Reviewing The Sega Dreamcast's Retro Shooter Gems

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    00:00 Intro
    03:42 Half-Life
    06:45 Kiss Psycho Circus
    12:52 Maken X
    19:30 Out Trigger
    24:03 Quake 3 Arena
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    33:48 Soldier of Fortune
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  • @ChaseFace
    @ChaseFace 22 дні тому +316

    That Dreamcast intro screen will never, ever get old.

    • @Fools_Requiem
      @Fools_Requiem 22 дні тому +16

      The Dreamcast, Gamecube, and PS1 had the best intros.

    • @simontemplar.8668
      @simontemplar.8668 22 дні тому +1

      That is a canonic fact.

    • @Sammo212
      @Sammo212 22 дні тому +10

      I feel like that's a thing no console gets right anymore, the intro screen. Gamecube, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2 were all awesome.

    • @CyclopeanCityDweller
      @CyclopeanCityDweller 22 дні тому

      It does. I see it literally 10-50 times a day. I own a business that sells DC games. I test every game live. I see it EVERY SINGLE DAY. It is at the point where I just want to skip it.

    • @StarmenRock
      @StarmenRock 22 дні тому

      Its already old, dog lol

  • @mawnkey
    @mawnkey 22 дні тому +148

    24:05 A buddy and I were touring id about a month before Quake 3 DC was released. We were walking through and noticed Quake 3 on a TV with a Dreamcast under it. Neither of us knew it was in the works, so we grabbed Marty Stratton (he was giving us the tour since he was kinda the guy that managed Quakecon and we were there as volunteers) and said "DUDE! Is that Quake 3 running on a _Dreamcast?!"_ He got a big grin and said "Oh yeah! You guys wanna see it?" Super fun way to find out about it.
    Fun fact: the PC version of Quake 3 could crossplay with the Dreamcast online. You had to patch back to version 1.16n and download a map pack that contained all the Dreamcast specific maps and you were golden. We actually ran a server for it at one of the CPL events. id's engine tech was just crazy flexible and could be made to perform on anything. I'm fully convinced John Carmack is a hyper advanced AI that aliens left on our planet just to give us amazing video game engines.

    • @Fools_Requiem
      @Fools_Requiem 22 дні тому +8

      You were super lucky. Getting excited over ports of games to the Dreamcast back when the console was still in its prime has to be a fun time. I didn't get to experience thr Dreamast until 2003 and I really feel like I missed out.

    • @rgerber
      @rgerber 22 дні тому +2

      he then later went on to build rockets

    • @HiGlowie
      @HiGlowie 20 днів тому +4

      @@rgerberwe need him back to build games.

    • @sealboy1211
      @sealboy1211 19 днів тому +2

      @@HiGlowie He’s trying to go home.

    • @vale_recca
      @vale_recca 17 днів тому +2

      I remember reading a fan port of quake for Nintendo DS could also cross play with PC, nuts.

  • @IsaacHozz
    @IsaacHozz 22 дні тому +218

    I was one of the 12 people that had the Dreamcast broadband adapter and the mouse and keyboard. Playing Quake 3 against people on dial up and on a controller with one stick... good times. The Dreamcast really was so ahead of its time.

    • @messiahmozgus
      @messiahmozgus 22 дні тому +13

      Might as well brag about boxing some 12 year olds

    • @RenegadePandaZ
      @RenegadePandaZ 22 дні тому +3

      It was all about the Dreamcast M&K, Unreal Tourney and Q3A on DC with the right setup was a blast online

    • @mawnkey
      @mawnkey 22 дні тому +7

      Oh hai. I'm one of the other dozen that had both _and_ ran it through a VGA adapter on a monitor for clean 640x480 signal. It's wild that Sega really had what was essentially an off the shelf PCMCIA card off to the side for peripherals, USB on the front, and entirely off-the-shelf components from Hitachi, PowerVR, and Yamaha inside.
      It was definitely an extremely bright sign of what consoles were going to become: entirely off-the-shelf hardware with no bespoke parts to speak of. It's really too bad that Sega of America couldn't hit their ass with both hands, a map, and a massive pot of money just waiting for them.

    • @mrratchet
      @mrratchet 22 дні тому +9

      You can still play Quake 3 online on the Dreamcast today. It's also cross-platform with the PC version (PC must be on patch 1.16n with DC map pack installed). The PAL version of Q3A sadly lacked support for the broadband adapter but the NTSC version did.

    • @sealboy1211
      @sealboy1211 22 дні тому +5

      I was one of the 40 people who had kb&m but no broadband. We speak fondly of playing quake against plebs with a single, tiny, stick. We remember you low ping bastards too, but we don’t talk about it.

  • @Asaylum117
    @Asaylum117 22 дні тому +138

    Man, that Dreamcast intro is so calming. Almost like it has a zen type of feel.

