Soul Calibur
📢 JET GRIND RADIOOOOOOOOO 🎶🎹🔊
Also both Sonic Adventures, Virtual On Oratorio Tangram, Crazy Taxi and I think I remember Sega GT being pretty good too?
I almost failed out of college thanks to Soul Calibur.
Power stone, Ikaruga, Rez
I love Ikaruga from an aesthetic, mechanical, and presentation perspective.
But it’s been 23 years and damned if I still don’t suck at that game. This coming from someone who can fairly reliably at least see the final boss of Progear on one credit.
I love my Dreamcast but Rez is infinitely superior on the PS2
(I have the Rez Trance Vibrator)
I haven’t played on PS2, but Rez Infinite uses additional controllers as trance vibrators. Great for parties!
I like the fact that there are games that are still best played on the Dreamcast, or only played on the Dreamcast, since there was no follow-up console after it, or because the ports were not great. Today there’s always a remaster, backwards compatibility with the next console, or at the very least a sequel, so games just move along with the hardware. But the Dreamcast had some games that just lived and died on that system.
Weirdly, most of these turned out to be fighting games. Probably because Capcom liked the Dreamcast.
My favorites that are still best (or only) played on that system:
- Crazy Taxi (the ports don’t have the original soundtrack, an absolute sin)
- Power Stone and Power Stone 2
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (literally one of the best fighting games ever, and it can’t be purchased on any systems today)
- Cannon Spike
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
- Project Justice
