What are some reccomended Dreamcast games?

[dbwhicker]

I recently took my Dreamcast out of my closet, and realized that I only bought 3 games for the system (Sonic Adventure, Jet Grind Radio, and Evolution.) What are some of the best games for Dreamcast that aren't incredibly expensive/hard to find?

[Topic Archive]

Racing =MSR
Fishing =Bass Fishing
Adventure =Sonic Adventure 2
Bouncing and jiggling =Dead Or Alive

[the_steadster]

Shenmue 1
Virtua Tennis
Crazy Taxi
Chu Chu Rocket

All quality games and very cheap. If you get bass fishing as oldengineer suggests, get the controller with it.

[PhreQuencYViii]

Bouncing and jiggling =Dead Or Alive

hAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAA

Well you already have Evolution, I thought that was an awesome game even though it had a lot of problems and was repetitive, I'd say some other goodies are Phantasy Star Online if you can go online with the Dreamcast, Shenmue, Sonic Adventure 2, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, King of Fighters '99, and ummmm well there's a bunch others I can't think of, so I bet other's will fill in the blanks.

[Calpis]

The only games I occasionally still play are Soul Calibur and MvC2. Boy thats a sad system.

[PhreQuencYViii]

The only games I occasionally still play are Soul Calibur and MvC2. Boy thats a sad system.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.................. ..............

Oh yeah and the other good thing to play is homebrew and emulator stuff.

[Yakumo]

Dreamcast has many great games. Take a look at my site for infor on 100's ofthem

Yakumo

[Topic Archive]

...Ikuraga is another nice game I forgot to mention

[Calpis]

Berzerk
Aero Dancing games
Biohazard games
Bangaioh
Rune Jade
Guilty Gear X
Moero Justice Gakuen (Rival Schools 3 or something)
Pen Pen Tricelon
Power Stone is alright I guess
Sorcerian
Rayman
Silent Scope

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

These are the games I own and I recommend each and ever one of them. One astrisk means extra recommendation, two asterisks means you gotta get it, a minus means not so recommended:

Alien Front Online
*Armada
-Atari Anniversary Edition
*Bangai-O
Bomberman Online
Border Down
Capcom Vs SNK 2
Chaos Field
Charge'n'Blast
**Chu Chu Rocket
*Coaster Works
-Conflict Zone
**Cool Cool Toon
**Cosmic Smash
*Crazy Taxi
Deep Fighter
**Demolition Racer: No Exit
Dreamstudio
*Dynamite Cop
Ecco The Dolphin
18-Wheeler American Pro Trucker
-Elemental Gimmick Gear
Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles
*Evolution 2: Far Off Promise
Feet Of Fury
**Fire ProWrestling D
Floigan Bros.
Gran Turismo 2 (bleem! for DC)
-Grand Theft Auto 2
*Grandia II
*Headhunter
Heavy Metal Geomatrix
The House Of The Dead 2
Hydro Thunder
*Ikaruga
Industrial Spy: Operation Espionage
*Jet Grind Radio
Jikyou Power Pro Yakyu
*King Of Fighters: Dream Match '99
**Last Blade 2: Heart of the Samurai
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
*Looney Tunes Space Race
The Lost Golem
*Mars Matrix
Marvel Vs. Capcom
Metal Gear Solid (bleem! for DC)
**Metropolis Street Racer
Midway's Greatest Hits Vol. 1
*Midway's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
*Mr. Driller
Ms. Pac-man Maze Madness
MoHo
NBA2K
NFL2K
*Napple Tale
Net De Tennis
The Next Tetris Online
Omikron The Nomad Soul
*Ooga Booga
*Pen Pen TriICEelon
*Phantasy Star Online ver.2
Pro Pinball Trilogy
**Psyvariar 2
**Shikigami No Shiro 2
Record of Lodoss War
*Red Dog
**Rent-A-Hero No.1
**************Rez
*Samba De Amigo
*San Francisco Rush 2049
*Seaman
Sega Bass Fishing
Sega Marine Fishing
Sega Smash Pack
*Shenmue
**Shenmue II
*Silver
*Skies Of Arcadia
**Sonic Adventure
*Sonic Adventure 2
-Sonic Shuffle
*Soul Calibur
Space Channel 5
Spiderman
*Sports Jam
*Star Wars Jedi Power Battles
-Stunt GP
-Stupid Invaders
Super Magnetic Neo
**Super Puzzle Fighter II X For Matching Service
**Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition
**Sword Of The Berserk: Guts' Rage
Taxi 2: Le Jeu
-Tekken 3 (bleem! for DC)
**Tennis 2K2
*Test Drive Le Mans 24hrs
**Test Drive V-Rally
-Tetris 4D
*Tokyo Bus Guide: Bijin Bus Guide Pack
**Tokyo Xtreme Racer
*Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2
**Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
*Toy Commander
Trizeal
*Typing of the Dead
**Virtua Tennis
*Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram
Worms World Party
-Zusar Vasar

