The Best Looking Dreamcast Games

The Dreamcast has some great looking games that hold up well even today. These are the very best to me.
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Episode Notes:
1. Most of the games here are captured on real hardware. I did do some on redream to test if they'd run or not. The sports games did ok except for Tennis 2K2, which always crashed, but Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament did fine. VF3 was a tad choppy, though.
2. I adore the visuals in Guilty Gear X. That animation is incredible, and the soundtrack is awesome too. Great game to pick up.
3. The Dreamcast is often considered inferior to the PS2 in regards to power. While I do think the PS2 was a capable machine, there are few games on the platform I honestly think a good developer couldn't get running on the DC.
4. I consider Resident Evil 2 and 3 to be best on the DC. I prefer them over the Gamecube versions.
5. It really is a shame Sega never put a lot of effort into Model 3 ports. I would have loved to have seen Scud Race and Daytona 2 on the DC.
6. I really wish someone/group would translate the El Dorado Gate RPG's on the DC. I so very much want to play them.

[@AsianFlew]

My girlfriend at the time gave me a Dreamcast for my birthday. She's now my wife.

[@BATCHMAN_0]

still owe it?

[@AsianFlew]

@@BATCHMAN_0 Yeah, just gotta find it, I packed it in one of my moves. Really want to find it now.

[@scramblesthedeathdealer]

Cherish that Dreamcast, but not as much as the woman who gave it to you! 😉

[@acdc09]

I'm had the opposite experience. I bought the Dreamcast in around '01 for my girlfriend and she eventually left me. I picked up my own system later on.

[@iPlaySEGA]

This comment should be pinned! ♥

[@wildjiggaboo1]

Shenmue's graphics were absolutely mindblowing at the time it came out. It might not look like much today, but after coming from the n64/ps/saturn, they were incredible.

[@knightshousegames]

Thats because they spent a hilariously huge amount of money on that game. 70 Million Dollars, which even now is a pretty big game budget, but back then was the most money ever spent on the development of a game by a long shot. I read somewhere that every single person who ever owned a Dreamcast would have had to have bought 2 copies of the game just for the developer to break even on that development cost. It was a groundbreaking technical achievement, but doomed to be a financial failure

[@rainehappy7097]

The textures and lighting effects in Dreamcast games still impress me to this day.

[@mattkidroske]

The graphics may be outdated now but it's still an incredible game. It is clear when you play it that the developers put a lot of effort into it

[@isaachelgens3694]

I had purchased a Japanese Dreamcast through a friend that had an import game store. I got the Japanese Shenmue when it first dropped and blew away my friends using the demo disk showing the high res face models. It was simply amazing.

[@jrodagormykid9063]

Yes Shenmue had amazing graphics, they were probably the best I'd seen at the time and it looks better than almost anything for the PS2 in my opinion.

[@pixelsvinet]

Nice to see that Headhunter is part of this list - I worked as an environment artist on that game. The Dreamcast was just so much ahead of its time and so easy and fun to create art for.

[@crono3339]

That game looks to be another"ahead of it's time" kinda game I didn't know about. Fantastic looking man good job!

[@RedFriction]

That looks the best

[@do365nic]

thank you for your work, I sunk hours into that game, it was a true next gen experience

[@edsstokes]

Headhunter was an amazing game especially for its time. It just got deeper and more involving as you progressed.

[@antsinhispants8185]

😮 great work

[@Gggmanlives]

I remember being amazed by soul calibur at the time. At the time I thought it looked pre rendered.

[@ChristopherMeeker]

I bought my Dreamcast just to play Soul Calibur and I bought the VGA adapter along with it. If you think the graphics look good on a TV you should have seen it on a 21 inch VGA monitor - it was literally like having the arcade machine in your home.

[@taylor-willliamhill3910]

Gmaaaaaaaaaaaan

[@goransvraka3171]

It still looks good!

[@mtdubdachamp6917]

@@goransvraka3171 I seen it in action on my friends dreamcast and it looks damn good for a 22 year old game.

[@Jack_80]

there's a video on youtube called soul calibur beyond arcade perfect that shows how the dreamcast version improves on the arcade version is just about every way.

