Steaming Piles on the Sega Dreamcast

Games so bereft of fun and excitement, they'll make you wonder how the developers were able to sleep after unleashing them on the public.
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured from real hardware.
2. Soul Fighter used composite cables for the capture. When using SCART, the visuals were all kinds of messed up.
3. Seventh Cross Evolution needs a remake. I feel with an improved graphics presentation, some streamlined design choices, and faster action, it would be a very interesting game.
4. I showed a few other bad games in the beginning. Stuff like South Park Rally, Nightmare Creatures 2, and Soldier of Fortune could easily have made this list.
5. I wanted to reboot my bad games episodes under one branding. "Steaming Piles" will now take over as my main bad games series.
6. It really is interesting to go back and see some of those reviews covering multiplatform games. The DC reviews were almost always worse. This is despite better resolution and performance many times.

[@kenterminateddq5311]

Sega Lord, I hope "Steaming Pile of...." becomes a series for other consoles.

[@SegaLordX]

That's the plan.

[@TheMucky88]

I loved the PC version of Urban Chaos. It was crazy to see a game like that when it came out, and it didn't have any of the technical issues the DC version had. Draw distance was way better, for example. I remember thinking I could see forever.

[@anton1203]

Urban Chaos is a solid hidden gem for me (PC version). It has an incredible atmosphere.

[@99Vood99]

Agreed with you, it was a far better PC game. This Dreamcast version is terrible.

[@xGMV]

Indeed. I've modded the game myself, extending the draw distance and LOD. It doesn't play bad at all on that platform, definitely recommend it there instead.

[@John-nb6ep]

@@99Vood99 Better than the PS1 version.

[@Zvasra]

I thought I was the only person alive on the planet who loves this game. I even loved it at the time, even when it was garbage on Dreamcast.

[@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto]

It was GTA before GTA💯

[@adamkane7513]

*Fighting Force 1* on the PC, PS1 & N64 was a 3D take on Final Fight/Streets of Rage. 2 player co-op was fun! Shame the sequel had no real connection to the original brawler game.

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

Fighting force was originally a 3d streets of rage sequel until sega pulled the plug.

[@MarMaxGaming]

You’re a great creator.. you show and teach so much, speak from the heart while covering these games and it’s awesome to watch multiple in a row

[@SegaLordX]

I appreciate that. Thank you.

[@VegasD702]

He is... and his name is dope!

[@zed-xr4353]

Agreed. Everytime a new episode drops I find myself watching at least 4-5 other episodes right after. Some nights I have SLX on in the background exclusively. It's such quality content that no matter what particular moments I find myself paying attention to in any given episode is interesting. This makes it easy to relax to since there isn't any urge to skip around looking for the "good episodes" that I find myself doing on lesser channels.

[@G.G.___162]

Hell yeah, Sega Lord X is straight up my favorite gaming channel. With videos coming out very frequently, and they're all just pure quality and passion: Perfect recipe

[@Astfgl]

Soul Fighter's worst problem was that it likely tripped up a lot of parents who were asked by their kids to buy Soul Calibur for them. Imagine getting all excited about your fancy new Dreamcast, only to find Soul Fighter bundled with it.

[@godmagnus]

Problem for consumers, great for them.

[@BagzAndPresident]

That never happened but okay

[@mrfake675]

