VanHalbgottWhat are your favorite Dreamcast games?
Die4EverPhantasy 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
It’s still going?
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 couldn’t get into it. I understand why others would be super down with it, but it just wasn’t my bag.
Power stone, Ikaruga, Rez
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️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 isn’t compatible :c
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Chu Chu Rocket!
Jet Grind Radio
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
jordanlundPhantasy Star Online, lost hundreds of hours there.
Dr. WeskerMr. Driller, Bust-a-Move 4, Dynamite Cop
San Francisco Rush 2049 for me. Looked so much better than on the other consoles, too.
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!
KeriKitty (They(/It))Shenmue! :D
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.
DrasglafI still have a Japanese copy of Guilty Gear X I bought more than 15 years ago. Beautiful game.
Resident Evil Code Veronica, House of The Dead 2, and Sonic Adventure were my jam.
Wacky Races (2000)
HatecoachGotta 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.
Sonic Adventure 2
Crazy Taxi
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.
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.
D2 has been absolutely nuts
UKFilmNerdCrazy 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 almost failed out of college thanks to Soul Calibur.
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.
Welcome to power stone world!
I have that!
Power stone was such a great game. Didn’t it also have little mini games on the memory card?
I was just singing the praises of Armada here a few days ago
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Crazy taxi 2
Basically every game for this system was boss
Sonic adventure 1 & 2. Put a ton of time into both of those games.
Also enjoyed wacky races with friends.
caseyweedermanThe controller
JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO
Also both Sonic Adventures, Virtual On Oratorio Tangram, Crazy Taxi and I think I remember Sega GT being pretty good too?
Since I don’t see it in here anywhere and my friends & I spent a stupid amount of time with it:
Rival Schools
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 in thought has vanished into the past.
This was 2001-02ish, so well before streaming and online emulators were really well known.
pezhoreMine 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!
Loved this game.
Fun fact, the two lead characters showed up again as soldiers in Valkyria Chronicles.
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.
mwproductionsSamba de Amigo
Non exclusive, but Grandia 2 was a beautiful game on dream cast.
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