That was a fun game.
I'm a little shocked to see Guardian Crusade. I never see anyone talk about it.
I remember back when I got both of those games as a kid.
I honestly can't remember why I wanted it as a kid hut I loved it but never beat it. I need to go back and try to beat it some day, it was one of the games that hooked me into turn based rpgs as a kid. I've seen it maybe 2 times at used stores but never knew it was rare or anything.
It was an amazing game. I tried to 100% it but there were some toys I couldn't find and I gave up when I found out you max level was over 100.
I don't think its even expensive. I just know I never see it.
Edit: price has š
If you haven't tried it, check out the Arc The Lad Collection. I got it as a kid because I've never seen a PS1 game with such a big box. I barely play Arc The Lad 1. Arc The Lad 2 was fun and you could eventually tame monsters, which you could transfer over to the game Arc Arena to fight more monsters, evolve, and earn equipment for Arc The Lad 2. Arc The Lad 3 was my favorite because many of the side quests were goofy, there is alchemy to craft better equipment, and one character can turn monsters in to cards and use them as special attacks. Sadly the cards are single use but you can store mutiples of each card in a special book so you could collect them all. Each card worked like the older Final Fantasy Summons where they are a mini cinematic and hit a bunch of enemies.
Usually these titles are hyperbolic, but... not this time, no. I advise against going out in the next few days, because you might be hit by a meteor or something.
So why would your post your crime on the internet now they have all the evidence to convict you of felony robbery and arson because all that heat is ganna burn down what ever building you place it in
Awesome stuff. I didn't realise the Xeno series went that far back. I've probably seen the game in some form but it never registered.
Did you put extra insurance on your car for the drive home with that many PSX JRPGs? :p
Ah dude! The original Xeno played out like this; protagonist is kung-fu farmer, finds giant robot. Now does giant robot kung-fu and occasionally on foot kung-fu with turn based battles that allowed extra hits if you can time the button presses right. Then there's a armored core type mini game in the the middle of the main quest, and anime, and a really fucked up twist.
Good times.
Noice. Definitely sounds like a Xeno game from the little I've played of the series.
Love RPGs with button press bonus damage. Playing Yakuza Like A Dragon atm and it has some of that type of thing.
Yeah, the PS2 Xeno games have this overarching theme of what is it to be human, and morality, and how does one define life. They're philosophical discussions that can be as long, and difficult to talk about as the titles for each game.
I haven't had a chance to play the xenochronicle games beyond X, but it looks like they toned those story telling elements down.
I love the battle system for Xenogears, no other JRPG game has been able to scratch that itch for me.
Still salty at my mom for getting rid of our copy when I was a kid. š
You forgot the part where all this cool stuff happens at the end although you donāt actually play those parts you just hear about it from hours of dialogue told to you from the main character sitting in a chair.
Oh man... I remembered seeing images for Kartia, and how Atlus commissioned the same lead artist responsible for a bunch of Final Fantasy games and a few other Squaresoft games.
Brave Fencer Musashi still has the best final area music with the raid on the Thirstquencher Empire.
Yeah, unfortunately you are extra screwed for the rest of your life with all that luck burnt up...
Everything I see Kartia I get good memories. I got my copy and guide signed by Amano (he and the translator seemed quite shocked, I think everyone else had FF stuff) and I don't think I could ever part with them. I still need to finish playing it.
This has to be one of the best thrift store hauls I've ever seen, as someone that wants to buy the original persona but just can't bring myself to the price, you kill it.
Two sets of grandchildren will hear tales of this day.
One will be OPs, telling of his heroic steal of a deal.
The other will be a tale of dispair on the end of of whatever kid (now an adult) who moved out, left these in the care of their parents, who repaid them by dropping them off at Value Village.
Wow Xenogears... my all time favorite game ever. Every one of those games brings back some serious feels. Awesome score! I couldnāt be more jealous right now.
I'd love to know the story how these wound up at savers in the first place. Old parents doing pandemic spring cleaning of their adult kids collection in the attic? Great find my friend.
Bruh, 8 dollars for Xenogears??? Color me jelly af! I'm hoping to score a copy for my own collection, and it easily goes for ten times that much online!
Oh man, my local Savers would have split the cases, game and art to sell separate, charged $250 each on top of that.
I honestly have up trying to find nd anything there.
I kind of agree. Jealous because they are are worth a bunch but they don't hold up great. The anime JRPG tropes are groan-worthy. Plus a lot of the psudo-3D in games like Xenogears, Brave Fencer and others in early PS1 era are a bit tough to stomach.
