Dreamcast

How Do You Feel About Dreamcast?

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I never have it but I hav played it
it was awsome

sure it will be worthy a lot in the future
 
Too bad it never got the attention it deserved....it would have crushed the console market.
 
System Shock? probably. . i havnet played it personally, but i keep hearing ppl rave about it. . .so i'm pretty excited about BioShock
 
they should make a next generation dream cast..
 
I got 2 actually.

Hydro Thunder
Crasy Taxi
Soul Calibier (sweet)
Marine Sea fishing or somthing like that, used the fishing remote.
And about 20 others im to lazy to list.
 
Shenmue was an ace game and it is a real shame that after the console disappeared, Shenmue wasn't ported over to the PC, officially. I would of paid top dollar to have a collectors pack for the PC.
 
DEATH eVADER said:
Shenmue was an ace game and it is a real shame that after the console disappeared, Shenmue wasn't ported over to the PC, officially. I would of paid top dollar to have a collectors pack for the PC.
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A fansite I used to visit was going to make Shenmue on HL2. I joined up to help and we got the Dojo and outside of Ryo's house done. Looked amazing! Shame the mod died :( Would have love to have played it. We were going to rip all the sounds and voices from the game, and even add more for the characters who had the same voices. It was a pretty ambitious project considering how much you can do in Shenmue.
 
I played House of The Dead on it, got to the final boss, died, and never used one again. Except at my cousins house
 
Was a brilliant console, held host two of the greatest games ever made, Shenmue 1+2. What was really irritating is that the story of shenmue wasn't completed because the Dreamcast went bust, and the story was getting very good too :(
 
It does make you wonder why the DC came to such an abrupt end. The amount of quality released over such a short period hasn't been mached by any console imo. In comparison, the first few years of the PS2 were dire - it only stretching away into the lead years after the DC was no more.

Do people just have no taste?!
 
Warbie said:
It does make you wonder why the DC came to such an abrupt end. The amount of quality released over such a short period hasn't been mached by any console imo. In comparison, the first few years of the PS2 were dire - it only stretching away into the lead years after the DC was no more.

Do people just have no taste?!
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Everybody just wanted a PS2. People would rather wait a year for the PS2 to come out than get a Dreamcast. And the Dreamcast was the first to have online play. It also had a web browser, which are all the craze this generation.

I agree, there were a lot of superb games out for the Dreamcast.
 
DC wasn't that good people, Shenmue and the first 3D Sonic were really all it had going for it, other than that it was a pretty boring system
 
Dalamari said:
DC wasn't that good people, Shenmue and the first 3D Sonic were really all it had going for it, other than that it was a pretty boring system
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noob!

Personally I didn't rate Sonic Adventures at all. Howerver ...

Power Stone 1 & 2
Rez
JSR
Samba De Amigo
Soul Calibur
Shenmue 1 & 2
Skies of Arcadia
Grandia 2
Ikaruga
MSR
HOTD2
SF2/3/alpha, vs SNK/Marvel/Capcom
PSO
Bass Fishing 1 & 2
+ a crap load of great 2d shooters

... rocked hard.
 
You forgot Crazy Taxi 1+2, epic games!!
 
I wasn't mad about Crazy Taxi - fun games though :)
 
I liked it :p

It isn't as good as the other games in the list (infact, on reflection I probably wouldn't have added it as an example of a great DC game) but I thought it was a solid jrpg.
 
It might've failed because most of the popular games were from Japan. I can't remember seeing any Maddens or Fifas on the shelves for the casual gamers. I can't think of a decent driving game it had either.
 
StardogChampion said:
I can't think of a decent driving game it had either.
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Metropolis Street Racer.

Real world maps and the lighting on the maps adjusted to the time set on the console (i.e. If it was 1PM GMT, a london map would be in daylight, while at the same time tokyo would be in darkness). Pretty challending too. Enjoyed it a lot.
 
You wouldn't like it - the DC had a massive library of video games that were games first. Not a hint of narrative to be found ;)
 
I can't believe ppl say this system was overrated on the sole fact that there weren't any EA GAYmes on it. . .

yes, they're a driving force in the market. Do they make good games? no. . .

in the words of another "EA is like diarhea, they make alot of games at once. . but they're still all crap."
 
I remember drooling over a pic of the dreamcast in a gaming magazine I had, before it was released. I remember thinking it was going to dominate everything. Then sony came along and pissed all over segas bonfire, with an inferior console. Ah well.

MSR was pretty cool, the fore-runner to the current PGR series.
 
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE dreamcast fan, love it to death, some of the best games ever... I'll add more later when i'm not feeling schitzoid
 
I remember some gaming magazine I was reading, now this was when I was still bonkers for the genesis, then I read "Sonic Adventure to feature 128-bit, compared to the genesis of 32!", That made me drool.
 
lePobz said:
Then sony came along and pissed all over segas bonfire, with an inferior console. Ah well.
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I think it's a little misguided to call the PS2 an 'inferior' console. Technologically speaking it was far superior, and for every great Dreamcast game there has been four great PS2 titles... in part of course because the PS2 lasted longer, but also because of developer support for a console that had the best hardware and largest userbase.
 
kupoartist said:
in part of course because the PS2 lasted longer
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I'd say only because it lasted that much longer. For the period the DC was around it offered a far better selection of quality games. Even now i'd say your estimate of 4 great games on the PS2 for each one on the DC to be very generous.
 
Warbie said:
I'd say only because it lasted that much longer. For the period the DC was around it offered a far better selection of quality games.
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But the DC was around for such a short time that it was practically a case of DC vs PS2 launch games. The DC hardly launched with a set of world beaters either.
 
That's not quite what I meant. Compare the quality games the DC had before it died to the quality games the PS2 had after it had been around for the same period of time and the DC, imo, clearly has the better lineup. Considerably so. Infact, it was only in the last 2 years or so the PS2 really came into its own - for the first few years it was rather poor.
 
People don't buy a console solely on the games available though. The appeal of a console overstretches what is on the shelves for a period: at the end of the Dreamcast's life, no one was expecting any games. At the comparable point of the PS2's life, people were expecting some of the best games that came out on the system.
 
Man, I never got to play a lot of games on the DC, but I loved the Power Stone games. Not too much in inovation (as todays standards go) but it was just plain fun.
 
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