Reseeded Hareline wrote: That game is an absolute pile of unfinished sewage.
There's always Draconus and that Max Steel game. A bunch of averageness though.
I actually really enjoyed Draconus or Dragon's Blood as its known in my parts. I liked how it built on Die by the Sword which was a game I'd enjoyed on PC. The visual upgrades to your character were fun and something I always enjoy and the combat was somewhat more realistic because of the need to block and parry.
Also it was weird that you could sometimes tell it was running on an engine built for a skateboarding game!
Betagam7 wrote:I actually really enjoyed Draconus or Dragon's Blood as its known in my parts. I liked how it built on Die by the Sword which was a game I'd enjoyed on PC. The visual upgrades to your character were fun and something I always enjoy and the combat was somewhat more realistic because of the need to block and parry.
Also it was weird that you could sometimes tell it was running on an engine built for a skateboarding game!
I liked Draconus too but I realize it's pretty mediocre. So it was built on the Tony Hawk engine? It looked like that Max Steel game used the same engine. Only played a little bit of it on one of those ODM demo discs.
samsonlonghair wrote:Sega Smash Pack? How odd. That disc is super common. I think it may have been a pack-in game with certain bundles.
The emulation is not very good I'm afraid. You're better off playing those Genesis games nearly any other way that doesn't involve at@games.
It's a good option for Virtua Cop 2, if you still use crt tv's like I do. As for the Genesis games, the sound/music is atrocious, but might be worth it for a Shining Force playthrough; strategy games (in English) are pretty scarce on Dreamcast. My copy came with my Dreamcast console.
Reseeded Hareline wrote: That game is an absolute pile of unfinished sewage.
Haha guys, I actually really enjoyed that game back in the day. The combat was clunky, the presentation was messy and unfinished, the voice acting was terrible, but the story engaged me and it was fun once I got into it. I mean, buried deep under the clunkiness and glitchiness, there is a good game there. Somewhere.
I got quite far into it, but then I encountered a game breaking glitch that meant I couldn't proceed through the game any further and I raged quite and refused to start a new game.
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This topic reminds me of when the Playstation 2 version of NiGHTS into Dreams came out in Japan a few years ago. There were people here on racketboy lamenting that it somehow diluted the exclusive specialness of the Sega Saturn version.
Reseeded Hareline wrote: That game is an absolute pile of unfinished sewage.
Haha guys, I actually really enjoyed that game back in the day. The combat was clunky, the presentation was messy and unfinished, the voice acting was terrible, but the story engaged me and it was fun once I got into it. I mean, buried deep under the clunkiness and glitchiness, there is a good game there. Somewhere.
I got quite far into it, but then I encountered a game breaking glitch that meant I couldn't proceed through the game any further and I raged quite and refused to start a new game.
After listing all those things you still think it's a good game? Nah, there's nothing of redeeming value there no matter how far you excavate. Unless you want a game to point and laugh at.
You forgot the poor controls, never-ending load times, camera that wanders off and does it's own thing, and lack of any dragon riding whatsoever. It might be the worst game on DC.
Reseeded Hareline wrote: That game is an absolute pile of unfinished sewage.
Haha guys, I actually really enjoyed that game back in the day. The combat was clunky, the presentation was messy and unfinished, the voice acting was terrible, but the story engaged me and it was fun once I got into it. I mean, buried deep under the clunkiness and glitchiness, there is a good game there. Somewhere.
I got quite far into it, but then I encountered a game breaking glitch that meant I couldn't proceed through the game any further and I raged quite and refused to start a new game.
After listing all those things you still think it's a good game? Nah, there's nothing of redeeming value there no matter how far you excavate. Unless you want a game to point and laugh at.
You forgot the poor controls, never-ending load times, camera that wanders off and does it's own thing, and lack of any dragon riding whatsoever. It might be the worst game on DC.
How far did you get into it though? Trust me, it's so bad, it's good. Once you have waded sufficiently through the crap, once you have mastered the abysmal controls, fought long and hard with the camera, I promise that you will reach a point where you realise that playing this game is far more like a spiritual journey. You have to get past the initial 'wall' and eventually you will see the light and you will come out of it a better person. It's a bit like doing a marathon; you feel like shit during the actual journey, but after you have finished it, you somehow feel better and happier.
I'm choosing not to use blue font, intentionally, to keep the tone as this post as ambiguous.
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I actually finished it. I was dirt poor at the time and only had this and Test Drive: Le Mans to play. No cable. No internet. Nothing. Couldn't even sell it because it was worth less than the cost of a gumball. Just seeing the cover art plastered all over the thread makes me cough up blood.