[@killerklown9359]

Headhunter remains my favorite PS2 game. Never knew it was on the Dreamcast. It just has a great vibe.

[@pgr3290]

Soul Reaver Legacy of Kain was very impressive. The reason being it had effects that even the PC version wasn't doing.

[@rainehappy7097]

The sequel was supposed to come out on Dreamcast, but came out on PS2 instead. Because of that they couldn't connect the two games via save file and some stuff either got cut or was just inaccessable by normal means.

[@redseagaming7832]

@@rainehappy7097 they could have delayed legacy of Kain Soul Reaver and released it on the PS2 instead

[@sideswipe1261]

Wow! I just plucked Legacy of Kain Dreamcast off my shelf an hour ago, first time in 17 years!? I want to test it on a n NEC CRT computer monitor a buddy have me (using the Original DC VGA box). The first game I tested on it was Soul Calibur. My thoughtstream was exactly: “Well, may as well give it a try. I’m sure it’s not any bett...HOLY SHIT!!!!”

[@sideswipe1261]

@@rainehappy7097 whoa, so that’s what happened! Did you manage to get Dreamcast Half-Life? It was “gold” completed, then not released! It’s great!

[@GarryGri]

@@sideswipe1261 I think I've still got a copy of DC Half Life, didn't it come with an exclusive add on game as well @Blue Shift' I think. You can't really call it a 'backup' if the origonal game wasn't released.

[@strider6425]

Test Drive Le Mans looked incredible during those evening races. Man, the colors, the shimmer on the cars, the brakes glowing when you hit the brakes, it was all so good looking.

[@renrezcrypto6155]

Dream can do a gran turismo 3 or 4?

[@strider6425]

@@renrezcrypto6155 unfortunately no. There is bleemcast (if you can find it) that will let you play gran turismo 2 on the Dreamcast with better graphics

[@turismofoegaming8806]

@@strider6425 Just barely better

[@jimbonater]

@@turismofoegaming8806 way better takes it to 480P are you kidding? I have it and an original PS1

[@turismofoegaming8806]

@@jimbonater yes so do I.. but my computer from 2008 could run it at full 1080 P making the graphics look like a whole new game!! I admit if all you got is the Dreamcast and you can play it that way then amen, it’s an awesome way to be able to experience it!! However most people have computers nowadays a lot newer than my 2008 Dell desktop, that I’m sure I can make it just look phenomenally better?

[@Sakf504]

If only the Dreamcast could have a longer life, we could see its full potential.

[@paulclinton6414]

Just wonder if GTA VC would have looked and ran well on it.

[@zero-theaveragegamer1159]

I wonder if it lasted another two years if they would have come out with a second analog stick controller variant.

[@eponymous7910]

@@paulclinton6414 Too big I suspect. Would've required multiple discs

[@DJBV]

@@paulclinton6414 im pretty sure gta 3 and even vice city could have run on the dreamcast but with less radio station or music tracks,less pedestrian dialogues,contents,worse textures and longer loading due to disc space and would require a lot of compression because games installation was not possible And the dreamcast have half as much ram as a ps2 and if im not mistaken gta games were demanding in term of ram Another way would be to use multiple discs So in gta 3 instead of loading times between each island it would ask to insert a disc same for vice city, but im pretty sure they would be able to cram gta 3 in one disc but vice city in 2 As for san andreas there is no way the dreamcast would have been able to run it without heavy concessions that would sacrifice its gameplay.

[@ferkramer2817]

Shenmue 2 day say segadreamcast whas on full power there.Sega dc lookt better and scharper than the ps2.I have al the sega console,s seg for ever.

