What made the Dreamcast such a great machine?

I still to this day, play my Dreamcast.

I think this system came out way before its time, and it was hard for people to grasp all of the awesome ideas Sega had for it. Also, the PS2 coming out only weeks after the Dreamcast relase, and it's ability to play DVDs.

The reason the Dreamcast is still a great console to this day in my opinion, is the awesome collection of games! I have never seen a console with so many original games. To name a few, Power Stone, Marvel VS Capcom 2, Ikaruga, Shinmue, the list goes on. The best part, if you are having a hard time finding these games, no worries! You can just torrent the game, burn it to a regular CD-R and pop it in! No mods or chips needed!

I love you Dreamcast!

Now what's your guy's reason that you love/hate one of the most innovative console ever?

I was still playing mine up to very recently.

It does have a great library of games. The quality ratio must be as high as that of the N64

I just think that sega were too far gone for the dreamcast to rescue them.

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man I wish I had one in its peak *sigh*

it prob is the most underrated console of all time...but i cant say i never had one lol

1. Games

2. Games

3. Games

4. Was technically superior to the competition

5. Games

Leave it to sega to somehow screw up such a large opportunity.

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dainsanereview

That's not the only thing you spelled wrong dude. "intell sony came"... how about UNTILL sony came.

I really wish my Dream machine was still alive and kicking. I love Skies of Arcadia and the Powerstone series,and yet Chu-Chu Rocket kept me oddly addicted, I also loved the quirky little VMU and the different picture messages it displayed whilst you played. When PSO hit the shelves I played that pretty heavily online too and I remember it being my first taste of an MMO, to the Dreamcast, I salute you.

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jshaas

That's not the only thing you spelled wrong dude. "intell sony came"... how about UNTILL sony came.

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in a nutshell bad spelling.

kamikaze_pigmy

That's not the only thing you spelled wrong dude. "intell sony came"... how about UNTILL sony came.

The Fighting games

1. Games

2. Games

3. Games

4. Was technically superior to the competition

5. Games

Leave it to sega to somehow screw up such a large opportunity.

Alter_Echo

Sega screwed everyone with the Saturn. No EA support. Bad controller. PS2 hype.= Dead system

it has no fpses that im disappointed in , but it had what gc and xbox had 4 controller ports as good graphics as a ps2 ,, some good games i liked like sonic etc,

but i also think it came to early , saturn didnt even get no chance ,

which is part of the reason sega fell under,

I just bought one new the other day off of ebay. It was pure secks opening the wrapper of one of the best consoles of our time.

if you ask the Sega fans many will tell you that Sega Saturn (atleast the Japanese console) took the cake for being the best Sega console of all time.

I personally like Dreamcast a bit more than the Saturn because of the awesome fighting games.

Alas, had they just put a DvD drive into the thing, it would have been better received. I didn't get my DC until way after it was "dead". I found one for 19.99 at the PX in Korea (on an army base). I was never a fan of Sega, but I figured I couldn't go wrong for $20.

Man, that system rocked. I was browsing the internet, checking my email, and even running linux on that thing, lol. The game library was awesome, too. Heck, the freaking memory cards were like little gameboys! How awesome is that? heh.

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kamikaze_pigmy

That's not the only thing you spelled wrong dude. "intell sony came"... how about UNTILL sony came.

OOPS!! I'm an idiot. I just get really tired of trying to read posts that are terribly written. By the way, I loved my DC. I too got it just before SEGA pulled the plug. I was so pissed. Grandia was my favorite, and NFL 2K.

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1. Games

2. Games

3. Games

4. Was technically superior to the competition

5. Games

Leave it to sega to somehow screw up such a large opportunity.

Nifty_Shark

Sega screwed everyone with the Saturn. No EA support. Bad controller. PS2 hype.= Dead system

my initial answer is games, but i don't want to say that. because i think the thing that made the dreamcast such a great machine was the fact that it was a complete market failure and now you can get them for uber cheap. the games are a bit pricey, unless you find them at a yard sale or something.

it wasn't as great as it was supposed to be and that's fact. it's complicated GDs weren't nearly as developer friendly as the dvd would some come to be (not to mention they were tiny compared to a dvd). yeah, it had a built in modem, but a 56k modem, if you had a xband for the genesis or snes you had a 56k modem. yeah, you could run linux on it, but who cares? you can run linux on the ps2 also and nobody does that. just because you can do something with something doesn't make it great. you can get a web browser for the ds, but does that make it great? no.

the vmu was cool too, but it was just a one-up to the pocketstation and we all see how it worked out as far as longevity. why play games on your memory card? that's what the console is for, and when you can play 128-bit games at home, a dot matrix game no better than cell phone "snake", or a giga pet/tamagotchi is no substitute.

so it comes back to the games. yep.

I was still playing mine up to very recently.

It does have a great library of games. The quality ratio must be as high as that of the N64

I just think that sega were too far gone for the dreamcast to rescue them.

angryfodder

:roll:

Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, MK Gold, Super Runabout, Ecco, Star Wars Demolition. Ahh.aryoshi

Add.. perfect arcade translations of Marvel v. Capcom 1&2, Sword of the Berserk, House of the Dead 1&2 (w/ a pretty decent light gun), And many more I cant remember. Wish I would have never sold mine:cry:

1. Games

2. Games

3. Games

4. Was technically superior to the competition

5. Games

Alter_Echo

Truth. Beleive it or not, the Dreamcast was a very powerful system compaired to the PS2 and even the Gamecube. The only last-gen system that truly topped it was the Xbox.

Example: Ikaruga. On the Dreamcast, it was arcade perfect with no slowdown whatsoever compaired to the original arcade. On the Gamecube however, there was noticable slowdown in certain areas.

Perfect arcade games ports :)

Except for Garou: Mark of the Wolves, some stupid changed music disc tracks for voice tracks. But forgetting about this terrible incident, all Capcom and SNK Playmore games played perfectly here, also we had Dead Or Alive 2 and Soul Calibur 2 for the first time, who wont be amazed.

Sonic games were good back then too