Once upon a time in the late '90s, a young boy named Tommy was eagerly anticipating the arrival of his brand-new Sega Dreamcast. He had heard about the amazing games he could play on it, particularly the one he desired most - Soul Calibur. Every day, he would pester his parents, asking them to buy the game for him. Finally, the day came when Tommy's parents surprised him with the Dreamcast. Excitement bubbled within him as he eagerly tore open the wrapping paper. But as he unveiled the sleek, white console, his eyes widened in disbelief. Instead of the highly anticipated Soul Calibur, there was a game called Soul Fighter bundled with the Dreamcast. Tommy's heart sank. His dreams of dueling with sword-wielding warriors in Soul Calibur had been shattered. He couldn't understand how his parents had made such a monumental mistake. The disappointment swelled inside him until it was unbearable. In his frustration, Tommy stormed off to the kitchen, where he found his sister's secret stash of Bounty bars. With tears in his eyes, he grabbed a handful of the coconut-covered chocolate bars and began to devour them voraciously. The sweetness of the chocolate mixed with the bitterness of his disappointment, creating a storm of emotions within him. When his sister discovered her pilfered chocolate stash, a chaotic family argument erupted. Tommy's meltdown over the wrong game choice, coupled with his sister's anger at the stolen chocolates, set off a chain reaction of yelling and accusations. Their parents tried in vain to mediate the situation, but the damage was done. The once-happy family was torn apart by this seemingly innocent mix-up. Tommy's rage and his sister's distress over the missing chocolates led to weeks of tension in the household. It was a situation that none of them had expected when they opened that Dreamcast box. As time passed, the family slowly began to heal, but the memory of that fateful day lived on as a cautionary tale. Tommy eventually learned to appreciate the effort his parents had put into the gift, and his sister, after much sulking, forgave him for eating her chocolate. It was a lesson in the importance of understanding and communication, for sometimes, the smallest misunderstandings could lead to the greatest chaos.

[@cl-vision5029]

That reminds me of the time I asked my dad for gran turismo for Christmas and got some bs called grand tour racing I had to act happy but boy was I pissed 😅

[@Thor-Orion]

Imagine if they had made the far more forgivable mistake of buying Soul Edge.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

Mortal Kombat 4 was a lot of fun. I played the N64 version a lot

[@SteveBrandon]

I don't disagree about the quality of the finished game on the Dreamcast but I actually like the concept of Spirit of Speed 1937 and would love to see another 1930s-focused racing game with licensed circuits, especially ones that ceased to exist decades ago. I think a modern attempt would add a lot more detail to the vintage circuits compared to what we saw on Dreamcast, where it seems most of the detail was put in the areas immediately around the start/finish line with generic scenery elsewhere. Possibly my favourite Dreamcast racing game is from Acclaim (but not really from Acclaim): F355 Challenge, which, obviously, was actually developed by AM2 at Sega for the Naomi arcade system but Sega chose to split the costs of the expensive Ferrari license (plus licensing all of those real world circuits) with Acclaim in exchange with Acclaim getting the rights to distribute the home version of Sega's own game on the Dreamcast.

[@CasperEgas]

Yes, totally agree.

[@HugoBonami]

If Spirit of Speed had been made with some competence, it could have succeeded. It was even more niche than (the great and considerably successful) Grand Prix Legends but it would have had a market. It wasn't good on the PC either despite sharper visuals as it was completely devoid of atmosphere and fun. It drives like a worse Monaco Grand Prix.

[@humperdinckfangboner9749]

Yeah I can tell that sega lord x is not a big motorsports fan with his comments on that game. There's a sizable portion of sim racing fans that would love a proper game that handles pre-war racing cars, and a bunch of mods for sims that have added the cars to the game. GPlaps loves covering stuff like that. Some people actually prefer driving cars like that since the cars are so squirrely and drift happy. SOS just does a terrible job with handling and conveying any speed. By the 30s cars like the Auto Unions were over 200 MPH, even if they were nowhere near that there's no reason for them to feel so slow, conveying speed is in the hands of the devs, whatever is displayed on the speedometer is arbitrary.

[@kalvinravn8431]

Have you ever done a video of games that push the limits of the Dreamcast? To this day I can still feel the pain when it was announced that they were killing the Dreamcast. Great video.

[@SegaLordX]

Yes. It has many of the best looking games in it.

[@Marcus_K]

@@SegaLordX You did a video on the best looking Dreamcast games in June 2020. I'd rather remember the good things than the bad things, but for sure there were some bad games on the Dreamcast, just like on any other console.

[@AltimaNEO]

Man, I feel like they never really pushed the dreamcast to its limit. It just didnt live long enough. I mean look at the difference in N64 games from launch to death, or PS2 games. Its jarring, they dont look like they belong on the same system. But Dreamcast games look like Dreamcast games.

