetly want to collect every release, then go for the Dreamcast, like the others have said the library is smaller and is mostly very decent with some top quality gems unlike anything available on other systems. Personally my favourite to collect was the Saturn, but only because i'm a huge 2d fighter & SHMUP fan, two genres the Saturn certainly excells in.

[jackspicer]

dreamcast because im not a fan of the genesis's large kidney bean shaped controller so i emulate my genesis games on other systems, that and i cant find any games around here that arent sports games.

[nocturnalnerd]

Genesis you can start for buying all my genesis games

[ott0bot]

Collecting every release for a console hasn't really ever appealed to me, like Hatta said there are too many stinkers.

I have to agree, why collect bad games.

[Funk, E]

dreamcast because im not a fan of the genesis's large kidney bean shaped controller so i emulate my genesis games on other systems, that and i cant find any games around here that arent sports games.

The 6-button controller is probably the best controller ever made.

[racketboy]

Collecting every release for a console hasn't really ever appealed to me, like Hatta said there are too many stinkers.

I have to agree, why collect bad games.

Same here.

There's no system I would want to collect every game for -- even ISOs.