Anyone think the Dreamcast is over-rated now?

[MikeRox]

AlfredoTurkey said:

spemanig said:
Never owned a Dreamcast, but I've played some of its praised games. The mascot games, Sonic Adventure 1/2, were absolutely terrible, so I don't get it either.

Sonic Adventure games got like 9's across the BOARD back when they came out. It would be more accurate for you to state that they were terrible "in your opinion" than just terrible because clearly, they were not.

I love Sonic Adventure, it was the first game I got with my Dreamcast back in 1999 and blew my mind, but even I'll be the first to admit, I can see why people would look at it now and think "how did that get 9/10?". As I said in my post above, it all moved very quickly, but when Sonic Adventure came out, it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Mind blowing visuals, lots of different activities to do. There were some slight issues with the camera, some poorly written sections etc. but they were flaws you could see past because you were playing the future and it was just so much shinier and cooler than anything else you'd ever played.

Fast forward 15 years though, and the graphics are no longer mind blowing, the music also doesn't hold the same nostalgia over newcomers (takes me right back to 99 every time!) and you've got a mediocre platformer, with some pointless story sequences, jaunting animation/voice acting (which again, was really impressive at the time) and by modern standards, some awful camera issues.

But Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye on the N64 would suffer a similar harsh appraisal by many now, particularly if they weren't into Nintendo. This is the problem with trying to treat retro games by modern gaming standards. Yes some age exceptionally well (particularly 2D), but for the most part, the PS1 catalogue now is a pixellated, warping low frame rate mess. Only the very best remain remotely comparable to modern gaming but we as gamers seem hell bent on holding them to those standards, and judge them as being over-rated when looking back in time.