[@kurisuchiinathecrocodile333]

@@AltimaNEO Tbh i dont think it has that much space to be pushed. Some consoles allow crazy push over years, but some already demonstrate strength in first years. Why do I say this? Because I spent huge time exploring libraries of dreamcast-based arcades (some of them had hardware improvements so it would not possible to port them to DC without downgrade, some used almost vanilla dreamcast base) - and imho the difference between them and DC's best looking titles was not as big, meanwhile they were getting games until around 2006-2008. Though, of course, who knows? Talented devs can do absolutely amazing things you might not expect from the system.

[@trevorbayers2175]

Like all of Sega’s consoles, Dreamcast sucked. I also though Genesis sucked mainly because of its main controller. If you remember, the Genesis + sign shaped directional pad was rounded, unlike Sony’s and Nintendo’s and it made moving the character in the exact direction you wanted tougher. Many times playing games on Genesis, like the OG Sonic, you would be pressing right and Sonic would crouch instead. Super bad design. That was one of the main reasons I got rid of my Genesis shortly after purchasing it. The other, its games weren’t nearly as good and creative as Sony’s or Nintendo’s. Sega always tried to compete in the home console wars and NEVER even came close to winning, which makes sense since Sega gave up years ago. Just a poorly run company, with poorly developed consoles, controllers and games. Sega was just as bad as Atari and its consoles.

[@GNoMe610]

Shout-out to Liu Kang's voice actor. Incredible.

[@DP12321]

The ending videos of the game are hilariously bad. Sonya and Kano come to mind.

[@JiltedValkyrie]

I knew Seventh Cross would appear... that said, if you stick with it, it's actually really addicting. At some point, voice acting and cutscenes start happening. I was like WHAT IS GOING ON. I have very fond memories of that game and I'm glad I stuck it out. The story was VERY interesting and honestly, an unforgettable experience that I still think about to this day.

[@dangerotterisrea]

I played this for a while didn't get very far because it was so dull in the beginning.

[@guybeleeve]

@@dangerotterisreait actually is a great game. It turns out that you’re an experiment created for survival of the human race far into the future. The final form you take is a human and you and a female human fight and kill a tyrannosaurus together. Decades later you have started a whole tribe, and the humans that created you come to reclaim you in their space ships. It was a shocking turn, they cranked it up to 10,000😂.

[@dangerotterisrea]

@@guybeleeve damn, I've totally missed out 😂

[@tornekotaloon9732]

Seventh Cross is bizarre. I like it mainly for the fact that its a cool idea, and the whole game feels like a fever dream. Its so bizarre and has a very strange atmosphere. Not saying its not awful, but I appreciate it in a weird way. The ending cutscenes are pretty wacky as well.

[@IamLegend32]

So what happens at the end? What is the meaning of it all?

[@jaythomas468]

Holy crap, Seventh Cross: Evolution….I THINK I watched Maximilian Dood do a live-streamed playthrough of that game. I had NEVER heard of it, but him describing the concept made it sound interesting and reminded me of a SNES game I was infatuated with called EVO: The Search For Eden.

[@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto]

I liked Soul Fighter! Big sprites, funny dialogue, a lot of weapons. I actually beat it a few years ago

[@Milkiy-Hazard]

Same! I think it's heavily underrated. It's a solid beat em up!

[@matthewjohnson1891]

It was one of my better dreamcast games. I enjoyed it

[@CasperEgas]

Yes me too. Like it!

[@Gary_Hun]

A sprite is a static piece of graphics... characters.

[@WraxTV]

@@Gary_Hun You're right in that 'sprite' is the wrong word, but the correct word is 'model.'

[@Johnny-P-Good]

I really loved Mortal Kombat Gold! It was just a port of the arcade with a few additions. If you liked MK4, MK Gold was a good addition to your collection. We played a lot in our family.

[@jamesdripsmusic1581]

i think it's great but the dc had crazy good fighters. by comparison it's not nearly as good

[@CockyRedShirt]

@@jamesdripsmusic1581 Agree, but I don't really feel MK 4 Gold deserves a spot on a list of "Steaming Piles on Dreamcast". I'm sure there's something far more deserving of being on the list.

[@SUBTORR]

A agree, this guy dont know what the hell he's talking about with MK Gold. Usually when people suck at certain games they say it's bad.

[@scottieb1]

@@CockyRedShirt Agreed - love or hate MK4 (I loved it personally, but it's got college student union nostalgia points) MK Gold is a good port.

