How is your Dreamcast gaming going on?

[noiseredux]

you can still play 4x4 Evo online

I just picked that up! Is it still active as far as players go (heck, any of these online games?)

http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=4

[mas]

You know It's too bad no one made any servers for the sports games on the dreamcast. Imagine if people can still go online with NFL blitz or the 2k2 series. Hell even Daytona USA would be awesome.

[noiseredux]

there's lots of stuff that would be great - sports, racers, fighting games. Though much of it is wishful thinking. It takes folks who know much more than me to get servers set up. The way I understand it is that unless you knew what info the DC was looking for, there's no way to imitate it. And every game was different.

But surprises happen. Planet Ring just got its private server in 2013. And some dudes now are looking into Worms World Party having gone as far as finding someone who developed the game to get help figuring out how the original servers worked. It's interesting and exciting.

[Czernobog]

Had a chance to sit down with Shenmue II again on my Dreamcast this morning, and felt completely absorbed in it all morning. Finally have a decent sense of where things are, and enjoyed just wandering around for a bit.

I collected the four wude and finished disc 1. I saved after doing the book airing segment, and I succeeded at getting all the books outside the first time I tried, although it was close. I think I dropped a stack once, and I held down run constantly. I can see how that section could be really frustrating, especially when you have to hit the same direction three times in a row. That's what caused me to drop the stack, since it took me by surprise. I received the move scroll for getting all the books out, and now I'm just wandering around that area asking about Yaunda Zhu.

Still having a blast and getting totally absorbed whenever I play. Although I haven't done much in the game altogether, it's really nostalgic playing this on a Dreamcast when I played the first one over a decade ago. Also, wasting time playing Space Harrier at the arcade in Shenmue still feels surreal, and I have a difficult time resisting but it's actually the best port of Space Harrier I have.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Had a chance to sit down with Shenmue II again on my Dreamcast this morning, and felt completely absorbed in it all morning. Finally have a decent sense of where things are, and enjoyed just wandering around for a bit.

I collected the four wude and finished disc 1. I saved after doing the book airing segment, and I succeeded at getting all the books outside the first time I tried, although it was close. I think I dropped a stack once, and I held down run constantly. I can see how that section could be really frustrating, especially when you have to hit the same direction three times in a row. That's what caused me to drop the stack, since it took me by surprise. I received the move scroll for getting all the books out, and now I'm just wandering around that area asking about Yaunda Zhu.

Still having a blast and getting totally absorbed whenever I play. Although I haven't done much in the game altogether, it's really nostalgic playing this on a Dreamcast when I played the first one over a decade ago. Also, wasting time playing Space Harrier at the arcade in Shenmue still feels surreal, and I have a difficult time resisting but it's actually the best port of Space Harrier I have.

Have you played Shenmue 2 before? This one is very much a chapter 1 experience, whereas I felt that the original Shenmue is more of a prologue. I love Shenmue 2 and find it to be almost infinitely better than the first (and I feel the first is amazing). When you beat the game... you gotta look back and try to find... cue the dramatic music... THE DUCK RACES!

[Violent By Design]

You know It's too bad no one made any servers for the sports games on the dreamcast. Imagine if people can still go online with NFL blitz or the 2k2 series. Hell even Daytona USA would be awesome.

blitz online, man that would be awesome. not like that new blitz they made on xbox live, yuck!

[Hazerd]

Started playing Grandia II, trying to put my mindset in 2000 and thinking of how cool a game like this would look.

The spell effects are pretty nice looking and i love the simplistic combat system that everyone raved about.

Ryudo is such a asshole, i find him funny.

I never had a DC back when it was current, so i was playing N64 games like Banjo-Tooie, Perfect Dark, Super Smash Bro. around 2000 when Grandia II was released, and PC games like Starcraft, Diablo 2.

[Czernobog]

Have you played Shenmue 2 before? This one is very much a chapter 1 experience, whereas I felt that the original Shenmue is more of a prologue. I love Shenmue 2 and find it to be almost infinitely better than the first (and I feel the first is amazing). When you beat the game... you gotta look back and try to find... cue the dramatic music... THE DUCK RACES!

This is my first time playing the sequel. I loved Shenmue back when I played it, and I think I get what you mean. Since they're pretty much a continuous game, it sort of feels like Shenmue 2 is when Shenmue 'opens up.'

[BogusMeatFactory]

This is my first time playing the sequel. I loved Shenmue back when I played it, and I think I get what you mean. Since they're pretty much a continuous game, it sort of feels like Shenmue 2 is when Shenmue 'opens up.'

Let me know when you beat it, because I would love to hear your thoughts on the ending. Stick with it and don't give up!

[ExedExes]

Shenmue II is much better than the first. Just so much more to do, and you're not stuck doing work *all day*. Much more to find, to buy, to play, and to participate in.

You MUST find the duck races later on.