IGN re-launches Dreamcast site

I'd guess Jet Grind Radio to be pretty high on the list. And Crazy Taxi, though played out now, was the reason I got mine.

Jet Grind brings back some fun memories. I made a Darth Maul tag that was pretty sweet, and no matter how repetetive the Dragula song was, it was a great entrance song to that level.

I much prefered playing Tony Hawk 2 on the Dreamcast, as opposed to the PS2. Don't know why. The controls just felt better to me. That's pretty much all I played on it. And Shenmue.

Soul Calibur was my reason. I'm still frosted that developer threw everything into the Sony arena, as I'm now XBox/Xbox360 after the unfortunate demise of Sega from the console world.

And as for this news, kind of late, considering the availability of titles only through e-bay.

Capcom vs. SNK, baby.

Skies of Arcadia

Better than Final Fantasy? Oh yes. Oh fucking yes.

Slightly off topic, but am I wrong in thinking that the Xbox was designed as a natural successor to the Dreamcast?

Apparently Power Stone's gonna be making an appearance on the PSP.

Not that I'm aware of. Microsoft wanted in on some of the fat licensing revenue that Sony was getting, so came the XBox.

Sega cleverly bowed out of a 3 way fight (adding Nintendo) and chose to just work their title angle.

Yes Lawd. I played Skies of Arcadia a while back, before I got a PS2. I picked up FFX the other day and have been playing through it...and for me, it's just <i>alright</i> and making me want to hook the DC back up.

Hell of a game, that. It's also available for the Gamecube.

Only for the Sega Saturn. The giant 3x2 6-button pad that made playing Darkstalkers and any other CapCom games worth while.

I was a snes man myself, but I did get a Mega Drive eventually. Never got a Dreamcast, but my friends that own one all swear by it. Been tempted to buy one for quite some time now, if I can find one going.

Project Justice. A world that neglects the love of a Rival Schools sequel is a sad one.

Cool. The only DC games I play regularly now is Marine Fishing and Soul Calibur...I'd get some of the more esoteric titles, but they cost too much (I'm looking at you, Powerstone 2).

Yeah, my DC still gets a good amount of play. Virtua Tennis, Soul Calibur, Power Stone 2, Rez, Skies of Arcadia, THPS2, Chu Chu Rocket are all great. Plus Typing of the Dead is a ton of fun and Street Fighter Alpha 3 is good on any system.

I've got Shenmue and Shenmue II but I've never gotten around to actually playing them much. Just not enough time.

I never got the chance to play PSO because I didn't have dial-up access (in college at the time) and it didn't work with my broadband adapter.

Still, it makes me happy that the IGN Dreamcast is coming back because the DC needs more love!

Yeah I loved that game back in the day. Although to be honest I prefered the Gamecube version. The lesser number of random battles and increase in fucking hard mini bosses made my day.

Anyone here ever play a game called Omnikron/The Nomad Soul...by the guys who did Fahranheit (Indigo Prophecy)?

I just played it again recently and was blown away by how fucking huge the game was, and how many opportunites you had to make the game did a horrible death.

Dragon Quest VIII is highly recommended for PS2 owners who loved Skies of Arcadia.

I had Omikron for the PC many years ago. Didn't realize Quantic Dream made it.. it was ambitious but pretty broken, especially the FPS sequences. Indigo Prophecy was much better realized.

Yeah but what other game lets you talk to a digitised David Bowie.

Dragon Quest VIII is indeed the business.

You do realise that the Dreamcast has absolutely no copy protection, right?

I mean, I'd never advocate anything illegal - even where defunct consoles are concerned - but, theoretically speaking, you can just burn any Dreamcast game to a CD and play it. But only if you have a boot disc.

Of course, if you know where to get Dreamcast games to burn on CDs, you wouldn't have any trouble coming up with a boot disc as well...

Just saying. Hypothetically, of course.

Well, of course Indigo Prophecy would have been better if David Bowie was in it. But that goes without saying. I mean, Mega Man 6 would be better with David Bowie in it, too.

I haven't been able to find a place to download games from, so I don't need to wrestle with that thorny ethical dilemna.

ROMS are perfectly legal so long as you own the original.

Bowie can only do so much, Floyd.

I wonder where Speed Devils will rank. That was an unexpectedly good racing game. The level where the UFOs attack was particularly fun.

Hopefully it'll rank somewhere above Re-Volt. That game made me so angry ... every time you bump something your car spins out of control. Plus the annoying RC car sound and random electronic music. Still, I played the crap out of it.

What about Vanishing Point or Sega GT. I also have some other game called Demolition Racer: No Exit ... so many fun driving games on the system.

Rez and Space Channel 5 were great. As was the aforementioned Powerstone.