[@Johnny-P-Good]

I really enjoyed MK4. It was the same gameplay of the classics with a few additions, but THAT'S the reason for enjoying this game in my opinion! MK Deadly Alliance was a departure from the classic formula, so as a result, I disengaged from the franchise. MK gold was to MK4 like the Ultimate or Trilogy MK was to MK3. It was MK4 on steroids!

[@rodrigogirao8344]

The worst flaw of Mortal Kombat Gold was that the original release (yellow disk art) was very buggy. The second printing from a month later (red disk art, "Hot! New!" label on the cover) fixes that problem.

[@SUBTORR]

Sega lord dumbass probably isn't aware of this.

[@DoinThatRag]

Have to admit, I was surprised to see this game on the list.

[@homersimpson8955]

@@DoinThatRag yep, played a lot of it on Playstation. Liu Kang is unstoppable in MK4, he is much weaker in the next games. I surprised that people sometimes against MK4. Game is perfectly balanced and had a great visuals during 1997 or something.

[@Jutrzen]

Still buggy as hell.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

​​@@DoinThatRageven on other platforms, the game was less polished, fast and fun compared to the earlier MK games. While it was exciting to see MK in 3d polygons, the gameplay and flow of the 2d games was not present. MK struggled to find a good 3d release. Their first 3 3d games kinda blew gameplay-wise, compared to the polish and flow of the 2d games.

[@Supersayainpikmin]

What's kinda sad is there's a lot of cancelled Dreamcast games largley due to its short time on the market, so it's kinda sad some great games were cancelled while stuff like these made it out.

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

I wish Starcraft had a port for Dreamcast

[@XVa-uj8m]

"Half Life", "Propeller Arena", "Rent A Hero", etc. Some of these still got leaked and you could burn them.

[@dsmoothb]

Yeah like that cancelled Castlevania

[@SwoleCalibur]

But a lot still got released on other consoles. Games like Gunvalkyrie, Toejam and Earl, Fable, hotd3 and Panzer Dragoon Orta and Shenmue 2 (us version) still got a release on the Xbox.

[@Zvasra]

I bought the Dreamcast because very early on half life was announced. Oops.

[@admiralAlfonso9001]

My ideal Mortal Kombat game for Dreamcast would be Mortal Kombat Trilogy with higher resolution, some extra content, and 3d backgrounds like what they did with KOF

[@jeremyscout3464]

One game I had on the Dreamcast that was full of issues but I still enjoyed for what it was is Omikron The Nomad Soul. It was glitchy as hell, some janky controls and collision detection, some issues with sound, but I really appreciated what they were going for and the PC I had at the time was unable to run it. I thought the concept was really cool and I really liked the world. Futuristic, dystopian cyber-punk alternate universe. It's definitely one game I'd like to see remade with modern technology.

[@scaryhobbit211]

Fun fact about Acclaim is that the company's founder went on to found Retro Studios and entered into a 5 game partnership with Nintendo for the GameCube. Almost immediately the studio was a mess, with 4 games getting canceled and the founder being ousted after it was revealed that he had a history of being abusive. After the guy left, Retro made Metroid Prime. It's like firing an NFL head coach after an 0-17 season, and the next year the team wins the Super Bowl.

[@Gilgamex]

You could honestly say that Seventh Cross Evolutions pace is just as glacial as evolution itself, making itself outstanding from the perspective of how the developers stayed so true to the source material lol

[@JiltedValkyrie]

I still really liked it in the end. It was worth getting through it to see the end.

[@Gilgamex]

@@JiltedValkyrie I heard about the ending from a KZbin streamer upload of it. I haven't seen it but the idea of its ending always peaked my curiosity, maybe if I was younger and had more patience for this kind of gameplay :/

[@IamLegend32]

​@@Gilgamexwhat happens at the end?

[@Gilgamex]

Apparently there is a confrontation with "God"

[@ThommyofThenn]

You are on FIRE here friend. Dishing out verbal pwnage while still keeping a positive energy. It doesnt feel hateful, it's more like you're having fun pondering how these disasters came to be. Good stuff

[@VirtuaBros]

Many of these games seem pretty fun. Soul fighter, mortal kombat, fighting force, seventh cross, and urban reign are kind of cool. Actually, i happen to love soul fighter. Not saying it should win any awards, but there is a fun combat system behind the unintuitive controls. I wouldn't be so quick to write some of these off.