[@Videogamelover58]

Soul calibur still looks amazing

[@Jack_80]

as good as any ps2 game imo. i really wish the dreamcast was more successful and sega was still making consoles. seems like game development has gone downhill and the more competition the better for us. somehow they used to make amazing, new next gen games in like a year with no need for patches, now it often takes 5-10 years and almost every game still requires you to download a huge day one patch. it's like all the people that knew what they were doing were replaced by incompetent fools in these development companies. people excuse it by saying games are so much more complex now, but consoles have always drastically improved in many ways and these long development cycles and constant required patches didn't become common until the ps4. they started it in the ps3 generation but it wasn't nearly as bad, it's almost like they do it on purpose, like there's no need for these patches they just do it to force you to need internet to play them. i also heard the ps4 is designed to break down after a few decades and it'll be worthless to collectors who prefer to play on original hardware. every system up until then can potentially last forever if you take care if it and they're intentionally building them so they're no good in the future. not to mention in 20 years even if your ps4 is working, you won't be able to download the needed patches for any new games you get, just feels like it's intentional so collecting becomes pointless.

[@boyracer3000]

@@Jack_80 I agree and I think I lost interest in games when Sega left the console market. Game development has also changed over the years and I think the talent pool is diluted to the point where there are very few brilliant teams out there.

[@Gaming_since_the_eighties]

Sega Dreamcast is and was the best Sega system ever made. I still have mine almost 21 years later.

[@PavyMac]

Sega blew so many chances but to this day the Dreamcast is my favorite system. It was the first console I received on launch day and looking back at all the fun I had with it I kinda get emotional. Months later I would be in the military and everything changed for me. I still game all the time but my Dreamcast was really something special. Thank you for honoring its memory. Gratitude.

[@DenverStarkey]

it was my first console i bought myself with my own money. every consoel before that were gifts as i was a kid . i turned 20 in 1999 when it launched in the US and had my first job for a year at the time so i had money ready and waiting to get the DC.

[@snugglenuts]

I acquired the Sega Dreamcast on its launch date of 9/9/99, and also bought _Sonic Adventure_ and _Soul Calibur_ as my first games. The first time I saw Mitsuguri's hair flowing in the breeze I couldn't believe my eyes.

[@DenverStarkey]

i got the DC on launch too my launch titles were Sonic adventure Soul Calibur Blue Stinger NFL 2k House of the Dead

[@MH-yp6wg]

Well the japanese launch lineup was not THAT good, which is understandable since it was November '98. I got mine in January '99 with Sonic Adventure and Virtua Fighter 3... still absolutely mindblowing when you came from N64, PS1 or Saturn. The american launch lineup was so good, makes me wonder why it was not more successfull over there.

[@DenverStarkey]

@@MH-yp6wg well back then a bad lanch in japan usually killed a console's cahn ces ofm success. MS broke that cycle with the first xbox in 2001... it had a much worse launch in japan than the dreamcast did, yet it went on to be a raving sucess in both the US and Europe. putting MS in a good position for when they released the 360 4 years later in 2005.

[@DenverStarkey]

@@MH-yp6wg DC's US launch was quite sucessful actually .. it broke 24 hour sales records at the time. the problem is after it's initial launch demand dropped sharply as we got closer and closer to PS2's launch.

[@MH-yp6wg]

Yeah... I meant it in the long run. Unfortunately, the good US start did not save it. The Mega Drive was massively successful in the US as well, by the way. :) But as a gamer, I could not even afford all the good games that were on the Dreamcast, so it was successful enough for me personally. ;)@@DenverStarkey

[@luckyluke95]

You forgot Resident Evil Code Veronica

[@cgyh68748]

Sega is cringe lol

[@RetrOrigin]

I guess he omitted this one for being multi-platform.

[@FinalManaTrigger]

@@RetrOrigin DoA 2, Grandia 2, etc. were multi-platform and they weren't omitted.

[@heilong79]

@@RetrOrigin It was developed for the dreamcast, the other versions were ports.

