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Dreamcast was a great system with many great games. Too bad piracy killed it. The PSP is falling into that same hole ATM. Perhaps that's why developers are staying away







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pbroy said:
Cannon Spike - awesome capcom game with Cammy from Street Fighter
Typing of the Dead - House of the Dead using keyboards to type words to kill zombies. Very addicting.

 

 You can download this for the PC...I'm sure this ok it hasn't been sold commercially for a good 5 years.

 

Its hell good!!!!!!!!!

 

More fun than with the gun, and will sure improve your typing skills more than any of those trainer programs!



Diomedes1976 said:
The system was great for the time ,although some of the genres werent all that well in number of games of quality released.

I have some 200+ Dreamcast games ,100 of wich were original ....later on I downloaded some japan-only games and games that didnt receive the gold status as Half Life 2 etc.

I would recommend you :

JRPG

Skies of Arcadia
Grandia II

FPS

Maken X
Half Life Blue Shift
Unreal II

Arcade

Crazy Taxi I and II
Cannon Spike
Spawn (Capcom game ,quite good)
Power Stone 1 and 2
Outrigger
Jet Set Radio

Sports

Virtua Tennis 1 and 2
Track and Field
NBA 2K
NHL 2K

Shot them up

Ikaruga

Racing

Ferrari F355
Metropolis Street Racer (the antecesor of Project Gotham )
Le Mans 24 hours
Sega Rally 2
Daytona USA

Fighting

Soul Calibur
Dead or Alive II
Project Justice

Adventure

Shenmue I
Shenmue II
Resident Evil Code Veronica
Headhunter
Resident Evil 2 and 3(if you havent played those ,you will be able to find it very cheap and these versions control quite well have less loading times etc)

Plattforms

Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure II

2D Fighting

Marvel vs Capcom 2
Streetfighter III:Third Strike (very important ,this is the best streetfighter game to date ,but dont buy the previous SFIII games ,dubbed Double Impact and something else)
Capcom Vs SNK 2:Fight of the Millenium
Streetfighter Alpha 3

Music-arcade

Rez
Space Channel 5
Space Channel 5 2
Samba de Amigo
Dance Dance Revolution

Gun games

House of the Dead 2
Confidential Mission
Virtua Cop 2

Unreal 2 didn't come out on the dreamcast, you've basically listed every game out that didn't score less than a 6 on averge across all reviews.

 

My favourite was Silent Scope 3 ...bloody great even with a control pad.

 



Don't bother buying any games, you can just run any burned cd off the console without any modification, anyways.

One of the reasons behind its failure.



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SamuelRSmith said:
Don't bother buying any games, you can just run any burned cd off the console without any modification, anyways.

One of the reasons behind its failure.

 

 Exactly, you're not supporting the developer by buying the games anymore.

Feel free to pirate any DC game you like without feeling "bad" about it :)

...Actually I think there's 1 or 2 exceptions, there's been a couple of games released in the last couple of years but these are aimed at the japanese market ownly...1 is called "Radiant Gun" or something like that I think theres's one or two others but the dreamcast is not a commercial enterprise anymore so pirating does no harm at all.

 

Should keep the buggers off ebay profiteering off you as well!



Burgles said:
Diomedes1976 said:
The system was great for the time ,although some of the genres werent all that well in number of games of quality released.

I have some 200+ Dreamcast games ,100 of wich were original ....later on I downloaded some japan-only games and games that didnt receive the gold status as Half Life 2 etc.

I would recommend you :

JRPG

Skies of Arcadia
Grandia II

FPS

Maken X
Half Life Blue Shift
Unreal II

Arcade

Crazy Taxi I and II
Cannon Spike
Spawn (Capcom game ,quite good)
Power Stone 1 and 2
Outrigger
Jet Set Radio

Sports

Virtua Tennis 1 and 2
Track and Field
NBA 2K
NHL 2K

Shot them up

Ikaruga

Racing

Ferrari F355
Metropolis Street Racer (the antecesor of Project Gotham )
Le Mans 24 hours
Sega Rally 2
Daytona USA

Fighting

Soul Calibur
Dead or Alive II
Project Justice

Adventure

Shenmue I
Shenmue II
Resident Evil Code Veronica
Headhunter
Resident Evil 2 and 3(if you havent played those ,you will be able to find it very cheap and these versions control quite well have less loading times etc)

