Thinking About Buying a Dreamcast

[Thinking About Buying a Dreamcast]

I highly recommend a Dreamcast my friend.

A few games i recommend for it are:

*snip*

+ many more

 

Some of the many more:

 

Bangai-O: terrific SNES-era-esque fun, if the machines of the era could put 1000 things on screen at once...a FAQ I wrote for this is at GameFAQS.com.

 

Quake III: very decent (much better framerate than Unreal Tournament multiplayer). Next best thing to having a LAN party, thouugh the setup is needlessly awkward.

 

Powerstone / Powerstone 2: cartoon 2- and 4-player fighting, respectively. The latter is a terrificly fun brawler.

 

I've never gotten into burning DC games. Sometimes you can find things cheapish at half.com (assuming you're too impatient for ebay)

[I Got Super Mario Sunshine TODAY!]

Got it a few days ago. About 12 or 13 Shines in.

 

I'm trying to play the game casuall for a change, not rush through it all in marathon sessions, but just a few shines here and there. Trying to stay light on the FAQs as well. :-)

 

Maybe Mario 64 already did this so there's no need to do it again, but I kind of miss how Mario 64 was such a cool update of all the great old 2D stuff. That's one of the reasons I'm such a Nintendo fanboy, their ability to call on a rich legacy of familar visual designs... In making it a single place, and tying it all into a rough island theme, Sunshine makes the whole thing a little more generic. Subworlds like Banjo-Tooie, way too much talking with random townspeople ala Zelda, etc. (Plus, some effects seem duplicated; maybe Nintendo is trying for a signature style, but hear the little "tink tink tink" of treasure from Luigi's Mansion (not to mention the whole backpack idea!), a very Zelda-like warp, etc)

 

So I'm liking it. The rollercoaster in the amusement park was great. Still, I can see why this game isn't the end all and be all for the system.

[Robot Tank, nice game!]

Nah, there's no jury, no verdict.

 

And I don't even want to take a vote, because "Robot Tank" seems to have the greater number of fans. I just find it much less satisfying of a game, and think Battlezone is the most amazing technical feat I've seen on the 2600.

 

Robot Tank has: fast kinetic gameplay, weather/night conditions, neat up-n-down effect as it travels, and variable damage.

 

Battlezone has: a realistic 3D model, two enemies at once, 4 different types of enemies, and the tanktreads move realistically.

 

So you can take your pick.

(Any other features I missed for either?)

 

I don't remember the Robot Tank death scene but the Battlezone one sticks in my head...I should check out the former.

[Robot Tank, nice game!]

Battlezone is so much better than Robot Tank...it's a real *world*, people! You can hear a bullet fired offscreen, figure out which of the two dots on your radar it likely came from, slam your tank into reverse and watch the bullet pass harmlessly ahead...a far cry from Robot Tank's "if I can't see the bullet it can't see me" gameplay with a tank that steers like a gokart based turret.

 

Weather, shmether. For both techincal achievement and pure gameplay, Battlezone has it over Robot Tank hands down.