What Dreamcast games DIDN'T you like?

[bangtango]

I've gotten in some pretty big "discussions" concrening the dreamcast. It DID fail. Every other system that was currently out at the same time as the dreamcast (all with worse hardware, graphics, etc... etc....) did better than the dreamcast. Wanna know how I judge success? How many were sold. NOONE has to agree with that, but the people that matter do (The people that decide to keep or lose a game, stop making consoles, Carry hardware or software in their software chains)

The System Failed. They Clearanced the price, clearanced the games, and dropped out of the hardware system, and are doing so bad now, that they've been trying to set up mergers left and right.

The system Failed. Noone here has to like it, but it IS a fact. If the system and games were the best thing to happen in the history of videogames, I assure you, it WOULD have sold well.

The controller sucked and was cheap, The memory card setup was HORRIBLE, The marketing was the worst in history, I could go on and on, trust me :)

I didn't play some of the games, but the ones I did play were not good. There were no other games on the system that interested me. Frankly, what I'm describing here sounds a lot like the Xbox, which I also don't own.

I gave the system a chance, and it blew it. Not my problem. No more replys to this post, I am SICK of arguing about the dreamcast. (oooohh it emulates, it's a god!) Get over it.

Don't know how I found this topic, looking for something else, but do you still have this much hostility towards the Dreamcast? 8-)

[Pantechnicon]

Power Stone 2 - Just didn't like the feel of it. Thought it felt too "busy".

I almost should add Power Stone 1 to this list. That was the 1st game I ever saw on a DC. But I was on a big "retrogames only" kick at the time and rejected all current games as a matter of principle. But then I got a DC in 2003 and have come to appreciate it a great deal, so I gave Power Stone another chance and it's fine. Still don't like Power Stone 2, though. Go figure.

[theshizzle3000]

I didn't care for that Heavy Metal game or Blue Stinger. :? And, I'll get burned for this, but Chu Chu Rocket is a bit too fast for me. :oops:

Yeah Blue Stinger was beyond bad it was rancid. I cannot even recall but taking a few steps before I just turned the game off completely. In my opinion you should slap Zombie Revenge or whatever that one game was called I could not stand it.

[Doonzmore]

102 Dalmations

The controls are horrible and the graphics are sub-par. About as boring as adventure games come.

[theshizzle3000]

World Series baseball 2k1 was another rough one

[diskoboy]

-Mag Force Racing
-Seaman
-any game based on a disney movie
-Ecco
-Ooga Booga. (It's fun online, but single player is boring)
-VO:OT (North American Version - They cut out the online play, and never released twinsticks over here)

And yes - I'm gonna say it: SHENMUE

Just couldn't get into it. Plus some of the characters were downright scary lookin'. The only part of the game I really enjoyed was playing Space Harrier.

I find it odd there are so many Power Stone 2 haters, here. I thought the first one sucked and the second was phenomenal.

[j_factor]

Sega GT. I have no idea why it got good reviews at the time. It's horrible. The handling is the worst.

[evildead2099]

About Chef's Luv Shack: I actually don't mind this game. I'm not saying it's *great* but I don't consider it among the worst. Why?

It does a great job of capturing the look of the show. Nice, clean graphics.

IMO, several of the minigames are better than those in the more popular minigame games (eg, Mario Party, Sonic Shuffle) and even acknowledge the classics (eg Asteroids).

Isaac Hayes. He should be in *more* games.

Trivia - always fun, though the game loses a few points for recycling the same questions a bit too quickly (ie, needed bigger pool of questions).

So there ya go. :) Please don't read this post as if I think the game is great - it's not. But it was widely available for $5 new and IMO it's worth at least that much.

I agree. The game is decent, and gets harshly criticized.

That's not to say that the game isn't without its flaws. Here are some that you neglected to mention:

(1) This game was intended for multiplayer action. You will NOT have a good time playing by yourself.

(2) The game could have used more questions; it doesn't take many plays until you begin encountering the same questions you've answered in previous sessions.

(3) For a trivia game with such simplistic graphics, the loading time associated with this game is unacceptable. It takes too long for the game to load up new questions, and these loading sessions happen far too frequently. I'm positive this was a consequence of lazy programming, since games as sophisticated as Soul Calibur have virtually no loading delays.

[AMG]

What are some of the games on this system that you would call SUCKY (and why)?


