The Sega Dreamcast

[Wrath of Foamy]

Panzer Dragoon Saga bb

I played though the first disk that came free with the Official Sega Saturn Magazine, and put it up there with one of the greatest games I've ever played, despite not finishing it.

Then I found the actual game in GAME stores, but passed it over because I was out a tenner, and bought TOCA Touring Cars and Resident Evil instead. Came back a few months later to get my Mum to buy it for my birthday, but it was gone.

I'd buy a new Saturn just for Saga.

But Saga is £800 on eBay now...

 

[SummerStriker]

I played though the first disk that came free with the Official Sega Saturn Magazine, and put it up there with one of the greatest games I've ever played, despite not finishing it.

Then I found the actual game in GAME stores, but passed it over because I was out a tenner, and bought TOCA Touring Cars and Resident Evil instead. Came back a few months later to get my Mum to buy it for my birthday, but it was gone.

I'd buy a new Saturn just for Saga.

But Saga is £800 on eBay now...

Worse, PD Saga is a crazy expensive collectors' item now. But I feel you. It was a super emotional game experience for me.

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

Sega did so much right with the DC. Great launch price, the GOAT launch lineup, easy to develop for, massively successful launch...but then people stopped caring the closer and closer we got to the PS2 coming out.

Internet gaming...ran on Windows...had a mini console as a memory card (VMU)...

Dreamcast was awesome, and incredibly important...

 

[Wrath of Foamy]

Worse, PD Saga is a crazy expensive collectors' item now. But I feel you. It was a super emotional game experience for me.

I think that there's one on eBay that's listed as over a grand...

It's the one game that deserves a modern remake, but the source code was lost, and the developers abandoned the company when the lead designers died?

Hell, Orta for Xbox was developed by Smilebit, but that game was in the top three of my favourite Xbox games. Beautiful and fun rail shooter.

 

[TKing]

This was one of my favorite games ever

Never owned a Dreamcast but i played this at a friend's and it was fun, i was always searching for something Spawn to play at the time. Closest I got to a decent Spawn game being a Sony guy was Spawn Armageddon.

If I could find a Dreamcast now at a decent price I'd probably pick one up, that's the one console I missed out on that I really wanted.

 

[SummerStriker]

I think that there's one on eBay that's listed as over a grand...

It's the one game that deserves a modern remake, but the source code was lost, and the developers abandoned the company when the lead designers died?

Hell, Orta for Xbox was developed by Smilebit, but that game was in the top three of my favourite Xbox games. Beautiful and fun rail shooter.

I think it was an early open world game with a lot of underdog, orphaned characters, and a big eye anime girl side kick that made it so cool back then. It wouldn't have to be made exactly. But those materials are kinda missing as a unit from big modern games.

 

[Rozko]

Good system. Ahead of its time. But Sega had killed their reputation after the entire 32X, Sega CD and Saturn debacles.

the PS1 being able to play dvds was the nail in the coffin

 

[Hitman81]

the PS1 being able to play dvds was the nail in the coffin

PS2, but yeah

 

[My Spot]

DVD playback was originally planned but Sega just couldn't afford it, they were already cash strapped before the DC even came out.

 

[Dinkin_Flicka]

The Dreamcast was the first console release that I pre ordered and picked up at the Game Stop launch. I don't remember if it was a midnight launch.

Did anyone ever play Blue Stinger? It was one of the launch titles that tried to be Resident Evil. It was a broken, campy, mess, but man I loved that game.

 

[GSP_37]

I wanted a Sega Saturn if I could find the DBZ fighting game that had split screen the shittier PS1 game didn't.

 

[My Spot]

Did anyone ever play Blue Stinger? It was one of the launch titles that tried to be Resident Evil. It was a broken, campy, mess, but man I loved that game.

Don't forget Carrier.

 

[MeatWagon06]

Never owned a Sega. I had an SNES then the PS1, etc. My best friend had a Genisis so I played it a lot when I stayed with him. My only memory of a Dreamcast, was playing RE: Code Veronica on the demo one at a Babbages in the mall.

 

[Plissken]

The Dreamcast and WiiU both super underappreciated, underperforming but the games they had were great. They both also had the gimmick of a screen on the controller (of course the Dreamcast version was far more primitive/different).
My little brother had a Dreamcast and I bought a nice collection of Capcom fighting games for it, that was when we truly had arcade quality on the consoles (the 32 and 64-bit systems were close, but not arcade level). The Dreamcast was the system for arcade ports.

 

[UFC=Pride]

Loved it still have mine in a box in the basement.

 

[HereticBD]

Sega did so much right with the DC. Great launch price, the GOAT launch lineup, easy to develop for, massively successful launch...but then people stopped caring the closer and closer we got to the PS2 coming out.

I think it could've competed, but it was a really strange format. It hit the same snag the Gamecube did, but SEGA didn't have the deep pockets of Nintendo to weather the storm.

 

[My Spot]

I think it could've competed, but it was a really strange format. It hit the same snag the Gamecube did, but SEGA didn't have the deep pockets of Nintendo to weather the storm.

They needed a $500 million loan to pay off debt even before the DC came out.

 

[The Clinch]

Once Microsoft screwed over Sega and it became common knowledge that games could be burned and played, the Dreamcast dropped to $50.

Wasn’t much of a Sega person but I bought one so I could play the Berserk game. What a hard ass game.

 

[Rozko]

The Dreamcast was the first console release that I pre ordered and picked up at the Game Stop launch. I don't remember if it was a midnight launch.

Did anyone ever play Blue Stinger? It was one of the launch titles that tried to be Resident Evil. It was a broken, campy, mess, but man I loved that game.

Blue Stinger was fun as hell. I rented it from an arcade/video game rental store in town. It was a fun game

 

[PBAC]

Loved mine. I thought Shenmue was the best game ever back then. Sonic was fun too.

Shenmue might be the greatest waste of potential I've ever seen