What did Dreamcast have TOO MUCH of?

Post by **retrogamer** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:55 pm

As much as I like them the Dreamcast had too many fighters. I would have liked to see some more RPG's on it. Maybe a sequel to Sword Of Vermillion for example.

Post by **Indy_aka_Rex** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:52 pm

I'd say survivor horror titles. While looking for games for my DC, I noticed there's an awful lot of survival horror games on it.

Carrier, RE:CV, Blue Stinger, D2, Illbleed, RE 2-3, Dino Crisis, Evil Dead, House and Typing of the Dead, etc.

Post by **Mozgus** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:04 pm

Indy_aka_Rex wrote:I'd say survivor horror titles. While looking for games for my DC, I noticed there's an awful lot of survival horror games on it.

Carrier, RE:CV, Blue Stinger, D2, Illbleed, RE 2-3, Dino Crisis, Evil Dead, House and Typing of the Dead, etc.

Typing of the Dead? Zombies do not automatically make a game "survival horror".

Post by **Indy_aka_Rex** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:09 pm

No, no they don't. But typing to save your ass from zombies?

Post by **bawitback** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:06 pm

Fighters, Shumps, Sport titles, and Racers. Other than that, unique games (IE. Seaman, Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi ect).

Post by **freneticburn** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:20 am

I felt the DC had too many racers, but the majority were decent to great.

Also I felt for the few RPGs that DC had, it had GREAT ones. Sure not all were turn-based, but on personal opinion I cannot stand turn-based RPGs anymore unless there are variants in it like in Grandia 2 or old-school Lunar with distance, how many times you hit, special abilities on weapons, etc. Among my favorites were Record of Lodoss War, Silver (yes I enjoyed this game), and PSO. There are also some others that borderline as RPGs such as Draconus and Shenmue. Also Timestalkers is a decent game once you get past the fact that dungeon levels are not kept, hehe. Once you accept that it can be pretty enjoyable.

Post by **durkada** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:23 pm

Mozgus wrote:
SegaVega wrote:
Mozgus wrote:I'll pass. The pirated version has all the CDDA music ripped out, and it's not selfboot either. And I have terrible luck selfbooting games.
No harm in buying the two dollar original then.
Even at $2, I only buy games I know are good, and I don't know about this one.

Good call. I find it particularly frustrating. I believe it is the only game written under the WinCE API, and it shows. Its not horrible per se, but you don't want an inconsistent frame-rate on a racer.

Post by **durkada** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:28 pm

Too many dating-sims! You look at a japanese titled game, think its going to be bad-ass, and it turns out to be a high-school dating simulation.

Post by JC » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:25 pm

Too many fighters - but only because playing them on the DC pad is horrible, and that's why I love my Saturn so much

Post by **SegaVega** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:13 pm

Extreme sports, anyone? Rippin' Riders, Supercross 2000, THPS1+2, Surfer this, BMX that, Razor, I think that's the genre where there was too much, if you're using quality as a measurement factor.