And yeah, the homebrew stuff is great. I highly recommend dRxLax, dcSquares, Alice Dreams, Feet Of Fury, Cool Herders and Amanda the Witch's Apprentice. As well as these games which have been ported to the Dreamcast: Beats Of Rage, Giana Returns, Super Mario War and Noiz2sa Over Dreamcast. Feet of Fury has a commercial release form a company called GOAT Games, Cool Herders and Alice Dreams will also be released by them sometime in the coming year (well, Cool Herders should released within this year, while Alice may be longer because it's not done yet and is obviously a labor of love moving slowly) as well as some other games like DCastle and a compilation of classic arcade remakes.


...word is bondage...

[PhreQuencYViii]

You can play Quake n Doom n Duke Nukem n Hexen on it too.

[XerdoPwerko]

Sweater Fish has already said many, but I will seriously recommend Skies of Arcadia, Grandia 2, Soul Calibur, Bangai-O, Giga Wing 2, Ikaruga, Gunbird 2, Guilty Gear X, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Rez, Capcom Vs. SNK 2 (the first one isn't bad either), Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2, and Sonic Adventure 2.

There's a mighty fuckload of great dreamcast games. It's one of the best systems ever.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Sweater Fish has already said many, but I will seriously recommend Skies of Arcadia, Grandia 2, Soul Calibur, Bangai-O, Giga Wing 2, Ikaruga, Gunbird 2, Guilty Gear X, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, Rez, Capcom Vs. SNK 2 (the first one isn't bad either), Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2, and Sonic Adventure 2.
Oops, yeah, sorry. I didn't mean run all over this thread by posting such an extensive list. Nobody reads big long lists like that anyway, so other people should still make their recommendations as if I'd never posted that.

I really gotta get Giga Wing 2 someday. I have a list (which I won't post) of about 20 games that I'm still looking for, then I'll have the most perfect collection for the most perfect system ever and I'll be able to die happy with a contoller in my hand.


...word is bondage...

[Calpis]

I think DC homebrew/emulator scene is cack. I guess only because I'm used to looking at PC emu/demoscene ;)

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

I think DC homebrew/emulator scene is cack. I guess only because I'm used to looking at PC emu/demoscene ;)
Well, you have to keep in mind that the PC homebrew world is much huger than the Dreamcast one. You also have to remember that on the Dreamcast, coders are working on a totally undocumented system with a fully homebrew SDK. That would explain any technological deficiencies in the games they make. As for the gameplay innovation deficiency which certainly bothers me much more than the technological side, I think that'd be down to the size of the scenes. If you took a ratio of all the really good Dreamcast homebrews (even if you just limited it to the ones I mentioned, though some people would add others) to the total number of Dreamcast homebrews and compared that to the same ratio for PC homebrew, I guarantee the Dreamcast would thoroughly trounce PC. There's a total of about 60 or so homebrew games on the Dreamcast (plus maybe twice that number of demos) compared to who knows how many thousands on PC.


...word is bondage...

[XerdoPwerko]

Sweater Fish - your list was great, though.

You pretty much covered everything necessary.

