I never got into Toy commander even though I liked the premise.
It seemed like every month with Official Dreamcast Magazine they would give you a brand new demo of the game but that didn't help me like it any.
They also did the same with the little green army toys game but that just sucked.

skies of arcadia. now that was a fun game

While I agree that this list is jsut a popularity contest for dreamcast, you are wrong in saying that DC does not have great titles still worth playing.

Ikaruga is always fun and challenging.

Power stone is still a blast with 4 people and it has not been released for download.

So what if MvsC2 was released on xbox live and psn...its not any less aweosme on the DC.

Dreamcast has loads of gems and you are bound to have missed like Alien Front Online or Headhunter. These games aged pretty good believe it or not as their emphasis was gamplay rather than graphics.

Toy Commander is awesome game that really hasn't been atempted since.

While I agree Sonic games were better in 2D, sonic adventure and Adventure 2 are worth playing more so than a lot of AA games this gen.

And this is all before we get in to emulation, homebrew and mods (quake 1 on DC is really fun and looks kickass)

I can keep going...DC has a place in gaming, even today.

So it has like 6 or 7 games still worth playing?  Woohoo?

Again, I just don't see why people still love the Dreamcast so much and make a huge deal out of it.  I don't deny it had some really good games but it also had a lot of terrible ones.  Other than that, it was just meh.

Thats pretty harsh twestern. 6-7 games worth playing...

I told you I can keep going. :)

Here is the lowdown on the dreamcast.

Console is amazing for people that like 2D fighters. It has every 2D fighter worth playing.

Also, its amazing for people that like SHUMPS. Ikaruga, Mars Matix, Gigawing, Gigawing 2, Under Defeat, Border Down, Trizeal, chaos field, last hope and atleast 5 more that I am forgetting.

Dreamcast rules when it comes to light gun games. House of dead 2, Virtua cop 2, Mission confidential, Death Crimson, Deatch Crimson OX, Silent Scope

And finally, Dreamcast is amazing because the entire gaming library is available on bit Torrents without a need to mod your system.

The bottom line is while the graphics got better, gameplay got more complicated and sandbox made everything easy...people that like those arcadey types of games which are fun for 30 mins a day did not need to buy another console after the dreamcast.

i didnt öike the dreamcast. The only games i really like were Sonic adventure and Crazy Taxi. I bought it in 2000, and SEGA disconected it in 2001/02. It was a real slap in the face from SEGA

I managed to play Typing of the Dead in an arcade in Tokyo.


The list clearly needs 11 spots.

gotta say no shenmue makes this list make no sense to me

also love the 2k1 line 'before games got harder etc' type stuff

madden is hard? thats news to me. madden can be played with three buttons maybe and if youknow the team you use, you will win. 2k1 is 2k1. people play football games to simulate the game. not play as troy aikman one last time or somethign.

JSR - maybe it is nostalgia, but i prefer the original to the 360 version. the 360 version lacks the same charm that the first one has, but thats more personal preference.

Crazy taxi - I'd like to disagree, CT is one of the only games (the other being powerstone, which i'll get to in a second) that had me returning to my DC every few months. there flat out is nothing else like it that i know of, not to mention that some of the music in that game feels so unique to it. Perhaps its the charm = personal preference thing again, but meh - i love crazy taxi, and its a dam shame there hasnt been a new one since CT2.

NFL2k1 / Sega GT - dont care for sports / racing games personally, so i dont see the draw to this

sonic adventure - this is a preference one. SA and SA2 were (imo) the best of the 3D sonics, and they just play differently (and as such shouldnt be directly compared to) their 2D counterparts. sure, you could say "get the 'cube ports instead" but meh. Besides, i liked the whole "same story told 6 different ways" approach in Sonic Adventure, even if it meant i had to endure big the cat.

toy commander - had great fun playing the demo of it. it was a real neat sandbox-ish game but its nice to see the name of it again so i can look it up.

SoA - i love SoA, one of the few RPGs to actually give you a reason to go out and explore the world map, not just look for some arbitrary place. Also - ship battles, do i need to expand on this? That, and i really enjoyed the characters more so than in most RPGs i've played.

various fighting games - meh. outside of marvel vs. capcom 2 i wasnt a fan of most fighting games, except for powerstone which is a shame that its not on this list. i guess one of the reasons i liked powerstone so much was because it was local (as in not online, as far as i remember) and because it was different - i cant recall a fighting game that did 3D battles as fun and refreshing as powerstone was.

As far as im concerned - yes, powerstone and crazy taxi are dam good reasons to hold on to a dreamcast (maybe not search one out, but thats a different matter). It may be 2 games out of a ton but hell, theres plenty of games on other consoles that "werent all that great" and have "newer versions", so on. Yet i havent seen a replacement for those two (or for toy commander either, for that matter). And no, "simpsons road rage" doesnt count >.>

Check out the game I own Disolitude. You'll see I agree with you. I have SFA3, SF3: DI, SF3: TS, CvS, and CvS2 on my Dreamcast. Before you ask, I don't have MvC2 on DC by choice. I'm kicking myself for getting the game on XBL. I never was as big of a fan of that game as everyone else but I got it to play online with friends. Most of my friends didn't care to go back to MvC2 either...so I'm stuck with it.