Soul Calibur
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I always read the title of this game the way it sounded on game start up. "SOUL...CALIbur!"
Great effing game
📢 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.
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
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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.
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I played the power stone demo a bunch on my Dreamcast as a kid.
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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
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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.
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Phantasy Star Online for sure, Sonic Adventure 1, and Grandia 2
oh and Gauntlet Legends was also on Dreamcast!
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
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.
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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.
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Was anybody else young enough to get endless entertainment out of those demo disks that held a dozen demos on them?
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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.
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.
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
No mention of Record of Lodoss War yet? Still one of the most underrated Diablo-clones.
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
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Ikaruga
Resident Evil Code Veronica, House of The Dead 2, and Sonic Adventure were my jam.
Sonic adventure 1 & 2. Put a ton of time into both of those games.
Also enjoyed wacky races with friends.
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.
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.
Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it's just the perfect type of game for myself.
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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.
Mr. Driller, Bust-a-Move 4, Dynamite Cop
Dreamcast had the best original THPS² release
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)
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