[@luckyluke95]

Chris McEvoy exactly I agree with you

[@romulodornelas3206]

My story about why I love the Dreamcast is, as a Brazilian and growing up with Master System, Mega Drive and arcade Sega Games but in some point of my life Sega wasn't in my radar. I had Supernintendo and the PS1 later because Sega CD and Saturn was SUPER expensive at the time. During the SNES and PS1 period I stopped to go in arcades and we had less and less at the time had less and less. One day for some reason I went to a Mall in my city in Brazil and there has a really old Arcade in my city and I was see what's going with the worst expectations and if the place was closed I wasn't surprised and was totally opposite of that. I saw a lot of new arcades machine and whew I noticed rhe Sega logo on somes I was so glad! So excited! I spent the whole day there and in that and I passed to back there to play more very often. Two especific was my favorites at the time. Crazy Taxi and the Virtua Striker and this is Dreamcast means to me. I know, there's Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, Residents Evil Code Veronica and a lot of classic but for me the console is back to roots, back to arcade, when was my beginning for my love in video games. Dreamcast ♥️

[@optima-nova772]

Dude, I love the fact you play soccer games for the gameplay and not for the sport. You just play everything and you got a great varied and wide understanding of the consoles and games. Not many content creators can manage that

[@nettack]

Yes, however Virtua Striker2's gameplay sucked. I always went back to UEFA Dream Soccer though it was oddly similar to 90 Minutes, IIRC.

[@CapcommunicationsHQ]

I was shocked the first time I saw Dreamcast games, now I watch your video and I was shocked again, this console is SO good.

[@BawesomeBurf]

The best thing about Test Drive: Le Mans is the smooth day to night to day transition when you do the full 24 hour race. It also has some great rain effects for a 6th gen title. Played through it for the first time last year and absolutely loved it.

[@ZachAttackIsBack]

The Dreamcast marked the beginning of the modern era of graphics. This was the last console where I was in awe of the upgrade in graphical fidelity versus the previous generation. You would never confuse an N64 game for a Dreamcast title. Future console generations certainly made graphical improvements, but never again would the leap be so jarring and impressive.

[@wishusknight3009]

100%

[@xman777b]

perfectly stated. And perfectly true. No exaggeration, whatsoever.

[@allenfernandez8352]

@@xman777b Ehh? I'd start with PS2. But I see the point.

[@cryptic255]

ps2 to ps3 was the last tbh

[@Logan912]

@@cryptic255 I agree. Yeah, the PS4 was a graphical improvement over the PS3 too, but it wasn't a mindblowing difference like the older generations were and even less so from PS4 to PS5. Comparing games from 2023 to games from 2013 is like "Oh yeah, the textures are sharper, and the models look a little better." Comparing games from 2013 to 2003, however, is a world of difference.

[@tougeruzbay]

I knew I should've bought the Dreamcast when it was going for $50 at Toys R Us with the games I grew up playing at my local arcade. Recently I found a clean complete in box Dreamcast that works brand new with a handful of games like Soul Caliber, Crazy Taxi, Alone in the Dark, Legacy of Kain, Ooga Booga, and especially Sonic Adventures.

[@slanderman3296]

During this time in my life, I felt we finally were in the future. Games were mini worlds to me then, but with the technology, it made you feel deeper in the experience.

[@gordondaniels9308]

This video reminded me just how much fun Virtua Tennis 2K2 was with four people. Neither me nor anyone in my group of friends at the time were sports guys, yet for years at almost every party someone would boot that game up and we would play for hours. Just amazingly fun to play with multiple people!

[@Gruntvc]

Man, I missed out on a lot of these. Dreamcast was a good system.

[@DenverStarkey]

for it's generation of consoles (6th gen) the dreamcast was a better console than the Genesis was for it's gen. speaking on hardware capabilities. it's a ahrd debate on which had better games as i love many gens' classic games as well as DC's. what teh DC cast had software wise taht was definitely above Genesis , is 3rd party support. so many publsihers and devs jumpped on doing games for DC. if sega hadn't botched up witht eh sega cd , the 32 x and the saturn console so bad , then They could ahve afforded to flaot the Dreamcast a few more years than it lasted. They might even ahve been able to finish out that time period of the whole 6th gen.

[@shaggydog9789]

The thing that always struck me back then about Dreamcast games was just how vibrant, clear, and colourful they looked. Coming from the PS1 and especially the N64 everything had just looked a bit brown and muddy but here the colours were so lush and vibrant.

[@yanceyboyz]

Headhunter was incredible, I never knew it wasn't released worldwide, it was very popular here in the UK.

