I think it's the color palette, brightness and crisp presentation that's universal in almost every game. I find them visually brighter than most games. Including versions of the same game ported to other systems.
@@patrickmartin7692 And I think that's because of the era it was released in. The Dreamcast was launched in 1999, and was discontinued in early 2001. A few months before 9/11 happened, and took away the 90's vibe of optimism and joy. I think the Dreamcast is an oddity in the sense that it has PS2-era graphics, but it's definitely a product of the 90's. And it shows, even in the color palette.
It was a scam that PS2 dominated this console era. Dreamcast and GameCube games looked so much better than PS2 games, and it’s not close. The power of Sony’s marketing…
Is there a specific VGA or HDMI cable you use? I tried the Kaico ones but they zoom and slightly crop the image and this annoys me! I'm in the UK and wondered if the cables are all designed for NTSC systems?
True! I remember playing Soul Calibur for the very first time on Dreamcast, and it was BEAUTIFUL! hehe The graphics, the sound, the gameplay… glorious days.
so true 🥲…. it was such a dream machine… full of endless possibilities & mystery…. i remember it was the first time i seen a console packaged in the box with a harder egg cardboard material Lol, it was strange.m, but the system looked so darn clean, solid and beautiful…. it made anyone really proud to own one🥲.. i can go on…. see, my older brother bought it and i became owner of our ps1…. so he wouldn’t let me touch it LOL. i don’t blame him; i was a total brat and the dreamcast was his baby.. i remember watching him playing sonic adventure just enjoying all of it and not believing that a game could look that damm good. and then watching him playing shemmue🥲🥲, wow those were some times …. later when he bought a ps2 then the dreamcast became mine and ♥️🔥& boy did i loved it…. i miss those momentos and miss my brother😢
I played the Dreamcast once, at my cousins' house. Sonic Adventure looked so fantastic - in my memories. Sonic Adventure DX doesn't look nearly as good on my PC now. Well, the fact that it was on a CRT TV back in the day might have something to do with it as well.
Power Stone 2, Capcom vs. SNK 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Shenmue, Quake III: Arena, Soul Caliber, House of the Dead 2, Jet Set Radio, Under Defeat, Sonic Adventure...Sega Dreamcast really had it all, and my list was barely scratching the surface.
My list is very similar. I would've only added Tomb Raider Last Revelation to the mix. That game was gorgeous, especially in comparison to the PS1 version
The Sega Dreamcast only lasted 18 months in North America (from September '99 to March 2001, officially). But in that very short period of time it managed a couple of neat things: - It pioneered Online Gaming for home consoles (something at that point that was only found with personal computers); which I think ultimately is - to this day - the greatest contribution it did. - It _truly_ brought the "Arcade Experience Home". In fact, it did just that so well that the Dreamcast in North America was the nail in the coffin for the majority of Arcade places at the time. - Perhaps arguably (but I don't think it is arguable) the Sega Dreamcast had the best home console Launch of all time, with no less than 19 games on the first day. - It had, overall, a fantastic games library achieved within just that 18 months period (or from the release of the Japanese version with 600+ games for all Regions); which is astounding to me. To this day I keep wondering how many more games could have been made for the Dreamcast had perhaps the PlayStation 2 not been released for another year and a half or two. If the Dreamcast would have 'stayed on the shelves' so to speak up to maybe mid to late 2003 instead of 2001, what else could we have seen for it. It was a great console. For me personally I'd place it extremely close 2nd only next to the mighty Sega Genesis, which I think is still the best console Sega ever made. But the Dreamcast was a formidable system and quite a way to go as well for being the last console of the company. I'm sure Sega is proud of what they did accomplish with the system even if on a business side of the view they might think it was mostly a failure. In the hearts of actual gamers out there the Dreamcast was a definitive winner.
Dreamcast was my 3rd favourite Sega console after the Saturn and Mega Drive. The biggest let down was lack of showing from Konami. I would have wished the chance to play MGS 1-3 on the DC and Pro Evo Soccer.
The Dreamcast still has amazing graphics. Seeing it run Sonic Adventure in 1998 was mind blowing 🤯 Guilty Gear X was the best looking 2D fighter on the Dreamcast and was true HD.
Guilty Gear X was definitely my favorite fighter on the system, followed by Capcom vs SNK and Power Stone. I'm not sure Soul Calibur cracks the top 10 in that genre for me on Dreamcast!
@@shaggymcdaniel3216 I think it has to do with the fact that 320*200 (or 320*256 PAL) that Systems like SNES, Genesis and Amiga had (most of the time) was called 'low-res' and 640*400 was called 'High-res' .
I loved my Dreamcast. was very underrated. i wish Sega would just shock the world and release a new high end console that competes. even if it wasnt the best but still competed, i would 100% buy one. Long live Sega
I do think it was underated back then . But now that I have one (with an ODE ), I actually think that nowdays it is Overated. Many games play better on other consoles, the controller was awful and having only 1 stick killed many games (looking at virtual on). It had good games, yeah. But those games cant carry the massive nostalgia and utter ultra positive descriptions this console gets. It is a fine console. Thats it.
@@fernandomartinez4486 i agree, the dreamcast is one of the most hyped consoles ever. im not saying its bad. i am saying its good. but also saying its hyped up. even if sega did shit on the fans ill still always love my sega consoles. they have a charm about them that just didnt exist elsewhere
@@patrickbrooks7435 not like Sega choose to give up on the dreamcast. They literally were going close to negative and to save on costs went multiplatform along with getting a generous 500 mil donation to stay alive.
Amazing that with all these categories Power Stone 1 or 2 didn't get mentioned. Goes to show the strength of the library. I was a PlayStation kid so going back in time now as a 40 year old and discovering these games for the first time has been a blast.
I don't blame SegaLord, it's tough to pick favorites quite frequently with Dreamcast titles. I have the fondest memories playing Power Stone 2 with my old neighbors.... 4 player always, because everyone wanted to play.
I’m so sad I didn’t pick up Powerstone 2 or Marvel vs Capcom 2 back in the heyday, but my mom didn’t allow me to buy fighting games. “Training to beat up girls, to think violence is sexy” she would say (Imagine her horror when she caught me playing Dead or Alive 2… I swear it only looked like the girls were programmed to lose because we were playing versus and my friend wasn’t as good as me!!), but I played the Powerstone demo on the pack-in disk over and OVER AND OVER…
@@evshrugthe only unrealistic part of DOA is that women being able to beat men in fighting is pure fantasy. Just like the way their bewbs bounce around like they’re in reduced gravity.
Still one of my favorite systems to this day. I was a huge supporter of the Saturn as well, but when the Dreamcast launched it was such a marvel to me. Playing a system with arcade graphics. The crisp clear visuals, the VMU which was incredible (especially sports titles while picking a play against friends) was awesome. Online out of the box, phenomenal games etc. The Dreamcast will always hold a special place for me. The Dreamcast and Vita were two systems I wish would have lasted long than they did. Great video as always!! I agree with all of your choices 👍🏻
That's why the Vita Flycast emulator is almost at his 70%! Beacause the huge impact the console have in our hearts!💖💎.Thanks to rinnegatamante, Bythos and the rest of the homebrew comunity keeping this jewel alive 21 years later, not only in new modern hardware, but in our hearts still🙏🏾💖💎
Love this channel ☺️ reminds me of the games I use to play but had forgotten. I still have my DC with all the accessories, extra controllers everything I use 2 burn games on to CDs years ago lol but now have forgotten how to do all that. I will pull it out some time & play it. I loved Dead Or Alive 2, Garou, Star Gladiator 2: Nightmare of Bilstein etc .. good times
After the dreamcast was abandoned by Sega I was downloading games constantly. I think there were a couple programs I had to use to combine bin and isolated files, then a very specific program to burn them. I forget too.
Earlier, I was at school with a classmate and a teacher playing Soul Calibur, and I just absent-mindedly said "You can tell this is an arcade game." I think that sums up why Dreamcast is my favorites. I enjoy fast-paced, arcadey games.
i play it 2 hours last week to discover this gem? he is boring , just smash and heal , lot of fps drop, ugly textures , sounds of the boots all the time, music boring always the same ... but good voice and narration.
Quake 3 also supported the BBA for online play. I'm not into playing games online these days, but back then it was pretty cool. I'd always PWN the complete losers who only had a wimpy dial up modem because they were poor (kidding). Outtrigger supported the BBA as well but I just couldn't get as into it, but at least it was uniquely Sega.
My Dreamcast is still hooked up and proudly displayed as the centerpiece of my gaming cabinet. Tech Romancer as a 1v1 fighting game. Armada as a shoot’em up/RPG hybrid. Airforce Delta as a 3d flight combat simulator. Sega’s swan song has so many great games that went under everybody’s radar, never mind the big titles it’s most well known for, and the ones mentioned in the video.