    • @toshineon
      @toshineon 22 дні тому +10

      I definitely agree. If only the console itself didn't sound like a jet plane taking off.

    • @Asaylum117
      @Asaylum117 22 дні тому +1

      @@toshineon Does it really? 🤣
      I never owned a Dreamcast, so I wouldn't know, but I am using a PS2 and it surprisingly doesn't make much noise when I play a game.

    • @toshineon
      @toshineon 22 дні тому +7

      @@Asaylum117 Yeah, the fan noise is pretty loud, but the worst part is the disc drive. The laser moving around while reading has gotta be the loudest I've ever heard from a disc drive.

    • @winlover37
      @winlover37 22 дні тому +2

      @@toshineon Honestly, I love the insanely loud whirring of the disc drive. It's charming to me for some reason. But I wanted to share, there's a noctua fan you can buy that works insanely well. Also of course an SD card mod that removed the disc drive altogether. If you're into mods definitely check those out

    • @toshineon
      @toshineon 22 дні тому +1

      @@winlover37 SD card mod definitely sounds interesting, I have something like that for my GameCube, and it's super convenient.

  • @markgines5173
    @markgines5173 22 дні тому +98

    Dreamcast was a gem. The fact that one could use the memory card as a tamagotchi and even play games on it, shows that the console was too far ahead of the curve.

    • @MaxAbramson3
      @MaxAbramson3 22 дні тому +2

      There were so many great things about the Dreamcast. But even as a former SEGA booster, when I saw those controllers I knew that it was 90s SEGA all over again. After poor support for the Sega CD, I didn't buy the saturn either.

    • @dukeljk2191
      @dukeljk2191 22 дні тому +2

      @@MaxAbramson3 No it was fine.

    • @MaxAbramson3
      @MaxAbramson3 22 дні тому +1

      @@dukeljk2191 No, it was nutters. Typical 90s SEGA. Thr Saturn's 3D controller was perfect.

    • @acomingextinction
      @acomingextinction 22 дні тому +4

      ahead of the curve? the Dreamcast was a terrific piece of kit, but the VMU concept never really went anywhere beyond that console generation. I think they were just innovating in every element they could, and some innovations were prophetic and others weren't.

    • @MaxAbramson3
      @MaxAbramson3 22 дні тому

      @@acomingextinction I thought that the VMU could've gone places. Again, criminally underused. Typical 90s SEGA.

  • @solomani5959
    @solomani5959 22 дні тому +30

    I lived in Japan when this went obsolete and I grabbed every game in their catalogue at cents on the dollar (well yen). A year later I gave it to my young cousins. 25 years later they still talk about how fun that console was.

    • @flippedoutkyrii
      @flippedoutkyrii 16 днів тому +3

      Holy hell, I couldn’t imagine my uncle just giving me a console with every damn game made for it as a birthday gift, that would be a wish from heaven for any kid lol

  • @AfterBurnerTeirusu
    @AfterBurnerTeirusu 22 дні тому +11

    Unreal Tournament gets a nice framerate boost if you plug in a keyboard, open up the command command line and type in a command which disables decals. This will disable decals left from bullet holes and fragged players, and it'll make the game perform better.

  • @ENTERtheCREATOR
    @ENTERtheCREATOR 22 дні тому +49

    I know it's weird, but I miss the "Shwacked!" running joke. Something about it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

    • @phasmidgaming99
      @phasmidgaming99 22 дні тому +2

      I'm right there with ya!

    • @HappyHealthyKarate-Do
      @HappyHealthyKarate-Do 22 дні тому

      Warm and fuzzy inside...you know, like your mum!
      *Shwacked*

    • @jonbourgoin182
      @jonbourgoin182 22 дні тому +5

      Shwacked! Has gotten a few genuine chuckles out of me over the years but out of all recurring Gman bits, for me none of them come close to the day he started putting in soundbites from Tourettes Guy
      Take 11:16 for example. No one on this Earth can emote cuss words with the sheer conviction of Tourettes Guy.

    • @NecroticFleshrot
      @NecroticFleshrot 22 дні тому

      Same.

    • @HeyItsJonny
      @HeyItsJonny 14 днів тому +2

      I felt shwacked everytime.

  • @nazgulsenpai
    @nazgulsenpai 22 дні тому +60

    Learning there is a Dreamcast FPS with brain jacking and a villain named Geist really takes the only wind out of the GameCube game Geist's unique feature lol.

