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PScollector on 17 January 2013

A few mates had it, I didnt care for it at all I had a PS2 like every other normal kid.



 

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jamesmarkus87 on 17 January 2013

Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Ninja Gaiden, Ninja Gaiden Black, Rallisport Challenge 2, Project Gotham Racing 2, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Splinter Cell (definitive version), Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (definitive version), and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (definitive version)?

Nope, I've never heard a single thing about the original Xbox.

When I started high school, Xbox was shunned by all the guys in my grade. By the end of high school, many of those guys owned an Xbox and some even sold their PS2. It was all thanks to a certain franchise called Halo.



kain_kusanagi on 17 January 2013
Wander_ said:
Dmick90 said:
kain_kusanagi said:

It makes me sad because the Dreamcast had so many amazing games and deserved to be a success, but far too many ignored it and played exclusivly on PS2. The Dreamcast had the best games the year before and the year after the PS2 released but people still ignored it. Sega was forced to drop the Dreamcast and hardware alltogether and the industry is poorer for it. As for Xbox, Halo is pure gold and it's too bad that some people never got a chance to experience it in it's begining.

I know what you mean, Sega was like the Xbox in the 90s. Like the original Xbox the Dreamcast had so much potential and really deserved better. I'll never forget the day they announced on IGN that the Dreamcast was being discontinued. Sega was like a game making machine, they had so many great games coming out like one after another and they were more innovative back then. The Dreamcast was really the last time I have ever been really hyped over a console. And you know what the gaming industry has never really been the same since.

Yeah the Dreamcast was awesome because of Crazy Taxi,Shenmue,Sonic, LOL. i can name you a gizillion consoles that had better games than Dreamcast. it's the fact that it got discontinued that makes you think it was great.

 

You clearly don't know what your talking about. The Dreamcast's library of games is as varied as it is classic. Everyone who had a Dreamcast probably had more fun the people with only a PS2 during it's first year. Here are some of the games that I played that I believe makes the the Dreamcast one of the best consoles of all time.


Rez

Ikaruga

Jet Grind Radio

Grandia 2

Skies of Arcadia

Space Channel 5

Alien Front Online

Gundam Rise from the Ashes

Marvel Vs Capcom 2

Virtual On OT

MDK 2

Sword of Berzerk

Shenmue

Shenmue 2

Armada

Toy Commander

Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future

Power Stone

Power Stone 2

Seaman

Soul Calibur

Virtua Fighter 3TB

Phantasy Star Online

Record of Lodoss War

Fur Fighters

Unreal Turnament

Quake 3 Arena

Mars Matrix

Canon Spike

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing 2

House of the Dead 2

Sega Rally 2

Daytona USA

Resident Evil Code: Veronica

Crazy Taxi

Crazy Taxi 2

18 Wheeler Pro American Trucker

NBA 2K series

NFL 2k series

Virtua Tennis

Virtua Tennis 2

Sonic Adventure

Sonic Adventure 2

Metropolis Street Racer

Bomberman Online

Sega GT

Le Manns 24 Hours

Tekken 3 (Bleemcast)

Headhunter

Hydro Thunder

Ferrari 355 Challenge

Bangai-O

Typing of the Dead

Outrigger

Gran Turismo (Bleemcast)

Wacky Races

Dynamite Cop

Super Magnetic Neo

Project Justice

Chu Chu Rocket

Samba de Amigo

Looney Tunes Space Race

Star Lancer

Metal Gear Solid (Bleemcast)

Tech Romancer

Sega Bass Fishing 1/2, With Fishing Controller

Sega Marine Fishing, With Fishing Controller

Gunbird 2

GigaWing2

Dead or Alive 2

Gauntlet Legends

Plus tons of the best 2D fighters and the best ports from the era like Star Wars Racer, Soul Reaver, Rayman 2, Resident Evil 2/3, San Fran Rush 2049 etc as well as import shooters that came out for years after the system was discontinued. There's evena new kick ass RPG coming out called Pier Solar.

 

Sega Dreamcast is a legend. Get yourself one, they're cheap now.



jamesmarkus87 on 17 January 2013

Dreamcast rocked, especially for a console with a shelf life of 2 years. Skies of Arcadia and Soul Calibur will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting game, respectively.



C0LINx on 17 January 2013

My cousins had one, it was probably the least appealing design wise of the 3 consoles last gen. So many mistakes with the XBOX, then Microsoft learned. The differences between the original XBOX and the 360 is like night and day.



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jamesmarkus87 on 17 January 2013
C0LINx said:
My cousins had one, it was probably the least appealing design wise of the 3 consoles last gen. So many mistakes with the XBOX, then Microsoft learned. The differences between the original XBOX and the 360 is like night and day.

Xbox 360 controller > Xbox controller S >>>>>>> original Xbox controller



Wander_ on 17 January 2013
jamesmarkus87 said:
Dreamcast rocked, especially for a console with a shelf life of 2 years. Skies of Arcadia and Soul Calibur will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting game, respectively.


Ps1 rocked Final fantasy 7, Tekken 3 will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting games. See Dreamcast is not one of a kind.



Hynad on 17 January 2013
Wander_ said:
jamesmarkus87 said:
Dreamcast rocked, especially for a console with a shelf life of 2 years. Skies of Arcadia and Soul Calibur will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting game, respectively.


Ps1 rocked Final fantasy 7, Tekken 3 will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting games. See Dreamcast is not one of a kind.


Just because one console is great, doesn't mean one can't be equally great. Nobody is saying the Dreamcast is the only great system there ever was. You're making this into yet an other unnecessary console war argument. Your contribution here is childish at best.



kain_kusanagi on 17 January 2013
Wander_ said:
jamesmarkus87 said:
Dreamcast rocked, especially for a console with a shelf life of 2 years. Skies of Arcadia and Soul Calibur will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting game, respectively.


Ps1 rocked Final fantasy 7, Tekken 3 will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting games. See Dreamcast is not one of a kind.


You can play Tekken 3 on Dreamcast thanks to Bleem for Dreamcast as well as MGS and Gran Turismo. But you can't play Soul Calibur on PSX. FF7 is legendary but so are Skies of Arcadia and Grandia 2 and Phantasy Star Online etc. Nobody is saying the Playstation isn't great. But the Dreamcast was amazing and it got ignored until it died.

See my post above for an incomplete list of Dreamast's great games.



Wander_ on 17 January 2013
Hynad said:
Wander_ said:
jamesmarkus87 said:
Dreamcast rocked, especially for a console with a shelf life of 2 years. Skies of Arcadia and Soul Calibur will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting game, respectively.


Ps1 rocked Final fantasy 7, Tekken 3 will forever remain my favourite RPG and fighting games. See Dreamcast is not one of a kind.


Just because one console is great, doesn't mean one can't be equally great. Nobody is saying the Dreamcast is the only great system there ever was. You're making this into yet an other unecessary console war argument. Your contribution here is childish at best.

i'm not tryig to diss the Dreamcast. Some people bug me when they call it the best console ever and it was the last true gaming system. The Xbox,PS2,GameCube,PS3 All are great consoles and had much more great games than Dreamcast that's all i'm trying to say. i bet that if the VITA get's discontinued some people will call it the best gaming machine and how it had alot of great games. Nostalgia messes with peoples minds.