dsheinem wrote:A lot of the titles on the lower part of the list here, for example, are games with typically middling to poor review scores...
70 to 100 metacritic score is middling? 0_o
dsheinem wrote:Most of your comments are in the realm of "eh, I still think Game X is probably better on the DC."
I could be mistaken about what I wrote, but in all but perhaps a couple cases, this comment would have been in regard to games ported from the Naomi arcade system. Considering the Dreamcast and Naomi are such similar architectures, there's little reason for ports to other consoles to perform considerably (if at all) better. Also, as far as I'm aware, there is only one (perhaps two) games in that list which provide online competitive play on PSN or Xbox Live, but before too long, that's liable to not be a feature, anyway.
dsheinem wrote:I can stick my PS2 disc of a DC port in my PS3 or my 360 disc in my Xbox One, etc.[...] I find it hard to support the argument that many of these cross-platform games are better on the DC [...].
I don't really see the relevance of backward compatibility. It seems like your definition of "better" is based more on convenience, and--
dsheinem wrote:I also mentioned in my original post that MAME now can emulate perfectly a lot of the DC games that are arcade ports on your list that weren't elsewhere available. So stuff like Mars Matrix and Giga Wing 2 really don't require a DC to play anymore.
--considering this, there's little reason to own anything other than a PC that can handle anything released in the last two decades, and that can emulate everything else.
dsheinem wrote:I think we agree that the overall DC obsolescence is a lot greater than something like the obsolescence of the libraries for the PS2, Atari VCS, or even the Xbox because the DC had a fairly small library in the USA (~250 games) compared to those other systems. I'd guess that almost half of that library is now available elsewhere officially (or easily playable via arcade emulation), including the vast majority of its best titles.
With all due respect, that's exactly the opposite of what I was saying. I would challenge you to put together a list of PS2 games, which were popular/recognizable, received scores commensurate with the upper echelon of games, and are not on
any other home/handheld console, personal computer, or arcade hardware. I would be
very surprised if that list reaches double digits, much less triple.
Considering that I can get all the best games for the PS2 on other hardware, or otherwise emulate it, I'm going to take this time to give all of my PS2 games to the nearest homeless person, so that he or she will make use of the games in the only way they properly can be, now: as kindling and toilet paper. After that, I'll take a dump on the console; For all intents and purposes, it's been made totally obsolete, you see. I would encourage everyone to do the same.