Surrey, BC
Quoted from Luppin:I fell in live for Swords of Fury without ever playing or seeing it live. The music, the legend, the (relative) rarity, the theme, everything looked amazing to me. Took very long to find it and buy it. Once I got it I loved it for.... 10 plays. Then I tried desperatly to keep loving it, but the game is shit, its a turd. Sold it after a month, and I was and still am so glad to get rid of that dog. I also then had other honeymoons with other titles, but after the Sof lesson I realized that rare games are rare for a reason. And very rare games are very rare for the same reason: they are turds.
Often this is true.. however there are way too many exceptions on both sides of the equation to make any sort of rule out of the statement.
for example, look at the original production runs for MM, AFM, MB.. there is a reason that CGC has done well with remakes.
Many of the classic Sterns of the day were relatively low production and seen as cheap garbage, but ask any solid player what they think of those titles now and they are coveted for gameplay and collectibility.
And on EMs, I often scratch my head at the over 7k production run for Jubilee.