[@Erock1985x]

Damn that first game actually looked decent

[@robertvose7540]

I wonder why the time counts down by 1 every 5 seconds

[@forrestredd2706]

I actually like Soul Fighter but it is very unintuitive.

[@CasperEgas]

Agreed. I completed it and had fun.

[@HrvojeGrahovac]

Shame how Shiny titles like Sacrifice, Messiah and Wild 9 never got their day in the sun as Dreamcast titles

[@timpeaux3023]

As soon as I saw the title of this video, I thought to myself Soul Fighter has to be on this list and you didn't disappoint!

[@PSPMan]

7th Cross Evolution looks like one of those weird, experimental indie games you'd see on the 3DO in Japan.

[@wugenius]

I know Mortal Kombat Gold wasn’t a looker by that point but I loved it.

[@CodeineSkeeter]

I love this channel mannnnnn So lighthearted n relaxing n nastalgic this along with comic book channels is like a mental get away from the stresses of life

[@yeolemillinial8295]

i felt the same about fighting force 1, devs just hadn't figured out the hack and slash genre yet which is why we got the bad "beat em up" games. but hack and slash is basically the successor of the 2d beat em up games.

[@Aragorn7884]

Admittedly, Fighting Force 2 is a bad game, but I found it fun 🤷

[@matthewlane518]

Bad games can still be 😊 fun

[@rh8560]

Lol

[@mrlaidback83]

​@@matthewlane518sometimes lol

[@Aragorn7884]

@@WiegrafFolles Spec Ops: Stealth Patrol for PSX?

[@dbzeh6837]

I had fun with it, compared to the ps2 version it looked amazing.. It was way worse than the 1st one, but it was fun.

[@rojovision]

Oh man, I fell into the Soul Fighter trap, too. I think it might be one of only 2 or 3 games I've ever returned in my life.

[@philmason9653]

I learned that Acclaim & LJN were bad news in the NES era, and avoided them ever since. I knew these ones probably stunk and managed to avoid them, fortunately I'm not sure I can think of a Dreamcast game I ever bought that I deeply regretted.

[@DP12321]

Acclaim = Ack! Lame!

[@dr.prower]

Love the title! Hopefully this series continues with other consoles.

[@dnmstarsi]

I'd love to see Steaming Piles of Genesis and Saturn games especially given my interest in having a Sega Saturn collection of my own.

[@rafaelraad555]

yes 100%

[@guybeleeve]

Seventh cross is a game that you had to be patient with. Yes the first few hours you’re like wtf, but if you stick with it you’ll get in the rhythm of the game. The ending was crazy, I really wish that they’d made the sequel 9th will. I also enjoyed Soul Fighter, but there are a few things that irritated me about it. The fact that every time someone is knocked down a earthquake would happen was annoying as well as someone in the background screaming “OH NO” every time you’re knocked down. The ending was weird as it was just some Japanese pop star singing.

[@WraxTV]

lol first game I thought of was Soul Fighter. I get the feeling part of why it was so hated was simply that "Soul" was at the beginning of the name, and most of us bought a Dreamcast specifically for a game that started with "Soul", so it really ramped up how far it would fall.

[@seanpaul93]

That NFL game's hilarious, runners last minute deciding to either run away from the ball or just not bother catching it, same with the defence and lack of intercepting. Monty Python-tier

[@JGKingCrusher]

I absolutely loved my Dreamcast. I still play it today. Armada was easily my favorite game!

[@BMK_KING]

Qb club 98 for 64 was amazing I remember putting tons of time into that one.

[@britneyspearsvillarosa]

I was 14 when the Sega Dreamcast came out in 1999. I was still playing and loved PS1 at the time

[@britzman9905]

Very funny video!! I love that you never seem to run out of content to make about these dead consoles

[@samurizzy]

Part 2 please, loved this

[@zalito657]

Great video as usual! My comment: Seventh Cross Evolution is not for everyone... but the game its worth playing if you like a bit of rogue-like and a bit of farming

[@ThePerfectStormGaming]

Awesome channel. Will give me a ton of ideas for games to play on my Sith- Cade with 40k games.

