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Dreamcast Tribute Revisits Cult Console, Games
Buster Chan writes "NTSC-uk has begun their two-week long tribute to the almighty Sega Dreamcast, including an editorial recounting favorite memories of Sega's final (so far) hardware, as writers 'give their views of one of the most prolific consoles of recent times', the first 128-bit console. They also run new reviews revisiting Cosmic Smash, checking out Get Bass, and analyzing the very Japanese Tokyo Bus Guide." Although it was so long ago we can barely remember, what were your favorite Dreamcast titles?
What makes me sadder is that to this day the dreamcast is the only current gen console that has an official arcade stick. It came with internet browsing software, and everywhere dreamcasts were sold you could pick up an official keyboard and mouse as well which helped immensely in fps games... The Dreamcast was well ahead of its time. *sniff*
My favourites DC games are:
Illbleed
Powerstone 2
Grandia 2
Le Mans
Record of Lodoss Wars
Looney Tunes Space Race >_>
Rival Schools 2
and of course Soul Calibur
The Original. You know. The first 400 hours of the other's that came out.
I miss that game so much. Maybe it's becuase I played it for the last 6 months before I went to college and had to give it up, and thus have attached this horrible nostalgia to it which rose colors everything. Maybe its becuase I actually made real life friends thanks to that game. Maybe its becuase I remember playing with friends from the GIA before that message board died.
The game was simple in execution and design, the learning Curve for PSO was well within even the casual gamers spectre of grasp. There was no 'how do I wipe my ass' comments, since the lower level functions where easy like that.
The story didn't try hard either, but did enough so that you felt connected. You're on a planet because the only you left died, the colonists ahead of you are dead, kick the aliens ass's. Wash.Rinse.Repeat.
What made you come back where the varying diffuculties, the rare items that dropped maybe once a week, the feeling of glee when that next level lets you kick the shit out of an enemy that whooped your ass before, the comradory of playing with friends.
Oh god dammit. Now I'll have to play the gamecube version again.
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Only Sakura Taisen, the epic mech-strategy/love-sim could make me write something like this: A very long essay about my experiences with Dreamcast and Sakura Taisen
Later I discovered the deliciously immersive Shenmue I & II; the final disc of II might be the most beautiful gaming I've ever had.
Games like these and other quirky and original titles are what makes DC my favorite console. At first I was turned off by the WinCE logo and the non-fighter-friendly controller, but once I realized the intoxicating level of creativity going on with this system, I was in love with it.
Skies of Arcadia: a engrossing cartoon style rpg, with overtones of Miyazaki's 'Castle in the Sky' and 'Nausicaa' along with WW1/WW2 type sea battles of giant iron juggernauts with quite a bit of buckling your swash thrown in :-) .... absolutely TONS of mini-games and side-quests to undertake, great use of the DC peripherals (mini visual VMU games, rumble pack use in-game, etc). A classic.
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Metropolis Street Racer: Excellent racing game featuring real streets and scenery of cities across the world. Good physics and handling of the cars; you can actually tell the difference between them.
Rez: Trippy shooter. Brillian use of timing and interactive sound and music. The minimalistic wireframe and shaded graphics bring it, for me, to being the closest thing to being in the world of Tron, than anything else.
Shenmue/Shenmue II: Flawed, but a huge virtual world. Absolutely massive.
Bass Fishing: Huge fun for everyone including drunk students or even grandparents