Blows my mind that the ads make Americans balk. I'm in Europe and I love those commercials. "Rich creamy graphics"? Like if they'd shown some gameplay too I'd be sold.
I was a small child when Saturn came out but those American ads were so weird, like they went for some avant-garde sorta bullcrap, Sega of Japan marketed the Saturn so much better...I mean who doesn't love that commercial with the guy going around beating people up for not playing Saturn!? Now that's a commercial!
I was ~11 then, and it was just the marketing trend in the mid-90’s. Weird commercials were the norm to get your attention, I remember just tuning them out mentally after seeing them once or twice. Even if it wasn’t weird, most of their commercials ended with a guy screaming “SEGA!” 😂
Oh I know, and I can't wait for an excuse to check them out in a video. I do like this stuff, it just was that they were likely really confusing for the consumer.
Ah Gungriffon. I remember looking at the pics of this game from copies of Gamefan magazine wishing I had a Saturn. I was a huge fan of Cybernator on the Super Nintendo which was a butchered localization of Assault Suits Valken which is almost like a 2D predecessor for Gungriffion and I just have always loved realistic mecha in general. So seeing what was basically a 3D Cybernator had me drooling.
1:06 Ah, so that's where that sample in Sonic Generations OST came from! So strange! Can you imagine if the west got Segata Sanshiro ads too instead of the weird cousin of the "Where did you learn to fly?" lady?
I haven't played Sonic Generations yet or heard it, I'll have to check it out. I think if we did get those ads, it might have sold better. When the Saturn came out, the weird comical and spastic commercials were really popular. These just were intentionally strange.
Wow, for a Sega Saturn, this look surprisingly good..... as some one who started playing Pokémon Blue in a school computer room, these games visuals are superb for its console generation.
Yes, compared to other Saturn games - it is probably one of the best looking graphically. I would say even better than a lot of Playstation 1 games. I grew up the same, playing Pokemon Blue, Red, and Yellow!
The first Gungriffon is the only game in the series that I ever played back in the day and still own to this day. I enjoyed it quite a bit even though I'm not a fan of mech games (only played games like Shattered Steel and Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri besides Gungriffon) Gungriffon Blaze for the PS2 I only added to my/our collection like two years ago but didn't play it yet.
Blaze is OKAY. It was a short and pretty rushed game based around random item boxes and grinding. They changed the whole gameplay style and it didn't sit well in the series. But it can be really fun at times. The first game is awesome, it's probably the best Mech game of its time!
Absolute cannon even for me was getting this game. already being a mecha fan as a tiny shit ass this game made all my mecha fantasies come true in the most unbelievable way. will always love Sega and Gungriffon : D
I can see why, there is a lot of fun to be had and the gameplay is good enough in just about any of the games that you can play it again and again just for fun. I'm going to look at your scores in a bit here! I'm hoping to get the GGII video out next Wednesday - I just don't want to mess that one up by not giving it the right amount of time.
Stats are great for this game man. It saves easy, normal and hard mode hi scores. Breaks scores into hit miss kill for ammo ratio, team KIA's and so fourth. GG2 is even better. Break hard mode hi scores into, air strikes used and or if you used the wing man option handy cap! If you can post GG2 mission hard mode - 76% or better hit miss kill ratio hi scores without a wing man or one air strike......you are a king among kings!
The scoring system here just doesn't have as much value as the second game, is all I meant. It just gets your name on a personal scoreboard, and I was always able to get to the top or second really easily (I didn't play on hard though). Certainly, GG2 scores do mean a bit more because you are doing more challenging and varied things in that game and there is more to it than just doing missions and doing okay. Surviving forever as a Helicopter on Hard on Survival in GG2 is way more bragworthy then just barreling through anything in the first game.
I had a Mega Drive as a kid but by the time Saturn came out I wasn't even sure what it was. At the game shop they had a poster with the logo but I didn't know what it was. Wasn't even on my radar at all, was thoroughly into Nintendo and Playstation at the time. If more people knew what the Saturn was and they wanted it then maybe games like Gungriffon would be a big franchise today.
I really wish it would have taken off, but it did last up until the OG Xbox. Sadly the games changed a lot with Blaze and Allied Strike. I think that's why it fell through, honestly.
I need to get around to playing these older games. I played Allied Strike on the Xbox and had to concede defeat; that game is brutal. Gungriffon Blaze though? Yeah, that one rules.
Allied Strike is so damn hard. I dread when I have to get around to that, but I will try my best to actually beat it. Blaze, I agree - it was my first exposure as a teenager!
It really is, they even made Lunar, Grandia, etc. The company disappeared though, without any reason - but it is known that its founder passed away, despite him working on other things at the time. After that, this studio responsible for all these classic titles did nothing until recently re-releasing Grandia in HD on Steam.