[@DrEvil-sd9nu]

I remember back in 99 I got my Dreamcast with Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventureat at launch and I was blown away at the graphics from Sonic Adventure

[@capcom23]

me too. when I played Sonic Adventure I got a true next gen gaming experience.. something that ps1 didn't do it for me when I bought it. i liked the graphics, but I kept playing Dreamcast way more often. And no load times (Well hardly any loadings) thanks to the strong CPU

[@rainehappy7097]

Tried Sonic Adventure at a Toys R US and ran around the hub world. It was like experiencing Super Mario 64 for the first time. I had no idea where to go, but I had fun. Then I got a hold of the sequel and played as far as I could without a VMU, repeating everything over and over until I had the game memorized.

[@arhops9078]

sonic adventure 2 was really impressive imo. i can't think of a game that pulled off a realistic art style better in the 6th gen of consoles, let alone so early on. the quality of the textures and the speed at which you run past everything while maintaining high framerates was (and still is) awesome

[@DenverStarkey]

the sonic adventure games and the DC version of Star wars pod racer .. Really showed off the blindign speed of teh DC. the Dc version of SW:podracer , was just light years above adn beyond it's N64 and PS1 counter parts.

[@gcforreal]

I hope Sega does a Dreamcast mini one-day

[@TheSocialGamer]

The CIB Dreamcast console and around 50+ games are still the pinnacle of my collection and I have just about every popular console released in the US. Great showcase and I appreciate that you gave the beloved Dreamcast some retro love...! Thanks Sega Lord X ....!

[@MetalJody1990]

Wow. Headhunter looks stunning for its time! I'm curious to see how it looks in 4K.

[@Morphineck]

Cough redream cough cough

[@gamesystemaddict3949]

I’m an old man and don’t understand why you’d want to play it in 4K. Won’t that just make it look worse? Is 4K even that much better? I have a tube tv so I genuinely am clueless on the matter

[@MetalJody1990]

@@gamesystemaddict3949 I'd want to play it in 4K on my flat screen display, because it greatly reduces jagged edges on polygons. The clarity is so much higher. There is a downside, though, and that is the obvious pop-in of objects/buildings that come into view. Depending on the player's preference, extremely high clarity in an old game could be better or worse. Tube tvs do a better job at masking jagged edges at low resolutions than flat screens. So, if a tube tv is what you use, that's fine, you're not really missing out. But for me, I haven't use a tube tv in years; flat screens are what I'm accustomed to. I've come to appreciate the level of clarity available to me now that I couldn't see before from over a decade ago, even if the graphical limitations are more noticeable. I really like the look of Headhunter in 4K.

[@gamesystemaddict3949]

@@MetalJody1990 that makes sense, and that helps me understand a little more about people’s preferences in resolution settings. Thank you 🙏

[@MetalJody1990]

@@gamesystemaddict3949 You're welcome. Game on, sir.

[@maverickhuntermeta4954]

Soul Calibur is my first game when I bought a Dreamcast.

[@darthwisner47]

On launch day I bought Soul Calibur, Power Stone and House of the Dead 2.

[@DrEvil-sd9nu]

Mine was Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure, one week later nfl 2k good memories

[@christianraines3032]

@@darthwisner47 u must have had some bank 😆

[@darthwisner47]

@@christianraines3032 I had been saving up for it. 👍

[@123456CBOY]

Mines was DOA2

[@Jburneyjr]

Seeing Shenmue for the first time made me realize what a realistic game could be on that generation. I didn't get that same effect until MSG 2.

[@osenator]

I need to dust off my dreamcast.... one of my favorite systems ever.

[@luckyrockmore2796]

Just got a Dreamcast w Gdemu and Dchdmi installed and now I never have to swap out my discs again!

[@joshuawright8990]

I’ve been replay Sonic Adventure this weekend. Will be playing SA2 soon.

[@justinburchett8424]

@@luckyrockmore2796 did you do it yourself or was there somewhere you had it done at?

[@BlueEyedVibeChecker]

@@luckyrockmore2796 That is convenient, but nothing beats seeing all the games in all their glory in your collection. To me, if you use GDEMU, you may as well just emulate the on a PC in 1440P with higher FPS since it's just using ROMs anyway. (Not hating, that's just my opinion)

[@atolm1]

Miss the Dreamcast and the massive excitement surrounding its lauch; and the promise of what could have been. Excited to watch this!