    • @superstimulatedminotaur3681
      @superstimulatedminotaur3681 22 дні тому +5

      I disagree. Geist still has a lot of cool stuff to it. Being able to possess any thing from a mouse to a kitchen fan is awesome. Not to mention the puzzles that go along with that. The story itself is excellent as well. Really the main negative in that game are the FPS controls. Which is obviously a big negative to have, but the story and puzzles make up for it IMO

    • @nazgulsenpai
      @nazgulsenpai 22 дні тому +3

      @@superstimulatedminotaur3681 I really liked Geist too! I just find it quite the coincidence is all

    • @superstimulatedminotaur3681
      @superstimulatedminotaur3681 22 дні тому +3

      @@nazgulsenpai Fair enough. Geist and Maken X are both pretty underrated games with unique ideas

    • @nazgulsenpai
      @nazgulsenpai 22 дні тому

      @@superstimulatedminotaur3681 For sure. This is the first I've heard of Maken X somehow so I'm anxious to find out more about it.

  • @gobbins
    @gobbins 23 дні тому +33

    37:27 reverb farts

    • @orwellianson
      @orwellianson 22 дні тому

      Do this for every video he makes, please.

  • @AxeMain
    @AxeMain 22 дні тому +18

    I love kaneko's artstyle in Maken X. I have a collection of most of the games he's worked on, and have the PS2 version of the game called Maken Shao

    • @matteste
      @matteste 22 дні тому +8

      Seriously, he does not get the recognizition he rigthfully deserves. So sad that he has pretty much disappeared from the industry.

    • @Gggmanlives
      @Gggmanlives  22 дні тому +11

      It’s a very groovy art style

    • @PrinceSilvermane
      @PrinceSilvermane 22 дні тому +5

      It's kind of weird to see almost like an early version of the style they would use for Nocturne and the other PS2 RPGs they did.

    • @TheCrewExpendable
      @TheCrewExpendable 13 днів тому +1

      The PS2 version is funny because it was back in the day when ports to different platforms could be wildly different. The PS2 version has a third person camera!

  • @matteste
    @matteste 22 дні тому +23

    Man, never expected you to cover something like Maken X. That is a game where Kazuma Kaneko really went wild with the art. So sad that he doesn't get the recognizition he rigjtfully deserves.

    • @joseurena8596
      @joseurena8596 18 днів тому

      13:38 Why does the attendant sound like she's inhaling her own words 😂

  • @cappucci_n0
    @cappucci_n0 22 дні тому +20

    There's also an Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Its not exactly a FPS, but it has FPS elements. Its a 3D open-world adventure fighting FPS game made by Quantic Dream

    • @IsmailofeRegime
      @IsmailofeRegime 21 день тому +1

      I wouldn't be surprised if Gman intends one day to make an entire video on that game and its ports.

    • @eisenhorn5494
      @eisenhorn5494 21 день тому

      Man that gave was a trip. Loved it

    • @tassadarc8069
      @tassadarc8069 14 днів тому

      I would not wish that abomination on anyone.

  • @mikekomarinski
    @mikekomarinski 22 дні тому +54

    The Dreamcast start-up screen gives me goosebumps every time.

    • @Web720
      @Web720 22 дні тому +7

      I swear, ALL 6th gen startup (DC, PS2, GCN, XBOX) were goated. While 5th gen only the PS1 was goated.

    • @rgerber
      @rgerber 22 дні тому +1

      @@Web720 goated? how about Greatest Of All Time-ed ...shaking head

    • @HiGlowie
      @HiGlowie 20 днів тому

      @@Web720n64 was amazing. Unless you were a bussyboy who didn’t like fps’

    • @Web720
      @Web720 20 днів тому

      @@rgerber
      🤓

    • @Web720
      @Web720 20 днів тому

      @@HiGlowie
      The topic here is about start-up screens for the console. N64 never had one besides the N64DD.

  • @erikthered7876
    @erikthered7876 22 дні тому +9

    9/9/99, the greatest release date a console ever had and ever will, also that VMU, man was that a fun system.

  • @darrinfromvault801
    @darrinfromvault801 22 дні тому +28

    GMan, if youre gonna tease our tips by playing Dreamcast games. Then you'll need to play Illbleed

    • @immitationstation3369
      @immitationstation3369 22 дні тому +2

      I hated Illbleed when it came out. After 20 years people on Reddit told me to give it another shot...and now its one of my favorite games on the console its just so unhinged.
      One level you are a ghetto version of Woddy from Toy Story and you go to hell to save a sex doll from a demonic Sonic the Hedgehog 😅

    • @Ill06Taco
      @Ill06Taco 21 день тому +1

      This

  • @paddle_my_mad_laddle
    @paddle_my_mad_laddle 22 дні тому +5

    Maken X is such a great game. I love the lore, the character design, the gameplay--for me, that's almost exactly how I play Oblivion.
    It's all just so unique. That first playthrough was such a trip because of how interesting the worldbuilding and the aesthetics and design were.
    The soundtrack is utterly phenomenal. Shoji Meguro did such a great job with the soundtrack and it's such a shame people don't acknowledge it as much as they should.
    It also has just an incredible amount of replayability given the 6 endings the game has.
    That game makes me wish they did a proper remaster of Maken X just because theres so much character lore and worldbuilding lore to be expanded upon. It has so much potential for a good modern remake.
    I have Maken X on my top 10 Dreamcast games of all time and I stand by it. Its still just so good.