Plattforms

Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure II

2D Fighting

Marvel vs Capcom 2
Streetfighter III:Third Strike (very important ,this is the best streetfighter game to date ,but dont buy the previous SFIII games ,dubbed Double Impact and something else)
Capcom Vs SNK 2:Fight of the Millenium
Streetfighter Alpha 3

Music-arcade

Rez
Space Channel 5
Space Channel 5 2
Samba de Amigo
Dance Dance Revolution

Gun games

House of the Dead 2
Confidential Mission
Virtua Cop 2

Unreal 2 didn't come out on the dreamcast, you've basically listed every game out that didn't score less than a 6 on averge across all reviews.

 

My favourite was Silent Scope 3 ...bloody great even with a control pad.

 

More like an 8.But I made the list just using my memory.If I could add some favourites of mine I could add Berserks Rage (after teh Berserker manga ,a great read),and I forgot other great games as MDK2 for example.

 

As for Unreal ....I have it in my Dreamcast.Dont know wich version it was but there was an Unreal in the Dreamcast.

 



Err, read it and thought it said Saturn >.< Have to sleep! Power Stone and Grandia are worthy buys for the Dreamcast.



Diomedes1976 said:
Burgles said:
Diomedes1976 said:
The system was great for the time ,although some of the genres werent all that well in number of games of quality released.

I have some 200+ Dreamcast games ,100 of wich were original ....later on I downloaded some japan-only games and games that didnt receive the gold status as Half Life 2 etc.

I would recommend you :

JRPG

Skies of Arcadia
Grandia II

FPS

Maken X
Half Life Blue Shift
Unreal II

Arcade

Crazy Taxi I and II
Cannon Spike
Spawn (Capcom game ,quite good)
Power Stone 1 and 2
Outrigger
Jet Set Radio

Sports

Virtua Tennis 1 and 2
Track and Field
NBA 2K
NHL 2K

Shot them up

Ikaruga

Racing

Ferrari F355
Metropolis Street Racer (the antecesor of Project Gotham )
Le Mans 24 hours
Sega Rally 2
Daytona USA

Fighting

Soul Calibur
Dead or Alive II
Project Justice

Adventure

Shenmue I
Shenmue II
Resident Evil Code Veronica
Headhunter
Resident Evil 2 and 3(if you havent played those ,you will be able to find it very cheap and these versions control quite well have less loading times etc)

Plattforms

Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure II

2D Fighting

Marvel vs Capcom 2
Streetfighter III:Third Strike (very important ,this is the best streetfighter game to date ,but dont buy the previous SFIII games ,dubbed Double Impact and something else)
Capcom Vs SNK 2:Fight of the Millenium
Streetfighter Alpha 3

Music-arcade

Rez
Space Channel 5
Space Channel 5 2
Samba de Amigo
Dance Dance Revolution

Gun games

House of the Dead 2
Confidential Mission
Virtua Cop 2

Unreal 2 didn't come out on the dreamcast, you've basically listed every game out that didn't score less than a 6 on averge across all reviews.

 

My favourite was Silent Scope 3 ...bloody great even with a control pad.

 

More like an 8.But I made the list just using my memory.If I could add some favourites of mine I could add Berserks Rage (after teh Berserker manga ,a great read),and I forgot other great games as MDK2 for example.

 

As for Unreal ....I have it in my Dreamcast.Dont know wich version it was but there was an Unreal in the Dreamcast.

 

That would be Unreal Tournament. It played pretty well, although I haven't put it in my DC in some time.

 



 
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Burgles said:
I wouldn't bother.

I assume since it isn't made anymore and games aren't sold commercially then downloading the games isn't a no no unofficially?

I bought 1 a few months back to play the classics along with a VGA cable to get a decent pic on me plasma...

To be honest the memories are best left alone, apart from Skies of Arcadia and Shenmue (even that now looks ancient). Its just not worth going back...

You will regret it and I don't think you'll play it more than a couple of times!

 

Downloading(stealing) the games is still illegal and it's a nono to encourage the use of emulators, pirated games, etc on these forums.

 

But back to what this thread is about...

Shenmue 1 and 2

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