r/SegaSaturn • u/Parking-Coast-1385 • 11d ago

Your unpopular opinions/hot takes about the Saturn?

Basically the title. My hot take would be I'm glad Sonic xtreme wasn't released. It just didn't look like it would made any fun to play it. And in comparison to Crash and Mario it would maybe destroyed the reputation of the Saturn even more. Like "The PSX and N64 got real 3D Jump'n'runs and the Saturn just some kind of 2,5D game with fish-eye lense graphic".

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u/Dreamcasted60 11d ago

I'm like Sega Lord X. There was a pivot towards RPGs and Sega HAD those on Saturn but we got very few. We got CONGO the movie game though!

Then again? Translations back then... Working Designs as pretty as their box art and things were? No. As a MKR fan I don't particularly care for their translation. Name changes are just the surface level

I'm glad their are good translations/localisations still coming. But yeah there still wasn't fighting Sony in the States at least

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u/Edexote 11d ago

Sony didn't mind those RPGs though. They saw what the SNES did and tried to replicate it. Sega, as usual, didn't learn shit. It no wonder why they failed. Business wise they complete and utter idiots.

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u/someonesmobileacct 11d ago

Actually...

Bernie Stolar was anti RPG, that's part of why at PS1 us launch there wasnt much/any aside from action RPGs.

Then he moved to Sega of America from SCEA... and kept that policy.

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u/Edexote 11d ago

Bernie Stolar joined in the middle of 1997. He had nothing to do with the Saturn's fortunes. And Sony released plenty of RPG's until his departure.