    • @accountwontlastlong1
      @accountwontlastlong1 22 дні тому +2

      I agree completely, it feels so unique and "Dreamcasty" as hell to me.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 17 днів тому +2

      the only reason i know about it, is that back in the day q hayashida's first manga was based on this, and it was quite long running too like 10 volumes or something

  • @pieraziel
    @pieraziel 22 дні тому +7

    The Kiss shooter has a special place in my memories, mainly because it made me a member of the Kiss army and introduced me to the wonders of rock and roll music

    • @Gustavo3Lost
      @Gustavo3Lost 10 днів тому +1

      can't forget Detroit Rock City, love that fucking movie and the soundtrack filled with classics
      "heey chongo!" [Godzilla starts playing as the camera moves towards the Hulk of a brother]

  • @swaptrickgaming
    @swaptrickgaming 22 дні тому +6

    I think if Sega hadn't burned its bridge with AMD which in turn cost its connections with EA and some other high profile 3rd parties, and they had included a DVD player in the DC, theyd have lasted that entire console generation. Might have even prompted them to make a DC2.

  • @joec9958
    @joec9958 21 день тому +2

    Left stick to aim, right face buttons to move was standard on N64, it was even the default on a few ps1 games (e.g. alien resurrection). For some reason it swapped over a few years later and everyone forgot that it was ever the other way round

  • @PassportBrosBusinessClass
    @PassportBrosBusinessClass 22 дні тому +12

    QUAKE III:
    I beat Xero on the highest difficulty mode by hiding behind a pillar and railgunning him to death. He couldn’t see me and had no path tracking to me. There’s no other way to win that match!

  • @beartackle
    @beartackle 22 дні тому +5

    0:57 I remember having to send my Hydro Thunder disc to the publisher because it had no music, and they sent me a fixed copy. Ahh... before we got internet updates. I loved that game.

  • @Thebossstage1
    @Thebossstage1 22 дні тому +11

    Let's raise a toast for the Dreamcast. 🍷 It was gone too soon

  • @LilApe
    @LilApe 22 дні тому +3

    I remember playing Kiss pycho circus on pc like 20+ years ago

  • @gdot1803
    @gdot1803 22 дні тому +13

    Steam Deck has been an amazing way to re-experience Dreamcast games, especially shooters. Why? Because once you have EmuDeck set up, you can easily remap shooter controls to be much more intuitive. So for example, because the DC lacked 2 analog sticks, typically the face buttons would be for movement while the analog stick would be for aiming, which was awkward. But on Deck, you can instead map the left stick to the face buttons for movement and the right stick for aiming.
    But here's where things get wild and what sets the Steam Deck above the other handhelds... You can then do gyro aiming in Dreamcast games! So that when the right stick or right trackpad is merely being touched (as in the gyro is only activated when they're touched and isn't active all the time), the gyro can act as the Dreamcast's left stick, so you now have full on gyro aiming acting as the left stick in Dreamcast shooters.
    Or you can map the right trackpad to emulate the Dreamcast's left stick, and have trackpad + gyro aiming, which feels even more accurate.
    And speaking of the trackpad - Silent Scope on Dreamcast feels insanely good to play using the Steam Deck's trackpad, way more intuitive and faster than using an analog stick, so the trackpads are fantastic for on rails shooters, which the DC had a lot of.
    If you're an old school Dreamcast fan, get yourself a Steam Deck. Once you have EmuDeck set up, no other device on the market does a better job at placing your Dreamcast games directly on the main UI in such an elegant fashion. And then there's the added layer of being able to easily customise the controls or the frame rate - on a per game basis.

    • @_lemon52
      @_lemon52 21 день тому +1

      I do this but can only get the d pad mapped to the face buttons not the analog stick, how do you do this?

    • @gdot1803
      @gdot1803 День тому

      @@_lemon52 Sorry for the late reply; didn't see it. So you just set the Steam Deck right stick to act as the left stick and that's it. I'm assuming you have EmuDeck setup, and you're asking how to map the DC left stick to SD'd right stick, so you can have dual stick modern FPS controls. You can then go to Gyro settings, and have it act as the left stick, and only be activated while touching the right stick, so now you have modern FPS controls + gyro.

  • @wiggytommy8607
    @wiggytommy8607 22 дні тому +6

    Can’t wait until Gman reviews the FPS libraries of the Atari Jaguar, 3DO, GameCube, SNES, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, Gameboy & Gameboy Advance, DS, Xbox, and Amiga.

