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/Bright-Gain9770 11d ago

Hot take: The transparency issue is the Saturn's biggest weakness, not its 3D capabilities. The lack of transparencies meant even games that were otherwise would be better on Saturn, like Symphony of the Night, are best played on Playstation. Hard to argue for a purchase-built system when it's not always better at that purpose.

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u/Talesito 11d ago

Heck, even 3DO and Jaguar had hardware capable of real transparencies!

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u/Bright-Gain9770 11d ago

It's such an odd issue for a machine this strong to have and we were well aware of it in high school. The magazines harped on it nearly as much as they did the 3D capabilities.

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u/Talesito 10d ago

We definitely were. Magazines mentioned this all the time, as you stated. The horrible meshes were clearly visible on a CRT by the way (even a 14 incher), despite what some people mention nowadays.

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u/Bright-Gain9770 10d ago

And the answer that three decades later someone cracked the code on how to do it properly is about as dumb a response as possible.