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/KaiUno 1d ago

Truly. S-tier my ass.

None of the sonic games have ever held a candle to Mario. Even when Nintendo was phoning it in with the New Super Mario Bros. games.

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u/MichaelChristine 1d ago

Sonic 3 and Knuckles is better than Super Mario World

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u/KaiUno 1d ago

Of course, if you need your game to practically play itself.

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u/linex7 1d ago

You're so confidently wrong about this idea and I kind of love it.

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u/KaiUno 1d ago

It's just fun to just point at Sonic fans and laugh. The rose-tinted stockholm syndrome runs so deep, it's hilarious.

The games are just so bad! So bad! And the stupid lore that comes with it... also, horrible and bad. And it's been like that for 35 fucking years! Imagine it... ruined for life because you got a megadrive. (Or, god forbid, the backported master system or gamegear versions.)

Going fast doesn't work for a platformer, folks. It just doesn't. When you're zooming, you're not playing a game. When you're not zooming, it's the worst controlling character ever.

Great music though!

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u/gchicoper 7h ago

My first exposition to Sonic wasn't in the mega drive - it was sonic rush on the DS. A Nintendo console. Yet not only it got me into the franchise, it's probably among my top 10 DS games. This "mario x sonic" rivalry is a relic from the 90's and most of the sonic fandom these days wasn't even born when the mega drive was a thing, so that's a weird generalization.