  • @tankmerc7632
    @tankmerc7632 22 дні тому +19

    that dreamcast startup theme is (❁´◡`❁)

  • @mindsoulbody
    @mindsoulbody 22 дні тому +2

    Thanks Gman to remind us old folks what it used to have vs what we have now.
    Kids these days will never know the struggle we had to deal with using those hardware. It was painful yet fascinating simultaneously.

  • @anasevi9456
    @anasevi9456 22 дні тому +5

    As weird as DC controllers were, they were indestructible. The one analogue stick was a hall-effect, first and only such in consoles for 25 years now.. Only in the last years have 3rd party premium controllers rediscovered the tech. Microsoft made a big deal of bringing back hall effect triggers for Xbox One controllers years ago (Dreamcast pioneered those too). But Microsoft has stuck with those nasty potentiometer analogue sticks, they and Sony seem to have a 99 year contract with Alps for those awful things.

  • @calebpribyl5152
    @calebpribyl5152 22 дні тому +8

    God that DOA2 intro with the bomb factory song “exciter” really is the best intro I’ve ever heard!

  • @maxsidetracks4990
    @maxsidetracks4990 22 дні тому +13

    I played Maken X to death back in the day. The differences between the japanese and european versions were pretty big. The special attacks actually only cost health in the european release, so in the jp version you could just spam them to no end. And the guy in India had actually a completely different character model in the jp version as well. He had six arms, a completely different face. Good times, good times.

    • @accountwontlastlong1
      @accountwontlastlong1 22 дні тому +1

      Yeah, I played the US and JP versions and was surprised that JP seemed to be easier.

    • @murderman8578
      @murderman8578 22 дні тому +2

      I read the Manga Adaptation

    • @chillhour6155
      @chillhour6155 21 день тому +1

      Still better then Ghost wire Tokyo

    • @accountwontlastlong1
      @accountwontlastlong1 21 день тому

      @@chillhour6155 What's wrong with that game?

  • @marscaleb
    @marscaleb 16 днів тому +1

    There is something incredibly beautiful about the way the Dreamcast renders. I don't know what it is, but nearly every game on the console somehow looks good in a way I can't describe.

  • @sevenproxies4255
    @sevenproxies4255 21 день тому +2

    I owned Quake 3 for PC, but I found out after purchase that my PC couldn't run it.
    So I was quite happy with the Dreamcast port and noting that they played very similar to eachother.

  • @Fools_Requiem
    @Fools_Requiem 22 дні тому +3

    For a millisecond, you had me wondering if purposely avoiding the Kiss game every time I saw it on store shelves was a mistake. Luckily, I'm glad I didn't miss out on that disaster.
    I think something they could have done to circumnavigate the lack of a second thumb stick, they could have gone the Metroid Prime route, where you press and hold a button to lock in on an enemy, which allows you to move and strafe while staying on target. A dedicated 180 button on the D-Pad would help, too. N64 could have used a similar system just fine, too.
    Honesty, button combinations are a pretty smart way to take advantage of limited buttons.

  • @PixelShade
    @PixelShade 20 днів тому +2

    It's a shame western developers never really came to terms with the Dreamcast hardware. It had so many great hardware optimization features that made it extremely competitive or even ahead of PC hardware at the time (1998-2000). Like how the tile-based deferred rendering helped with geometry culling and improved rasterized performance, or how 4-bit paletted texture could be compressed to a ratio of 32:1 instead of 4:1. Theoretically allowing the Dreamcast to offer 60MB worth of texture memory, as long as you designed them with 16 colors in mind (I mean you don't need much more for "single-material textures" like grass, dirt, wood, stone, steel etc. and you can always use other texture formats where it makes sense).
    For engines and graphics assets built ground up for the hardware it was just way ahead of its time. unfortunately, many western developers just made straight conversions of PC games using PC optimized engines, resulting in pretty crude results on the DC... Quake III is really the only game showcasing a decent effort of hardware optimization.

  • @penttirantanen8024
    @penttirantanen8024 18 днів тому +1

    Dear Gman, a few games that are right up you alley:
    - Bullet Witch
    - Infernal
    - 3rd Birthday

  • @devonwilliams5738
    @devonwilliams5738 22 дні тому +5

    3DO has several interesting options for exclusive FPS games, especially with PO'ed getting a remaster soon. I still want a Saturn FPS video though, gotta see you trudge through Congo.

  • @Jacob-360
    @Jacob-360 22 дні тому +6

    One of the most underrated consoles ever.

  • @Browneyedbakedpotato
    @Browneyedbakedpotato 22 дні тому +2

    Soulcalibur for the Dreamcast was so amazing dude hell yeah

  • @sevenproxies4255
    @sevenproxies4255 21 день тому +1

    I remember getting my Dreamcast as a christmas present, along with the game Shenmue (which I had been quite fascinated by reading about it in game magazines).
    I still have the Dreamcast and Shenmue to this day.