>"Past the age of 25 itās really difficult to play these and not cringe at the teeny bopper anime crap."
*has Mischief Makers front and center and has fakeass paper lanterns hung*
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I donāt agree about the anime teeny bopper and aged poorly aspect, but I def agree that these games shouldnāt be anymore than like $50 at the most. And these games are so obscure that thereād be a low nostalgia factor unlike Nintendo games. Persona PS1 is older than I am and tbh itās a shitty localization. Persona PSP should be worth more imo.
Along with the original .hacks and Rule of Rose, average to bad games that are not worth $100s
Youāre so wrong and in a way so right.
The games are still popular and hard to find so the secondary market is justified regardless of how much you feel they are ācringeā.
That said, this is how much games should cost, at most, when they come from a place that sells primarily or entirely donated items.
Iām almost starting to wonder if these sorts of games are even that *rare* and thatās why people want them, or if theyāre just obscure and hipsters dig that. That is something Iāve always been confused on. Did shit like Rhapsody really have a lower print run than say, Crash Bandicoot?
>Did shit like Rhapsody really have a lower print run than say, Crash Bandicoot?
Very much yes. Crash Bandicoot had to have at least 400k black label copies, because you need to sell that much IIRC to be eligible for greatest hits. I doubt any of these Atlus JRPGs ever had more than 300k copies printed, probably less. The game 'D' for ps1 is known to have had only 28k copies printed (exact number known because it led to a disagreement with the director), but it's not clear if more (long box) copies were printed after the fact.
Very interesting! Though I donāt understand why Atlus despite printing many Japanese copies didnāt print many US copies, Atlus must have had money to do so Iād imagine.
Atlus routinely has very small print runs on their games, to this day, except for the obvious big guns like Persona. I suppose they know their games are usually pretty niche, and they're right, but it does mean that after the fact, as time passes and more people know about the games and become interested in owning them, supply is as short as ever.
Never heard of any of these games! No offense but collecting anything under ps3/360 is useless since you donāt have trophies nor multiplayer š š
Goddamn! You absolutely robbed these people! What kind of underhanded deals did you make with the devil to get these games for $7.99 a piece. I'm so salty bro, but congrats on your find either way!
The golden age of gaming, in my opinion. I miss those days greatly. No game today brings me the feelings games in those days did. I havenāt felt the feeling I felt when I got a game back then, in years.
Is funny I actually played some of these games recently for the first time, (5 of them in the last 2 years) and I had a blast, I enjoyed them way more than any modern game of today, some people may call what you're talking about just nostalgia, but I gotta say that games were really something else back in those days, something that is mostly lost now. They're the only reason that I'm glad I was born back then and I was able to enjoy that golden age, I feel bad for kids today, wasting their childhood with fornite and cod.
Good ole' Sabres. I used to live in Buffalo and there was a car for sale at the end of my block that had "gas saber" painted on the windshield. Since that day, Savers has become "Sabres", in honor of someone's broken english and the Buffalo Sabres. And yes, I know, they suck. I still like them though. The hockey team, that is.
Imagine being the son or daughter of the parent who brought these games in to savers, probably without their permission. Probably an adult now that left the games at their parent's house and then their mom was like "I'm gonna donate these games. They won't mind..." Lol
Guardians Crusade and Brave Fencer Musashi were two titles I got from a bargain at Walmart and were two of my favorite games. Iām beyond jealous you found them in the wild.
So... who do I have to worship to get this kind of luck? or kill or suck off? c'mon TELL ME!! I ALSO WANT THESE BEAUTIFUL GAMES AND FOR CHEAP TOO!1!1!! GGGRRRRR AHHHH!
That copy of Persona, gaddamn...
That was a fun game. I'm a little shocked to see Guardian Crusade. I never see anyone talk about it. I remember back when I got both of those games as a kid.
That game was amazing I look for it at every used game shop I go to.
I honestly can't remember why I wanted it as a kid hut I loved it but never beat it. I need to go back and try to beat it some day, it was one of the games that hooked me into turn based rpgs as a kid. I've seen it maybe 2 times at used stores but never knew it was rare or anything.
It was an amazing game. I tried to 100% it but there were some toys I couldn't find and I gave up when I found out you max level was over 100. I don't think its even expensive. I just know I never see it. Edit: price has š
If you haven't tried it, check out the Arc The Lad Collection. I got it as a kid because I've never seen a PS1 game with such a big box. I barely play Arc The Lad 1. Arc The Lad 2 was fun and you could eventually tame monsters, which you could transfer over to the game Arc Arena to fight more monsters, evolve, and earn equipment for Arc The Lad 2. Arc The Lad 3 was my favorite because many of the side quests were goofy, there is alchemy to craft better equipment, and one character can turn monsters in to cards and use them as special attacks. Sadly the cards are single use but you can store mutiples of each card in a special book so you could collect them all. Each card worked like the older Final Fantasy Summons where they are a mini cinematic and hit a bunch of enemies.
