Third Strike was a crap port based on the inferior version B board, MvC2 is arcade perfect.
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Gametrailers: Top 10 Sega Dreamcast Games
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Jawmuncher
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No Crazy Taxi!?
YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH
Day after day Crazi Tax is forgotten to everyone's dismay. Still can't believe Sega thought they could get away with cutting the song everyone sees as the theme song at this point.
No Crazy Taxi!?
Yeah, criminal. Even more criminal that they released ports of the game without The Offspring and Bad Religion. I can live without Tower Records, but don't you dare take YA YA YA YA YA away from me.
eighty(one)
Member
No Ecco the dolphin?
That game was amazing.
I loved the water tubes & swimming around the bay
That game was amazing.
I loved the water tubes & swimming around the bay
Dr. Feel Good
Banned
It's sad to see a game like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 not appear in the list when they felt so ground breaking at the time. They are simply games that aged like shit.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is on the list, everything is good.
blackMamba1187
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Pod Racer is so good.
Ordinaryundone
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If we are to compare Nishigaki's work to SWERY I'd actually say Illbleed is closer to D4. It's a highly experimental, weird game with a non-traditional gameplay structure. Most of the time anyway. Blue Stinger would be closer to Spy Fiction, a more or less by the books example of its genre that tries to do something different, but really ends up hamstringed by a rigid adherence to a formula along with a lot of curiously bad design decisions.
I don't really think Nishigaki ever got to make his Deadly Premonition, which is a real shame. If the man had a magnum opus it was probably Illbleed, which wasn't exactly the best note to go out on.
Now, if we are just talking about "punk", genre bending weird games I guess it's a fair comparison but the Dreamcast was absolutely LITTERED with games like that. Hell I'd even argue that Shenmue is in a similar vein, and not just because they are both open-world exploration games.
Ordinaryundone
Member
I actually agree. Everyone has this huge hard on for Power Stone 2 but the first game just felt a lot more like an actual cohesive fighting game rather than just a big messy party game. I liked how all the characters had their own unique stages and theme songs and there was a bit more variety in the actual fighting mechanics, even if there were fewer items and more down-to-earth scenarios.
Power Stone 2 is to Power Stone what MvC2 was to Marvel vs. Capcom, basically.
skLaFarebear
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No Capcom vs SNK2 smh
DangerDave
Member
I didn't see Mars Matrix at number 1 which is odd.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
This post said everything I was thinking of saying when I saw the OP. Glad to scroll down and see other people with a finely tuned sense of taste - especially with the bolded.
Mister Wilhelm
Member
No one will ever give a fuck about Super Magnetic Neo.
No one.
No one.
Krappadizzle
Member
I would have taken out Soul Calibur and MvC2 as I'm not into fighter even though I recognize their quality and replace them with NBA2k2 and Jet Grind Radio. But otherwise a fantastic list of great games.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Fixed that for you.
Ordinaryundone
Member
No one will ever give a fuck about Super Magnetic Neo.
No one.
God, rest in peace you gloriously smug Mega Man wannabe.
cj_iwakura
Member
Not a bad list, just take off 9 and 10 and put JSR and Space Channel 5 up at 3 and 2, respectively.
Pretty solid list for the most part. Shenmue bored me to tears but I know I'm in the minority so I understand it's spot. I probably would've put one of the sonic adventure games on the list. I know they haven't aged well but I really enjoyed them at the time. Other than that the list is good though maybe not in the same order I would put them.
stargateheaven
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Why don't we have power stone HD yet? i dont get it.
Guess they can only put 1 Shenmue but 2 >>> 1
Edit:Very good list though, I owned 7/10 of these games, man if I ever found a working Dreamcast around, I'll play them again.
I'm just worried they may not work anymore since it been more than 10 years and I haven't payed much attention to them. How long do these CD's usually last?
Edit:Very good list though, I owned 7/10 of these games, man if I ever found a working Dreamcast around, I'll play them again.