It seems like a lot of the best uses of the Sega CD were from Japan, often not even released in the west, whereas the US titles I grew up with were obsessed with the bad FMV you mentioned. The budgets and resolution were never good enough for live action, but it was great for animated cutscenes. The same quality split goes for ad campaigns. For Saturn, we got the creepy bald lady, Japan got Segata Sanshiro...
I suppose, in a world where the internet didn't really exist as it does now - it was really hard to do anything but assume what another market wanted. You are right about the Sega CD, we did get a few cool ones, but the NA games were generally awful. I remember the Sega CD being interesting at the time, but most everyone played FMV games on a computer - if that's what they wanted to play. PS1 had a few, but generally no one cared about FMV by the time it reached home consoles.
i cant get with these titles in the modern age. and i love my saturn. but these first person mech and space shooters havent aged well at all. i'd rather even stick with Heavy Gear 2 released a mere 2 years later which still holds up today.
Originally, the game was actually supposed to be renamed Iron Rain but the US branch of Sega begged for it to be instead kept as Gungriffon, because the game Iron Storm was coming out and it was too similar. Thats why it ended up with this name. I don't really understand why it is called Gungriffon, since nothing in the game has that title either. It's weird. But Japanese naming conventions often allude me as well. I have to say though, any PC Mech Simulator usually triumphs a Saturn game or even PS1 and PS2. I'm playing the original MechWarrior 2 now, and it is insane in comparison to console Mech Sims. So, I get why you'd be playing Heavy Gear. I have to really cover that on the channel, and Earth Siege too.
Thank you for all of your support this year! It means a lot to me.
Blows my mind that the ads make Americans balk. I'm in Europe and I love those commercials. "Rich creamy graphics"? Like if they'd shown some gameplay too I'd be sold.
I'm not American. But I do feel they are wonderfully weird but still weird.
I was a small child when Saturn came out but those American ads were so weird, like they went for some avant-garde sorta bullcrap, Sega of Japan marketed the Saturn so much better...I mean who doesn't love that commercial with the guy going around beating people up for not playing Saturn!? Now that's a commercial!
I was ~11 then, and it was just the marketing trend in the mid-90’s. Weird commercials were the norm to get your attention, I remember just tuning them out mentally after seeing them once or twice.
Even if it wasn’t weird, most of their commercials ended with a guy screaming “SEGA!” 😂
To be fair to the Saturn ads, the PlayStation ads were pretty weird too.
Oh I know, and I can't wait for an excuse to check them out in a video. I do like this stuff, it just was that they were likely really confusing for the consumer.
Ah Gungriffon. I remember looking at the pics of this game from copies of Gamefan magazine wishing I had a Saturn. I was a huge fan of Cybernator on the Super Nintendo which was a butchered localization of Assault Suits Valken which is almost like a 2D predecessor for Gungriffion and I just have always loved realistic mecha in general. So seeing what was basically a 3D Cybernator had me drooling.
Oh, and it's really good! I definitely suggest playing it. There isn't anything like the Gungriffon games.
1:06 Ah, so that's where that sample in Sonic Generations OST came from! So strange! Can you imagine if the west got Segata Sanshiro ads too instead of the weird cousin of the "Where did you learn to fly?" lady?
I haven't played Sonic Generations yet or heard it, I'll have to check it out. I think if we did get those ads, it might have sold better. When the Saturn came out, the weird comical and spastic commercials were really popular. These just were intentionally strange.
Your dedication to mech games is commendable.
Thank you, I appreciate that. It hasn't been the easiest thing to focus on, that is for certain.
I've never heard of this series before. Thanks for the recommendation!
I really hope you enjoy it, it is seriously one of the best and most fun to play.
We've been waiting for this! All the best for you and the channel in 2024!
Thank you so much,and I hope it goes well.
Oh man, I spent so much time playing this game back in the day.
I don't blame you, it's a great game with a lot of replayability in the gameplay alone.
Wow, for a Sega Saturn, this look surprisingly good..... as some one who started playing Pokémon Blue in a school computer room, these games visuals are superb for its console generation.
Yes, compared to other Saturn games - it is probably one of the best looking graphically. I would say even better than a lot of Playstation 1 games. I grew up the same, playing Pokemon Blue, Red, and Yellow!
The first Gungriffon is the only game in the series that I ever played back in the day and still own to this day. I enjoyed it quite a bit even though I'm not a fan of mech games (only played games like Shattered Steel and Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri besides Gungriffon)
Gungriffon Blaze for the PS2 I only added to my/our collection like two years ago but didn't play it yet.
Blaze is OKAY. It was a short and pretty rushed game based around random item boxes and grinding. They changed the whole gameplay style and it didn't sit well in the series. But it can be really fun at times.
