Why Do People Love The Dreamcast?

[DudeistBelieve]

You need to play Seaman then see if you still feel like asking this question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MqvIHxkQo

It had Rez & Crazy Taxi too.

I remember being a kid, reading a Gamepro mag about Seaman. And I wanted the console so bad after that.

I think I bought it right when Gamestop stopped selling them. I have Seaman, Crazy Taxi, Shemue.... I never got why people liked Shemue. It was crap.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Spoiler: Because of this.

Also it wasn't a bad console. Actually it was ahead of the curve by quite a bit.
It was it's marketing that mostly killed it.
It's popularity continued partially because it's so easily hackable.

While Omikron was a stellar game (simply because it had David Bowie), It came out on the PC about a year prior.

So... if you take all of the console/pc ports into account, you could say the xbox and xbox 360 library is not even worth mentioning.

That's actually my honest opinion. But what does that have to do with Omikron?

While it may be available on GOG now (luckily), it's a old game thus you are going to have a hard time making it work on a modern OS if you have a disc version.

GOG actually has a fix up for it. The game was added quite recently to GOG and I'd assume that they'd be confident in releasing the game on modern PCs with a decent fix. And you can easily fix a disc version with the same fix.

This is slowly becoming a thread of "stop liking what i don't like" rather than a thread talking and discussing about the strengths and weaknesses of the system.

I agree to an extent. But I also have to say that the strengths and weaknesses of the console were the reason it failed. It was more of a combo of Sega pissing off EA (and in turn scaring a lot of 3rd party publishers), the very bad handling of the Sega Saturn (more fucking over the 3rd party), and the timing of the Dreamcast's release. It was ahead of its time. Then the PS2 came out.

 

[GonzoGamer]

You need to play Seaman then see if you still feel like asking this question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MqvIHxkQo

It had Rez & Crazy Taxi too.

I remember being a kid, reading a Gamepro mag about Seaman. And I wanted the console so bad after that.

I think I bought it right when Gamestop stopped selling them. I have Seaman, Crazy Taxi, Shemue.... I never got why people liked Shemue. It was crap.

Don't know, never went to Seaworld.
But seriously, I think it was the Japaneesiness of the thing. That and it was like the only open world game on the Dcast, right?
I'll tell ya, if they remade Seaman for the connect but with strippers instead of the fish from Monty Python's Meaning of Life, they'd probably move more xbones.

 

[Mr C]

It had a load of great games, particularly innovative and niche games of a style you don't see anymore. Many games that came out for it were industry firsts either by genre or scale - Phantasy Star Online, Shenmue and Jet Set Radio to name a few. It is still supported to this day, with at least three titles coming out this year. I stress again, niche titles, in this case old school 2D shooters. Which I happen to love, Ghost Blade is looking particularly nice!