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Costs less than £100.
Online network - Dreamarena. Send email, surf the web and play games online!
An incredible selection of games all at startling value!Here's a list of just 20 essential purchases:
Quake 3 Arena, Metropolis Street Racer, F355 Challenge, Le Mans 24, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Tennis, Soul Calbur, Shenmue, NBA 2K, Daytona USA 2001, Samba De Amigo, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Sonic Adventure, Ready 2 Rumble 2, Phantasy Star Online, Grandia 2, Toy Racer, Skies of Arcadia, House of The Dead 2, and Resident Evil: Code Veronica.
At least ten must have future titles:
Crazy Taxi 2,
Sonic Adventure 2,
Virtua Tennis 2 - renamed Sega Sports tennis 2k2
Shenmue 2
Headhunter
Half Life - we can pray can't we?
NBA 2K2
PSO version 2
Virtua Fighter 4 - if Dreamcast can hande it
The rest!
Dan 2K1
Online network - Dreamarena. Send email, surf the web and play games online!
An incredible selection of games all at startling value!Here's a list of just 20 essential purchases:
Quake 3 Arena, Metropolis Street Racer, F355 Challenge, Le Mans 24, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Tennis, Soul Calbur, Shenmue, NBA 2K, Daytona USA 2001, Samba De Amigo, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Sonic Adventure, Ready 2 Rumble 2, Phantasy Star Online, Grandia 2, Toy Racer, Skies of Arcadia, House of The Dead 2, and Resident Evil: Code Veronica.
At least ten must have future titles:
Crazy Taxi 2,
Sonic Adventure 2,
Virtua Tennis 2 - renamed Sega Sports tennis 2k2
Shenmue 2
Headhunter
Half Life - we can pray can't we?
NBA 2K2
PSO version 2
Virtua Fighter 4 - if Dreamcast can hande it
The rest!
Dan 2K1
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I could do with somma that!
turbonutter wrote:
> The problem with the PC is:, to keep it a "behamoth" you
> not only need £1000+ to spare but £200+ per year going
> free.
What is the £200+ per year going free for Turbonut!
> The problem with the PC is:, to keep it a "behamoth" you
> not only need £1000+ to spare but £200+ per year going
> free.
What is the £200+ per year going free for Turbonut!
The problem with the PC is:, to keep it a "behamoth" you not only need £1000+ to spare but £200+ per year going free.
I beg to differ.
Quake III Arena, Le Mans 24 Hours, Half-Life
- All PC games anyway, and far better on the original format.
Daytona USA 2001, Crazy Taxi (2?), House of the Dead 2, Virtua Fighter 4
- Maybe worth a pound or two in the arcades, but £30 for games that get old that quickly? I think not...
Redy 2 Rumble 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Sonic Adventure, Grandia 2, 'Virtua' anything...
- Sequel after sequel after sequel after sequel. Yawn. Even if you wanted to you could play most of these on a PlayStation 2 anyway.
Dreamarena
- Yeah, I'm going to shell out for an overpriced keyboard, mouse etc... to play with interminable lag on poor games, or access the Internet in a far inferior manner to that which I currently use. At any rate, the Dreamcast has no original games of any value for Internet play. Quake III Arena, Half-Life Counterstrike, Unreal Tournament, Ultima Online etc... All on the PC thankyou very much.
Conclusion:
Sega's Dreamcast was dated from the moment it was released, with Sega's usual dreary collection of churned sequels and pale imitations of popular games from more successful systems. The Dreamcast is not great. It's cheap, but that does not make it great. If you want great, there's a great console on the PlayStation 2, or the greatest gaming system in a behemoth PC (if you have nearly £1000 to spare, that is). To be honest, even if I was buying a cheap console (not likely) I'd probably plump for a PSOne over a Dreamcast.
Quake III Arena, Le Mans 24 Hours, Half-Life
- All PC games anyway, and far better on the original format.
Daytona USA 2001, Crazy Taxi (2?), House of the Dead 2, Virtua Fighter 4
- Maybe worth a pound or two in the arcades, but £30 for games that get old that quickly? I think not...
Redy 2 Rumble 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Sonic Adventure, Grandia 2, 'Virtua' anything...
- Sequel after sequel after sequel after sequel. Yawn. Even if you wanted to you could play most of these on a PlayStation 2 anyway.
Dreamarena
- Yeah, I'm going to shell out for an overpriced keyboard, mouse etc... to play with interminable lag on poor games, or access the Internet in a far inferior manner to that which I currently use. At any rate, the Dreamcast has no original games of any value for Internet play. Quake III Arena, Half-Life Counterstrike, Unreal Tournament, Ultima Online etc... All on the PC thankyou very much.
Conclusion:
Sega's Dreamcast was dated from the moment it was released, with Sega's usual dreary collection of churned sequels and pale imitations of popular games from more successful systems. The Dreamcast is not great. It's cheap, but that does not make it great. If you want great, there's a great console on the PlayStation 2, or the greatest gaming system in a behemoth PC (if you have nearly £1000 to spare, that is). To be honest, even if I was buying a cheap console (not likely) I'd probably plump for a PSOne over a Dreamcast.
Sorry. I would use more descriptive language that isn't swearing, but they would just say "eh?"
I will say this now. Everyone who uses net-speak is an immature dick-head.
SonicRav wrote:
> What I am saying is that we hate newbies coming on and saying that
> the PS2 is great coz of XY and Z. U have just done the same
> thing!
> Sonic
DAMNIT! SHUT UP WITH THIS STUPID NET-SPEAK OR I WILL GET REALLY ANGRY!!!!!!
> What I am saying is that we hate newbies coming on and saying that
> the PS2 is great coz of XY and Z. U have just done the same
> thing!
> Sonic
DAMNIT! SHUT UP WITH THIS STUPID NET-SPEAK OR I WILL GET REALLY ANGRY!!!!!!
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