Maybe, but is it enough nostalgia to justify the high price?
supply and demand, how many cartridges are still around? so you get people buying them as "investment" and other stupid shit.
besides that people pay a lot of money for retro stuff right now, it's just priced accordingly, same reason an unknown little strider clone called run saber is listed for the same price as musha (doubt people really want it that much, it has a kickass soundtrack tho).
To expand on what I said, I own a game called Gotcha Force. It was a mediocre Pokemon knock off with toys instead of animals, and button mashing circle strafe combat. So imagine my surprise when a few years ago retro gaming collectors said it was one of the best games on the GameCube, or at least the game the most valuable game they own. I doubt there's much nostalgia for Gotcha Force because nobody played the thing, and because it is a sub par pokemon clone, but because it's rare and collectable, now it's taking centre stage in people's GC collections.
MUSHA is my go-to example because no one had heard of this game back in the day, at least where I live. I only heard of it after it became a rare collectable. At which point it was also given the status of "best game on the Mega Drive". It's like how Eldar Scrolls was only known by hardcore RPG nerds until it went mainstream with Oblivion, but everyone and their dog claims to have been playing since Daggerfall. (I just used the same example in another thread. Weird coincidence.)
know what you mean, but this is nothing new. back when I was playing counterstrike, around beta 5 I suddenly met a lot of people who claimed "bro, I've been playing since beta1" - nigga back then there were 3 servers in the whole country, it's
statistically impossible for all of you to have it played back then. of course they didn't know cs_desert nor about the shenanigans involving not-despawning weapons between rounds. never understood the notion to make shit up to proof how much of a "fan" you are (but them I'm not a stupid consumer either who wears nirvana shirts but doesn't know who kurt cobain is, so that thing isn't limited to niche circles for "nerd cred").
as for musha, aleste had 7 releases in 5 years, and that doesn't include other games by compile released around that timeframe. someone must have played them, same way there's probably stuff I don't know (or even remember) which had their own fanbase who remembers it.
"best game" is relative, lot of cult classics these days were outright bombs back then - nostalgia, marketing and public conscience are a weird thing, plus people are retards who like to regurgitate "opinions" about shit they have no clue about, most couldn't even tell what makes A better than B if it would hit them in the face.
not saying musha is the best game ever, but there must be a reason at least I remember it and the series got so many games (although gotta admit I better remember robo)
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