[@Gruntvc]

Dreamcast 2 when?

[@NotesandNerds]

I really recommend giving the emulation scene a look. Redream is my favorite emulator, but it doesn't support games built on the WinCE platform. However, there is such a massive number of great games out there...you should do it. If you do, Star Wars Ep1 Racer is a must play.

[@Fattydeposit]

I was more anxious than excited when the Dreamcast finally landed in Europe. It wasn't being taken seriously in the press. Sega's reputation was in poor shape, and their marketing budget was a joke. No gamers I knew bought one - they were all waiting for PS2. It was heartbreaking.

[@paulclinton6414]

The Dreamcast had the best single year in gaming history by far.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

9/9/99 remember it as if it was yesterday and it only cost 199 bucks

[@R0n1n760]

The Dreamcast is a console I never owned but have always wanted. Same with the Sega Saturn.

[@Clos93]

Same, now I own both. Gotta love them Capcom arcade ports!

[@paulclinton6414]

DC was not on the market long, but it still has an amazing library. It can rival consoles that had far longer lifespans.

[@sonicmania9993]

My two favorite consoles!

[@ryanr.3925]

I owned both in the 90's . I had goodtimes with freinds playing some soul individual titles but the fun didnt last . Honestly i always had more fun going to other friends homes and playing their playstations and sega genesis . These systems didnt really pump out a lot of good multiplayer games . Even to further the argument i owned 3 copys of duke nukem 3d for sega staurn . One copy was the pc version mistakenly put into the saturn box at the factory . The second disk which took 3 months to recieve from toys r us eventually quit working like some saturn games did . My 3rd second hand funcoland copy i finally beat the 20 some maps on segas rendition of duke . 6 years later i purchased a copy of duke meltdown on ps1 and had a much better experience playing this version which was much closer to the pc version . Now i know based from many videos i watched on saturn duke that it was built on a seperate engine but doesnt excuse its strange fanbase and how people in the comment sections druel over this port and some call it the best port . As i formentioned i owned 3 copys of this port and to this day hate it . As for saturn doom dont get me started . Sorry i digressed.

[@sexy2020ish]

For a collection

[@alexflores7652]

This game system was so underrated and criminally so. I think if they could have added a DVD capability it could have gone toe- to - toe with the PS2.

[@SteveBrandon]

I have both Metropolis Street Racer and Test Drive: Le Mans (plus many other Dreamcast racing games including F355 Challenge). It's hard to pick one of those three, and the Ferrari F355 Challenge might be the best-modeled car on the console due to the entire game having only one single car (and I also love the oversaturated Sega colours in the Dreamcast version compared the PS2 version, although the PS2 version has more detail on the liveries), but, for visuals, I think I give the edge to Metropolis Street Racing just for the amount of real-world detail Bizarre Creations were able to put in the city streets. I'd definitely say the car models in Test Drive: Le Mans are a notch better than those in MSR though a lot of those Le Mans cars are race track cars with large flat surface areas that are probably easier to model than street cars.

[@ferrari250lm]

F355 Challenge is excellent.

[@leonkent1365]

I'd agree with this. MSR rocked, far more than Project Gotham

[@DrEvil-sd9nu]

Steve Brandon back in the days I had Sega Rally 2 and that game had nice looking graphics

[@tymaginnis7746]

I also always found Tokyo Street Racer 2 to be a great looking racer on the console.

[@SteveBrandon]

@@DrEvil-sd9nu I agree that Sega Rally 2 on Dreamcast looks pretty good on its own merits but the framerate for that one doesn't quite compare to the Model 3 arcade version which was running at 60fps on weaker hardware than the Dreamcast so I gotta grade it on a curve. I know MSR wasn't running at 60 either but that was an original game with no 60fps version to compare it to and the detailed scenery ate up a lot of the processing power.

[@SamuelCarrier]

I'd never seen or heard anything about Head Hunter beyond the cover art, I'll definitely give it a look. Plenty of great titles in that list!

