Soul Calibur
I always read the title of this game the way it sounded on game start up. "SOUL...CALIbur!"
Great effing game
Such a good game!!
I loved the little chibi versions of characters that appeared on the memory cards!
📢 JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO 🎶🎹🔊
Also both Sonic Adventures, Virtual On Oratorio Tangram, Crazy Taxi and I think I remember Sega GT being pretty good too?
I almost failed out of college thanks to Soul Calibur.
Power stone, Ikaruga, Rez
I love Ikaruga from an aesthetic, mechanical, and presentation perspective.
But it's been 23 years and damned if I still don't suck at that game. This coming from someone who can fairly reliably at least see the final boss of Progear on one credit.
The visuals and music are what kept me coming back to it for years hah, but I've only beat it scrub style with the assistance of ROM rewinds. Some games are designed to eat quarters, I think Ikaruga was designed to drain paychecks.
I gave up on DoDonPachi. Same thing, 20 years of just grinding and sticking with it, even did the classic "final final true boss has one hit point and I choke" move.
Now I'm 49, my reactions will never be what they were when I was younger, the dream is over.
I played the power stone demo a bunch on my Dreamcast as a kid.
San Francisco Rush 2049 for me. Looked so much better than on the other consoles, too.
Also Crazy Taxi. So much Crazy Taxi.
Que the offspring*
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Day after day, your home life's a wreck
The powers that be just breathe down your neck
You get no respect, you get no relief
You gotta speak up and yell out your piece
So, back off your rules, back off the jive
'cause I'm sick of not living to stay alive
Leave me alone, not asking a lot
I don't wanna be controlled
That's all I want
Seconded. CT for the win!
I like the fact that there are games that are still best played on the Dreamcast, or only played on the Dreamcast, since there was no follow-up console after it, or because the ports were not great. Today there's always a remaster, backwards compatibility with the next console, or at the very least a sequel, so games just move along with the hardware. But the Dreamcast had some games that just lived and died on that system.
Weirdly, most of these turned out to be fighting games. Probably because Capcom liked the Dreamcast.
My favorites that are still best (or only) played on that system:
- Crazy Taxi (the ports don't have the original soundtrack, an absolute sin)
- Power Stone and Power Stone 2
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (literally one of the best fighting games ever, and it can't be purchased on any systems today)
- Cannon Spike
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
- Project Justice
MvC3 is ok, but 2 is amazing
For sure. Plus, I'm a sucker for fighting games where the characters are 2D sprites in stead of 3D models. The DC probably had the best lineup for that, ever.
I wouldn't change anything of your S-tier list. 100% Valid
Phantasy Star Online, lost hundreds of hours there.
Welcome to power stone world!
I have that!
Shenmue! :D
Phantasy Star Online for sure, Sonic Adventure 1, and Grandia 2
oh and Gauntlet Legends was also on Dreamcast!
I’m on PSO myself as a Hunter.
one day I'll probably play Blue Burst again, had a lot of fun on private servers
there are 2 Lemmy communities, but they aren't active
The controller
Skies of Arcadia
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Wetrix
I always thought Soul Reaver played so much better on the Dreamcast then it did on the PlayStation. Great game.
Strangely Gex played better on the 3DO than on the PlayStation as well.
House of the dead 1 & 2
Shenmue 2
Ikaruga
Rez
Mr Driller
Chu chu rocket
And everything else in this thread
Off the top of my head.
This is the list right here... forgot about Mr Driller. Chu Chu Rocket was such a fun game with friends.
Marvel vs Capcom 2 Crazy taxi 2 Basically every game for this system was boss
Crazy Taxi was fantastic.
Metropolis Street Racer was utterly brilliant and I remember being annoyed when I heard the sequel was going to that new Microsoft console called XBox. That was of course Project Gotham Racing.
And Rez which I love so much I bought it remastered on Xbox360, again on PS4 and one final time on Quest 2.
Sonic Adventure 2
Crazy Taxi
Hydro Thunder
Mine was Skies of Arcadia - I know it also came out on GameCube, but I first played it on the Dreamcast. It was also (somehow) my first experience with a jrpg.
Fuck yeah! Haaaaa, Rain of Swords!
I know is not a Dreamcast exclusive but I love Tony Hawks pro skater 2 and played it a lot in my DC! Also, Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi.
Yeah these are mine too. Plus Soul Calibur. Maybe Canon Spike.
Chu Chu Rocket!
Jet Grind Radio
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
MDK2 - Found it randomly and it was a ton of fun.
DOA2 - Some... Fond... Memories. Put the disc in a PC for extra fun.
Army Men: Sarges Heroes - Just good classic fun
Evolution 1 & 2 - My first randomly generated dungeon crawlers.