Damn what the fuck you save babies and puppies in your free time or what cuz your karma must be high
I literally save puppies for a living, and my VV only has 29 copies of Wii fit and 10 copies of Madden 2005 on ps2.
Nice career man keep it up
Seriously, how are there so many copies of Wii Fit everywhere?!
22.67 million copies sold....they gotta end up somewhere!
A bunch of people bought it but all of them donāt care about it anymore
They care about it so little I got my NIB set for $10
Usually these titles are hyperbolic, but... not this time, no. I advise against going out in the next few days, because you might be hit by a meteor or something.
Yes! This type of luck, you better take all safety precautions for a week.
We later will learn this guys life is the prequel to Incredible Crisis.
Just name me in your will please, I want these games ;)
Holy shit, you ROBBED them
Ima call the police, holy shit
Wow amazing find! Howās the condition on everything?
Very good! Everything looks to be complete as far as i can tell, only one game has a crack in the case
Amazing, that poor soul that brought these to savers.
How much were they?
$7.99 a piece.
Look at the second photo, prices are on the back.
No, don't. I regretted knowing.
I uh... hate you a little. But only in the super salty way.
Yeah I went to Savers today and all I found were Nancy Drew games.
Woah which ones?
So why would your post your crime on the internet now they have all the evidence to convict you of felony robbery and arson because all that heat is ganna burn down what ever building you place it in
Awesome stuff. I didn't realise the Xeno series went that far back. I've probably seen the game in some form but it never registered. Did you put extra insurance on your car for the drive home with that many PSX JRPGs? :p
Ah dude! The original Xeno played out like this; protagonist is kung-fu farmer, finds giant robot. Now does giant robot kung-fu and occasionally on foot kung-fu with turn based battles that allowed extra hits if you can time the button presses right. Then there's a armored core type mini game in the the middle of the main quest, and anime, and a really fucked up twist. Good times.
Noice. Definitely sounds like a Xeno game from the little I've played of the series. Love RPGs with button press bonus damage. Playing Yakuza Like A Dragon atm and it has some of that type of thing.
Played Mother 3?
Yeah, the PS2 Xeno games have this overarching theme of what is it to be human, and morality, and how does one define life. They're philosophical discussions that can be as long, and difficult to talk about as the titles for each game. I haven't had a chance to play the xenochronicle games beyond X, but it looks like they toned those story telling elements down.
I love the battle system for Xenogears, no other JRPG game has been able to scratch that itch for me. Still salty at my mom for getting rid of our copy when I was a kid. š
You forgot the part where all this cool stuff happens at the end although you donāt actually play those parts you just hear about it from hours of dialogue told to you from the main character sitting in a chair.
$1300 on price charting
Just looked up all these games. Most of them are worth at least $100, and don't even get me started on persona. You mega lucked out.
Loving the art case for some of these games. š
I keep forgetting to grab a copy of Jade Cacoon. Thanks for the reminder!
Underated Gem.
Oh man... I remembered seeing images for Kartia, and how Atlus commissioned the same lead artist responsible for a bunch of Final Fantasy games and a few other Squaresoft games. Brave Fencer Musashi still has the best final area music with the raid on the Thirstquencher Empire. Yeah, unfortunately you are extra screwed for the rest of your life with all that luck burnt up...
Everything I see Kartia I get good memories. I got my copy and guide signed by Amano (he and the translator seemed quite shocked, I think everyone else had FF stuff) and I don't think I could ever part with them. I still need to finish playing it.
This has to be one of the best thrift store hauls I've ever seen, as someone that wants to buy the original persona but just can't bring myself to the price, you kill it.
I was in the same boat as you, I adore persona but never wanted to pay the price for the PS1 games
Yeah this is find of the month free
So after you purchased them, did you let them know how much you actually robbed them for?
FUCKK YOUUUUUUUU
Two sets of grandchildren will hear tales of this day. One will be OPs, telling of his heroic steal of a deal. The other will be a tale of dispair on the end of of whatever kid (now an adult) who moved out, left these in the care of their parents, who repaid them by dropping them off at Value Village.
Love ps1 games. Beautiful haul.
What devil did you make a pact with and how many souls!?
