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I loved my Dreamcast but the Saturn was Sega's pinnacle console. So many of the games were blindingly original. - Radiant Silvergun the best scrolling shootem
by nanna 4y ago
I loved my Dreamcast but the Saturn was Sega's pinnacle console. So many of the games were blindingly original.
- Radiant Silvergun the best scrolling shootem up at least I ever played (far superior to its sequel Ikaruga)
- Guardian Heroes a scrolling beatemup with dozens (houndreds?) of glorious characters to choose from.
- Nights into Dreams. You fly like a rocket, you dance, you liberate weird little tamagochi which you take on your VMU. By Sonic Team.
- Panzer Dragoon Saga. RPG on a dragon. Beautiful.
- Grandia. Ok this I never played as it wasn't translated, but its reputation preceeds it.
- Fighters Megamix. Graphics werent great but it brought together all of Sega's signature characters (including Sonic) into a Virtua Fighter ring. Madness.
- Burning Rangers. Meca Firefighting, by Sonic Team.
After the Saturn, the Dreamcast was a disappointment, even though it was great. And after the Dreamcast, I stopped playing games. Nothing like those old days.
- ac2u 4y agoYou could put together a strong argument that Dreamcast had a similar level of originality too. Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Powerstone, Samba Di Amigo, Seaman, Shenmue were all games that were risk taking because they didn't have much of a template to build from.
- ofrzeta 4y agoRez was amazing as well.
- nanna 4y agoRez was incredible, true. Shenmue and Shenmue II were also Sega at it's best. Seaman was bloody weird and very ahead of its time - too far perhaps, it was a real struggle to get that critter to understand my voice. Maybe because of my London accent? I had the impression it might have been better for Americans. Samba Di Amigo was also great - Sonic Team once again - though I remember struggling to get the maracas working. I might have had unofficial ones. Jet Set Radio was like nothing else too. I didn't have enough friends to get the most out of Powerstone. I would add Phantasy Star Online - Sonic Team! I was never crazy about Crazy Taxi, it never felt like it survived the transition to console from the arcades, where it ruled. What a shame for videogames that Sonic Team was, I assume, disbanded along with the Dreamcast? I'm not
- lostgame 4y agoSonic Team was not disbanded along with the Dreamcast, but - AFAIK - still exists, however; Yuji Naka left in 2005(?) during Sonic ‘06’s disastrous development. He’s recently ended up in legal trouble after the shitshow that was Balan Wonderworld. Oh; how the mighty have fallen. :(
- doublerebel 4y agoRez Infinite survives as a VR/Quest port! Really fun to re-play immersed in the system.
- lostgame 4y agoMinor nitpick; but the Saturn didn’t have a VMU; or Visual Memory Unit, that was the Dreamcast. You’re confusing NiGHTs Into Dreams’ A-life (which was still a thing but only in-game) with Sonic Adventure’s Chao system, which allowed you to take the little buggers on the go as I did in High School, lol.
- nanna 4y agoYou're completely right!