Dreamcast!!

nolimit · 20 May 2006 at 12:27

Fantastic Console, might pick buy one again.

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Virtual On
Grandia 2
Zombie Revenge (cross between Final Fight + House of the Dead)
Seamen
Capcom vs SNK
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Sega Marine Fishing

There are loads of games I can't remember.

budge1972 · 20 May 2006 at 13:59

Tekken 3,gran turismo 2 and metal gear solid were amazing on the dreamcast
i still have all my old dc stuff and will never part with it.

melchy · 20 May 2006 at 18:11

budge1972 said:
Tekken 3,gran turismo 2 and metal gear solid were amazing on the dreamcast
i still have all my old dc stuff and will never part with it.

There's a lot of sarcasm in that post, or someone has got the wrong console

As for visuals in comparison to the PS2, i'd say at the time the DC was just a little bit better mainly down to the sharpness and crispness as mentioned above. DOA2 was a prime example of this if you watched them side by side on DC and PS2. I'd say PS2 visuals can now top what the DC could do, but afterall its had a fair few more years development. It would have been nice to have seen if the DC could have chucked out something like God of War.

Sweetloaf · 20 May 2006 at 18:16

melchy said:
There's a lot of sarcasm in that post, or someone has got the wrong console

I think he was fishing for someone to say what you just said so he could sound clever

. It was possible to play them on a DC, not sure how legal the method was though!

Goatboy · 20 May 2006 at 18:16

Johanson said:
Crazy taxi

I forgot all about that game, it was excellent.

Must haves are Virtua Tennis and Soul Calibur.

There's a lot of sarcasm in that post, or someone has got the wrong console

or had BLEEM

melchy · 20 May 2006 at 18:18

Yeah i forgot about that, but was Bleem actually ever officially released ?

Goatboy · 20 May 2006 at 18:18

deSade said:
Sounds good enough for some retro gaming fun then - I'll defo get one.

I really don't think of the Dreamcast as retro, compare Soul Calibur to Soul Calibur 2 on the PS2 and the difference whilst there isn't notable.

Goatboy · 20 May 2006 at 18:19

melchy said:
Yeah i forgot about that, but was Bleem actually ever officially released ?

I think it was available for a short while before it was banned.

dirtydog · 20 May 2006 at 18:28

Bleem on the DC was released in a few different versions, which played one specific game only. Those games IIRC were as mentioned above: GT 2, Tekken 3 and MGS

I played GT 2 on my Dreamcast a few years ago and it was surprisingly good - and looked better than the PS version due to the higher resolution.

Nitefly · 20 May 2006 at 18:30

Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, best fighting game ever

Capcom vs SNK was RUBBISH to marvel vs capcom 2, just, no way!

Yep, I was an akuma bandit.

Otherwise, Ecco the Dolphin, which hasn't been mentioned. Really hard, the first 5 levels are a bit 'exhausting' but then it really picks up. Amazing.

Erm, Shenmue 1+2, the sonic adventure games were 'ok', resident evil code veronica is a monster (a lot of backtracking spoilt it slightly, more so than the other 'evil' games) but well worth it!

Virtua tennis 1 +2 were amazing. House of the dead 2 and gun for some great blasting action

MSR is prject gotham 1 if I remmember correctly? Tony Hawks 2 is also a fantastic game, stolen hours of my life.

I would buy all those mentioned above without thought.

dirtydog · 20 May 2006 at 18:32

Goatboy said:
I really don't think of the Dreamcast as retro, compare Soul Calibur to Soul Calibur 2 on the PS2 and the difference whilst there isn't notable.

Some other cross platform games were as good or better on the DC as well. eg. Dead or Alive 2, F355 Challenge, Tokyo Extreme Racer 2

budge1972 · 20 May 2006 at 19:04

only 3 games were officially released
Later a dodgy version appeared on the net that ran a lot of dc games but very buggy
I can safely say the 3 major releases were flawless but took a whole memory card per game for gamesaves

deSade · 20 May 2006 at 19:06

Just bought a Dreamcast, with 2 controllers, memory cards & 7 games on fleaBay for £13.50. Seems like a bargain.

WatchTower · 20 May 2006 at 22:13

omg I payed almost £500 for a Japan Dreamcast so I could play it a year before anyone else to see them going for £13 kinda makes me feel sick hehe but if I could go back in time I'd buy the Dreamcast over the PS2 everytime even though it had less power than the GameCube and PS2 I had no idea how they made the Graphics look so much better than anything on them consoles weird.

budge1972 · 20 May 2006 at 23:13

yep i got mine two days after it was launched in Japan , came with vf3tb and the sublime and crazy penpen tri icelon.Not long after that came the mighty soul calibur which i paid around sixty quid for

Them were the days

JoeBoi · 20 May 2006 at 23:56

Nismo said:
Not sure what your saying there, I didnt mean that the DC was on the same kind of level as the GC, just that its graphics had a similar style - crisp, bright and vibrant.

TBH after a year of owning a GC I thought about it doing a Dreamcast but it didn't

Sucked cause I brought a DC right before they announced they was stopping it lol

warren_1979 · 21 May 2006 at 13:09

Has anyone played Shenmue 2? if so what was it like compared to the first one?

wombleboy05 · 21 May 2006 at 13:11

Virtua Tennis and Shamue are great games

McDaniel · 21 May 2006 at 13:19

Im so tempted to buy a dreamcast

dirtydog · 21 May 2006 at 13:20

Why '

'?

You can pick one up including delivery off ebay for about half the cost of one Xbox360 game

Dreamcast!!

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