What retro system do you just not understand the appeal of?

[Jagosaurus]

Loved the Genesis, liked the Saturn, then Sega lost me at the treatment of the Saturn and with the Dreamcast.

Similarly with Nintendo consoles. Loved the NES and SNES, so naturally I requested an N64 as my console for the next gen. Despite some fun multiplayer games and a couple of zeldas, I had regretted it, and wished I had a PS1 for most of its cycle. I finally got a PS1 late, and then a PS2 and never looked back. I didn't get a GameCube for years.

You're also a big RPG guy so the Dreamcast & N64 aren't great systems from a library perspective for you.

[Segata]

Loved the Genesis, liked the Saturn, then Sega lost me at the treatment of the Saturn and with the Dreamcast.

Similarly with Nintendo consoles. Loved the NES and SNES, so naturally I requested an N64 as my console for the next gen. Despite some fun multiplayer games and a couple of zeldas, I had regretted it, and wished I had a PS1 for most of its cycle. I finally got a PS1 late, and then a PS2 and never looked back. I didn't get a GameCube for years.

You're also a big RPG guy so the Dreamcast & N64 aren't great systems from a library perspective for you.

I'm a huge RPG guy and there is quite a few RPG's on DC. Granted I imported some. Still it has quite a few.

[Sarge]

Dreamcast has some good ones, but it's very much a Gamecube situation there. Just enough to not suck as badly as the N64, but close.

Grandia II was the game that made me get a Dreamcast, though. I also had Skies, but didn't actually play through it until getting the GC version.

[Jmustang1968]

Loved the Genesis, liked the Saturn, then Sega lost me at the treatment of the Saturn and with the Dreamcast.

Similarly with Nintendo consoles. Loved the NES and SNES, so naturally I requested an N64 as my console for the next gen. Despite some fun multiplayer games and a couple of zeldas, I had regretted it, and wished I had a PS1 for most of its cycle. I finally got a PS1 late, and then a PS2 and never looked back. I didn't get a GameCube for years.

You're also a big RPG guy so the Dreamcast & N64 aren't great systems from a library perspective for you.

There is a lot of truth to this. Though I do tend to like most genres except for platformers. Not a huge shmup or fighting fan either, but I can enjoy them. They wouldn't be system sellers for me.

[Segata]

Try Eldorado Gate,Silver and Elemental Gimmick Gear. 3 games people forget is on the system. All 3 damn good.

[Jmustang1968]

Try Eldorado Gate,Silver and Elemental Gimmick Gear. 3 games people forget is on the system. All 3 damn good.

I've had Silver and EGG. Have had about 3 or 4 Dreamcasts and always end up selling them.

[Jagosaurus]

I own all the English DC RPGs (only about a dozen), including PAL Shenmue 2, except for...

*shields body*

Skies of Arcadia

I was really into arcade games at that time so I loved the Dreamcast. I got one about 10 days or so after launch & never regretted it.

The N64 had my attention before that mostly for multi player (Golden Eye, Mario Kart, Star Fox) & Zela OoT. I can't explain my draw to some games on N64 I really enjoyed though: Rampage, Wave Race, Clay Fighters, Glover, Extreme G, Blast Corp. Actually looking at that list... all multiplayer except Glover

My buddy down the road, his brothers had a PS1. I picked up the N64 so we could experience them both.

I'm personally not really drawn to the N64 today so I can relate, but I was at the time.

[alienjesus]

The N64 had my attention before that mostly for multi player (Golden Eye, Mario Kart, Star Fox) & Zela OoT. I can't explain my draw to some games on N64 I really enjoyed though: Rampage, Wave Race, Clay Fighters, Glover, Extreme G, Blast Corp. Actually looking at that list... all multiplayer except Glover

The draw to Blast Corps and Wave Race at least is that they are both awesome as fuck!

Extreme G always looked pretty cool to me too, but I've yet to try it.

I have tried Glover, and it was just OK. It was an interesting game though, for sure.

Oh, and Blast Corps isn't multiplayer, so the draw to that one is just the 'awesome as fuck'ness of it all

[BogusMeatFactory]

The N64 had my attention before that mostly for multi player (Golden Eye, Mario Kart, Star Fox) & Zela OoT. I can't explain my draw to some games on N64 I really enjoyed though: Rampage, Wave Race, Clay Fighters, Glover, Extreme G, Blast Corp. Actually looking at that list... all multiplayer except Glover

The draw to Blast Corps and Wave Race at least is that they are both awesome as fuck!

Extreme G always looked pretty cool to me too, but I've yet to try it.

I have tried Glover, and it was just OK. It was an interesting game though, for sure.

Oh, and Blast Corps isn't multiplayer, so the draw to that one is just the 'awesome as fuck'ness of it all

Blast corps is absolutely awesome. My cousin and I spent so much time going back and forth destroying everything we could! We would fight over who got to play the jetpack levels.

[PartridgeSenpai]

I too have never really understood the Dreamcast love that the internet seems so swept up in. Most of the cool games on it seem to be racing games or fighting games (genres I care very little about) or have been ported to the Gamecube since release. There's a couple cool eccentricities abound like Dynamite Cop and Maken X, two of the few games I have for the system, but those are more the exception than the rule for me.

For the record, I found Shenmue dreadfully boring and couldn't get into it back when I owned it like a year or so ago. I also have tried Skies of Arcadia on two separate occasions, once on DC once on Gamecube, and I just got bored. The setting is cool, but the combat is really repetitive (and the ship battles are cool at first but get really annoying later) and the story really didn't engage me at all.