Was anybody else young enough to get endless entertainment out of those demo disks that held a dozen demos on them?
I used to love those! I never had a Dreamcast but I used the hell out of those for my original Playstation. And I think PS2? I forget if they still had those with the PS2.
I did like the Grandia games.
Since I don't see it in here anywhere and my friends & I spent a stupid amount of time with it:
Rival Schools
Mars Matrix
Gunbird 2
GigaWing
Twinkle Star Sprites
Typing of the Dead
Project Justice
Chu Chu Rocket
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Cosmic Smash
Ikaruga
All those Shmups and you managed to miss the best one Border Down.
Sonic Adventure and Shenmue are the ones I remember the best.
Resident Evil Code Veronica, House of The Dead 2, and Sonic Adventure were my jam.
No one mentioned Guilty Gear X yet.
So that.
Still some of the best pixel art and animations ever, in my opinion.
Friend of mine had the VGA box. Was damned impressive.
I still have a Japanese copy of Guilty Gear X I bought more than 15 years ago. Beautiful game.
No mention of Record of Lodoss War yet? Still one of the most underrated Diablo-clones.
Power Stone 1 and 2, so much fun in college. Space Channel 5, just loved the retrofuture ascetic and rhythm games. Same for Rez, a rhythmic shooter. Oh, can't forget Jet Set Radio, loved that so much.
Sonic adventure 1 & 2. Put a ton of time into both of those games.
Also enjoyed wacky races with friends.
I love me some Rez and Ikaruga.
Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it's just the perfect type of game for myself.
This game was great! Managed to run up a huge phone bill with that built in dialup modem back in the early 2000s, I don't think my parents even knew it had one when they bought the console.
Nester DC. My first introduction to a Dream Cast and wow, what a ride. It was amazing being able to replay all the games from the NES that I thought had vanished into the past.
This was 2001-02ish, so well before streaming and online emulators were really well known.
Mr. Driller, Bust-a-Move 4, Dynamite Cop
Wacky Races (2000)
D2 has been absolutely nuts
Dreamcast had the best original THPS² release
Non exclusive, but Grandia 2 was a beautiful game on dream cast.
Gotta give some sports game love too.
NFL 2K, enjoyed playing it with friends a lot more than madden at the time.
Fire Pro Wrestling D - absolutely one of the greatest wrestling games of that generation IMHO. I remember my friends and I trying to figure out WTH we were doing for awhile before getting the hang of it.
Samba de Amigo
I didn't know own a Dreamcast myself but had always wanted to.
The games that sounded most interesting were my friend talking about Sonic Adventures. There was also a magazine I owned with a feature on Phantasy Star Online, and man, it made me so jealous. It sounded so cool! I couldn't believe we had the technology for an MMO on a console at the time lol.
Ikaruga
Jet Set Radiooooooo. I picked up this game on release day randomly while I was in Japan. Such an awesome soundtrack
Well, they were mostly a bit shit. Sonic Adventure was obviously amazing.
Illbleed is a pretty cool game on the Dreamcast that doesnt get mentioned a lot....I comes highly recommended from the HVGN so...yus...
I was just singing the praises of Armada here a few days ago
I never owned one, but my friend who did played a lot of Seaman. That was pretty fascinating
So many to choose from, but I'll add a couple I didn't see mentioned yet.
Capcom vs SNK 1&2
Spawn: in the demon's hand
Edit: Still think both Capcom vs SNK games have some the best Fighting game soundtracks.
Definitely Sonic Adventure. But I'll also name a gem no one else is going to mention:
Napple Tale
Out of the only 3 games I got, Chu Chu Rocket. Absolutely love it.
I had this really strange game called Seventh Cross Evolution. It wasn't really a good game, but I loved it.
You started out as a tiny amoeba, and ate food to gain evolution points. You'd then use those points to add colors to a grid, I think you had six colors. The arrangement of those colors in the grid would unlock new body parts, like tentacle legs, or human arms, or a shark head.
It was super weird and clunky, but I loved it as a kid. I would spend hours just making pictures and seeing what I'd get. Might have to revisit that one soon, could make a fun stream game.
I had that game! It was so weird! Cool concept but I never had any idea what I was doing. The DNA sequence minigame (?) was neat but it was never clear how you get any specific results. I wonder if there's just an RNG behind it and none of your actions really mattered.
I got to the gold man level (which I guess is the pique of evolution and the end stage) and the game didn't really end. I just was able to walk around slapping animals and taking almost no damage.
I picked it up again used and threw it in my dreamcast and couldn't get through it. I found it tedious and kind if dull. Would be interested in seeing a remake though- I bet modern engines could do a solid job with some of the ideas in it.