The first game is awesome, it's probably the best Mech game of its time!
Love your style man. You remind me of a reviewer sadly gone from this website, so that eases the pain a bit.
Well, it's an honor! I hope!
Absolute cannon even for me was getting this game. already being a mecha fan as a tiny shit ass this game made all my mecha fantasies come true in the most unbelievable way. will always love Sega and Gungriffon : D
It still is one of the best simulators imo. You should try it out again.
Great stuff! I got into this series this year and it's become a bit of an obsession haha
I can see why, there is a lot of fun to be had and the gameplay is good enough in just about any of the games that you can play it again and again just for fun. I'm going to look at your scores in a bit here! I'm hoping to get the GGII video out next Wednesday - I just don't want to mess that one up by not giving it the right amount of time.
Stats are great for this game man. It saves easy, normal and hard mode hi scores. Breaks scores into hit miss kill for ammo ratio, team KIA's and so fourth. GG2 is even better. Break hard mode hi scores into, air strikes used and or if you used the wing man option handy cap!
If you can post GG2 mission hard mode - 76% or better hit miss kill ratio hi scores without a wing man or one air strike......you are a king among kings!
The scoring system here just doesn't have as much value as the second game, is all I meant. It just gets your name on a personal scoreboard, and I was always able to get to the top or second really easily (I didn't play on hard though). Certainly, GG2 scores do mean a bit more because you are doing more challenging and varied things in that game and there is more to it than just doing missions and doing okay. Surviving forever as a Helicopter on Hard on Survival in GG2 is way more bragworthy then just barreling through anything in the first game.
Great stuff - Gungriffin is a beautiful thing on the SEGA Saturn, as is it's sequel.
Certainly, one of my favorite series :)
I had a Mega Drive as a kid but by the time Saturn came out I wasn't even sure what it was. At the game shop they had a poster with the logo but I didn't know what it was. Wasn't even on my radar at all, was thoroughly into Nintendo and Playstation at the time. If more people knew what the Saturn was and they wanted it then maybe games like Gungriffon would be a big franchise today.
I really wish it would have taken off, but it did last up until the OG Xbox. Sadly the games changed a lot with Blaze and Allied Strike. I think that's why it fell through, honestly.
I need to get around to playing these older games. I played Allied Strike on the Xbox and had to concede defeat; that game is brutal.
Gungriffon Blaze though? Yeah, that one rules.
Allied Strike is so damn hard. I dread when I have to get around to that, but I will try my best to actually beat it.
Blaze, I agree - it was my first exposure as a teenager!
@@KeiNova Good luck man. I might hunt down a copy of Allied Strike and suffer with you.
@@discipleofsound4565 they aren't too pricey yet, but a working OG Xbox can be. I need to mod mine.
didnt know that the guys who did Silpheed made it , thats cool at least.
It really is, they even made Lunar, Grandia, etc. The company disappeared though, without any reason - but it is known that its founder passed away, despite him working on other things at the time. After that, this studio responsible for all these classic titles did nothing until recently re-releasing Grandia in HD on Steam.
It seems like a lot of the best uses of the Sega CD were from Japan, often not even released in the west, whereas the US titles I grew up with were obsessed with the bad FMV you mentioned. The budgets and resolution were never good enough for live action, but it was great for animated cutscenes.
The same quality split goes for ad campaigns. For Saturn, we got the creepy bald lady, Japan got Segata Sanshiro...
I suppose, in a world where the internet didn't really exist as it does now - it was really hard to do anything but assume what another market wanted. You are right about the Sega CD, we did get a few cool ones, but the NA games were generally awful. I remember the Sega CD being interesting at the time, but most everyone played FMV games on a computer - if that's what they wanted to play. PS1 had a few, but generally no one cared about FMV by the time it reached home consoles.
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Sega Saturn is definitely one of the most underrated consoles ever
i cant get with these titles in the modern age. and i love my saturn. but these first person mech and space shooters havent aged well at all.
i'd rather even stick with Heavy Gear 2 released a mere 2 years later which still holds up today.
Originally, the game was actually supposed to be renamed Iron Rain but the US branch of Sega begged for it to be instead kept as Gungriffon, because the game Iron Storm was coming out and it was too similar. Thats why it ended up with this name. I don't really understand why it is called Gungriffon, since nothing in the game has that title either. It's weird. But Japanese naming conventions often allude me as well. I have to say though, any PC Mech Simulator usually triumphs a Saturn game or even PS1 and PS2. I'm playing the original MechWarrior 2 now, and it is insane in comparison to console Mech Sims. So, I get why you'd be playing Heavy Gear. I have to really cover that on the channel, and Earth Siege too.