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"Games like Shenmue were the cause of Dreamcasts demise."

The reason the Sega machine failed you would have thought was probably the lack of brand recognition compared to PS2.

However I beg to differ and actually think it was the games that were the problem like Shenmue did not appeal to a European's, Crazy taxi was a driver rip-off with rubbish graphics, a mini game in GTA3. Revolt and 18 wheeler all had there part to play in the downfall of the DC.

Then there was the spec not a true 128bit machine, 33k modem next to useless, they said you could play with 6 billion players around the world when infact it was only in the UK and were told off by the British standards for misleading info. When you did get online the only games that you could play online was rubbish like Tu Tu Rocket.
Most games that were online capable in other regions had that feature dropped when it come to Europe or were not even released at all, it had serial ports and a pitiful 16MB ram no wonder it failed and has took until now to shift the remaining 100,000 machines.

Oooh!

I am proper looking forward to getting Crazy Taxi 3 next month.

Dreamcast has BY FAR better games than the PS2 has ever had.

Dreamcast IS miles better than the PS2. I look at all the PS2 games on the shelf and I don't want ANY of them, but I look at my Dreamcast with all my great games and I think "how come it didn't work?".

Well, the Dreamcast has got more, and better games than the PS2. All the PS2 games are either arcade or 'xtreme' sports (or normal sports) games, and even then they're just average. Plus, comparing Crazy Taxi to Driver then saying it has rubbish graphics is moronic - actually compare the graphics. Crazy Taxi is tonnes better, you imbecile.

The reason why Dreamcast failed is because misinformed sods such as yourself.

sorry i didn't mean to quote the whole of that post :(

Techno freak wrote:
> The reason the Sega machine failed you would have thought was probably
> the lack of brand recognition compared to PS2.
>
> However I beg to differ and actually think it was the games that were
> the problem like Shenmue did not appeal to a European's, Crazy taxi
> was a driver rip-off with rubbish graphics, a mini game in GTA3.
> Revolt and 18 wheeler all had there part to play in the downfall of
> the DC.
>
> Then there was the spec not a true 128bit machine, 33k modem next to
> useless, they said you could play with 6 billion players around the
> world when infact it was only in the UK and were told off by the
> British standards for misleading info. When you did get online the
> only games that you could play online was rubbish like Tu Tu Rocket.
> Most games that were online capable in other regions had that feature
> dropped when it come to Europe or were not even released at all, it
> had serial ports and a pitiful 16MB ram no wonder it failed and has
> took until now to shift the remaining 100,000 machines.

In the words of Scary Movie 2
"You Suck!"

Oh, and you definitely don't want to rubbish the Dreamcast when I was around. I wonder if you ever played one? I think you should n00b back to the Sony forum and talk to all your weedy friends about your weedy fanboy n00bness and DVD storage capacity, because we don't care.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. You really don't want to badmouth Shenmue in front of me.
You can't even understand how good that game was. It beats any game on any Sony console to date, and so does the sequel.
I think you should go away before I start some whoopin'.

Hes a PS2 fanboy. Period.

Hes been spewing crap out of his ar$e ever since he was born, making stupid topics on how the PS2 is better then the GC/Xbox

God this guy really is pathetic.

He acts like he knows what he's talking about but really he hasn't got a clue. I suggest everyone ignores his posts otherwise he's gonna keep spewing this crap out his ar$e.