Beyond the Beyond is by no means that bad. Despite what everyone said, I beat it this year for the first time ever. I ended up removing my "Everyone thinks it sucks" bias and played it. There are normal random battles, an awesome dual-health (backup health) system which doesn't make the game bad (just level up to compensate people...jeeeez!!), lots of spells, lots of critical attacks and blocks...

There is a flying device and warp spells near the end. Plenty of caves to do.
To me this game is in the 7 out of 10 range..... not lower, but not higher.

Explain what is so bad please, mortis, and anybody else...

Oh man, The Granstream Saga. And here I was thinking nobody else had ever played that game. I found a used copy of it a couple of years ago and managed to snatch it up for $10. Still incredibly fun even with the clunky character animations.

Taco, what game is that in your sig picture?

It's パンヤ, obviously.

Pangya sequel?

I bought it for $10 as well and thought it was an even bigger disappointment than Beyond the Beyond. :(

Was the sequel an import version? I liked the Vanguard Bandits even though no else probably did, and the only reason most people picked it up was for the Lunar 2 demo that came with it. I still have the strat guide for it that was hardcover and all spiffy!

Well its only been within the last few years that me and my fiance have been hardcore video game collectors.

We mostly collect rpg's, but if its one thing all of the games that we collect have in common is that they're all anime style games.

There is still quite a few games we have to collect. The majority of our collection focuses around PS1 and PS2 Games. There are certain series that me and her are into that we try to get as many products from that series as much as possible.

In terms of RPG's I'm a Xeno-whore as well as a Shadow Hearts-Whore and my fiance on the other hand loves anything dealing with the suikoden and star ocean series.

Personally I would like to be adding more games to my sega dreamcast collection since they have a lot of anime style games such as Project Justice, Gunbird 2, Bangai-O and a few others.

The next RPG series we want to finish collecting is the Shin Megami Tensei collection and the majority of the games from Working Designs, my fiance loves rpg's with interesting storylines and the majority of the shin megami tensei games always get at least 90% rating in terms of story from RPGFAN.

Haha...that's hilarious. A simliar thing happened to me the other day. I was going through some old school papers from first grade trying to get rid of stuff and I found a Super Mario Bros. 3 manual with the papers and looked like it was brand new.

I collect "James Pond 2 - Robocod" games, not the whole James Pond series only the second one :-)
My most recent addition to it is the PC version (big box version):

http://hem.bredband.net/b108596/robocod_collection.jpg
http://www.ym2149.com/misc/pics/robocod/robocod_pc1.jpg
http://www.ym2149.com/misc/pics/robocod/robocod_pc2.jpg
http://www.ym2149.com/misc/pics/robocod/robocod_pc3.jpg

Also i just started on building up a "Lode Runner" collection wich would be all Lode Runner games and it's sequels.

Just look at these two PC-98 releases of the original Lode Runner :D

http://www.ym2149.com/misc/pics/lr_pc98_1.jpg
http://www.ym2149.com/misc/pics/lr_pc98_2.jpg


http://www.ym2149.com/misc/pics/lr_pc98_21.jpg
http://www.ym2149.com/misc/pics/lr_pc98_22.jpg

Stefan clearly has the best colletion. Thread over.

Oh dear. I collect lots of games. Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, GBA, PS2, you name it! Japanese imports too. And Falcom games. These images show only a fraction of my whole collection. I mostly just displayed random games. I'm not gonna dig out boxes in the garage to take pictures of my ps1/n64/genesis/snes/dreamcast collections. To much work.


If I came home one day to find it all burnt to the ground, including all my video games I have been collecting since I was but a small little kid, I would probably hang myself in front of the ashes of these games.

Miles' collection automatically wins because of the collection of Falcom games, Klonoa (is Klonoa 2 in there?), Suikoden II, Valkyrie Profile and Dragon Quarter all in one place. The amount of kinetic awesome that bookshelf is emitting is flabbergasting.

Of course I have Klonoa 2. It was actually the first Klonoa I ever played. It's on the shelf somewhere to the right of BoFV. I would have given BoFV a frontal shot but the American coverart is ass.

I wasn't kidding when I said I was a hardcore gamer. =p

That shelf wins for Arc the Lad anime being on it. I thought my shelf was the only one. :tpg:

Monster World Collection! =D

Man, American Saturn cases are so nice. PAL ones are low grade clown meat plastic with cardboard badly glued on so that whenever you actually open the case it slowly commits suicide. Then God help you if there's a sticker on the case, that cardboard will rip even with a slight breeze!

Well, There's nothing that I'm still really collecting. However, I did end up collecting every Zelda game for Gamecube (NTSC), I guess thats really the only thing I've really felt I HAD to collect. Although, If I do start building up a collection of something (Example being Dead Or Alive, were I had DOA3 and DOA4) I had to purchase the other games to make it the full series.

I wish had some specific collection to show off, but I just don't. I used to spend a lot of money on games in the past but just on nothing specific. I've always wanted to have a collection of all my favourite SNES RPGs, but I've never gotten the money to do so.

The only rare gem I can say that I have is the plug n play Dragon Quest Swords game that you plug directly into the TV. It's one of the best games I've ever played and I bring it up from it's box now and then to play it.

I collect action & RPG

Wii
Super Mario Galaxy

DS
Naruto: Ninja Council 3 <*>
Lunar Knights <*>

PSOne
Final Fantasy IX

PS2*
Final Fantasy X*
Final Fantasy XII*
Wild Arms 4*

*........Items for the new PS3 for when it drops to $299
<*>....Items for next Wii game