I play my Dreamcast almost entirely with the X-Arcade controller. Only use the original controller when the game was designed from the ground up to use it, like with Jet Grind Radio. Also, I'd say many of the arcade ports have held up well. Soul Calibur, Marvel vs Capcom 1 & 2, Capcom vs SNK 2, Street Fighter III: Double Impact and Third Strike, and many others get the 'dust off the old boy and play some games' treatment from me and many others.irixith wrote:The Dreamcast produced some good games, no doubt. Not enough to warrant the intense love of the system though (in my opinion). The controller has got to be one of the worst in the entire history of video games, and many of the arcade ports (Crazy Taxi immediately comes to mind, Sonic Adventure) have not held up that well, even a short few years later. There are still new games being made for it, but they're always shmups. I suppose if you're a shmup fan and can handle that nasty controller, it's heaven.
Best to keep those rose-coloured glass on when reminiscing about the Dreamcast.
Still, I much prefer the Sega Saturn. At least it had a controller that's d-pad didn't cause pain. The Dreamcast really should have just flat-out used the exact same controller that NiGHTS used on the Saturn.