[@JonoK79]

Headhunter was freaking awesome. The music is amazing. The only problem I had with it was that when you do a Newgame++.. there gets a point where you can't finish the VR missions as the increased difficulty level makes it impossible to beat. But I think that's after playing on the unlocked UNLOCKED super difficulty.

[@tra0459]

Dreamcast will always have a special place in my heart. First system to truly bring the arcade home. The return to greatness of Sega Sports. Capcom loving in shooters and fighters. Best launch hands down. 9.9.99 for life

[@bigballzmcdrawz2921]

Dreamcast had the best lineup of launch titles of any console ever.

[@tra0459]

@@bigballzmcdrawz2921 Facts

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

What are you talking about by it being the first console to bring arcade to homes?

[@tra0459]

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess No system before the Dreamcast brought arcade quality or better home 1st. Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, anything by Capcom or SNK for example

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

@@tra0459 All of these were in Sega previous consoles, Soul calibur, SNK and Capcom fighting games were in the PS1

[@Dimensiom]

Everything about Headhunter felt like a low-budget direct-to-video C-grade action film from the 1990s. The plot, the setting, the color palette (which is not a knock on the graphics as they do look nice), even the music that tried to be more dramatic than it really was. I loved it for that. I should play through it again sometime.

[@ix8750]

Man.... Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 and Phantasy star online are like 25% of my childhood. The aesthetic of those games will never age poorly for me.

[@ProcyonAlpha]

The reason DC aged so well is it more often than not targeted 60 frames per second so they all look so smooth.

[@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

Headhunter looks really cool! Never played it but I remember adverts for it in gaming magazines at the time, definitely one I've gotta check out in the future.

[@stabinghobo57]

I had a Dreamcast growing up, I remember when everyone was going crazy about the PS2 but I wasn’t Impressed, the early PS2 titles didn’t look anything that the Dreamcast couldn’t do also. Wish the SEGA Dreamcast lasted a few mores years. I believe the Dreamcast still had more potential to give.

[@JamesBondSPY007]

Exactly. First time i ever saw PS2 game play was the Madden 01' demo at Babbages in the mall. My reaction was, "THIS is the "emotion engine?!?". Later on the PS2 was surely able to outperform the Dreamcast but not by much imo. Dreamcast was truly a next gen console when it came out, NOTHING could touch it...the only only one considered next gen after that was Xbox, ironically dubbed Dreamcast 2 lol.

[@54car]

Same with me. I had just bought jet grind radio (& was mesmerized by it) and rented a ps2 w/ midnight club shortly after. I wasn’t impressed with the ps2 at launch. Even tho ps2 is my favorite gaming console, I enjoyed those 2 years I had the Dreamcast more than the first years of ps2. Sony consoles don’t hit their stride until a few years in (ps2 didn’t launch with mgs2, kingdom hearts, gran turismo, Devil may cry, ffx, etc) and I tip my hat to sega for going all out at the Dreamcast providing a unique experience only they can do.

[@redseagaming7832]

Saga Hardware division had to die so Sega could give PS2 PS3 PS4 the Yakuza games

[@mtdubdachamp6917]

@@JamesBondSPY007 man you sound like me lol. Xbox is the unofficial dreamcast 2 just look at their first couple years of exclusives, bunch of sequels from dc games lol.

[@mtdubdachamp6917]

The best thing I seen on PS2 at the time was Tekken tag and that was the only game that looked the best on the system at launch imo. It wasnt til late 01 early 02 when games started taking advantage of the emotion engine

[@DMacca]

This was the first console I truly felt gave me an 100% arcade experience at home. Happy days.

[@tymaginnis7746]

This video was great! Would love a follow-up!

[@fitnessabcvideo]

Shenmue, that wasn't only the best looking dream cast game but it took till the end of the ps2 lifetime to even come close to that game. Not sure how you could miss that.

[@SegaLordX]

I didn’t. Shenmue is in the video.

[@efuuu]

C'mon man don't be ridiculous, it was a good looking game when it released, but even the early ps2 comparable titles crushed it in the visuals.

