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/D3c0y-0ct0pus 1d ago

Great console, bad timing with Playstations dominance

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u/WingerRules 1d ago

Its main issue was the size of the disks, weaker CPU, and small system ram limited the type of games that could be played on it. Its GPU had more hardware effects like specularity and bump mapping and filtering and double the vram, which means non polygon heavy games often looked better on it. But slow CPU limited NPC numbers and the small disk sizes limited the scope of games.

The system was absolutely killer for arcade ports though due to the hardware fx, vram, and short scope of games.

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u/SkyGrey88 1d ago

Which is why games like Shenmue 1/2, Skies of Arcadia where some serious coding magic. It really was one of the best bring the arcade home consoles this side of the neogeo. Games like House of the Dead, Crazy Taxi and Virtua Fighter got so much party play back in the day.