[Calpis]

Just about any homebrew game like Beats of Rage doesn't interest me in the least, on any platform. Just the classic cracktroish demos. Dreamcast scene is like no other scene, due to it being compilation BS galore of endless halfassed emulator ports. I'm not even so impressed with the tech effects either, I don't really expect them but I don't think of the system as an enigma, they could impress me with original music and artwork, at least that'd be more classy. BTW, I don't think DC is any less documented than PS2, PS2 has plenty of nice techdemos. Don't hate me but I think the DC scene comes with the territory, soulless system, soulless demos.

[Johnny Vodka]

headhunter is an okay game if before you play it, you use a mental delorean to get the mindset of back in the past when graphics and character animation like that were probably only average. It has some fun stuff in it though...

[Mark30001]

You can play Quake n Doom n Duke Nukem n Hexen on it too.

Duke Nukem?!? o_0. Arrggghh, it's a must have game!!!

[Taemos]

Sorcerian

Is this playable by someone who knows nothing about Japanese? I have the old PC game, and I wanted to give the DC remake a try.

Seaman is a good title, if you want to be wierded out :). Shenmue is also good, as others have said, but if you want to appreciate the story then you'll turn off the voices. The English voiceovers are horrible.

[PhreQuencYViii]

Oh god, my Gf called one day and was like "what are you playing" and I casually said "I'm playing with seaman" and she hung up. lololololo did not think that one through.

[einbebop44]

I highly recommend Jeremy McGrath Super Cross 2000, WWF Attitude and South Park Chef's Luv Shack. I love them all dearly and cherish them as the key pieces of my collection. Classics.

[PhreQuencYViii]

And don't forget Sega Smash Pack, Mortal Kombat Gold, Fighting Force 2, and Spec Ops. Those games hold a special place in my "Games I don't own" shelf.

......................................except Mortal Kombat.....

[Johnny Vodka]

I highly recommend Jeremy McGrath Super Cross 2000, WWF Attitude and South Park Chef's Luv Shack. I love them all dearly and cherish them as the key pieces of my collection. Classics.


that's mean..

:D

[Calpis]

Is this playable by someone who knows nothing about Japanese? I have the old PC game, and I wanted to give the DC remake a try.

I think so, I can't remember how much Japanese is in the game. If you can get to a Japanese strategy game's gameplay, you're probably set.

[Fabrizo]

My personal recomendations:

Power Stone
Power Stone 2
Shenmue
Shenmue II
Grandia II
Skies of Arcadia
Crazy Taxi
Crazy Taxi 2
Ooga Booga
Rayman 2
MDK2
Zero Gunner 2
Ikaruga
Rez
Border Down

Their are a lot of other good games for the system, but those are the top ones in my book.

[Blur2040]

I'll just ramble off a bunch of ones I like, then I imagine you can go through everybody's lists and buy the ones that are unanimously considered good games. That's how I'd do it, anyway.

Crazy Taxi
Power Stone
MvC
MvC2
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Project Justice
Quake 3: Arena
Toy Commander
Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure 2
Worms World Party
Seaman
Chu Chu Rocket
MDK 2
Ikaruga
Outtrigger
Tony Hawk 2 (If you don't already own it on 10 other platforms)

I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton...but those came to me off the top of my head...

[Yakumo]

Do you want to know a really good kick arse game? Get (if you can find it) Gundam E.F.F Vs Zeon & DX by Capcom distributed by Bandai. This is an awesome gundam battle game that makes Virtua On look very dated indeed. I was playing it today for hours. Great graphics, great playability and wonderful audio make this a winner all the way !

http://www.segagagadomain.com/dreamcast-ntsc2/gundam_dx.htm

Yakumo

[Fatalist]

Sweater Fish Deluxe list is great, some other recommended games: D2, Illbleed, Confidential Mission, Cannon spike, F355 Challenge, Maken X, Unreal Tournament... and if Japanese only games are not a problem then it would be possible to add a lot of other good games like Puyo Puyo fever, Sakura Taisen games, Rent-A-Hero, etc

[einbebop44]

But really, who are you guys kidding? We all know the three titles I mentioned are the absolute best the Dreamcast has to offer.