Christmas Bundle with NBA/MLB/NFL 2k is why i went with Dreamcast. No one i knew had it, but to get those 3 sport games on n64 would have been more expensive. So, asked for the Dreamcast for Christmas. Childhood was saved because of that move. Sonic, 2k, Bass Fishing, Toy Commander, and that one Golf game.
I just bought my first ever sega Saturn because of all the great videos you've put on you tube. I was always a PS1 nerd until I got the Dreamcast. Thanks bro for awesome content.
The PS1 was a cool pioneer, and the fuzzy Nintendo 64’s small library had a high ratio of golden games, but the Dreamcast was the first console where I felt the graphics were smooth and 3D was done well enough that the graphics looked like art instead of a struggle to run, and hold up as well today as a cartoon would.
I didn't get a dreamcast until I was 28 (last year), living over 2,200 miles away from home but something about it makes me feel like I'm in my old room at my parents' house as an 8 year old again. It's a really special console.
The quirkiest console, with the vibeiest games ever. Dreamcast had such vibe, it really embodied the era with it's unique offerings more than any other system.
What is the vibe? Imagine if I said Dreamcast is just an emotion. Use your words we have a vast vocabulary describe what you feel and think. Paint a picture with your words.
@@Falcon_Serbiait had a little more of a polished feel that made you feel like you were actually in an arcade. Had something distinctly imported feeling about it, like you had a system that you got from Japan that no one else knew about. I want to say it was a tad cheaper than ps2 as well. Sega always had a tad bit sharper graphics than Nintendo and PS
Man I miss these days and this hardware. This is when, in my life, games started to take a back seat to being an adult. The Dreamcast and into the beginning of the original Xbox was the last gasp before I truly was required to grow up and do something with myself.
Got mine Christmas 99 was 14 years old! I had been working school holidays and week ends in garages from 11 years old got a massive sega collection from this! Have had a major injury and had fun playing them all again but now its about time they are sold on as need too finance moves in my recovery and try get back too being fit again sitting about gaming is a bad distraction from getting fit and strong again! I'm in the UK most stuff pal but got action replay and got few import classics like ill bleed alien front online etc!
@@micksroversmg558 best of luck on your recovery and your fitness journey. You can do it! If I can do it, ANYONE can. I lost around 95lbs of fat and gained 5lbs of muscle over the last year and a half and was at 12.5% body fat last check. I'm a whole new person I'm the mirror. I'm the person I always knew I was and thought of myself as. Nutrition is key. I workout 6 days a week and it means nothing if I'm not in a calorie deficit if my goal is to lose weight. You got this! 💪
@@nicholasadamson2103 with my comment I was more saying that I had to take on a lot of new responsibilities and just no longer thad the time I once had to play games. I'm lucky if I get a 2 hour stretch to play a game these days. A lot of days I'd be lucky to get 15 minutes. It's just different when your roll changes from being a kid with school being your only real responsibility to having to pay all your own bills and then becoming a husband and parent.
Without doubt the 1st machine that put you in an Arcade scenario, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi and Virtua Tennis, looks amazing and still do now, what a shame the machine did not last, it was so ahead of its time, SEGA , we owe you!!!
I would like to give some honorable mentions: 1.- IllBleed for Survival Horror: This game is tough, rough around the edges and extremely bizarre. It has very engaging gameplay mechanics, charming atmosphere and a lot of secrets. 2.- MDK 2 for Third Person shooter: Tight controls, great humor, soundtrack and amazing graphics. With its roster of 3 protagonists and their different gameplay styles you'll never get bored.
Great video! I felt like you could have divided the best fighter category into best 2d fighter and best 3d fighter. There were plenty of 2D fighters on the DC to be considered: MvC2, Street Fighter 3/2nd Impact/Third Strike, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, King of Fighters, Capcom vs SNK 1/2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Guilty Gears X... This would have likely thinned out the 3d candidates though 😄
I would also frequently watch Test Drive Le Mans replays. It looked incredible, with details like the bump mapped treads in the grass and the brakes glowing hot. I do wish it had more variety with tunes though.
Love all your videos! I had an NES, SNES, and N64 growing up, and missed out on soooo many amazing titles! I mean, I loved my Nintendo at the time, but titles like “Snatcher”, “Phantasy Star”, or so many of the other more adult and anime games that would have blown my pre-teen mind! And I especially regret missing out on the Saturn. That system had some great titles I’m still discovering to this day! (That “Gundam” on Saturn is excellent also!).
A lot of people don't speak highly of the Dreamcast. I have to say, I don't remember being more excited to play a console. Partially because even today, I have never owned one and most of the games are right up my alley. That and the Neo Geo are two of my favs. When games were not made to be movies but just fun games.
I second what Ty said. Redream is amazing. I still own an OG DC and I had plans on building a small station using a VGA monitor. But when I found out about Redream, I peacefully retired my DC. While the emulator is free, doing the $5 donation grants you 4K resolution and all the controller slots unlock with 2 VMUs in each. The emulator runs about 95% of the library. And out of those 95% about 90% or so runs flawless. By far the best and easiest Dreamcast emulator I have ever used
Glad you mention record of lodoss war. It's an amazing action rpg. Still so addicting today. It's weapon upgrade system is still something never seen in any other game
I am so with it when you put Resident Evil Code Veronica for best adventure! Thats game is still my favorite Resident Evil game of all time! Skies of Arcadia, Jet Grind Radio, Shenmue, Marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2, and so many more games were still some of the best times in gaming in my life.
The Dreamcast is the only Sega console I ever owned, and boy do I regret it being the only one. It was one of my favorite consoles I've ever had the privilege of playing. I played the bejesus out of Shenmue, Crazy Taxi and the 2K games. Sega deserved so much more success.
I am 11 hours into Skies of Arcadia for the first time. Took me 22 years but holy heck, this is a masterpiece of a game. It has so many small details that bring the characters to life and, frankly, it's an astonishingly beautiful game for its time (made even more so with modern tweaks). I'm going to be sad to finish this one but enjoying the ride while I can.
Lucky you… it’s a game that even when it seems to establish a pattern, it actually manages to keep picking up pace and have exciting things happen right up until the end! Even if it borrowed mechanics liberally from Final Fantasy games, I actually found Skies of Arcadia the easier one to get into and play without a walkthrough guide, and I loved all the characters and settings. It’s one flaw is the random battles… take a few steps an STOP, MONSTER TIME! That ruined the game for my wife when I shared it years later, but honestly I would rank it and Grandia II above Final Fantasy 7.
I think I'd have to say that my favorite Dreamcast game ever is Dead Or Alive 2. Stunningly beautiful, and it plays so well, too. I love being able to knock opponents down to other areas as well.
Man...I remember years ago watching my buddies duke it out on Marvel vs Capcom 2 using my friend's Dreamcast. It was hotseat fighting at its finest and we were all amazed that it looked exactly like the Arcade. Then they all tried NFL 2K2 and everyone agreed that for a football game at the time, there simply was nothing better. It was better than Madden, both graphics and gameplay, and that was enough for us. Watching this now brings back so many good Dreamcast memories, like seeing Sonic Adventure for the first time, or how enthralled I was by the gameplay and visuals of Soul Calibur. Such great games. I really hope Sega is able to release a Dreamcast Mini soon so that more people can play and appreciate these Sega masterpieces. And I'd love to see a company like Nightdive Studios do a graphical remaster of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
If a simple difference of opinion causes that type of reaction I invite you to unsubscribe and never touch the channel again. None of us grew up loving all the same games and none of us will universally pick the same ones as the best.
@@SegaLordXWasn't a super serious tone Hombre and that was a weirdly fast reply to a year old video but alright back to gamesack for me where the guys don't care if people don't like their picks and they are funny... ps Powerstone is great and you are bad for not liking it!
Getting a tone in a comment that doesn't have any indication otherwise is pretty tough - particularly one that says you're wrong and questions your channel. Having something you pour tons of time and effort into dismissed over a difference of opinion doesn't sit well with me so I tend to take comments like that seriously. And btw, I have always given Powerstone a glowing review. Nowhere on my channel have I ever claimed to dislike it.
Skies of Arcadia it’s such a underrated game what a gem I beat it yesterday the GameCube port and man a great adventure and history and the ending it’s so charming and my favorite characters got the best ending ong I wished Sega just ported to the switch I swear I’ll sell quick I know it cmon Sega
I never thought of any Resident Evil as being an adventure game, it's either action, horror, survival or puzzle. I'm surprised it even was above Shenmue in a category it even shouldn't be running for, I mean, the first Resident Evil was a very influential game for its time and Code Veronica is cool, but Shenmue, while not for everyone can't be denied as the most influential game on the console and it basically was the blueprint, and starting point of what a real next gen game could be. I know it's your personal list, Lord X, but I wanted to give my opinion about this one.
