I only remember playing Nights at a kiosk in Toys R Us cause I didn't have a Saturn. But my question is would you consider Nights an Open World game and what do you think Nights has influenced in this current generation of games?

CiTi is pronounced like city by the way.

Who awesome was NiGHTS pinball in Sonic Adventure? I still play that from time to time.

I played Nights back when the N64 was about to come out and I was all like "Meh, Mario can fly in full 3D" and I never cared about it. But, 6 years ago in college I played it at a friend's apartment and nerded out on it because I thought it was a lot of fun!

Where can I get a hold of this game on a modern console?

Here's a Saturn related question. Is it just me, or do the shoulder buttons on a Saturn controller feel like they were made by some third party company that spits out terrible versions of real controllers? Like something you would find in a grocery store in the toy section with 40 games built in.

And I played Nights on the kiosk too. On that note, I finished Panzer Dragoon on a kiosk in Toys 'r Us. Nothing like coming back to reality and walking out of the store all sweaty and discombobulated.

My only experience with nights is that nights pinball machine in sonic adventure :(

I would also like to ask about the Wii sequel... I heard it was fun, but overall kind of a shallow experience, and I would like to ask what did you guys think of it.

Also, I just want to say, I recently started listening to RetroforceGO!, and it's my favorite podcast ever. Just saying!

Unfortunately never played NiGHTS, but I DID quite like it's pinball table in Sonic Adventure 1 on Dreamcast. That was awesome and totally made me wanna play the real game, but then my expectations were unceremoniously shattered when I played the sequel which wasn't much good, to be honest.
Would you guys recommend hunting down a Saturn and a copy of the game, despite the (most likely astronomical) price?

Also, have any of you played the shmup minigame in No More Heroes; Pure White Giant Glastonbury? It's so effing badass. Suda51 should develop a full version of it and release it on XBLA.

I have played Christmas NiGHTS.

And it was good. What I found most interesting was the way that, when you completed the game, you could change the tone of those singing the ending theme. For example, you could make the singer sound like Barry White if you moved the notch on the bar down a bit.

For my question, what do you guys think of the SNK Arcade Classics Collection?

This game is the reason I'm in the market for a Saturn. Never owned it myself, but played it at a friend's house constantly. I dug the comics based on the game. Those were pretty rad.

In lieu of asking another question about Nights, What other Saturn games were as good as this one?

Also, I've been listening to the band Mastodon a lot recently and I was wondering, if you could do a heavy metal concept album, what would it be about? For example, Mastodon's album Leviathan is a loose retelling of Moby Dick. So, what would you do?

I have a Saturn, but not NiGHTS. Guess I should get on that >.<

Story time: I went out Christmas shopping today (ending up buying more stuff for myself than for others, man I hate the holidays...), and I had heard there was a 50% off everything in the used game store here. Well, there wasn't really anything in the store that caught my eye, except Legend of Dragoon, Kingdom Hearts 2 (I didn't get it when it came out for some reason...) Psychonauts, and Super C. So I get up to the counter, and the kid tells me "Oh yeah, we're not having the sale anymore.", and I quickly glance at all of the stuff as he scans it, and think noo! But alas, I dropped almost 50$ (still a pretty good deal, but it would've been 25 :P). It always irritated me that gamestop never has anything past the previous gen (Hell, they don't even have Dreamcast games). Anyway, I also never find anything except for the same 5 games for snes, and only a handful of ones for NES (I got the only copies of Star Tropics and Megaman 2 the last time I was there)...

Wait a minute, what was I getting at with this? DIGRESSION ALERT! Anyway, Do you guys support the sale of used games? The mentality of "Oh, I don't know if I'll like this, so I'll wait to get it cheaper when there are some trade-ins" Really hurts the market, I think. The last few games that I've bought have all either been off xbla or Steam, and I'm really starting to think that digital distribution is the future. Thoughts?

Which would you rather do?

1) Wear the hat from NiGHTs
2) Be one of those fat elf things
3) Eat broken glass?

I don't have anything to say about this topic... all I wanted to point out is last week I got Chad to say "Princess Peach is a Bitch" and then he said that was "Great!"

And no, I am not taking it out of context, it has been recorded for all to hear

@SetoChaos

Well, the NES, SNES, and Genesis controllers were pretty flat. That controller seems to have some depth to it (there's handles on it!). So yes, until then controllers were 2D.

Christmas Nights Into Dreams, respect! My Saturn have been hooked up for well over a week now and Christmas Nights + Burning Rangers have on for the spin between some Battle Garegga sessions. Somhow Burning Rangers also reminds me of chrsitmas?

Anybody tried the unlockable Sonic? Theres a sight that will come back and haunt you...

SEGA LOVE!

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I'm just curious to know how you guys voted in the Destructoid Game of the Year. Since this won't air until tomorrow, I'm sure that's allowed, right? I can guess that you all voted for a game that rhymes with Blost Blodyssey.

I owned a saturn and the NiGHTS demo is the only game I repeatedly played for a long time. Never really got around to getting the game. Course I only had like 2 saturn games.

On that note what are your favorite demos for games? I know that they only really came about with the CD generation but I still remember loving my little 5 minute game collections.

I never managed to play much of the Saturn (I think my cuz let me play street fighter once) meaning that this title is nothing more than a blur to me, which is a shame considering what people have been saying about it.

However in a Completely unrelated and self centered topic, I thought it would be kick ass to mix the delly/ chad rap from last week to a beat.
I finished it yesterday so if someone could tell me the best way to share this monstrosity with the rest of you that would be awesome.

Back in the day I remember really trying to like NiGHTS but the crazy little fella never seemed to go where I wanted him to. No matter how much I tried to point him through those little circles I never felt like I was really in control. Something about it didn't seem to work properly to me, then again i never played it with the 3d pad. Did anyone else feel this way? or was I just special back then? Also, I had very little idea of what was going on, what I was meant to be doing, why and how, and yet I still remember the game fondly, which strikes me as mighty WEiRD, so err... can you explain what I was meant to be doing?

Can you summarise NiGHTS in less than ten words?

Can I request that everyone sing the ending theme song? I need some car music for my drives into the city and you guys have the voices of angels. Also, remember the special levels that were unlocked during certain days on the saturn system clock like Aprils fools? I forget if that was on both versions or just Christmas Nights.

Nights was my first saturn game and reason to buy my favorite console of all time :)

Neon kNights by Black Sabbath is a cool song.

Wow, and I finally got around to picking up the Wii version of Nights this afternoon. So, I'll start off by asking what you guys thought of the Wii version. I have to say that so far I'm really liking it.

As for the original Nights, one of my most vivid memories from my younger, much wilder and dumber art school days was an all night session of Nights under the influence of psychedelics. I would never advocate drug use, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't pretty awesome.