  • @StillTheVoid
    @StillTheVoid 22 дні тому +8

    A toast to one of gaming's very last home console of the 20th century. 🥂
    To many of us, Sega's departure really hit home for the loyal fanbase of all these games.
    But i wonder, if rail shooters should've also been included on this list since its also in first person perspective but that's another debate for another time I guess. RIP Sega (1983-2000). 🕯💐

  • @N7-ElusiveOne
    @N7-ElusiveOne 22 дні тому +3

    I needed to hear that intro, it soothes my soul.

  • @stoyMKE8
    @stoyMKE8 22 дні тому +1

    The soundtrack to Quake 3 slaps so hard. Fun fact though, Front Line Assembly did some of the tracks as did Sonic Mayhem.

  • @dillonjohn8549
    @dillonjohn8549 22 дні тому +1

    The Dreamcast is my favourite console of all time. It didn't have a long Life span but it had so many classic games

  • @vilegoblin
    @vilegoblin 22 дні тому +1

    My bowling alley had Carn-Evil and i used to just dump quarters into it every Sunday.
    Love that game to death and was always surprised as Midways most successful light gun game they didnt do more with it.

  • @100Servings
    @100Servings 22 дні тому +2

    Maken X is so good! You have to make a video on it. I would also recommend PetRock's video, as he explains all the Chinese I-Ching and how it ties into all the characters and their motivations. This game is a gem. Peak Atlus.

  • @mitchv.7492
    @mitchv.7492 22 дні тому +1

    Nice video as always ! Pretty sure Maken X was an inspiration for Metroid Prime... 18:20 Nice typo from Atlus (anymore*, not any more)

  • @purebaldness
    @purebaldness 19 днів тому

    3:42 - I always loved how the Bull Squid's death sounds like The Undertaker's manager, Pall Bearer.

  • @DerivitivFilms
    @DerivitivFilms 22 дні тому +2

    All those Roadhouse mentions and not a single clip of Peter Griffen saying "Rrrroadhouse!"

  • @hughey_streams
    @hughey_streams 20 днів тому

    Dude, another awesome video. Have to say brother you've put me onto quite lot of awesome games I've otherwise overlooked or just missed out on entirely. What a legend.

  • @natejennings5884
    @natejennings5884 22 дні тому +2

    I owned Quake 3 Arena for the Sega Dreamcast, and the Dreamcast release of Soul Calibur was the best version of that game on ANY platform. I'd seen Unreal Tournament and Half Life for the Dreamcast but only played them on PC through gog (UT) and Steam (HL).

  • @bigDmtb622
    @bigDmtb622 21 день тому +1

    I had Quake on PC back in the day. I used to put the disc in my cd player and rock out to the Soundtrack.

  • @CturiX.IREALLY
    @CturiX.IREALLY 22 дні тому

    Its genuinely funny you bringing up the 357 sound effect, because there were more sounds from Spec Ops and Rainbow Six specifically that made shining features in Madness Combat and Thing Thing years if not decades later

  • @gwarriorfromhell
    @gwarriorfromhell 22 дні тому +2

    I loved Maken X. I need to see about tracking down a copy.

  • @sgtyed3943
    @sgtyed3943 22 дні тому +1

    Virtuacop was a game me and my brother always played on the Dreamcast. I never knew it was based off an Arcade game until we didn't have the console anymore

  • @trittyburd
    @trittyburd 22 дні тому +1

    Wasn't expecting to see a peek of Hydro Thunder in a Gman video, but I'll gladly take it.

  • @rastas_4221
    @rastas_4221 22 дні тому +2

    Sega fucked up majorly before the release of dreamcast. All this CD, 32x and saturn business left them to position that many major retailers didn't want to see their asses again.

  • @MrLuigi98
    @MrLuigi98 7 днів тому

    Ah, Outrigger, Maken X, Rainbow Six, and Soldier of Fortune, my childhoods...
    Yes, do a retrospective on Maken X, please!

  • @jonbourgoin182
    @jonbourgoin182 22 дні тому +2

    Shwacked! Has gotten a few genuine chuckles out of me over the years but out of all recurring Gman bits, for me none of them come close to the day he started putting in soundbites from Tourettes Guy
    Take 11:16 for example. No one on this Earth can emote cuss words with the sheer conviction of Tourettes Guy.

  • @godvandamme9921
    @godvandamme9921 22 дні тому +1

    "Lady, you're scaring us" 😆

  • @raikohzx4323
    @raikohzx4323 10 днів тому

    A fun thing to keep in mind for Maken X in the future is that it also has a PS2 version, Maken Shao, which puts the game in third person and reworks a lot of elements even if it's still the same core game beneath it all.