@@SegaLordX @Sega Lord X I never adopted such terms since then, "survival horror", the game is suspenseful, atmospheric and has some horror aspects to it. In basically all games you have to survive , even on Super Mario Bros. or Pac-Man. I mean, you could also have added Tomb Raider: Last Revelation there instead of Code Veronica for the Runner up, as the game also has cinematics, story and eerie atmosphere at times. In my view, Shenmue and Code Veronica are very different games, Shenmue is more akin to Omikron: The Nomad Soul as Resident Evil is to Blue Stinger. All in all, it's just a nitpick, I know the list is personal and I enjoy the channel for quite some time, years actually.
The Dreamcast was just way ahead of its time. If it were still on the go today I honestly believe I'd be a Dreamcast guy over my beloved PlayStation. I loved how the vmu's functioned like little plug in computers that you could play with outside of their memory card mode.
The Dreamcast had so many great tiles, it's hard to even choose two games for some categories. Virtua Tennis, Sega Bass Fishing, Unreal Tournament, San Francisco Rush 2049, Crazy Taxi, Phantasy Star Online, Grandia II, Bomerman Online. The list goes on. Such a great little system and even 23 years later, I still think about all the time.
My older brother use to buy blank dvds and copy Dreamcast games using a dvd burner and the games worked. We would rent games for a dollar and copy them lol
In a big dreamcast mood right now, so this is perfect. Finishing up Skies of Arcadia rn, and gonna play Soul Reaver next. Its amazing how many great games came out for this thing. If the PS5 was the Dreamcast, it would've already been discontinued back in March, and only a handful of notworthy games has come out for it. Meanwhile, I'm still hitting up Dreamcast games I've missed to this day.
Don’t let me stop you from playing the excellent Soul Reaver (gothic Tomb Raider + beat ‘em up!), BUT if you liked Skies of Arcadia, my wife and I wholeheartedly recommend seeking out “Grandia II” as well! Though it’s on just one disc vs Skies II, we were impressed with the Anime pre-rendered videos for special moves, fun music, ability to see/dodge/flank monsters before getting into a battle, the much greater quantity of voice acting vs Skies of Arcadia, and most of all the time spent developing and getting attached to the characters (same reason The Empire Strikes Back is often the most beloved Star Wars!).
pso wasnt forgotten at all it had ports on the xbox and the gamecube i even remember 4 player local coop on the gamecube version. they also had a follow up called phantasy star universe and there was a couple handheld games as well but more recent years also gave us pso2 then new genesis .the game was def not forgotten it did however change all future phantasy star games
Great video show the best the Dreamcast could offer. So happy I was able to get a copy of Dynamite Cop almost 10 years ago now. Loved Skies of Arcadia even though the random battles happened a bit too often for my liking.
Glad someone knows about giant gram, I feel alone on that one most times. Also side note, my dad wanted to play shenmue and we told him to flake off. He went to the back of the TV and put nails in the composite rca jacks 😅😅 love the Dreamcast era.
no mention for : Crazy Taxi 2, Virtua Tennis 2, Virtua Strikers, 18 Wheeler, Daytona USA, F355, HeadHunter, Ready 2 Rumble, Sega Rally, Starwars Racer, Street Figter III 3rd Strike or Vanishing Point .... those games need to be mention ! in 2024 you can mod your Dreamcast with GDEMU + an HDMI converter and continue to play on your TV. The dreamcast still have awesome graphics, and a lot of Atomiswave conversion like Metal Slug 6, Dolphin Blue, Maximum Speed, etc ... Sega is still alive
Just bought one with those mods it should be here any day. The last time I played Dreamcast was around 2003. I can't wait to play all those great games. I all so got a microphone so I can hatch me a new Sea- Man.The Atomiswave games look great. It looks better than I remember with the new upgrades. 👍 SEGA
This was a great episode Sir, always love hearing others opinions on their favorite games, definitely loved how you wrapped it up by picking Rival Schools 2 as the best 'exclusive'😎
My all time favourite console, closely followed by the saturn. So much nostalgia for both. I feel that Skies Of Arcadia would be a perfect fit for a port to the switch. Shame its never happened.
I don't know if it is pure nostalgia. But I still find Dreamcast games to look REALLY attractive. It's something about that raw, clean rasterized polygon look together with 60fps gameplay that still holds up today. The texture capabilities of the Dreamcast together with vertex shaded 3D graphics, and VGA output results in such a nice presentation. With that being said. The Dreamcast could do SO MUCH more, which we unfortunately never saw on the platform. We saw some instances. Quake III used baked lighting with light- and shadowmaps (which can still be seen in attractive modern games like "The Last of Us"). That game also used multi-texturing, fog effects etc. The only thing we didn't see on the Dreamcast was normal maps (bump mapping), a feature it supported, but was never used in games. Also, very few games used the 32:1 texture compression technique which would basically allow 64MB worth of textures on the 8MB of VRAM as long as they were 16-color paletted textures... This might sound bad, but if you think about it, how many colors do you REALLY need to make an attractive rock texture, or an attractive grass texture. 16 colors is really enough for that sort of thing. :)
@@Bloodyshinta1 I am currently working on an indie game myself but it targets a ubiart kind of artstyle and it would be hard to convert it to the Dreamcast without a complete re-write of the engine. unfortunately. And also, the engine expects around 512MB of VRAM, the graphics currently far exceeds what the DC is capable of. But it would be cool to have it on the Dreamcast as well xD The biggest issue making retro games is that engines today are far too advanced, and the game engines of old are not accessible anymore (due to the proprietary nature of them). You can start developing for the Dreamcast with KalistiOS. There are several homebrew channels out there. Developing a 3D engine for the machine yourself is a daunting task and require exceptionally good knowledge in C/C++/ assembly as well as advanced mathematics. But the thing is, you would be stuck developing an engine and not a game. With that being said, one thing that could be done is to port Quake III to the dreamcast... this isn't as straight forward as people might think. porting an engine is a huge task, and for it to work you need to reprogram memory management, even the rendering, since the DCs don't have a modern GPU. it has a CPU and a "graphics accelerator". The CPU sorts and sends vertices data to the GPU for it to rasterize with textures and lighting. The Quake Engine might have support for this, but I haven't looked into it. You would also need to reprogram texture reading, as DC has it's own unique format, you would need to rip and convert all textures to DC format... What's good about Quake III engine is that it is open source, it utilizes most techniques the Dreamcast had access to (vertex lighting, multi-texturing, fog etc.) However, it has pretty terrible character rendering with limitations of how many triangels each part of the character can have. And if you would like to do something a bit more impressive, that part of the engine would need to be rewritten as well. And with this being said, you haven't even started developing a game yet. :)
The Typing Of The Dead (I even bought 2 original DC keyboards just for that marvel of a game), Power Stone 2, Crazy Taxi, Samba de Amigo (With 2 sets of original Maracas), The House Of The Dead 2 (again, 2 guns) and possibly my all time favorite - Soul Caliber - delivered hours upon hours of joy together with a long list of other DC gems. The whole "arcade perfect-port"-dimension of that console was just amazing.
Agreed! Sure, they don’t look photorealistic… but for the first time, it didn’t look like the console was struggling to run 3D. PS1 was blocky, pixelated, and you just had to accept that even the best polygon game would have wobbly polygons and distorted textures (though I get that some people have nostalgia for this pioneering “look”). When things got moving fast, such as in the first Wipeout game, all the pixelated textures would camouflage like zebras and it was really hard to “read” what was going on and separating backgrounds from walls. N64 ran a bit smoother and careful artistic choices such as in Mario 64 were a masterclass in how to “read” what objects you were looking at, but the output was fuzzy to hide the blocks. However, the Dreamcast could be played with no haze, it had great antialiasing to clean up jaggies, and they were able to do 3D models with a quality (and smooth framerate) that lets the games hold up as well as cartoons or “digital drawings” (which, imo, the 16 bit era games achieved with sprites, so I was all to happy to stick with the Genesis and my friend’s Super Nintendo until the Dreamcast came out and did justice to 3D).
I love your videos and these were the main reason why I bought a sega saturn the last time I went to japan (I also bought dodonpachi and radiant silvergun) I was able to experience the sega dreamcast since its launch and even though I loved Resident Evil Code Veronica I must say that Shenmue for me was a game that broke paradigms for its time and I keep a special place for it in my heart.
Great list! It really is such a terrific library of games, Sega left the console market with a huge bang. The only thing I would change is to put Grandia 2 in the RPG category, I love that game and it's way better on Dreamcast than any of the ports.
