The Dreamcast

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » 2004-11-01 07:02am

Did anyone else ever have one? How did you like it if you haved one. What was your fav game on it?

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2004-11-01 07:18am

I preordered mine in June of 1999 and picked it up on its release day of September 9th 1999. Its one of the best systems ive ever had. My favorite overall game I suppose would be Power Stone 2. My friends and my brother and I have logged more hours of multiplayer mayhem on that game then any other that I can think of. With all the crazy little weapons and items unlocked and the way we have the damage settings and other stuff tuned its just perfect.

As a single player fighting game its not nearly as fun and is kinda shallow in that respect (unless you play the individual custom skirmish fights against 3 maximum difficulty cpu's) but for multiplayer with other people I would have to say its the best one Ive ever played.

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » 2004-11-01 07:53am

I just wish there was Windows CE GUI for DC.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-11-01 09:57am

I could find you the link, but I've got a full write up on my support for the Dreamcast, which is one of the best systems ever. There's a thread where someone asked if they should get one.

Likewise,
www.playgroundhsv.com
has some posts from me there, just started, and I have one about the Dreamcast.

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » 2004-11-01 10:25am

That link isn't working.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-11-01 10:56am

Tech^salvager wrote:That link isn't working.

link works fine for me, but it seems very graphic intensive. lots of flash animation.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2004-11-01 10:58am

I've heard that the Dreamcast was the best gaming console out there ever since it came out. I wonder what was the reason for its demise. Lack of support? X-Box and Playstation marketshare?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-11-01 11:03am

Stravo wrote:I've heard that the Dreamcast was the best gaming console out there ever since it came out. I wonder what was the reason for its demise. Lack of support? X-Box and Playstation marketshare?

combination of lack of third party support and being launched at a bad time. when the dreamcast was launched it was just before sony and nintendo announced their big next gen (ps1 and n64) consoles, iirc. so the two had time to up the ante for their machines to give the dreamcast a run for its money. one of the biggest problems sega had was they'd always release their newest consoles well before the competition, and give them time to prepare.

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » 2004-11-01 11:10am

Darth_Zod wrote:
Stravo wrote:I've heard that the Dreamcast was the best gaming console out there ever since it came out. I wonder what was the reason for its demise. Lack of support? X-Box and Playstation marketshare?
combination of lack of third party support and being launched at a bad time. when the dreamcast was launched it was just before sony and nintendo announced their big next gen (ps1 and n64) consoles, iirc. so the two had time to up the ante for their machines to give the dreamcast a run for its money. one of the biggest problems sega had was they'd always release their newest consoles well before the competition, and give them time to prepare.

No it was after they launched those. It was before the PS2 came out.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-11-01 11:14am

Tech^salvager wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:
Stravo wrote:I've heard that the Dreamcast was the best gaming console out there ever since it came out. I wonder what was the reason for its demise. Lack of support? X-Box and Playstation marketshare?
combination of lack of third party support and being launched at a bad time. when the dreamcast was launched it was just before sony and nintendo announced their big next gen (ps1 and n64) consoles, iirc. so the two had time to up the ante for their machines to give the dreamcast a run for its money. one of the biggest problems sega had was they'd always release their newest consoles well before the competition, and give them time to prepare.
No it was after they launched those. It was before the PS2 came out.

ah, maybe i'm thinking of the saturn then. could never keep the two systems launch dates straight.

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2004-11-01 11:14am

Two words: red ink. They were selling the machine way below cost, and consumers just weren't buying. They apparently hinged their bets on licensing fees to make up the difference, but that clearly wasn't enough.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-01 11:17am

The fact that the uneducated masses were waiting for the PS2 was a major reason for its failing. My cousin bought a Dreamcast. He later sold it and bought a PS2, all I could do was shake my head in sorrow.

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » 2004-11-01 11:22am

Darth_Zod wrote:
Tech^salvager wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:snip
No it was after they launched those. It was before the PS2 came out.
ah, maybe i'm thinking of the saturn then. could never keep the two systems launch dates straight.

