I liked it. Never owned one but a friend up a few Homes from me bought one day 1 it came out, he was a huge Sega fan and had the genesis then Saturn and then that. I had Nintendo and Sony. So we took turns trading consoles and games for a while.
I enjoyed the dreamcast. Sonic adventures was pretty fun and the tomogachi save cartridge was cook. Power stone and jet set radio were also pretty damn fun too.
So I dunno, I liked the console. Best version of RE2 I played was on dreamcast.
Because of the novelty. It has literally no games, it's entire library is propped up by PS1 ports and some mediocre first party titles which get raped twice and shat on by the competition in literally all genres. It's a console you'd only buy to play literally one game, like PSO or Sonic Adventure. The only reason people like it is the novelty. "Omg look the memory card is also a handheld!" yet it has literally 0 interesting games unless you're a woman or toddler who enjoys raising virtual pets.
Jet Set, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, Virtua titles, Bomberman online, all had a second life after it. The 2K sports games also started on it...which I admittedly cared about once.
Because all PS2 arcade ports were terrible. Most arcade ports on the Dreamcast were 99% arcade accurate, or in the case of NAOMI boards, 100% accurate since the NAOMI is just a Dreamcast.
>why do people who actually like video games love a console full of arcade ports from the last time Capcom and SEGA were objectively good companies?
Truly a mystery for the ages.
I'm not a hipster but I loved the console. There was a lot that went on with it that lead to it's downfall. Like the issue where it was fricking up discs.
more games in 18 months than n64 had in 5 years
perfect arcade-at-home experience (crazy taxi, house of the dead, soul calibur, ikaruga, many others)
first foray into online gaming (PSO)
lots of good first party games / console exclsuives (especially jrpg)
They barely exist here, thank god >two large retail chains in Australia reported a combined total of 13 console sales over the first few days after launch. >some retail chains were reporting single-digit sales in the first few days
>2K sports games also started on it...which I admittedly cared about once.
I used to fricking lvoe sports games as a kid. not sure where it went wrong. Triple Play was god tier.
it was ahead of it's time when it was released. unfortunately that was it's downfall considering the other consoles were still focused on raw power over the utility that eventually followed with newer consoles
Because it's a good console with a solid library that's significantly better than its alternatives. Which is not really an achievement when your alternatives are Xbox HUEG and Gamecube, but still.
>the last of mainstream arcade games >peak Y2K aesthetics >VMU for Chao, Sega GT and that SoA minigame >it has virtually no "truly bad" games >sublime marketing
I would call it "piece of kino"
>Arcade quality ports >improved PS1 ports >PC ports >solid Sega titles >some quirky as frick games like those Evangelion titles >Screen in the controller >Still looks better than consoles released today
I can't speak for others but the Dreamcast is my all time favorite system, got one when I was a young teenager and I'm still playing it 20+ years later. Completed RE2, 3, and CV on it not that long ago.
Original games that weren't carbon copies of something else. Memorable experiences that weren't easily replicated elsewhere. Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, Shenmue and JSR were amazing to play.
Is that just what you call people over 30?
I enjoyed it
I liked it. Never owned one but a friend up a few Homes from me bought one day 1 it came out, he was a huge Sega fan and had the genesis then Saturn and then that. I had Nintendo and Sony. So we took turns trading consoles and games for a while.
I enjoyed the dreamcast. Sonic adventures was pretty fun and the tomogachi save cartridge was cook. Power stone and jet set radio were also pretty damn fun too.
So I dunno, I liked the console. Best version of RE2 I played was on dreamcast.
It was like the Wii U in that the ports were really good. Definiative versions of THPS1/2 were on the dreamcast.
early zoomer here and I literally did not know a single person who owned a Dreamcast growing up. it was like a mythical console to me
For me it was Toy Commander and Powerstone 4-player sessions.
i remember when we had a 10 year anniversary sticky
It brought arcade level graphics home
Phantasy star online
Hipsters moved on to Saturn. Dreamcast became too mainstream.
Because of the novelty. It has literally no games, it's entire library is propped up by PS1 ports and some mediocre first party titles which get raped twice and shat on by the competition in literally all genres. It's a console you'd only buy to play literally one game, like PSO or Sonic Adventure. The only reason people like it is the novelty. "Omg look the memory card is also a handheld!" yet it has literally 0 interesting games unless you're a woman or toddler who enjoys raising virtual pets.