You put a ton of thought into this. This could only be made by somebody who was actually there at the time and cares about the subject. This is why I love this channel.
Test Drive Le Mans was/is an insane tech showpiece. Tremendous fun, beautiful graphics. Toss-up between this game and Sega Rally 2 for best racing game on the console.
@@SegaLordX Resident Evil was just another dime a dozen action game. Shenmue on the other hand was Sega's unique ground breaking singular achievement. Nobody had ever seen anything like that before. When you think Sega.. you think Sonic, you think Virtua Fighter, and you think Shenmue. Shenmue *is* Sega. Resident Evil is just a Capcom game that gets released on every system all the time, and Code Veronica isn't even the best Resident Evil game. Shenmue was a game changer though, it was a moment in time that made everyone in the world respect the power of the Dreamcast and the craftsmanship of Sega. It literally blew people's minds. Family and friends would be watching me play and they'd ask what I was doing: "Oh I'm late for work." "Wait.. you have a job?!" "Yeah, and I gotta find a place to train my moves on my break, get to the bottom of a few mysteries, get in a few fights, and I gotta remember to stop by the store on the way home to get some cat food to feed this stray cat I'm helping, but I don't wanna get home too late or Ine San will worry." And people just couldn't believe it. They would be like "woah.. this is like real life!" Meanwhile Resident Evil just sat on the shelf collecting dust, nobody wanted to play it.
Shenmue was special, but I think you are short-changing Code Veronica. It was one of the best-selling games on the platform, so plenty of people wanted to play it. Me included.
I really have to put Puyo Puyo~n (aka Puyo Puyo 4) over Fever. It was one of the last chapters of old-school Puyo before things got overly cutesy with the modern era of the series, and it brought the idea of character-specific special attacks to the franchise, which I think was a more interesting twist to the competitive side of Puyo. Also, the game supported up to four player versus, and I think multiplayer Puyo on that level (or even the 8-player mode on NDS) is beautiful chaos. Also, in terms of puzzle games, I have to give a special shout-out to the little known but awesome Japanese release Get Colonies.
The fact that only now in 2023, on a new hd 1080p tv and watching pretty closeup... The DC graphics are starting to look slightly dated is quite a testament to the greatness of the machine considering it's 25 year old technology. Imo most Dreamcast games look better than early to midlife PS2 games, better anti aliasing and imo better use of colors.
Dreamcast is one the best and last of the Sega console,and this one alone has brought such library of games that people have played the most. We should all appreciate that how much of an impact it made back in 1998.
Your list seems spot on. I still think the Dreamcast is an awesome console. Shenmue 1 and 2,as well as Soul Calibur, DOA2,RE Code:Veronica, Blue Stinger, Carrier, RE2,RE3,and Dino Crisis had me sold on it.
After owning all the consoles from 1990 onwards, due to work commitments, I dropped console gaming when the Saturn came out, I never bought it and skipped a generation. The Dreamcast got me back into console gaming, Metropolitan Street Racer in particular blew me away, easily my favourite racer of all time. Completing Shenmue was a spiritual experience for me!
I sold my Dreamcast collection last year. I made around $8,000. I don't regret my decision mainly because of how I feel about the retro game collecting scene these days. That, and my other interests outweighed the hobby. But watching your vids, SXL, makes me miss these games just a little bit 🤏😏. This system will always hold a special place in my heart.
I'm glad to see someone covering Spider-Man. A very underrated game in my opinion that people don't talk about much, and when they do, they tend to forget that it had a Dreamcast port which as you say, was a big upgrade over the PlayStation original. I truly think it's one of the best Spider-Man games ever made, even if it is fairly simple by today's standards. Truly one of my favourite games on the Dreamcast, and the PlayStation, and the N64.
The Dreamcast had the monumental task of pioneering how the upcoming generation of games would be formed and the results are super interesting. Even the stuff that turned out to be a strange one off still has a ton of personality to it. I still recall getting the system for a hell of a deal only for the announcement the next month they were going to stop supporting it. But still made sure to check out all the excellent stuff that flew under the radar.
Not a fan of the source material for Berserk!?!? Dude.....Berserk is so dark, and absolutely amazing. I love it. I'm really surprised you don't like it.I consider it one of the best manga/anime of all time.
DAYTONA USA should be listed as the best racing game. It is still a unique and challenging game that anyone can still enjoy in modern times because of its charm and unique style.
this might not click with many people, but one game on dreamcast, or rather two of them, really impressed me: 1- MAKEN-X , that game looked insane good at the time, i mean it was an atlus game, like a persona but in first person with graphics to die for, it was remade on ps2 but didn't look the same. 2- now this is the shocker, RING on dreamcast, sure, it is a shit game, but it was one of those good shit games, it had the classic feel of a R.E game, same clunky controls, but man, it was fun and the twist was so good, and i really really enjoyed it so much. maybe we can add SWORD OF THE BERSERKER to my list, also a good game. and yes, i love bad games a lot.
This was the first home console that actually felt like you had an arcade machine in your living room . It’s tragic what happened to Sega .
*hats off* yeah a total shame. No other console had this many phenominal games and the highest "great to crap" ratio
But the memories and the experiences were second to none
Forgot about the Neo Geo?
Agreed, 3D era wise this was the first 🥇 true arcade experience @ home 🏠
The Genesis had those feelz for me.
It’s absolutely incredible how good Dreamcast still looks in 2022 on VGA. The games look fresh over 20 years later!
I think it's the color palette, brightness and crisp presentation that's universal in almost every game. I find them visually brighter than most games. Including versions of the same game ported to other systems.
@@patrickmartin7692 And I think that's because of the era it was released in. The Dreamcast was launched in 1999, and was discontinued in early 2001. A few months before 9/11 happened, and took away the 90's vibe of optimism and joy.
I think the Dreamcast is an oddity in the sense that it has PS2-era graphics, but it's definitely a product of the 90's. And it shows, even in the color palette.
@@fedeac31 the GameCube and Wii had plenty of optimistic/joyous vibes
It was a scam that PS2 dominated this console era. Dreamcast and GameCube games looked so much better than PS2 games, and it’s not close. The power of Sony’s marketing…
Is there a specific VGA or HDMI cable you use? I tried the Kaico ones but they zoom and slightly crop the image and this annoys me! I'm in the UK and wondered if the cables are all designed for NTSC systems?
I don't think people who have never played the dreamcast, can truly understand the feeling that came with a lot of the games.
True! I remember playing Soul Calibur for the very first time on Dreamcast, and it was BEAUTIFUL! hehe
The graphics, the sound, the gameplay… glorious days.
I'm sure of that. But, the controller feels horrible, dude.
so true 🥲…. it was such a dream machine… full of endless possibilities & mystery…. i remember it was the first time i seen a console packaged in the box with a harder egg cardboard material Lol, it was strange.m, but the system looked so darn clean, solid and beautiful…. it made anyone really proud to own one🥲.. i can go on…. see, my older brother bought it and i became owner of our ps1…. so he wouldn’t let me touch it LOL. i don’t blame him; i was a total brat and the dreamcast was his baby.. i remember watching him playing sonic adventure just enjoying all of it and not believing that a game could look that damm good. and then watching him playing shemmue🥲🥲, wow those were some times …. later when he bought a ps2 then the dreamcast became mine and ♥️🔥& boy did i loved it…. i miss those momentos and miss my brother😢
That's the thing... The "feeling"... It just blew everything else away, most people don't understand just how much of a leap forward it was.
I played the Dreamcast once, at my cousins' house. Sonic Adventure looked so fantastic - in my memories. Sonic Adventure DX doesn't look nearly as good on my PC now. Well, the fact that it was on a CRT TV back in the day might have something to do with it as well.
Power Stone 2, Capcom vs. SNK 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Shenmue, Quake III: Arena, Soul Caliber, House of the Dead 2, Jet Set Radio, Under Defeat, Sonic Adventure...Sega Dreamcast really had it all, and my list was barely scratching the surface.
My list is very similar. I would've only added Tomb Raider Last Revelation to the mix. That game was gorgeous, especially in comparison to the PS1 version
And, don't forget, *LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!*
Crazy taxi
Toy Commander, Army Men Serge's Heroes, Red Dog, GigaWing 2 Fur Fighters LeMans, Sega GT...
True
The Sega Dreamcast only lasted 18 months in North America (from September '99 to March 2001, officially). But in that very short period of time it managed a couple of neat things:
- It pioneered Online Gaming for home consoles (something at that point that was only found with personal computers); which I think ultimately is - to this day - the greatest contribution it did.
- It _truly_ brought the "Arcade Experience Home". In fact, it did just that so well that the Dreamcast in North America was the nail in the coffin for the majority of Arcade places at the time.