Saying this just as hypothetically, but you don't even need a boot disc 99% of the time.

I would gladly give Capcom my first born if it meant getting a Marvel vs Capcom 2 done RIGHT for the next gen. None of this direct DC port shit...the whole nine: new and/or custom soundtrack, online play, multiplayer co-op, team names, color edit, new costumes, downloadable characters and specials, actual endings......

I'd drop the cash on a 360 the day of the announcement if that happened.

Damn, too many memories. The Dreamcast was my first "fanboy" system. I remember getting Next-Gen magazines and reading about the DC all the time. They used to have a special section just for DC games before the system came out here in the US. I remember how much I wanted one after seeing Shenmue in the Next-Gen mag, called Project Berkley then. I had never seen graphics like that before. I babysat that entire summer to buy one on 9/9/99. I remember seeing the cool cryptic commercials for it all summer. My favorite one being when the spy breaks into the Sega HQ to steal their secret new console. The marketing campaign was amazing and my favorite for any system launch, hats off to Peter Moore for that one. Actually the whole DC marketing stuff got me interested in marketing and that was my major in college which i just graduated from a few weeks ago.

I bought Sonic Adventure and Blue Stinger at launch. Also playing NFL2k for the first time is something that I will always remember. At the time, a game never looked that good before, NFL2k was like OMFG. Then RE: Code Veronica came out in January.....that was like CG quality back then.

I remember playing Shenmue for the first time. We had off from school the next two days for some teacher's conference. My dad brought the game home (I had it reserved and he picked up coming home from work) at around 4pm. I started playing and didn't stop until 4am the next morning. I slept for 3 hours and woke up at 7am to play more, and played until 4pm that afternoon where I finished the game. It was the only game I have ever felt that I couldn't stop playing or did I want to stop. The same thing happened with Shenmue 2, I imported the Euro version and took the weekend off from work to play. I started at 5pm on that Friday and played until 4am the next day. Similar situation and I had the game finished by Sunday night. The only series I can do this with. It is my favorite game of all time and I don't think anything will ever beat the Shenmue series for me. I wish to God Yu would make a Shenmue 3 for 360 or PS3 or whatever, I'll pay $600 if it means I can play Shenmue 3.

Anyway long-story short, the DC rocked, and there was no good reason why it failed on the market. Dumb consumers, perfect price, more AAA titles in 2 years than the PS2 had in 4 years. Add the DC to the world's wonders.

Edit: To Alex B. I think the same way. The Xbox/Xbox 360 are successors imo to the DC.

I had similar experiences, but with different games. Sonic Adventure was the first game that really rocked my world for that system and kept me up for 12 hour sessions. I completely skipped the generation after SNES and Genesis, so the DC was a pretty major thing for me. Skipped the generation after that for the most part, but I have a feeling the Wii is gonna snap me back in again.

Nice article about how Sony killed the DC with stranglehold business practices.
http://www.unscleric.com/ANewEra.html

If no custom soundtrack, then make it sfx only. I've mentioned it before, but that game's music is absolute ass.

But Lord I loved the game. A buddy of mine used to use all three char. selections to flood the screen with a deluge of servebots for the majority of the match.

Obviously, I've since murdered him.

Edit: I'm just wacky about typos!

Seriously, if you lose to Servbot using any sort of serious character, it should've been murder/suicide.

Ah, but what's passed is passed.

Didn't say I lost, just that I was visually overwhelmed.

I only lost about half the time....

What a depressing article.

If true, screw you Sony.

I have now been burned TWICE!! on auction sites for the Powerstone series. What gives?

If I buy Powerstone 2 for one dollar, it will cost me about forty-one bucks in stolen auction prices. I'm ready to give up. Anyone have a copy they want to sell? Any advice on reputable sellers? How great are these games? I'm starting to notice a disturbing trend in that the few Dreamcast games I still want are pretty darn expensive.

Soul Calibur and Marine Fishing are still entertaining on a weekly basis, which is remarkable.

PowerStone 2 is tough to fine. I have the first one, and yes, it's an awesome game.

Well, technically they bowed out due to the fact that they were hemorraging money at the time, due to the insane rate of Dreamcast pirating, and the lackluster performace of the system before it, the Saturn.

It's not so much that they bowed out. Either they'd have cut out hardware development, or gone out of business trying to stay in it.

It's a pretty great party game, I introduced my friends to it about a year ago and we still play it regularly. As far as I know, it's readily available as an ISO on the internet, if one is not averse to such things - Sega did pretty much scuttle the system, after all.

Well, I finally bought a copy from a used site. When I start seeing "new" and "like new" copies from eighty to three hundred bucks I realize my window is closing.

I have now invested eighty-four bucks in this game, approximately three to four times why my DC cost. *sigh*.