ECW Anarchy Rulz & WWF Attitude. The worst wrestling games I've ever tried to play. They are pretty much unplayable.

[RadiantSvgun]

Dynamite Cop was not good. Seaman was bad too. Don't get me on Soinc Adventure 2.... I really hated power stone and power stone 2. D2, Illbleed, and Maken X made me want to cry.

[Vlad]

The soccer ones sucked big time. I always had the hope for the PES series, but unfortunately, the system died untimely.

[RadiantSvgun]

I remember a shooting game that was bad. I think it was called Death Crimson.. That was bleh.. One of my friends told me that Timestalkers is so bad, that it made her want to beat small children. And it was supposed to be like Landstalker...

Chef's luv shack isn't that bad as long as you don't pay more than $2 for it....

[RCM]

Sega Rally 2. I would still play it if the frame rate didn't suck so bad. It's a shame b/c the arcade version is a blast.

[Steve W]

Dragging this one back up so I can throw in my two cents.

Wild Metal - Total crap. It's like an old artillery game where you have to work out the trajectory of your fire to destroy enemies, but in this game you're a tank running around a hilly area with environment graphics that would look cheap on a PS1 game, and your enemies don't have the difficulty aiming that you have. The levels are pretty much all the same, and after a while, so are the enemies. It's just not fun at all. I bought it the week it came out (there wasn't much else to play at that time), and within a month Best Buy had already knocked it down $15.

Charge N' Blast - I found this to be a seriously frustrating game. Hard to figure out, and once you do, you realize it's no fun to play. I developed an instant hatred for this game after less than five minutes. I went to the store originally to buy Cannon Spike, but I forgot which game I was looking for and bought this one. I've regretted it ever since.

Fighting Force 2 - Fairly bland and unoriginal. I was expecting a good game since it came from Eidos, and I was proved wrong. It's not too bad, it's just dull as hell.

Urban Chaos - Same thing as Fighting Force 2, but even more clunky and unlikeable.

TNN Hardcore Heat - Bad driving game with lousy physics, and it's sponsored by The Nashville Network! What's not to hate?

Deep Fighter - An undersea sub shooter game that's confusing and boring.

Red Dog - I love vehicular combat games, and I just couldn't muster enough interest in this game to get to the second level. The same song and dance... bad levels, bad controls, etc.

Super Magnetic Neo - A really weird-ass platformer that, once you get past it's seriously Japanese goofiness, you realize that it's just not any good.

Super Runabout: SF Edition - They took the most boring bits of gameplay from a bunch of other driving games, tossed them in a blender, and poured it into a GD-ROM.

[DigitalSpace]

Surf Rocket Racers - mediocre Wave Race knockoff.

Test Drive 6 - The PS1 version wasn't that great to begin with, and the graphics and controls suggest that the Dreamcast port was an afterthought.

Vanishing Point - Would've been a decent racer if the difficulty didn't increase so quickly. And just one mistake - or an AI opponent smashing into you - can screw you over for an entire race.

Urban Chaos - Two words: terrible controls.

[Smashed Brother]

Vanishing Point - Would've been a decent racer if the difficulty didn't increase so quickly. And just one mistake - or an AI opponent smashing into you - can screw you over for an entire race.

You forgot to mention that the game controls like butter in a hot skillet. Same goes for the DC version of Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense. It could've been a great game, but it was destroyed by the awful control. Here's some other DC games that were bleh...

Draconus
Dragonrider (wow)
Fighting Vipers 2 (try it...you'll see why it stayed overseas)
Carrier

[Parodius Duh!]

frame gride is boring, plus plum sucks too!

[DigitalSpace]

I'm throwing in Sno-Cross Championship Racing. The PS1 version had weak controls, and unfortunately, things didn't improve in the Dreamcast port. Liked the track editor, though.

[Famidrive-16]

Sonic Shuffle is probably the worst I've played on the system. It's just a miserable fuckin chore to play.

Didn't really like Super Runabout, either. Crazy Taxi did it so much better.

I'm probably one of the few Evolution fans out there, but I must admit that Evo2 blows the first one out of the water.

also sylentwulf's post is so damn funny

[kedawa]

How did Prince of Persia escape this thread?
The only thing that saves that game from the title of 'complete dogshit' is that it hardly seems complete at all.