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| What was your first experience 6; Sega Dreamcast | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 20 2009, 08:10 AM (183 Views) | |
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I have been, and remain, non-sequitur
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Moving right along then... My first experience The first time I saw a Dreamcast up close was at an Ultimate Hardcore Gamer's house in early 1999. I'm not kidding, this guy went to Vegas and won a Street Fighter 2 tournament, spent all day learning the dial-a-combos in Tekken so he could fight in tournaments, et al. My impression of the games It was early 1999 and the aforementioned Ultra Hardcore Gamer had Powerstone and Sonic Adventure imported as well and I played them for one evening. That's right, Soul Calibur was nowhere to be found. With its atrocious AI I would have been blown out of ever buying a Dreamcast! I played Powerstone and Sonic Adventure and absolutely loved them. Nothing on the Playstation or N64 had the sheer speed and fluidity of the controls these two games demonstrated. Not only would attacks and whatnot come from all directions, but, I could for the first time ever in a 3D game, actually dodge them all and counter attack. It was so much more than a typical generational leap, it was like 3D gaming had suddenly become valid compared to 2D gaming at the hands of these two games. No previous hardware could even attempt to run them and their gameplay was radically new and original. My impression of the overall package DVDs were just yet another movie format, I didn't care about watching movies from my game console. Actually, folks in the RGVS argued frequently that movie playback on a console was nothing short of making a set top box, not a game console. In September of 1999 I was impressed that the Dreamcast was only $200, I was not so impressed with the VMUs replacing internal saves we had as a luxury in the Sega CD and Saturn, and I was impressed by Best Buy's 6 months no interest scam. The facts that changed my first impression When I actually saw a PS2 running in a store kiosk I realized that the folks at RGVS had been right all along, trying to make an all-in-wonder console absolutely cripples its gaming components. Granted the rest of the world thought DVD playback was the best thing ever to be added to a console, so my opinion there is moot. All the same, until the Xbox and Gamecube were released in 2001, the Dreamcast had no real gaming competitor. What season and year did I buy the system? I walked in on launch day, September 9, 1999 and bought a Dreamcast, two controllers, a VMU, an extension cable and Sonic Adventure with pure credit. Ooh boy you wouldn't catch me even considering doing something like that today, but I did actually pay it all off several months early from the due date. Good ole' Best Buy still tried to charge me the interest, and happily credited it back to me with a simple phone call, scammers. |
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