- Perhaps arguably (but I don't think it is arguable) the Sega Dreamcast had the best home console Launch of all time, with no less than 19 games on the first day.
- It had, overall, a fantastic games library achieved within just that 18 months period (or from the release of the Japanese version with 600+ games for all Regions); which is astounding to me.
To this day I keep wondering how many more games could have been made for the Dreamcast had perhaps the PlayStation 2 not been released for another year and a half or two. If the Dreamcast would have 'stayed on the shelves' so to speak up to maybe mid to late 2003 instead of 2001, what else could we have seen for it.
It was a great console. For me personally I'd place it extremely close 2nd only next to the mighty Sega Genesis, which I think is still the best console Sega ever made. But the Dreamcast was a formidable system and quite a way to go as well for being the last console of the company. I'm sure Sega is proud of what they did accomplish with the system even if on a business side of the view they might think it was mostly a failure. In the hearts of actual gamers out there the Dreamcast was a definitive winner.
This actually brought a tear to my eyes reading this.I freaking miss my Dreamcast so much
Dreamcast was my 3rd favourite Sega console after the Saturn and Mega Drive. The biggest let down was lack of showing from Konami. I would have wished the chance to play MGS 1-3 on the DC and Pro Evo Soccer.
Agreed!!
@@Retrohut305 you can get a good on one ebay!
Yep!
The Dreamcast still has amazing graphics. Seeing it run Sonic Adventure in 1998 was mind blowing 🤯
Guilty Gear X was the best looking 2D fighter on the Dreamcast and was true HD.
A lot of people including myself got dizzy from sonic adventure lol
Guilty Gear X was definitely my favorite fighter on the system, followed by Capcom vs SNK and Power Stone. I'm not sure Soul Calibur cracks the top 10 in that genre for me on Dreamcast!
@Dave Davies Sorry man. I grew up with a CRT and I always figured 480p was HD. I guess it technically isn’t. My bad.
@@shaggymcdaniel3216 I think it has to do with the fact that 320*200 (or 320*256 PAL) that Systems like SNES, Genesis and Amiga had (most of the time) was called 'low-res' and 640*400 was called 'High-res' .
I played Sonic adventure all day and night until I finished it as soonest as it came out! Loved that game
I loved my Dreamcast. was very underrated. i wish Sega would just shock the world and release a new high end console that competes. even if it wasnt the best but still competed, i would 100% buy one. Long live Sega
I do think it was underated back then .
But now that I have one (with an ODE ), I actually think that nowdays it is Overated.
Many games play better on other consoles, the controller was awful and having only 1 stick killed many games (looking at virtual on).
It had good games, yeah. But those games cant carry the massive nostalgia and utter ultra positive descriptions this console gets.
It is a fine console. Thats it.
@@fernandomartinez4486 i agree, the dreamcast is one of the most hyped consoles ever. im not saying its bad. i am saying its good. but also saying its hyped up. even if sega did shit on the fans ill still always love my sega consoles. they have a charm about them that just didnt exist elsewhere
the market has changed alot since dreamcast. It was strong on arcade ports which are phased out now days.
I wouldn't They would just eventually give up on it like the DreamCast
@@patrickbrooks7435 not like Sega choose to give up on the dreamcast. They literally were going close to negative and to save on costs went multiplatform along with getting a generous 500 mil donation to stay alive.
Amazing that with all these categories Power Stone 1 or 2 didn't get mentioned. Goes to show the strength of the library. I was a PlayStation kid so going back in time now as a 40 year old and discovering these games for the first time has been a blast.
I don't blame SegaLord, it's tough to pick favorites quite frequently with Dreamcast titles. I have the fondest memories playing Power Stone 2 with my old neighbors.... 4 player always, because everyone wanted to play.
I’m so sad I didn’t pick up Powerstone 2 or Marvel vs Capcom 2 back in the heyday, but my mom didn’t allow me to buy fighting games. “Training to beat up girls, to think violence is sexy” she would say (Imagine her horror when she caught me playing Dead or Alive 2… I swear it only looked like the girls were programmed to lose because we were playing versus and my friend wasn’t as good as me!!), but I played the Powerstone demo on the pack-in disk over and OVER AND OVER…
I mean, he considered Shenmue an action game instead of an RPG and as a runner up.
Take this list with a grain of salt.
YESSSSSS possibly the best games for dreamcast honestly. I remember playing the mini games on the memory cards too😂
@@evshrugthe only unrealistic part of DOA is that women being able to beat men in fighting is pure fantasy. Just like the way their bewbs bounce around like they’re in reduced gravity.
Still one of my favorite systems to this day. I was a huge supporter of the Saturn as well, but when the Dreamcast launched it was such a marvel to me.
Playing a system with arcade graphics. The crisp clear visuals, the VMU which was incredible (especially sports titles while picking a play against friends) was awesome.
Online out of the box, phenomenal games etc. The Dreamcast will always hold a special place for me.
The Dreamcast and Vita were two systems I wish would have lasted long than they did.
Great video as always!! I agree with all of your choices 👍🏻
As a car guy, test drive Le Mans was so far ahead of it’s time, and still plays phenomenal today. Still play it often 🙂
That's why the Vita Flycast emulator is almost at his 70%! Beacause the huge impact the console have in our hearts!💖💎.Thanks to rinnegatamante, Bythos and the rest of the homebrew comunity keeping this jewel alive 21 years later, not only in new modern hardware, but in our hearts still🙏🏾💖💎
I recall my dad seeing the specs on the dreamcast and said wow! We were in Toys 'R Us and he then looked at the price and yelled out, "WOW!!"
Loved my Dreamcast. The sports games blew away the competition and the fighters were top notch too . My favorites were CANNON SPIKE, SHENMUE & NBA2k
Love this channel ☺️ reminds me of the games I use to play but had forgotten. I still have my DC with all the accessories, extra controllers everything I use 2 burn games on to CDs years ago lol but now have forgotten how to do all that. I will pull it out some time & play it. I loved Dead Or Alive 2, Garou, Star Gladiator 2: Nightmare of Bilstein etc .. good times
After the dreamcast was abandoned by Sega I was downloading games constantly. I think there were a couple programs I had to use to combine bin and isolated files, then a very specific program to burn them. I forget too.
Rival schools 2
Earlier, I was at school with a classmate and a teacher playing Soul Calibur, and I just absent-mindedly said "You can tell this is an arcade game." I think that sums up why Dreamcast is my favorites. I enjoy fast-paced, arcadey games.
Record of Lodoswar is one of my favorite dreamcast games. Still fire it up every few years. Fantastic game.
i play it 2 hours last week to discover this gem? he is boring , just smash and heal , lot of fps drop, ugly textures , sounds of the boots all the time, music boring always the same
... but good voice and narration.
Quake 3 also supported the BBA for online play. I'm not into playing games online these days, but back then it was pretty cool. I'd always PWN the complete losers who only had a wimpy dial up modem because they were poor (kidding). Outtrigger supported the BBA as well but I just couldn't get as into it, but at least it was uniquely Sega.
My Dreamcast is still hooked up and proudly displayed as the centerpiece of my gaming cabinet. Tech Romancer as a 1v1 fighting game. Armada as a shoot’em up/RPG hybrid. Airforce Delta as a 3d flight combat simulator. Sega’s swan song has so many great games that went under everybody’s radar, never mind the big titles it’s most well known for, and the ones mentioned in the video.
Awesome
Christmas Bundle with NBA/MLB/NFL 2k is why i went with Dreamcast. No one i knew had it, but to get those 3 sport games on n64 would have been more expensive. So, asked for the Dreamcast for Christmas. Childhood was saved because of that move. Sonic, 2k, Bass Fishing, Toy Commander, and that one Golf game.
I just bought my first ever sega Saturn because of all the great videos you've put on you tube. I was always a PS1 nerd until I got the Dreamcast. Thanks bro for awesome content.
The PS1 was a cool pioneer, and the fuzzy Nintendo 64’s small library had a high ratio of golden games, but the Dreamcast was the first console where I felt the graphics were smooth and 3D was done well enough that the graphics looked like art instead of a struggle to run, and hold up as well today as a cartoon would.
I didn't get a dreamcast until I was 28 (last year), living over 2,200 miles away from home but something about it makes me feel like I'm in my old room at my parents' house as an 8 year old again. It's a really special console.
The quirkiest console, with the vibeiest games ever. Dreamcast had such vibe, it really embodied the era with it's unique offerings more than any other system.
What is the vibe? Imagine if I said Dreamcast is just an emotion. Use your words we have a vast vocabulary describe what you feel and think. Paint a picture with your words.