  • @lordfizzz
    @lordfizzz 22 дні тому +1

    Before we had a PC up to snuff for gaming, we had quake 3 arena and the modem. I was too young to really comprehend how ahead of it's time the Dreamcast was when I was playing death matches with my friends who lived 25 mins away by bike

  • @blaketindle4703
    @blaketindle4703 22 дні тому +2

    I know I’d be a lot of work but I’d love to see you review every Original Xbox FPS game!

  • @no-replies
    @no-replies 22 дні тому

    27:40
    The memories this unlocked, my god

  • @BOBINDUN
    @BOBINDUN 17 днів тому

    8:00 bro, I remember seeing carnEvil at the movie theater once and it stuck with me for life.

  • @xMaggostx
    @xMaggostx 21 день тому

    The loading times on Soldier of Fortune where hilarious, I could even take a bath or cook while the game was loading.

  • @Fr0gg0
    @Fr0gg0 22 дні тому +1

    Damn, I had repressed the mouseball cleaning. Thanks for reminding me.

  • @lurkerrekrul
    @lurkerrekrul 7 днів тому

    For over a decade, I played first person shooters in Windows using a wireless PS/2 ball mouse. Yes, it needed to be cleaned occasionally, but it was never a big problem. It was also quite accurate and I never had any problems aiming at even small targets in the distance with precision. Unfortunately, that's not something I can say about any laser mouse I've ever used. Maybe it's because they're too sensitive, but I find it almost completely impossible to aim at small targets with any degree of accuracy. If I get the horizontal aim just right, the vertical aim will be off. So I move the mouse up slightly and it jitters to the side a couple pixels. So I nudge it back the other way and now it's a couple pixels too low. Move it up a tiny amount and it jumps a few pixels to the other side! ARGH!!!
    Here's a test I like to do: When you move the pointer over text, it changes to a vertical line with little cross pieces at the top and bottom. Pick a symmetrical letter like A, H, X, etc, and try to center the pointer on that letter perfectly, both horizontally and vertically, and then take your hand off the mouse so that it stays there. How long does it take and how much trouble is it to get it to stay centered?
    For me, it's an exercise in frustration.
    Or load up a good drawing program (MS Paint doesn't qualify), load a B/W drawing and try to follow some of the lines in the image with the mouse while drawing in some color. How closely were you able to follow the lines? My ball mouse used to be pretty accurate, but with laser mice, it goes all over, no matter how slowly I go.
    Note: No cheating by lowering the DPI on the mouse, or adjusting the mouse speed in windows. Perform these tests with the mouse set the way you normally use it.

  • @powderedbuns8251
    @powderedbuns8251 22 дні тому

    I loved playing quake 3, Soldier of Fortune, and Psycho Circus on the Dreamcast as a kid. Such great memories… that DC intro is forever engraved into my mind!

  • @Prettorian
    @Prettorian 22 дні тому

    Tourettes Guy, GOT'EEEEMM guy, couple of mom jokes and the reverb fart....that's all that's really necessary...instant like!

  • @MrMightyZ
    @MrMightyZ 7 днів тому

    Back in my day a BJ was an HJ (Head Job) and BJ stood for Bum Jack. And no we didn’t wear onions on our belts smart Alec. But we did wear potatoes in our hair.

  • @Flpstrike
    @Flpstrike 21 день тому +2

    This reminds me of the definitive version of Spider-Man 2000 => The Dreamcast Port

  • @l88ch3r
    @l88ch3r 22 дні тому +1

    I hate that things went the way they did. The dreamcast was far ahead of its time in many ways. It didn't deserve its fate.

  • @sevenproxies4255
    @sevenproxies4255 21 день тому +1

    That outro video vibe man.

  • @rometherevenant8749
    @rometherevenant8749 22 дні тому

    Man I love the Dreamcast. The sound alone of the startup screen makes me smile and brings me back to simpler times.

  • @punishederic4761
    @punishederic4761 12 днів тому +1

    Kiss Psycho circus would probably kick ass if it was based on a good band

  • @SynthLizard8
    @SynthLizard8 22 дні тому +1

    I really wanted to play the full version of KiSS: psycho circus, I only got the demo but boy was it fun and intriguing.

  • @laxmannate07
    @laxmannate07 20 днів тому

    I remember getting a used Dreamcast as my next console after the N64. I was blown away by how good the games looked.

  • @hi_tech_reptiles
    @hi_tech_reptiles 22 дні тому +1

    Ive got a DC with a GDEmu hooked up to a VGA CRT in my living room as we speak. The Saturn, PS2 and Genesis are right next to it, but yeah.

  • @bizzzzzzle
    @bizzzzzzle 21 день тому

    I’m 36, and yes a mouse that used a ball was less accurate or sensitive as a “laser” mouse, but the complaint about them “getting dirt all the time” is highly exaggerated. I went to tech high school for IT and we ran the pc labs and did all the repairs for the other tech programs, and only in the pc labs did I see that. Or old people that didn’t ever clean anything. You had to be a filthy person for yours to get bad at home.