[@Stephen_Eee]

Pre watch, I know I'm gonna love one(s) of these

[@dnmstarsi]

The title alone got me hooked to this video, the responses want me to try these trainwrecks to see if they're that "okay" even for a Dreamcast version of something I "like" such as South Park Rally.

[@fictionalmediabully9830]

I own "South Park Rally" on all the consoles, and I only liked the PlayStation version.

[@gracekim25]

Always a blast when you post 😊

[@dennismiller1271]

Pen pen tri-icelon was so bad it made my head hurt, but I think your list is games you had hope for initially.

[@jeremyf1901]

LOLOL dude it hurts seeing the South Park game and MK Gold! I loved playing those. We didn’t know anything else though. I miss the time period where I wasn’t so critical of games.

[@John-nb6ep]

Soul Fighters biggest crime was not having a cooperative mode. Would be remembered as a decent game if did that single thing.

[@CaptainBlackBread]

Alternate title: Dreamcast titles to pick up to make your collection feel less lonely.

[@yeahyeahwowman8099]

Alternate title even needs to exist, with the Dreamcast having died early, most of its good games have been covered to death.

[@Marcus_K]

These are DC titles that will contaminate your collection.

[@filipmartinez1162]

MK Gold was needed after Midway stiffed us on MK4 right after the Saturn just got it’s 3D pad. Sucks that you couldn’t use the Analog stick with MK Gold tho, that’s the only reason the N64 version is remembered so fondly over Gold despite Gold being more feature complete.

[@Stillxxen]

This Spirit of Speed reminds me this Racing mission in first Mafia Game, this one which everyone said that is very difficult. I like Your videos, trough those I started to collect Sega Consoles and games. Very nice voice to hear, entertaining videos about Sega. That's quality content, keep doing it :).

[@CountShadow]

Love your videos, I always think you express yourself very well. Since I've had only Nintendo and Sony consoles in my childhood, I'm always very curious to learn more about Sega's history. These days, I also love to play Sega classics, especially with my growing love of Arcade gaming.

[@urmie]

SLX, you had a great idea for a future series when you talked about Acclaim. How about best/worst devs for all Sega consoles? Even episodes solely focused on a particular dev and their releases on each console? 👍🏻

[@Tempora158]

15:30 Fun fact: the now familiar drum beat that keeps looping as background music here is called the "Amen break"

[@DreamcastQ]

Great video, I'd forgotten about some of these

[@loki.odinson]

Strongly agree with your take on Mortal Kombat. There was a certain charm the 2D Mortal Kombat games had, especially UMK3. I always thought it was completely lost in MK4 and couldn't understand why it was even popular in the arcades. I remember at the time people would say, "because it's in 3D" or "look, you can use weapons now", and I always thought, so what, I've seen most of this before and the weapons weren't even implemented that well. It never impressed me. War Gods was just more of the same and an embarrassing copycat at that. Then I soon played Soul Calibur on a friend's Dreamcast, and it wiped the floor with this game. There's not even a fair comparison. This game is a joke in compared to the incredible game Soul Calibur was, which somehow managed to be even better than its arcade version all while maintaining a silky smooth 60fps. Most reviewers at the time gave Soul Calibur a perfect score, and it was well-deserved.

[@mekman4]

Great Stuff, as always!

[@FireEggplant]

Legendary video, have a great day Sega Lord X

[@joek1978atyahoo]

I absolutely love Chefs Love Shack.. infact I still play it when I go to my parents house... Still play it with my brother on his old N64.....

[@ViciousAlienKlown]

I remember playing Soul Fighter when I first got my Dreamcast and thought it was okay. I had a couple of other games like Episode 1 Racer that I played a lot more.

[@Garpocalypse]

Being a beat em up enthusiast i've had soul fighter on my must play list for over 20 years now but I just haven't been able to bring myself to start playing it for some reason.