I'm just worried they may not work anymore since it been more than 10 years and I haven't payed much attention to them. How long do these CD's usually last?
The Sarcastic Dude
Banned
Good to see all the Shenmue hate in this thread. Never understood the appeal of that game.
stargateheaven
Member
amazing for its time. like seriously amazing.
now it's just the average game, with shit tank controls. Yakuza is the true successor to shenmue, i'd like to think that if shenmue 3 came out it would control like yakuza series rather than the original shenmue.
I'd get rid of Code Vern for sure. Shenmue is too unique to not include on a system lacking many exclusive gems, so I'd keep it.
RE2 should be on there in the 10 spot in replace Code Vern because the Dreamcast ver is the only console ver of an otherwise exclusive Japanese Windows PC release that had exclusive bonuses and such, and it's a better game.
Jet Set Radio def needs to be on there. Illbleed should probably be on there.
PSO should be number 1 for sure.
I'm a little stunted and torn about the rest. I don't think multiplats should be on there unless they've got exclusive quirks. DC had the last and best of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 vers before Xbox's THPS2X, which is most certainly better, but also different. Seaman should probably be on there.
RE2 should be on there in the 10 spot in replace Code Vern because the Dreamcast ver is the only console ver of an otherwise exclusive Japanese Windows PC release that had exclusive bonuses and such, and it's a better game.
Jet Set Radio def needs to be on there. Illbleed should probably be on there.
PSO should be number 1 for sure.
I'm a little stunted and torn about the rest. I don't think multiplats should be on there unless they've got exclusive quirks. DC had the last and best of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 vers before Xbox's THPS2X, which is most certainly better, but also different. Seaman should probably be on there.
sixteen-bit
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Mars Matrix
Jet Set Radio
Crazy Taxi
Jet Set Radio
Crazy Taxi
schaft0620
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Dead Man Typing
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Limiting any console's library to a top 10 is going to be a cause for debate, but limiting the Dreamcast's is an exercise in futility,
Crazy Taxi is my favourite game ever. I've said it before and I still stand by it. Whether on PC, the 360 port or the definitive Dreamcast / Arcade version, I can play that game forever. Desert island with only one game, it's Crazy Taxi.
EDIT:
Got to live up to my Shenmue Defense Force avatar and say that anyone who doesn't like Shenmue is crazy.
Nah, if you don't like Shenmue, I understand. Even at the time I didn't like how Ryo controlled. But once you look past that and live in that world for days and weeks of virtual time it manages to leave an impression on you that no other game can rival. The love for the game is real and it is totally deserving of it. Kind of hard to see it in 2015 vs 2000, but if you look hard enough you can see why people still want Shenmue III.
Headhunter rocks, too.
Crazy Taxi is my favourite game ever. I've said it before and I still stand by it. Whether on PC, the 360 port or the definitive Dreamcast / Arcade version, I can play that game forever. Desert island with only one game, it's Crazy Taxi.
EDIT:
Got to live up to my Shenmue Defense Force avatar and say that anyone who doesn't like Shenmue is crazy.
Nah, if you don't like Shenmue, I understand. Even at the time I didn't like how Ryo controlled. But once you look past that and live in that world for days and weeks of virtual time it manages to leave an impression on you that no other game can rival. The love for the game is real and it is totally deserving of it. Kind of hard to see it in 2015 vs 2000, but if you look hard enough you can see why people still want Shenmue III.
Headhunter rocks, too.
How could I forget about Toy Commander! That should definitely be on the list.
paragonpro
Banned
I'd replace tony Hawks pro skater (great game but availible on everything else) with sonic adventure 2, which fixed mostly all of sonic adventures issues. But man I remember being blown away by sonic adventure the first time I played it
Diablohead
Member
place PSO in first and put sonic adventure 1 and 2 in the top ten and I'm happy
schaft0620
Member
so hard limiting it to 10.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Pretty surprised with how solid this list is.
LumpOfCole
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Soul Calibur is the best launch title of all time (yes including Super Mario 64)