@@Falcon_Serbiait had a little more of a polished feel that made you feel like you were actually in an arcade. Had something distinctly imported feeling about it, like you had a system that you got from Japan that no one else knew about. I want to say it was a tad cheaper than ps2 as well. Sega always had a tad bit sharper graphics than Nintendo and PS
Man I miss these days and this hardware. This is when, in my life, games started to take a back seat to being an adult. The Dreamcast and into the beginning of the original Xbox was the last gasp before I truly was required to grow up and do something with myself.
Got mine Christmas 99 was 14 years old! I had been working school holidays and week ends in garages from 11 years old got a massive sega collection from this! Have had a major injury and had fun playing them all again but now its about time they are sold on as need too finance moves in my recovery and try get back too being fit again sitting about gaming is a bad distraction from getting fit and strong again! I'm in the UK most stuff pal but got action replay and got few import classics like ill bleed alien front online etc!
@@micksroversmg558 best of luck on your recovery and your fitness journey. You can do it! If I can do it, ANYONE can. I lost around 95lbs of fat and gained 5lbs of muscle over the last year and a half and was at 12.5% body fat last check. I'm a whole new person I'm the mirror. I'm the person I always knew I was and thought of myself as. Nutrition is key. I workout 6 days a week and it means nothing if I'm not in a calorie deficit if my goal is to lose weight. You got this! 💪
@@MasaCheez Thanks means a lot every day another battle be mental or physical!
I don't know why it's such a stigma to play games as an adult.
@@nicholasadamson2103 with my comment I was more saying that I had to take on a lot of new responsibilities and just no longer thad the time I once had to play games. I'm lucky if I get a 2 hour stretch to play a game these days. A lot of days I'd be lucky to get 15 minutes. It's just different when your roll changes from being a kid with school being your only real responsibility to having to pay all your own bills and then becoming a husband and parent.
Without doubt the 1st machine that put you in an Arcade scenario, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi and Virtua Tennis, looks amazing and still do now, what a shame the machine did not last, it was so ahead of its time, SEGA , we owe you!!!
Vurtua tennis to this day is still the best tennis game I've ever played and still ridiculously fun with friends
I would like to give some honorable mentions:
1.- IllBleed for Survival Horror: This game is tough, rough around the edges and extremely bizarre. It has very engaging gameplay mechanics, charming atmosphere and a lot of secrets.
2.- MDK 2 for Third Person shooter: Tight controls, great humor, soundtrack and amazing graphics. With its roster of 3 protagonists and their different gameplay styles you'll never get bored.
Great video! I felt like you could have divided the best fighter category into best 2d fighter and best 3d fighter. There were plenty of 2D fighters on the DC to be considered: MvC2, Street Fighter 3/2nd Impact/Third Strike, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, King of Fighters, Capcom vs SNK 1/2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Guilty Gears X...
This would have likely thinned out the 3d candidates though 😄
I would also frequently watch Test Drive Le Mans replays. It looked incredible, with details like the bump mapped treads in the grass and the brakes glowing hot. I do wish it had more variety with tunes though.
Being a day-one buyer, a lot of these titles bring back nostalgia. Top 3 system ever for me for sure, up there with the SNES no doubt.
Power stone games were so cool! Loved skies of Arcadia! Great video. I want to buy a Dreamcast again 😅
Love all your videos! I had an NES, SNES, and N64 growing up, and missed out on soooo many amazing titles! I mean, I loved my Nintendo at the time, but titles like “Snatcher”, “Phantasy Star”, or so many of the other more adult and anime games that would have blown my pre-teen mind! And I especially regret missing out on the Saturn. That system had some great titles I’m still discovering to this day! (That “Gundam” on Saturn is excellent also!).
A lot of people don't speak highly of the Dreamcast. I have to say, I don't remember being more excited to play a console. Partially because even today, I have never owned one and most of the games are right up my alley. That and the Neo Geo are two of my favs. When games were not made to be movies but just fun games.
I missed owning this piece of classic. I really wish they make a classic version of this console
Yes even though I still have my Dreamcast and many games, that would be a day 1 purchase.
Until then, check out the Redream emulator!
@@tyn3117 aye!
I second what Ty said. Redream is amazing. I still own an OG DC and I had plans on building a small station using a VGA monitor. But when I found out about Redream, I peacefully retired my DC. While the emulator is free, doing the $5 donation grants you 4K resolution and all the controller slots unlock with 2 VMUs in each. The emulator runs about 95% of the library. And out of those 95% about 90% or so runs flawless. By far the best and easiest Dreamcast emulator I have ever used
@@NewLevel84 sounds good
Glad you mention record of lodoss war. It's an amazing action rpg. Still so addicting today. It's weapon upgrade system is still something never seen in any other game
I am so with it when you put Resident Evil Code Veronica for best adventure! Thats game is still my favorite Resident Evil game of all time! Skies of Arcadia, Jet Grind Radio, Shenmue, Marvel vs Capcom 1 and 2, and so many more games were still some of the best times in gaming in my life.
So happy to see Dynamite Cop making the list! I had the first one though, never experienced the second. But what I did have was fun as hell.
Hydro Thunder finally felt like what I was playing in the arcade, sans the wheel and pedals.
The Dreamcast is the only Sega console I ever owned, and boy do I regret it being the only one. It was one of my favorite consoles I've ever had the privilege of playing. I played the bejesus out of Shenmue, Crazy Taxi and the 2K games. Sega deserved so much more success.
I am 11 hours into Skies of Arcadia for the first time. Took me 22 years but holy heck, this is a masterpiece of a game. It has so many small details that bring the characters to life and, frankly, it's an astonishingly beautiful game for its time (made even more so with modern tweaks). I'm going to be sad to finish this one but enjoying the ride while I can.
Lucky you… it’s a game that even when it seems to establish a pattern, it actually manages to keep picking up pace and have exciting things happen right up until the end!
Even if it borrowed mechanics liberally from Final Fantasy games, I actually found Skies of Arcadia the easier one to get into and play without a walkthrough guide, and I loved all the characters and settings. It’s one flaw is the random battles… take a few steps an STOP, MONSTER TIME! That ruined the game for my wife when I shared it years later, but honestly I would rank it and Grandia II above Final Fantasy 7.
@@evshrugthe random batalles are so insanely frequent. Would be a perfect game if they toned that down by 70%
Great game but too frequent random battles. I could always hear the GD drive before the graphics showed the battle. GC version reduced them by half
I think I'd have to say that my favorite Dreamcast game ever is Dead Or Alive 2. Stunningly beautiful, and it plays so well, too. I love being able to knock opponents down to other areas as well.
I was blown away by it back then.
Man...I remember years ago watching my buddies duke it out on Marvel vs Capcom 2 using my friend's Dreamcast. It was hotseat fighting at its finest and we were all amazed that it looked exactly like the Arcade. Then they all tried NFL 2K2 and everyone agreed that for a football game at the time, there simply was nothing better. It was better than Madden, both graphics and gameplay, and that was enough for us. Watching this now brings back so many good Dreamcast memories, like seeing Sonic Adventure for the first time, or how enthralled I was by the gameplay and visuals of Soul Calibur. Such great games. I really hope Sega is able to release a Dreamcast Mini soon so that more people can play and appreciate these Sega masterpieces. And I'd love to see a company like Nightdive Studios do a graphical remaster of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver.
Surprised there was no PSO on here. How many great games were left out shows you how awesome the Dreamcast really was!
Fantastic, looking forward to a Saturn version
There aren't many times I say opinion videos are wrong, but not having POWERSTONE as the best fighting game has made me rethink this channel!
If a simple difference of opinion causes that type of reaction I invite you to unsubscribe and never touch the channel again. None of us grew up loving all the same games and none of us will universally pick the same ones as the best.
@@SegaLordXWasn't a super serious tone Hombre and that was a weirdly fast reply to a year old video but alright back to gamesack for me where the guys don't care if people don't like their picks and they are funny... ps Powerstone is great and you are bad for not liking it!
Getting a tone in a comment that doesn't have any indication otherwise is pretty tough - particularly one that says you're wrong and questions your channel. Having something you pour tons of time and effort into dismissed over a difference of opinion doesn't sit well with me so I tend to take comments like that seriously.
And btw, I have always given Powerstone a glowing review. Nowhere on my channel have I ever claimed to dislike it.
He did say in a different video that power stone and power stone 2 are Great games and they need to make a part 3
Skies of Arcadia it’s such a underrated game what a gem I beat it yesterday the GameCube port and man a great adventure and history and the ending it’s so charming and my favorite characters got the best ending ong I wished Sega just ported to the switch I swear I’ll sell quick I know it cmon Sega
I got this console for my birthday in 1999.. I had Blue Stinger and House of the Dead when I bought mine.. still have it lol..