[@JoeBuk724]

With Sonic on the thumbnail I thought almost certainly Sonic Shuffle would be here

[@sageinfinitenj2791]

Great work as usual

[@MrFoofles]

Oh, I had a few of these! I've actually given Soul Fighter and Fighting Force 2 an honest shot but never got really far for exactly the reasons you described. In Soul Fighter, I always assumed there was some game mechanic preventing me from picking up items. But now I finally see it's just broken!

[@JLAvey]

We need to see some more positive reviews. Like Dino Crisis on the Dreamcast. Or how about all the new releases for the system? SCUMMVM has been adapted to the Dreamcast.

[@sonicsega1699]

this video was a steamy pile of excellence

[@mattb6522]

That was a solid list. I never played any of these games, so good to know they are worth avoiding. Yeah, Acclaim definitely was the very definition of "steaming pile" for many of their releases. I would love to see a Genesis/Mega Drive and/or Saturn list of steaming piles as well!

[@Penguindude1]

That Seventh Cross Evolution game looks like someone saw EVO: Search for Eden, and wanted to make a 3D interpretation of it. Also if you want a crappy Dreamcast game that wasn't handled by Acclaim, there's Who Wants to Beat Up a Millionaire, developed and published by the same teams that would later create the Outlaw Golf games.

[@scoobydoobydoo4880]

I love Urban Chaos on PC. I didn't play the Dreamcast version, but I heard it had a lot of bugs with it. It would've been a great game on Dreamcast and Play Station if the bugs were not there and if the controls were easier.

[@91Definite]

I never owned a Dreamcast growing up and that was a dream goal of mine. They were at Pawn Shops but somehow they began to fade into obscurity in time. Though I have played a Dreamcast in other places. In 2017 I bought one when I was living with my grandmother and passed a month and half after New Years in 2018 and wasn’t able to play it til I got my own place by the end of that year. I didn’t care for the games being old like NBA 2K, 2K1 and 2K2! I purchased them cause they were the first three! I never played Soul Calibur but I heard so many stories about it so I bought it and man this game was amazingly fun. It’s missions and more! I played Sonic Adventure especially on Xbox 36 a few years back but never had the chance to beat the game. I wondered if I should get it on Dreamcast or purchase it on the PS4? I feel Dreamcast is more home and original but that damn game and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle are going $50 to $100 and something on EBay. Soon I’ll get it! The Dreamcast deserved so much better , that’s why I cherish the console and never get rid of it. It’s my favorite gaming console!

[@josephwilson8391]

Dreamcast has Power Stone, Power Stone 2, MVC, MVC 2, Spawn in the Demons Hand, Illbleed, D2, Blue Stinger, Sword of Berserk, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and many more great titles. With that said almost every game I listed is expensive now a days for a complete copy. Some people might have to burn copies just to play the game which is 100 percent fine since Sega no longer makes money from these games but as a collector myself I understand that people want to play on the legit gd-rom. However, when some games are selling in the 300-400 dollar price range such as illbleed I can see how others won't be able to have that specific title in their collection.

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

When MK IV came out I was super disappointed because I hated the 3D graphics and it felt decidedly less "serious" than the first ones. But I played on, specially because I had a friend to play it with. It grew on me a lot, and I quite enjoyed it. Everything else you mentioned checks out.

[@Tyjohnable]

I don't know why but I got a sick enjoyment with that first game, watching you try to pick up that food 😂

[@sonicmario64]

I'm probably one of a few people who actually enjoys playing "South Park: Chef's Luv Shack" despite how short and simple the game is, especially since I still find myself playing it on my Nintendo 64 as a way of killing time if I'm feeling bored, and I even found the Sega Dreamcast to be even better due to it containing more voice-acting bits and sharper graphics that make it look exactly like the show it's based on, considering the fact that the game was also released more than a decade before the release of "South Park: The Stick Of Truth".

[@TRJ2241987]

My best friend and I in 7th grade in Y2K had many long nights playing this game on Dreamcast, listening to Adam Sandler CDs, downloading MP3s on Napster, laughing our asses off but trying our best not to wake his Dad. It literally seems like yesterday to me, I can picture it so clearly. I can't believe that was a quarter century ago.

[@alanoliver6167]

great stuff as usual

[@n0isyturtle]

I had Championship Surfer on the PS1 and while it wasn't a great game, I really liked it for what it was and found it easy to pick up and play a few rounds while waiting for my Mom to get ready or something. To see there's a version with music, that would have been amazing!

