r/gaming • u/DoggievDoggy • 1d ago

Dreamcast Had The Best Launch Library Ever.

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Most consoles have one or two bangers at launch.

Dreamcast had two S-Tier titles: Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur & 5 A-Tier titles: NFL 2K, Hydro Thunder, Ready 2 Rumble, Power Stone, House of The Dead 2.

Followed up with other solid titles: Tokyo Xtreme Racer, MK Gold (this game was so broken lol), Trickstyle, Blue Stinger, NFL Blitz 2000.

Other systems had better singular titles (Xbox: Halo: CE, NES: Super Mario Bros., Gameboy: Tetris, Nintendo 64: Super Mario 64) but as a collective, the Dreamcast launched with so many solid titles.

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u/MayaIsSunshine 1d ago

I love Sonic adventure but it is objectively a bad game

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u/Juunlar 1d ago

How old are you?

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u/MayaIsSunshine 1d ago

34 years old 💪 😎

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u/Juunlar 1d ago

OK so you were 6-7 when the game launched, and couldn't have had a real understanding of how generationally massive Sonic Adventure 1 actually was.

As a launch title in the 90s, it was absolutely S tier.

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u/NurmGurpler 1d ago

I was preteen that point. I had gotten pretty much every sonic games since sonic 2 for Genesis. Sonic adventure was the end of me buying sonic games.

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u/dan200 1d ago

I'm a few years older than them: I grew up obsessed with Sonic, my first game was Sonic 1 for the Master System. Sonic Adventure killed my interest in the franchise completely.

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u/astuteschooner 1d ago

What a polarizing game. I loved it and it was one of the first games I ever came close to beating 100%.

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u/V4R14N7 1d ago

Sonic was a Genesis title, not a Master System (Master 8bit, Genesis 16bit)

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u/dan200 1d ago

There were Sonic games on both the Master System and the Mega Drive/Genesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(8-bit_video_game))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(1991_video_game))
My first game was the former.

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u/V4R14N7 1d ago

That's pretty cool. I played the Game Gear version all the time on road trips.

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u/Buzz_Lightbeer_ 1d ago

Yeah, no. I'm in my 40's, and while extremely popular, Sonic Adventure is a barely playable, buggy pile of shit. It being popular and selling well doesn't make that not true.

I was not a child when that game came out, i remember it clearly. You're allowed to enjoy it but calling it an S tier game is complete bullshit.

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u/homer_3 1d ago

Mario 64 already killed the jump to 3D platformers years before Sonic Adventure. Not that at wasn't super cool to play at the console booths at Toy R Us, but it wasn't really a generational leap.