Blue stinger was awesome
I never thought of any Resident Evil as being an adventure game, it's either action, horror, survival or puzzle. I'm surprised it even was above Shenmue in a category it even shouldn't be running for, I mean, the first Resident Evil was a very influential game for its time and Code Veronica is cool, but Shenmue, while not for everyone can't be denied as the most influential game on the console and it basically was the blueprint, and starting point of what a real next gen game could be.
I know it's your personal list, Lord X, but I wanted to give my opinion about this one.
Survival horror is absolutely a subgenre of the adventure genre.
@@SegaLordX @Sega Lord X I never adopted such terms since then, "survival horror", the game is suspenseful, atmospheric and has some horror aspects to it. In basically all games you have to survive , even on Super Mario Bros. or Pac-Man.
I mean, you could also have added Tomb Raider: Last Revelation there instead of Code Veronica for the Runner up, as the game also has cinematics, story and eerie atmosphere at times. In my view, Shenmue and Code Veronica are very different games, Shenmue is more akin to Omikron: The Nomad Soul as Resident Evil is to Blue Stinger.
All in all, it's just a nitpick, I know the list is personal and I enjoy the channel for quite some time, years actually.
The Dreamcast was just way ahead of its time. If it were still on the go today I honestly believe I'd be a Dreamcast guy over my beloved PlayStation. I loved how the vmu's functioned like little plug in computers that you could play with outside of their memory card mode.
The Dreamcast had so many great tiles, it's hard to even choose two games for some categories. Virtua Tennis, Sega Bass Fishing, Unreal Tournament, San Francisco Rush 2049, Crazy Taxi, Phantasy Star Online, Grandia II, Bomerman Online. The list goes on. Such a great little system and even 23 years later, I still think about all the time.
Hell, I still play PSO on Dreamcast since it's so easy to get online and do a few levels or counter missions with folks.
My older brother use to buy blank dvds and copy Dreamcast games using a dvd burner and the games worked. We would rent games for a dollar and copy them lol
Ah dreamcast, how we miss thee...what you could've been
Man! These Dreamcast graphics were ahead of it's time, some of them still look better than most new sony games LOL..
In a big dreamcast mood right now, so this is perfect. Finishing up Skies of Arcadia rn, and gonna play Soul Reaver next. Its amazing how many great games came out for this thing. If the PS5 was the Dreamcast, it would've already been discontinued back in March, and only a handful of notworthy games has come out for it. Meanwhile, I'm still hitting up Dreamcast games I've missed to this day.
Don’t let me stop you from playing the excellent Soul Reaver (gothic Tomb Raider + beat ‘em up!), BUT if you liked Skies of Arcadia, my wife and I wholeheartedly recommend seeking out “Grandia II” as well! Though it’s on just one disc vs Skies II, we were impressed with the Anime pre-rendered videos for special moves, fun music, ability to see/dodge/flank monsters before getting into a battle, the much greater quantity of voice acting vs Skies of Arcadia, and most of all the time spent developing and getting attached to the characters (same reason The Empire Strikes Back is often the most beloved Star Wars!).
@@evshrug I've always wanted to check out Grandia II, but never new much about it beyond the basics of its combat. I'll add it to the list, thanks!
One system I never got rid of. One was destroyed in a move but the second is still running strong. Love the DreamCast.
In my opinion, online games deserved a spot in the video. Pso was so ground breaking for it's time and severely forgotten
pso wasnt forgotten at all it had ports on the xbox and the gamecube i even remember 4 player local coop on the gamecube version. they also had a follow up called phantasy star universe and there was a couple handheld games as well but more recent years also gave us pso2 then new genesis .the game was def not forgotten it did however change all future phantasy star games
NFL Blitz and NBA Showtime needs to be on here. Plus the crazy taxi
Great video show the best the Dreamcast could offer. So happy I was able to get a copy of Dynamite Cop almost 10 years ago now. Loved Skies of Arcadia even though the random battles happened a bit too often for my liking.
Glad someone knows about giant gram, I feel alone on that one most times. Also side note, my dad wanted to play shenmue and we told him to flake off. He went to the back of the TV and put nails in the composite rca jacks 😅😅 love the Dreamcast era.
'Soul Calibur' on DC was better than the arcade version even 🤩
no mention for : Crazy Taxi 2, Virtua Tennis 2, Virtua Strikers, 18 Wheeler, Daytona USA, F355, HeadHunter, Ready 2 Rumble, Sega Rally, Starwars Racer, Street Figter III 3rd Strike or Vanishing Point .... those games need to be mention ! in 2024 you can mod your Dreamcast with GDEMU + an HDMI converter and continue to play on your TV. The dreamcast still have awesome graphics, and a lot of Atomiswave conversion like Metal Slug 6, Dolphin Blue, Maximum Speed, etc ... Sega is still alive
Just bought one with those mods it should be here any day. The last time I played Dreamcast was around 2003.
I can't wait to play all those great games. I all so got a microphone so I can hatch me a new Sea- Man.The Atomiswave games look great.
It looks better than I remember with the new upgrades. 👍 SEGA
This was a great episode Sir, always love hearing others opinions on their favorite games, definitely loved how you wrapped it up by picking Rival Schools 2 as the best 'exclusive'😎
My all time favourite console, closely followed by the saturn. So much nostalgia for both. I feel that Skies Of Arcadia would be a perfect fit for a port to the switch. Shame its never happened.
I don't know if it is pure nostalgia. But I still find Dreamcast games to look REALLY attractive. It's something about that raw, clean rasterized polygon look together with 60fps gameplay that still holds up today. The texture capabilities of the Dreamcast together with vertex shaded 3D graphics, and VGA output results in such a nice presentation. With that being said. The Dreamcast could do SO MUCH more, which we unfortunately never saw on the platform.
We saw some instances. Quake III used baked lighting with light- and shadowmaps (which can still be seen in attractive modern games like "The Last of Us"). That game also used multi-texturing, fog effects etc. The only thing we didn't see on the Dreamcast was normal maps (bump mapping), a feature it supported, but was never used in games. Also, very few games used the 32:1 texture compression technique which would basically allow 64MB worth of textures on the 8MB of VRAM as long as they were 16-color paletted textures... This might sound bad, but if you think about it, how many colors do you REALLY need to make an attractive rock texture, or an attractive grass texture. 16 colors is really enough for that sort of thing. :)
so when are you making a homebrew game with all these techniques? and what do you need me to learn how to do to make it happen?
@@Bloodyshinta1 I am currently working on an indie game myself but it targets a ubiart kind of artstyle and it would be hard to convert it to the Dreamcast without a complete re-write of the engine. unfortunately. And also, the engine expects around 512MB of VRAM, the graphics currently far exceeds what the DC is capable of. But it would be cool to have it on the Dreamcast as well xD
The biggest issue making retro games is that engines today are far too advanced, and the game engines of old are not accessible anymore (due to the proprietary nature of them). You can start developing for the Dreamcast with KalistiOS. There are several homebrew channels out there. Developing a 3D engine for the machine yourself is a daunting task and require exceptionally good knowledge in C/C++/ assembly as well as advanced mathematics. But the thing is, you would be stuck developing an engine and not a game. With that being said, one thing that could be done is to port Quake III to the dreamcast... this isn't as straight forward as people might think. porting an engine is a huge task, and for it to work you need to reprogram memory management, even the rendering, since the DCs don't have a modern GPU. it has a CPU and a "graphics accelerator". The CPU sorts and sends vertices data to the GPU for it to rasterize with textures and lighting. The Quake Engine might have support for this, but I haven't looked into it. You would also need to reprogram texture reading, as DC has it's own unique format, you would need to rip and convert all textures to DC format...
What's good about Quake III engine is that it is open source, it utilizes most techniques the Dreamcast had access to (vertex lighting, multi-texturing, fog etc.) However, it has pretty terrible character rendering with limitations of how many triangels each part of the character can have. And if you would like to do something a bit more impressive, that part of the engine would need to be rewritten as well.
And with this being said, you haven't even started developing a game yet. :)
@@PixelShade ask John Carmack, ge might tell you lol
SLX: "Would you like to see more of [this content concept"
My answer is "yes" every time
Ugh.....Jet SET Radio will always sound better than Jet Grind Radio.
The Typing Of The Dead (I even bought 2 original DC keyboards just for that marvel of a game), Power Stone 2, Crazy Taxi, Samba de Amigo (With 2 sets of original Maracas), The House Of The Dead 2 (again, 2 guns) and possibly my all time favorite - Soul Caliber - delivered hours upon hours of joy together with a long list of other DC gems. The whole "arcade perfect-port"-dimension of that console was just amazing.