  • @Peatnik9
    @Peatnik9 22 дні тому

    Lovely. Quake 3 Arena was my first taste of online shooters. Great stuff.

  • @8bitbrento
    @8bitbrento 22 дні тому

    Thanks for keeping the dream live. I logged probably hundreds of hours of online Quake III on Dreamcast. Such an incredible port.

  • @blaketindle4703
    @blaketindle4703 22 дні тому +1

    Unreal Tournament on PS2 is still one of my favorite games of all time!
    I also really like the Unreal Championship games on Original Xbox.

  • @TheAsianLover
    @TheAsianLover 22 дні тому

    It is nice to see some love for Maken X, I hope it gets a full video but also a look at the ps2 Remake Maken Shao: Demon Sword it became 3rd person (Still with tank controls) but some content too.

  • @GreedFeed
    @GreedFeed 21 день тому +1

    Maaaaan I was so excited thinking you’d review Gundam Side Story 0079. I loved that games demo disc.

    • @GreedFeed
      @GreedFeed 21 день тому

      Furthermore I believe Side Story takes place in Australia!!! GMan is missing out!!!

  • @ArtHazard
    @ArtHazard 22 дні тому

    First time I ever beat Half Life was on Dreamcast. I was 12 and pirates in my country were very proficient, they released this version WITH TRANSLATION. With its broken framerate, Dreamcast controller and my lack of gaming skills it was quite an achievement.

  • @chalkitdowm
    @chalkitdowm 22 дні тому

    The Homelander clip gets me laughing so much. Every. Single. Time.

  • @blaketindle4703
    @blaketindle4703 22 дні тому +2

    I love the Sega Dreamcast! It’s a shame they didn’t put a second thumb stick on the controller though.

  • @marcosdgonzalez5270
    @marcosdgonzalez5270 22 дні тому +2

    Long live dreamcast and sega

  • @Antek_S
    @Antek_S 7 днів тому

    DEH-eeeee-TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, deh-ee-TOE-Na, let's go away (let's go away).
    This is literally the only thing you could ever hear in any arcade. Still haunts my dreams.

  • @zeroblue720
    @zeroblue720 10 днів тому

    43:44 Missed opportunity to play the "Aw SH**" line again, but cut it off mid-sentence. lol

  • @noahboat580
    @noahboat580 22 дні тому

    Dreamcast had a quality library, Maken X was one of the first dreamcast games i got after all these years

  • @Schraiber
    @Schraiber 21 день тому

    Maken X looks so cool. Honestly looks like it's pretty decent first person melee, which is still a rarity. The enemy feedback and depth perception looked pretty good!

  • @Jenohart
    @Jenohart 22 дні тому

    I really liked the PS2 version of Maken X, renamed Maken Shao. Funny, they switched it from first person to third person but kept the tank controls. At least it's easier to parry enemy projectiles in third person. PS2 version also uses the uncensored character designs. Namely the Indian guy at the bottom left at 19:22 looks totally different, he's supposed to have four robot arms on his shoulders instead of floating hands.

  • @inspectorkenobi
    @inspectorkenobi 22 дні тому +1

    Made dinner and a new Gman video pops up. Perfect timing

  • @montanastranger
    @montanastranger 19 днів тому

    I loved this console so much. It's the only console I was sad when it ended. every other console, I moved on to something else. And it wasn't that big of a deal, but the dreamcast is so bitter sweet.

  • @Topplethepyramid
    @Topplethepyramid 22 дні тому +2

    Guys, I need help. There was another melee based first person game on DC. It looked Japanese. It was more fist based though I think, you could also kick and I think you could use guns from enemies... (edit: It could've been on the OG Xbox I guess) (edit 2: Breakdown for the OG Xbox is the game I was looking for!)

    • @ClarkKentai
      @ClarkKentai 22 дні тому +2

      Breakdown?

    • @Topplethepyramid
      @Topplethepyramid 22 дні тому +2

      @@ClarkKentai Dude, thank you so much! That's the game I was looking for!

    • @ClarkKentai
      @ClarkKentai 22 дні тому +1

      @@Topplethepyramid no problem, it's been a personal favorite of mine for some time now

  • @krono5el
    @krono5el 22 дні тому

    Some of my go to shooters on the Dreamcast back then were sof 2 and slave zero, while not the best ports still fun games. Also Ding Chavez is forever a legend : )

  • @huntersm00n
    @huntersm00n 21 день тому

    Dreamcast will always be my favorite console. Would be cool to see comparisons of the og xbox shooters, especially Halo, timesplitters, and unreal Championship

  • @MynamesRy
    @MynamesRy 22 дні тому

    Have always loved my Dreamcast! Keep up the good content!