Yeah your thinking of the saturn

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2004-11-01 12:08pm

I bought a Dreamcast once the price seriously started to drop. I spent a couple of hundread dollars on the system and quite a few games (all of which I'd heard from various sources were great) and the only one that I could find that was even worth playing was a Playstation port that was better on its original system (due to the crappiness of the Dreamcast controller.) I never understood why that system has such a following.

Sporkzen · Post by **Sporkzen** » 2004-11-01 12:28pm

I just got a dreamcast a few months ago. Its a great system, shame it had a short life.

Marvel vs capcom 2 is the best game on that system imo. The ps2 version looks and plays like crap compared to it.

Flakin · Post by **Flakin** » 2004-11-01 12:51pm

Crazy Taxi on the dreamcast was a perfect translation.

Soul calibur was fun too.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-11-01 01:45pm

The link worked fine. It was done for free for the guy that runs the place so you'll have to excuse the shoddyness of it.

The Dreamcast didn't last for the reason that everyone was waiting for the PS2 and it simply did not get the support it truly deserved.

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-11-01 03:23pm

I bought one right when it came out. Got Sonic Adventure for $10, since either Best Buy or Sega was giving everybody $40 instant rebates when they bought the damn thing.

Course, my favorite games on there would have to be Skies of Arcadia, Power Stone 2, and StarLancer, in that order. Genius that I am, I bought StarLancer on the PC after I'd rented the Dreamcast version and played it to death.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2004-11-01 05:01pm

The dreamcast was a wonderful system with quality games on it. It started the console online game revolution with PSO. I still have like 30 games for it. Shame that most general users wait for the PS2 that didn't have any real good games for it unitl 1 year after the launch

Tech^salvager · Post by **Tech^salvager** » 2004-11-01 05:36pm

Man I miss playing Alien Front Online over the internet.

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2004-11-01 07:01pm

Super Runabout. In the dim and distant days before Grand Theft Auto III, Super Runabout was a revelation - 3D, free-wheeling vehicular carnage across an entire city, generously stocked with shit to be crashed into, destroyed, driven though or exploded.
The gameplay flaws, the "life expectancy of a pissed-up, single-winged Mayfly" game length, and staggeringly pisspoor localisation (including translation that, well, just didn't, quite frankly) perversely added to the game's charm: shit in many ways, yet also strangely brilliant. And with the depth of a puddle of spit, it was up to you to invent new ways of eking extra life out of the game. Like "car snooker" - how much carnage can you cause by ramming a single car head-on at 170Kph? Frequently, the answer was: 1 entire shitload.

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-11-01 07:09pm

An ex-collegue of mine has one, and brought it with him so we could play Soulcalibur, as I love beat-em-up games which the PC is lacking so badly. Controllers are quite good and liked that you could plug it to the PC screen without problems.

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2004-11-02 02:35pm

I have one, and I think it's a good system. It's downfall was that they just couldn't get enough games made for it (Sega never had the clout of Sony or Nintendo for drawing game developers) and its lack of extra features (like the ability to play DVDs).

Best games? Soul Calibur and Skies of Arcadia (which I need to play again, now that you mention it)

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2004-11-02 05:48pm

Skies of Arcadia is excellent.

But, sorry to say, SoA:Legends is that little bit better. The random encounter rate isn't quite as ridiculous, and the new bounty battles are a challenge even for the hardiest of warriors.

Moonstone cannon, FIRE!

Ted C · Post by **Ted C** » 2004-11-03 11:50am

Vendetta wrote:Skies of Arcadia is excellent.

But, sorry to say, SoA:Legends is that little bit better. The random encounter rate isn't quite as ridiculous, and the new bounty battles are a challenge even for the hardiest of warriors.

Moonstone cannon, FIRE!

Is SOA:Legends the GameCube version?