THE SOUL STILL BURNS!
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THE SOUL STILL BURNS!
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I love my DC. There are games still being made for it! My most recent purchaese include:
Ikaruga - Last year
Border Down - Last Year
Chaos Field - earlier this year
Trizeal - came out last month
These are japanese shooters (my fav genre) and they rock the block.
I just played my japanese DC yesterday (I needed my Power Drift fix). I also played a little Capcom Vs. SNK 2, Border Down, Gunbird 2, and Vampire Chronicle (Darkstalker) during that session. I too still love my DC to death.
I love my Dreamcast, sadly there's 80 some odd domestic games left that I want for it.
The DC, along with the PSX, brought me so much joy during 99/00/01. Who would have thought that a console that only lasted 2 years would have gotten so many great games in such a short amount of time.
I still remember being so excited for it during the spring /summer of 99 and not having enough extra money to buy it when it launched. I kept thinking I could wait until X-mas time to get it, I was a poor college student trying to make ends meet without much income, but after seeing/playing NFL 2K at a Babbages kiosk I knew I had to have the DC then and there! I took out a student loan and bought the system with a bunch of launch games, the gem being Soul Calibur, in late September 1999.
I can still remember the insane marathon sessions of of playing Skies of Arcadia for 28 hours straight, Grandia II (18 hours), Shenmue (15 hours), and the nasty addiction Phantasy Star Online held over my girlfriend and I, in which we'd take turns playing for 10-12 hours a piece while the other one slept/worked/or attended classes. For several months were were horribly addicted to playing PSO night and day! Truely our grades suffered from such a massive amount of gaming addiction. Looking back it wasn't the smartest thing to have done, but it sure was a blast!
The amount of fighting games was pure heaven, the arcade perfect ports, the burgeoning online gaming, the awesome Sega Sports titles, using the DC as my sole means to surfing the internet since I didn't even have my own computer back then, and then there was the extending of the Dreamcast's life by the emulation/homebrew scene! While other gamers were playing their crappy launch games for the PS2 my friends and I were enjoying DreamSNES, NESter DC, Sega Gen, and more! Shoot we even used to play anime for the college anime club I ran on a Dreamcast via DC DivX! http://www.dcemulation.com was THE place for the DC emu scene back then. Even now I'm still playing my Dreamcast for the the various Beats of Rage mods available for it!
The Dreamcast is an awesome console that brought me, as well as many others, some great great times! 9/9/99 Never forget! :cool:
Here's my library of DC games:
Dreamcast (69 games total)
18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker
Bangai-O
Border Down Limited Edition
Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001
Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi 2
Daytona USA 2001
Dead or Alive 2
Dead or Alive 2 (Japanese Version)
Dino Crisis
Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
EGG: Elemental Gimmick Gear
Evolution 2: Far off Promise
Fatal Fury: Mark of The Wolves
Grandia II
Guilty Gear X
Gunbird 2
Headhunter
Ikaruga
Illbleed
Jet Grind Radio
King of Fighters Dream Match '99
Last Blade 2: Heart of the Samurai
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Maken X
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
MDK2
Metropolis Street Racer
NBA 2K
NBA 2K1
NFL 2K
NFL 2K1
NFL 2K2
Ooga Booga
Phantasy Star Online
Phantasy Star Online Version 2
Power Stone
Power Stone 2
Project Justice
Psyvariar 2: The Will To Fabricate
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2
Resident Evil - CODE: Veronica
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Rez
Sakura Taisen 4
Samba De Amigo
Sega GT
Shenmue
Shenmue II
Skies of Arcadia
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Soul Calibur
Spider-Man
Street Fighter III: Double Impact
Street Fighter III: Third Strike - Fight for the Future
Super Magnetic Neo
Super Puzzle Fighter II X for Matching Service
Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
Tech Romancer
Toy Commander
TriZeal
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Vampire Chronicle For Matching Service
Virtua Fighter 3tb
Virtua Tennis
Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram
Zero Gunner 2
I'm trying to complete a US dreamcast collection. Currently I'm stuck playing Capcom vs SNK. I have thumb blisters already.
During its release time I played a lot of action and arcade style games on DC and rpg's on the psOne. Even though I play more psone rpg's than any other system's rpg's, my favorite is Grandia II on the DC =)
As a matter of fact, the DC is so good it made the PS2 a major dissappointment for me. Its a glorified dvd player as far as I am concerned. Damned jaggies ...
The PS2 was crappy for it's first year, since then though there's been alot of great games to come out on it. You really should check out all the games on the PS2, especially all the RPG's. Right now I'm playing through Shadow Hearts, came out in 2001, and it's a really cool RPG.
It's a sign of the times when Sony's first party platformers: Jak & Daxter/Ratchet & Clank/Sly Cooper crap all over Nintendo's best efforts at platforming games on the GC, Mario Sunshine pales in comparision to past Mario games.
Did the PS2 deserve the hype it got, thus squashing any positive attention/momentum the DC should've had? Nope, and it still angers me greatly that so many supposed "gamers" were just brand loyal fanboys and girls, but that's what happens when you generate such a strong console/Brand name/library of games on the PSX.
Nonetheless, I wouldn't let that stop me from enjoying games on any system. All the jaggy rants aren't really supportable these days as most PS2 developers have seemed to really have tapped into the system's weird architecture. When Gran Turismo 4 ends up looking better than Forza Motorsport (Xbox), and games like God of War, Metal Gear Solid 3, Virtua Fighter 4 Evo look as good as they do you know developers have learned what the system can do.
Yeah I do have to admit there are some good ps2 games, but nothing on like it was hyped to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vicman
If bleem would have been compatible with a much larger library of psone games, like the pc version, it would have really hurt the ps2, and benefited the DC.
Happy birthday little DC! I still love you, no matter how far Sega has fallen.
was there any wrestling games for the DC, cause I might uy one thanx to you guys
*uy=buy
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/game...rts/wrestling/
ECW Anarchy Rulz
Sega Smash Pack: Vol 1
WWF Attitude
A bit of emu scene info. Sega's Smash Pack was essentially a Sega Genesis emulator with a handful of roms. Those in the scene ripped the emulator out of the pack and distributed the emu as "Sega Gen" It played games great but had bad sound emulation. Since it was ripped from a DC "game" you never could find the Sega Gen emu at scene sites. You had to go "underground" to get it, nonetheless it was way better than any honest DC scene attempts at a decent Genesis emu.
thanx have u played any of these games vic
and how do u emulate
http://dcemulation.com & http://www.dcemu.co.uk/ go to these sites and read up on the subject. DC Emulation is a topic that is way too involved to just sit here and try to explain it all to you in one sitting. Educate yourself by reading FAQs, how to's, etc. at the links I've given you.
As for wrestling games they've never been that interesting to me. I'm a fighting game fan. I like to see various forms of martial arts in game form. Pro Wrestling, outside of the laughs I got from it in the 80s/90s, doesn't elicit much from me these days. As for how good those DC wrestling games listed above are checkout reviews from your fellow gamers at http://gamefaqs.com or reviews from websites/magazines at http://www.gamerankings.com