I remember I had a PlayStation and was way into Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. I went to my friends and he had the DreamCast version, and it blew me away. I begged my mom for a DreamCast…alas it was never to be.
Bam2217
dreamcast was so sick
Shenmu was revolutionary
imaginary_num6er
Dreamcast was an Out-of-Place-ARTifact
PointsOutTheUsername
I remember my parents were at a super bowl party. I was a kid so I played Dreamcast and played my own Rams vs Titans. That’s all.
For online, hooking up Ethernet and playing Quake III was amazing.
Odd-Collection-2575
Dreamcast was state of the art, too bad SEGA was a complete dumpster fire
m48a5_patton
Shouldn’t it be ahead of its time?
Infamous-Lab-8136
It broke my heart. I worked at Software Etc… for the launch and watching how it withered and died always made me sad. Chu Chu Rocket was an underrated legend that my boss gave me for free because we were throwing it out otherwise. Wasn’t even worth the shipping to send back for a refund apparently.
SyrioForel
Even forgetting that this is a post celebrating a Dreamcast game, I think a big problem with today’s sports games is that they became overly complicated to play.
Sports fans pushed the developers to simulate more and more aspects of the sport, which led to more complex control schemes and more elaborate gameplay features, but done in a really braindead sort of manner.
I used to play sports games all the time in the 90s, including on Dreamcast around the year 2000. But then the sports developers broke their brains or something, and the fans pushed them to the breaking point. I can’t pick up and play any modern sports game, they all feel like unresponsive and overwrought garbage.
It also doesn’t help the fact that (a) in their annual development cycles they don’t have the time to truly innovate anything, and (b) their fans will protest if they change or modernize the gameplay too much. So they’re basically stuck building ever more complicated gameplay systems on top of archaic existing systems that they can’t get rid of.
It’s no wonder modern sports games are usually reviewed extremely poorly, with Metacritic scores typically averaging in the 70s or sometimes worse. These games are legitimately awful.
mrhippoj
It’s my favourite console I’ve ever owned, it was so gutting that it was over so shortly
HippoWillWork
Moss end zone
spidermanngp
My old friend surprised me just 2 days ago. He’s moving into a new house and is getting rid of some stuff. Turns out he still had the original poster from the original Soulcalibur that had been hung up in our game room in college. He mailed it to me. I’m framing it and putting it up in my game room.
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I remember I had a PlayStation and was way into Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2. I went to my friends and he had the DreamCast version, and it blew me away. I begged my mom for a DreamCast…alas it was never to be.
dreamcast was so sick
Shenmu was revolutionary
Dreamcast was an Out-of-Place-ARTifact
I remember my parents were at a super bowl party. I was a kid so I played Dreamcast and played my own Rams vs Titans. That’s all.
For online, hooking up Ethernet and playing Quake III was amazing.
Dreamcast was state of the art, too bad SEGA was a complete dumpster fire
Shouldn’t it be ahead of its time?
It broke my heart. I worked at Software Etc… for the launch and watching how it withered and died always made me sad. Chu Chu Rocket was an underrated legend that my boss gave me for free because we were throwing it out otherwise. Wasn’t even worth the shipping to send back for a refund apparently.
Even forgetting that this is a post celebrating a Dreamcast game, I think a big problem with today’s sports games is that they became overly complicated to play.
Sports fans pushed the developers to simulate more and more aspects of the sport, which led to more complex control schemes and more elaborate gameplay features, but done in a really braindead sort of manner.
I used to play sports games all the time in the 90s, including on Dreamcast around the year 2000. But then the sports developers broke their brains or something, and the fans pushed them to the breaking point. I can’t pick up and play any modern sports game, they all feel like unresponsive and overwrought garbage.
It also doesn’t help the fact that (a) in their annual development cycles they don’t have the time to truly innovate anything, and (b) their fans will protest if they change or modernize the gameplay too much. So they’re basically stuck building ever more complicated gameplay systems on top of archaic existing systems that they can’t get rid of.
It’s no wonder modern sports games are usually reviewed extremely poorly, with Metacritic scores typically averaging in the 70s or sometimes worse. These games are legitimately awful.
It’s my favourite console I’ve ever owned, it was so gutting that it was over so shortly
Moss end zone
My old friend surprised me just 2 days ago. He’s moving into a new house and is getting rid of some stuff. Turns out he still had the original poster from the original Soulcalibur that had been hung up in our game room in college. He mailed it to me. I’m framing it and putting it up in my game room.
Edit: misspelling