Jet Set, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, Virtua titles, Bomberman online, all had a second life after it. The 2K sports games also started on it...which I admittedly cared about once.
It had Soul Calibur and SA1 on release
I was just more of a Sega fanboy up to that point. Still would be if they kept at it. It's the idort's life for me since.
Last system to have a lot of arcade games and that style of gameplay which really started to die out around then.
PS2 had more arcade games. Granted, it had more Everything, but people don't talk about the arcade games.
Because all PS2 arcade ports were terrible. Most arcade ports on the Dreamcast were 99% arcade accurate, or in the case of NAOMI boards, 100% accurate since the NAOMI is just a Dreamcast.
PS2 can't even handle DC ports.
lol. lmao, even
Space Channel 5 suffered from colors on its port. PS2's architechture didn't help either.
The boot disk still is a form of hacking, bro.
>not using sel-bootable copies
NGMI
How come the PS2 got accurate Naomi ports when the Dreamcast got cutdown ports?
>NAOMI is just a Dreamcast
Lmao, no.
PSO and fighting games.
an even worse subclass of hipster is the hipster weebs that like this kind of shit
Liking 2K games in the 90s was the most Black person thing I ever did. Not weeb.
Aesthetic taste
Its a good console and i got it for 70 bucks you sour grapes b***h.
And all the games are double that price
Gdemu homie. I bought a physical copy of PSO and shenmue for childhood reasons but everything else is on the sd
>What is hacking?
>needing to hack a dreamcast
It's copy protection was so shit you could literally just burn a game to a disc and it'll work
When I was little (1996) I didn't know what sega was and the first time I saw a dreamcast I just thought it was a bootleg PS1
>hipsters
is it 2005 again?
Its fun
Pretty sure hipsters prefer Saturn.
>hipsters
Nah, just people who know moon.
>why do people who actually like video games love a console full of arcade ports from the last time Capcom and SEGA were objectively good companies?
Truly a mystery for the ages.
Easy to pirate, you could just burn a CD and play it right away.
I'm not a hipster but I loved the console. There was a lot that went on with it that lead to it's downfall. Like the issue where it was fricking up discs.
more games in 18 months than n64 had in 5 years
perfect arcade-at-home experience (crazy taxi, house of the dead, soul calibur, ikaruga, many others)
first foray into online gaming (PSO)
lots of good first party games / console exclsuives (especially jrpg)
>hipsters
I think moved on to fads.
It solved the analogue stick drift issue over two decades ago.
Explain to zoomer who are hipsters.
One of the cores of the gen z behaviours but in form of a moronic subculture.
They barely exist here, thank god
>two large retail chains in Australia reported a combined total of 13 console sales over the first few days after launch.
>some retail chains were reporting single-digit sales in the first few days
>2K sports games also started on it...which I admittedly cared about once.
I used to fricking lvoe sports games as a kid. not sure where it went wrong. Triple Play was god tier.
it was ahead of it's time when it was released. unfortunately that was it's downfall considering the other consoles were still focused on raw power over the utility that eventually followed with newer consoles
it's lit
Because it's a good console with a solid library that's significantly better than its alternatives. Which is not really an achievement when your alternatives are Xbox HUEG and Gamecube, but still.
Because it was my first online gaming experience, and it had a lot of unironically great multiplayer games to play with the lads at 11 years old
>phantasy star online (first MMO experience)
>sonic adventure
>skies or arcadia
>power stone 2
>sonic party?
Off the top of my head even though it was over 20 years ago.
LMAO Black person HOW CAN THEY NOT? IT'S ACTUALLY TOO PERFECT
>the last of mainstream arcade games
>peak Y2K aesthetics
>VMU for Chao, Sega GT and that SoA minigame
>it has virtually no "truly bad" games
>sublime marketing
I would call it "piece of kino"
>Arcade quality ports
>improved PS1 ports
>PC ports
>solid Sega titles
>some quirky as frick games like those Evangelion titles
>Screen in the controller
>Still looks better than consoles released today
I can't speak for others but the Dreamcast is my all time favorite system, got one when I was a young teenager and I'm still playing it 20+ years later. Completed RE2, 3, and CV on it not that long ago.
>Hipsters
It's purely Sonictards that shill the dreamcast.
Original games that weren't carbon copies of something else. Memorable experiences that weren't easily replicated elsewhere. Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, Shenmue and JSR were amazing to play.