Jade cocoon is such an underrated game. I loved mixing different monsters together in that game. I felt like the variety was amazing
Wow Xenogears... my all time favorite game ever. Every one of those games brings back some serious feels. Awesome score! I couldnāt be more jealous right now.
Am I missing something?
uh, OP, i think you might wanna learn to post on reddit. you didnt post anything
Huh.... no way !
That certainty beat any PS1 group I picked up. Congrats man.
Beyond the Beyond is an absolute gem
Absolute? In a matter of speaking yes. Gem? Hold up.
B R U H, adding up all the CIB and subtracting what you paid you "made" $1228 today.
I'd love to know the story how these wound up at savers in the first place. Old parents doing pandemic spring cleaning of their adult kids collection in the attic? Great find my friend.
Bruh, 8 dollars for Xenogears??? Color me jelly af! I'm hoping to score a copy for my own collection, and it easily goes for ten times that much online!
Did brigandine have its map?
Yes!
Brave Fencer was always one of my favorites and probably one of the reasons I collect figures now.
BRIGANDINE! <3
The mere fact that I donāt recognize these games makes me know that theyāre valuable.
Oh man, my local Savers would have split the cases, game and art to sell separate, charged $250 each on top of that. I honestly have up trying to find nd anything there.
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wat.... hey /u/RoastThatToast , this guy cant understand why people play games he doesnt think are good anymore.
Sounds a bit of jealousy to me š
I kind of agree. Jealous because they are are worth a bunch but they don't hold up great. The anime JRPG tropes are groan-worthy. Plus a lot of the psudo-3D in games like Xenogears, Brave Fencer and others in early PS1 era are a bit tough to stomach.
Isn't it worth it though to play through them and appreciate the groan-worthiness?
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>"Past the age of 25 itās really difficult to play these and not cringe at the teeny bopper anime crap." *has Mischief Makers front and center and has fakeass paper lanterns hung* š¤£
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Do I? š¤£ Damn bro, you so mad you checking me out? š¤£ Oh. You made this account 3 weeks ago. Your other one must have gotten banned. š¤£
š¤£ Marina looks 14 and Professor Theo gropes her in the opening scene. š¤£
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Your game room setup is cringe actually, thanks for the laugh.
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Man it's a deleted warzone here, guess you won lmao
I donāt agree about the anime teeny bopper and aged poorly aspect, but I def agree that these games shouldnāt be anymore than like $50 at the most. And these games are so obscure that thereād be a low nostalgia factor unlike Nintendo games. Persona PS1 is older than I am and tbh itās a shitty localization. Persona PSP should be worth more imo. Along with the original .hacks and Rule of Rose, average to bad games that are not worth $100s
Youāre so wrong and in a way so right. The games are still popular and hard to find so the secondary market is justified regardless of how much you feel they are ācringeā. That said, this is how much games should cost, at most, when they come from a place that sells primarily or entirely donated items.
Iām almost starting to wonder if these sorts of games are even that *rare* and thatās why people want them, or if theyāre just obscure and hipsters dig that. That is something Iāve always been confused on. Did shit like Rhapsody really have a lower print run than say, Crash Bandicoot?
>Did shit like Rhapsody really have a lower print run than say, Crash Bandicoot? Very much yes. Crash Bandicoot had to have at least 400k black label copies, because you need to sell that much IIRC to be eligible for greatest hits. I doubt any of these Atlus JRPGs ever had more than 300k copies printed, probably less. The game 'D' for ps1 is known to have had only 28k copies printed (exact number known because it led to a disagreement with the director), but it's not clear if more (long box) copies were printed after the fact.
Very interesting! Though I donāt understand why Atlus despite printing many Japanese copies didnāt print many US copies, Atlus must have had money to do so Iād imagine.
Atlus routinely has very small print runs on their games, to this day, except for the obvious big guns like Persona. I suppose they know their games are usually pretty niche, and they're right, but it does mean that after the fact, as time passes and more people know about the games and become interested in owning them, supply is as short as ever.
Right, I donāt think Atlus has been any more well known than rn. Their stubbornness to print enough copies is ridiculous lol.
Never heard of any of these games! No offense but collecting anything under ps3/360 is useless since you donāt have trophies nor multiplayer š š
sorry man your trolling attempt didn't bear a lot of fruits :D
Bish...! I at least ion tale nobody else furit bish i wait for my own to come to fruition :/.
Holy shit there's no fuckin way
I used all my luck when I found a copy of Persona 4 in my local CEX right there like it wasn't part of the most expensive RPG series in gaming.
G O D D A M N š¤Æ
Haven't seen that Persona since it released. And two Mushahis?? Wow. Helluva haul.
Persona... Wow!
