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!
π’ JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO πΆπΉπ
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.
I love my Dreamcast but Rez is infinitely superior on the PS2
(I have the Rez Trance Vibrator)
I haven't played on PS2, but Rez Infinite uses additional controllers as trance vibrators. Great for parties!
I have Infinite for my Index but the Trance Vibrator isnβt compatible :c
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 instead 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
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!
Welcome to power stone world!
Power stone was such a great game. Didn't it also have little mini games on the memory card?
I have that!
Phantasy Star Online, lost hundreds of hours there.
Shenmue! :D
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.
Phantasy Star Online for sure, Sonic Adventure 1, and Grandia 2
oh and Gauntlet Legends was also on Dreamcast!
Iβm on PSO myself as a Hunter.
It's still going?
Yes.
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
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.
The controller
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.
Loved this game.
Fun fact, the two lead characters showed up again as soldiers in Valkyria Chronicles.
Fuck yeah! Haaaaa, Rain of Swords!
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.
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.
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.
Sonic Adventure 2
Crazy Taxi
Hydro Thunder
Jet Set Radiooooooo. I picked up this game on release day randomly while I was in Japan. Such an awesome soundtrack
Chu Chu Rocket!
Jet Grind Radio
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Sonic Adventure and Shenmue are the ones I remember the best.
I did like the Grandia games.
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.
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.
Wasn't Border Down the very last Dreamcast game? I think it might have been. (Well, the last official one, anyway. Homebrew games are still coming out.) I bet a lot of people missed it for that reason. I hadn't heard of it until a couple years ago. I hear it's good, though.
Yeah not sure if it was the last it was late in the dc lifespan and a Japan only release. I don't think a lot of copies where released either. Its very expensive if you can find it now. It's a great game visually and is hard but reasonable. The border system is is confusing though. The story isn't to bad either for a shmup.
Yeah honestly, I just couldnβt get into it. I understand why others would be super down with it, but it just wasnβt my bag.
Since I don't see it in here anywhere and my friends & I spent a stupid amount of time with it:
Rival Schools
No mention of Record of Lodoss War yet? Still one of the most underrated Diablo-clones.
Resident Evil Code Veronica, House of The Dead 2, and Sonic Adventure were my jam.
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.
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.
Sonic adventure 1 & 2. Put a ton of time into both of those games.
Also enjoyed wacky races with friends.
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.
I love me some Rez and Ikaruga.
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.
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.
Wacky Races (2000)
Dreamcast had the best original THPSΒ² release
Mr. Driller, Bust-a-Move 4, Dynamite Cop
I never owned one, but my friend who did played a lot of Seaman. That was pretty fascinating
I was just singing the praises of Armada here a few days ago
Definitely Sonic Adventure. But I'll also name a gem no one else is going to mention:
Spawn: In the Demon's Hand was so much fun, haven't seen it mentioned yet!
Illbleed is a pretty cool game on the Dreamcast that doesnt get mentioned a lot....I comes highly recommended from the HVGN so...yus...
Out of the only 3 games I got, Chu Chu Rocket. Absolutely love it.
Non exclusive, but Grandia 2 was a beautiful game on dream cast.
Samba de Amigo
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.
D2 has been absolutely nuts
Napple Tale
Re-Volt
NBA 2K2
Virtua Tennis 2
Test Drive V Rally
Super Runabout: SF Edition
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes
NFL Blitz
Well, they were mostly a bit shit. Sonic Adventure was obviously amazing.
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!
π’ JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO πΆπΉπ
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.
I love my Dreamcast but Rez is infinitely superior on the PS2
(I have the Rez Trance Vibrator)
I haven't played on PS2, but Rez Infinite uses additional controllers as trance vibrators. Great for parties!
I have Infinite for my Index but the Trance Vibrator isnβt compatible :c
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:
MvC3 is ok, but 2 is amazing
For sure. Plus, I'm a sucker for fighting games where the characters are 2D sprites instead 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
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!
Welcome to power stone world!
Power stone was such a great game. Didn't it also have little mini games on the memory card?
I have that!
Phantasy Star Online, lost hundreds of hours there.
Shenmue! :D
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.
Phantasy Star Online for sure, Sonic Adventure 1, and Grandia 2
oh and Gauntlet Legends was also on Dreamcast!
Iβm on PSO myself as a Hunter.
It's still going?
Yes.
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
!pso@lemmy.sdf.org
!pso@lemmy.world
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.
The controller
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.
Loved this game.
Fun fact, the two lead characters showed up again as soldiers in Valkyria Chronicles.
Fuck yeah! Haaaaa, Rain of Swords!
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.
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.
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.
Sonic Adventure 2
Crazy Taxi
Hydro Thunder
Jet Set Radiooooooo. I picked up this game on release day randomly while I was in Japan. Such an awesome soundtrack
Chu Chu Rocket!
Jet Grind Radio
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Sonic Adventure and Shenmue are the ones I remember the best.
I did like the Grandia games.
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.
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.
Wasn't Border Down the very last Dreamcast game? I think it might have been. (Well, the last official one, anyway. Homebrew games are still coming out.) I bet a lot of people missed it for that reason. I hadn't heard of it until a couple years ago. I hear it's good, though.
Yeah not sure if it was the last it was late in the dc lifespan and a Japan only release. I don't think a lot of copies where released either. Its very expensive if you can find it now. It's a great game visually and is hard but reasonable. The border system is is confusing though. The story isn't to bad either for a shmup.
Yeah honestly, I just couldnβt get into it. I understand why others would be super down with it, but it just wasnβt my bag.
Since I don't see it in here anywhere and my friends & I spent a stupid amount of time with it:
Rival Schools
No mention of Record of Lodoss War yet? Still one of the most underrated Diablo-clones.
Resident Evil Code Veronica, House of The Dead 2, and Sonic Adventure were my jam.
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.
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.
Sonic adventure 1 & 2. Put a ton of time into both of those games.
Also enjoyed wacky races with friends.
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.
I love me some Rez and Ikaruga.
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.
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.
Wacky Races (2000)
Dreamcast had the best original THPSΒ² release
Mr. Driller, Bust-a-Move 4, Dynamite Cop
I never owned one, but my friend who did played a lot of Seaman. That was pretty fascinating
I was just singing the praises of Armada here a few days ago
Definitely Sonic Adventure. But I'll also name a gem no one else is going to mention:
Spawn: In the Demon's Hand was so much fun, haven't seen it mentioned yet!
Illbleed is a pretty cool game on the Dreamcast that doesnt get mentioned a lot....I comes highly recommended from the HVGN so...yus...
Out of the only 3 games I got, Chu Chu Rocket. Absolutely love it.
Non exclusive, but Grandia 2 was a beautiful game on dream cast.
Samba de Amigo
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.
D2 has been absolutely nuts
Napple Tale
Well, they were mostly a bit shit. Sonic Adventure was obviously amazing.