After all these years the Dreamcast graphics are still impressive and hold up
Agreed! Sure, they don’t look photorealistic… but for the first time, it didn’t look like the console was struggling to run 3D. PS1 was blocky, pixelated, and you just had to accept that even the best polygon game would have wobbly polygons and distorted textures (though I get that some people have nostalgia for this pioneering “look”). When things got moving fast, such as in the first Wipeout game, all the pixelated textures would camouflage like zebras and it was really hard to “read” what was going on and separating backgrounds from walls. N64 ran a bit smoother and careful artistic choices such as in Mario 64 were a masterclass in how to “read” what objects you were looking at, but the output was fuzzy to hide the blocks. However, the Dreamcast could be played with no haze, it had great antialiasing to clean up jaggies, and they were able to do 3D models with a quality (and smooth framerate) that lets the games hold up as well as cartoons or “digital drawings” (which, imo, the 16 bit era games achieved with sprites, so I was all to happy to stick with the Genesis and my friend’s Super Nintendo until the Dreamcast came out and did justice to 3D).
My fav console of all time, remember being in Toys R us and being blown away by sonic adventure, couldn't believe what I was seeing lol
Dreamcast is underrated when it came to its library. Still a great system!
I never had the pleasure of owning a Sega Dreamcast. Lot of great games. I used to play Shenmue 2 on my XBox.
You failed to mention the best game on the console, Cannon Spike.
I love your videos and these were the main reason why I bought a sega saturn the last time I went to japan (I also bought dodonpachi and radiant silvergun) I was able to experience the sega dreamcast since its launch and even though I loved Resident Evil Code Veronica I must say that Shenmue for me was a game that broke paradigms for its time and I keep a special place for it in my heart.
I would've picked virtua tennis for best sports game, endless hours of fun playing a doubles game with 3 of your mates
I have the type of friends you want to hit and trash talk. So football and wrestling it was.
I agree one of the best tennis games ever.
Best sports game was the UFC one. Tennis is so boring
Great list! It really is such a terrific library of games, Sega left the console market with a huge bang.
The only thing I would change is to put Grandia 2 in the RPG category, I love that game and it's way better on Dreamcast than any of the ports.
O yes take me back to 1999
You put a ton of thought into this. This could only be made by somebody who was actually there at the time and cares about the subject. This is why I love this channel.
Jet Set Radio’s art direction, style and music are so good that it makes you forget how awful the game feels to control.
Test Drive Le Mans was/is an insane tech showpiece. Tremendous fun, beautiful graphics. Toss-up between this game and Sega Rally 2 for best racing game on the console.
Resident Evil: Code Veronica rated higher than Shenmue?! 😟
For me, absolutely. RECV was a better told story with more action.
@@SegaLordX Resident Evil was just another dime a dozen action game. Shenmue on the other hand was Sega's unique ground breaking singular achievement. Nobody had ever seen anything like that before. When you think Sega.. you think Sonic, you think Virtua Fighter, and you think Shenmue. Shenmue *is* Sega. Resident Evil is just a Capcom game that gets released on every system all the time, and Code Veronica isn't even the best Resident Evil game. Shenmue was a game changer though, it was a moment in time that made everyone in the world respect the power of the Dreamcast and the craftsmanship of Sega.
It literally blew people's minds. Family and friends would be watching me play and they'd ask what I was doing:
"Oh I'm late for work."
"Wait.. you have a job?!"
"Yeah, and I gotta find a place to train my moves on my break, get to the bottom of a few mysteries, get in a few fights, and I gotta remember to stop by the store on the way home to get some cat food to feed this stray cat I'm helping, but I don't wanna get home too late or Ine San will worry."
And people just couldn't believe it. They would be like "woah.. this is like real life!"
Meanwhile Resident Evil just sat on the shelf collecting dust, nobody wanted to play it.
Shenmue was special, but I think you are short-changing Code Veronica. It was one of the best-selling games on the platform, so plenty of people wanted to play it. Me included.
I really have to put Puyo Puyo~n (aka Puyo Puyo 4) over Fever. It was one of the last chapters of old-school Puyo before things got overly cutesy with the modern era of the series, and it brought the idea of character-specific special attacks to the franchise, which I think was a more interesting twist to the competitive side of Puyo. Also, the game supported up to four player versus, and I think multiplayer Puyo on that level (or even the 8-player mode on NDS) is beautiful chaos.
Also, in terms of puzzle games, I have to give a special shout-out to the little known but awesome Japanese release Get Colonies.
I actually wouldn't argue that. If you are a fan of multiplayer Puyo, that's the one you want.
The fact that only now in 2023, on a new hd 1080p tv and watching pretty closeup... The DC graphics are starting to look slightly dated is quite a testament to the greatness of the machine considering it's 25 year old technology. Imo most Dreamcast games look better than early to midlife PS2 games, better anti aliasing and imo better use of colors.
Found this channel looking for what fighting games was on the Sega line of consoles. Awesome content! Great find on TH-cam!
Stick around. His content is amazing. Top notch stuff.
Skies of Arcadia is the only game on the Dreamcast I need in my life. My favorite RPG of all time!
Fun episode to watch, I've been reminiscing about my trip to EB on 9-9-99, and playing Sonic and NFL2k for days.
I'd be tempted to put Ep. 1 Racer up there for best graphics. Looks beautiful on VGA and runs at a gorgeous 60fps the entire game.
Power stone 2 and gauntlet legends was also fire
Some of the best Sega content on the internet is on this channel. I appreciate the work you put into it.
100% agree!
Appreciate that. Thank you.
Dreamcast is one the best and last of the Sega console,and this one alone has brought such library of games that people have played the most. We should all appreciate that how much of an impact it made back in 1998.
Crazy taxi and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 🤩
I think a Best Online Multiplayer Game section would've been nice; some good entries in there. Other than that, great video.
My first video game console. Never gonna forget having the 128 bit beast known as the Sega Dreamcast!!!
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Your list seems spot on. I still think the Dreamcast is an awesome console. Shenmue 1 and 2,as well as Soul Calibur, DOA2,RE Code:Veronica, Blue Stinger, Carrier, RE2,RE3,and Dino Crisis had me sold on it.
Surprised Phantasy Star Online wasnt mentioned. Thats my all time favorite game on any console. Also Shenmue of course. Great list 👌
Man, I really love SEGA Dreamcast now!! keep making more dreamcast games videos!!
Gotta disagree with the racers. Speed Devils was revolutionary online and Rush 2049 has so much content it can’t be denied the number one spot.
I would have picked the same games tbh
But I also loved Unreal Tournament
And Sega Swirl ... And who could forget BLEEM to play all those PS1 titles..
After owning all the consoles from 1990 onwards, due to work commitments, I dropped console gaming when the Saturn came out, I never bought it and skipped a generation. The Dreamcast got me back into console gaming, Metropolitan Street Racer in particular blew me away, easily my favourite racer of all time. Completing Shenmue was a spiritual experience for me!
I sold my Dreamcast collection last year. I made around $8,000. I don't regret my decision mainly because of how I feel about the retro game collecting scene these days. That, and my other interests outweighed the hobby. But watching your vids, SXL, makes me miss these games just a little bit 🤏😏. This system will always hold a special place in my heart.
I'm glad to see someone covering Spider-Man. A very underrated game in my opinion that people don't talk about much, and when they do, they tend to forget that it had a Dreamcast port which as you say, was a big upgrade over the PlayStation original. I truly think it's one of the best Spider-Man games ever made, even if it is fairly simple by today's standards. Truly one of my favourite games on the Dreamcast, and the PlayStation, and the N64.
The Dreamcast had the monumental task of pioneering how the upcoming generation of games would be formed and the results are super interesting. Even the stuff that turned out to be a strange one off still has a ton of personality to it. I still recall getting the system for a hell of a deal only for the announcement the next month they were going to stop supporting it. But still made sure to check out all the excellent stuff that flew under the radar.
Not a fan of the source material for Berserk!?!? Dude.....Berserk is so dark, and absolutely amazing. I love it. I'm really surprised you don't like it.I consider it one of the best manga/anime of all time.
DAYTONA USA should be listed as the best racing game. It is still a unique and challenging game that anyone can still enjoy in modern times because of its charm and unique style.
The DC Daytona does not play the same and lacks the appeal of the arcade and Saturn versions, IMO.
this might not click with many people, but one game on dreamcast, or rather two of them, really impressed me:
1- MAKEN-X , that game looked insane good at the time, i mean it was an atlus game, like a persona but in first person with graphics to die for, it was remade on ps2 but didn't look the same.
2- now this is the shocker, RING on dreamcast, sure, it is a shit game, but it was one of those good shit games, it had the classic feel of a R.E game, same clunky controls, but man, it was fun and the twist was so good, and i really really enjoyed it so much.
maybe we can add SWORD OF THE BERSERKER to my list, also a good game.
and yes, i love bad games a lot.