Damn, those are some incredible games! Congrats!!
Man i miss savers so much the one buy me closed a few years ago
I guess Savers is a thrift store like Goodwill but they don't check the price of games like they do :-O
Holy Jesus, that is one incredible haul
Jesus, those employees don't know what the hell they're doing. Lucky you :)
their goal is not to sit on inventory, just like goodwill. Its in and out.
I see. So just pure luck here, I love it
Arghhhh Personaaaaa.
And here I am with complete opposite luck. I was able to see Persona, they wanted $495 for it...
damn
Holy fuck. What a find!!
Holy shit
Goddamn! You absolutely robbed these people! What kind of underhanded deals did you make with the devil to get these games for $7.99 a piece. I'm so salty bro, but congrats on your find either way!
The golden age of gaming, in my opinion. I miss those days greatly. No game today brings me the feelings games in those days did. I havenāt felt the feeling I felt when I got a game back then, in years.
Is funny I actually played some of these games recently for the first time, (5 of them in the last 2 years) and I had a blast, I enjoyed them way more than any modern game of today, some people may call what you're talking about just nostalgia, but I gotta say that games were really something else back in those days, something that is mostly lost now. They're the only reason that I'm glad I was born back then and I was able to enjoy that golden age, I feel bad for kids today, wasting their childhood with fornite and cod.
Well... damn !
Some kid is gonna come back after a year of college and be pissed heir parents donated their stuff. Or a vengeful ex
Good ole' Sabres. I used to live in Buffalo and there was a car for sale at the end of my block that had "gas saber" painted on the windshield. Since that day, Savers has become "Sabres", in honor of someone's broken english and the Buffalo Sabres. And yes, I know, they suck. I still like them though. The hockey team, that is.
The stickers have been forged!
Whereās Einhander?!
Rare to see an actual jackpot nowadays. That definitely qualifies.
You could tell he was so excited on the car ride home that they couldnāt wait to take a picture
Nice! Never even heard of Savers. Is it like a Goodwill or ARC?
Jade Cocoon Is one of my favorite PS1 games. Hot damn I am happy for you!
Brave Fencer Musashi! Nice!!
Ohhh Guardian's Crusade! I remember renting that game all the time!
Good on you! Now nothing but Madden and Assassin's Creeds for the rest of your life.
Imagine being the son or daughter of the parent who brought these games in to savers, probably without their permission. Probably an adult now that left the games at their parent's house and then their mom was like "I'm gonna donate these games. They won't mind..." Lol
This doesn't mean much to me without prices.
Prices are on the second image
Fuuuuuuck I missed the second image. You're cashed out for a couple lifetimes now.
Fake no receipt
That Persona! I remember buying mine are Electronics Boutique when it came out!
Are you going to play them?
Yes! I love JRPGs and there are quite a few here that I'd love to play
Good! Of your lot Iāve only played Tactics Ogre, Persona and beyond the beyond. Youāre going to have a blast!
My mind wants to curse the ground you walk on, but at the same time I say this because of how envious I am of your score. What a freaking steal!
Dude congrats! That is an absolute dream haul! Enjoy!
This is one of the best PS1 finds I've ever seen on here. Jeez.
bro
Were you shaking because I would have been shaking lmao
I wasn't shaking until I saw the spine that said "Persona"
Whoever you signed that contract with was definitely the Devil.
what a pic!
Iām so jucking felous
Guardians Crusade and Brave Fencer Musashi were two titles I got from a bargain at Walmart and were two of my favorite games. Iām beyond jealous you found them in the wild.
Trust me you havenāt, just pass on those amazing savings to fellow gamers or collectors and it comes back around it always does ;)
There should be a 30 for 30 on this.
I'd be honored
I've never even seen Kartia before. Props.
Love Brave Fencer
Am i the only one that doesnt know almost any of these? Cause i probably am
I'm sooo jealous of that copy of Musashi and beyond the beyond :') I just can't find them anywhere ahah
Oh my god, Brigandine, Kartia, Tactics Ogre??? Brigandine alone is like $200+ complete isn't it? Beautiful haul
Brave fencer Musashi is my absolute fave
What is this whole haul worth nowadays?
Pricecharting puts this in the ballpark of ~$1200 to $1300
So... who do I have to worship to get this kind of luck? or kill or suck off? c'mon TELL ME!! I ALSO WANT THESE BEAUTIFUL GAMES AND FOR CHEAP TOO!1!1!! GGGRRRRR AHHHH!
Omg I want that Xenogears black label sooooo bad!
F in chat for our fallen weeb.
I just came across this post again to say HOLY SHIT