[@airic21]

Enter the panderverse was sooooo goood hope you enjoyed it segalord

[@darktetsuya]

I did just pick up a dreamcast for our christmas, and I like to think I know which ones are good and which ones suck the big one. but this list certainly helped me with the latter, haha. luckily I don't think I've had the displeasure of playing any of these, so at least I won't make the mistake of picking them up.

[@Yotsukaido]

Another problem with Spirit of Speed was the insane decision not to include a 2-player option!

[@ramblinjay3816]

That motocross game made me miss motocross madness. I used to love the freestyle mode.

[@williamwright9079]

Excellent reviews!

[@DaveAdams222]

Aw man! Urban Chaos was pretty neat on the PC. I still jam out to that song by The Three Jays.

[@revengenerd1]

The video capture seems very dark for some reason, anyway what I always thought about ports of 32 bit games to the DC back then was even if they were just resolution boosts i'd rather get the DC version as by then I had a bigger screen tv so the PS1 jaggies were evident and DC versions just seemed to look better due to this added with higher quality videos.

[@mattb6522]

17:30 It just sounds like a swarm of angry bees! 😅

[@pelgervampireduck]

I love MK4, I can't understand why some people don't like it. The Dreamcast version is ok. These days I play n64 mostly because of no loading times and my Dreamcast is dead :( my laser died a few years ago and I can't find a replament or another Dreamcast where I live (and I'm afraid to order from another country). I miss my Dreamcast.

[@fearanarchy]

(1) always love your content. (2) Soul Fighter was the only game I ever returned.

[@indigosaturn255]

18:17 the moment your character starts driving it immediately looked like the simpsons hit and run arthritis edition

[@alanhirsch4632]

That Urban Chaos music is something else

[@noaht2005]

I get the feeling the DC would have had a better library had the Saturn been more successful for longer. It was a victim of being released too early, for most of its life its rivals were the PS1 and N64, and so many titles were just ports from these consoles with a higher resolution. If the Saturn had remained competitive, Sega could have launched the Dreamcset later, with even more power, a DVD drive and ports from more comparable hardware. I doubt it would be more successful, but the library could have been so much more

[@riffmason]

Great vid, I kinda like fighting force 2 though although i agree it's not a great game. The jump, sideroll and backflip actually work quite well and when used properly you can both deal with the enemies and traverse the levels alot more gracefully than what is showed off in this video footage to the point where it can be fun. The levels are definitely pretty long too but the difficulty actually feels broadly quite sensibly balanced putting the game just on the right side of difficult I think!

[@99Vood99]

SLX, I'll say that Urban Chaos was a game like the Max Payne series that should've stayed on PC only.

[@NewportBox100s]

Another great episode!

[@TWKIC]

I feel the exact same way about Urban Chaos. I gave the game so many chances I really really wanted to like it. Like soul fighter there is a basis of a good game

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

I have a question about Spirit of Speed. I've always played it on composite, never VGA; and I've never had frame dips on it. I've seen the frame dips on NTSC versions so I know they're there, but is this an NTSC issue or is my PAL copy different? Or is it just a VGA thing? Because neither 50Hz nor 60Hz has given me trouble. The game itself is good, nothing special mind you, but it's fine enough to be enjoyed in small bursts.

[@3dmarth]

Haha, I still want some of these! Fighting Force 1 was a couple of hours of mindless fun, and I've always thought Nightmare Creatures had a cool atmosphere and presentation... though I've only ever played a few minutes of the N64 version (of the first game). Also, some of the games in this video would be greatly improved through emulation, which is how I usually play 3D games now.

[@acardenasjr1340]

Seventh Cross Evolution WAS COOL!!! Also, place the disc in a CD player and you will get some audio lines payed back.

[@Milkiy-Hazard]

Soul Fighter is a FUN game! Weird controls but you can get into it for sure!

[@IcePakOG]

Someone on a forum once said you should pronounce Acclaim as "Ack! Lame!". This video shows how true that is.

[@Justforvisit]

6:57 Liu Kang: "I WILL GET A BANANA OUT OF YOU!"