[@richardg5301]

@@efuuu Yeah really, guy is out of his mind. Some games that came out in 2001 on PS2: Metal Gear Solid 2, Jak and Daxter, Onimusha, Gran Tourismo 3, Final Fantasy X, Silent Hill 2... Best looking DC game though is Dead or Alive 2 played on VGA.

[@tubinonyou]

Great choices. Headhunter was a staple of my early high school days. I remember playing through the Echelon rips and getting stuck due to a glitch on the second disc. I ended up importing the official PAL game which I still own to this day. It was my first import purchase and, with the help of the spinning reindeer, I was able to finish the game.

[@Bearcade]

Great list of games. Test Drive Le Mans holds up great to this day. Rarely do games that are 20 years old still feel/ look modern. DC was defining moment in gaming.

[@TechAppsNGames]

My Dreamcast hooked up to my PC monitor via VGA cable still looks amazing.

[@stokesa3122]

Skies of Arcadia on Switch when? It would be the perfect way to reinvigorate the modern Sega Ages line. Even if they have to sell it at like $24.99 or something, It'd be worth it to have that masterpiece playable on a modern system and available to a whole new generation.

[@waifubreaks1572]

Or you can play it on Dolphin or Reicast,

[@bnelson383]

I loved my Dreamcast house of the dead and fighters, nfl games were great too

[@littleblackcloud86]

I remember the first time I saw Toy Commander and Soul Calibur running on the Dreamcast back in 99. Mind blowing!

[@samuelprados4975]

I never liked shoot'em ups. But Ikaruga blew my mind. A few years later I gave a serious try to the game on the GameCube.

[@carbonara2144]

Sturmwind is just an amazing shooter on Dreamcast. I love the style, music, playability of it. Surprised me totally. I played Gigawing etc first but did not really like them. Sturmwind just blew my socks off - its so great!

[@makoto4341]

So weird looking at some of these games after years and noticing the jaggies, low poly count, etc... my childhood memories tell me that the dreamcast eliminated all those issues! lol. Thanks for the continuous great content :)

[@RottenMuLoT]

The dreamcast isn't eliminating them, but the CRT.

[@turismofoegaming8806]

Back then you were playing on the TV with far smaller pixel count there by making the games look super smooth

[@crono3339]

I've been playing my PS2 alot lately and I think most Dreamcast games looked far superior.

[@turismofoegaming8806]

@@crono3339 I always thought Dreamcast games looked better also.. They were just clearer.. unless you’re talking about Gran Turismo three or Gran Turismo four

[@MrPoestyle]

You have videos coming out constantly and they are full , from beginning to end , of detail and information . I don't know how you do it , but your videos are " must see " for me . Excellent job as always .

[@DarMander707]

What a good video. I like how you showed off other games before your top pick. A nice short bit on each game and not long-winded or boring. Just a great video thank you for sharing 🙂

[@mattkidroske]

Never heard of Headhunter but it looks amazing! Dreamcast was one of my favorite consoles, loved this video

[@ecapone9223]

Dreamcast was dope. My favorite system.

[@GeekGamerGui]

Man, you brought back so much good memories with this video ! Games I would add to this list are: Sega Extreme Sports and 4 Wheel Thunder.

[@enshk79]

YAY a Dreamcast vid!!!! Thank you for everything you do man!!!

[@JLAvey]

Skies of Arcadia is the first game I've played where you could tell what the characters were thinking by their gestures and expressions. I'd still have to give Grandia II the reason-enough-to-own-a-Dreamcast title. Skies of Arcadia is on GameCube with extra content and unlike Grandia II for PS2, the GameCube version worked better than the Dreamcast one.

[@dubol07]

To this day I still remember the first time I played DOA on Dream Cast, 2 decades ago! I was so blown away I thought I had died and resurrected in a new dimension. That was a legit show case of a leap into next gen graphics!

[@sexy2020ish]

I love the doa series

[@jaxcellentvideogames689]

Thanks for another awesome vid Sega Lord X.. The dreamcast was so amazing, too many great games, Shenmue and spawn looked amazing too

[@closefm]

Power Stone is my favorite fighting for Dreamcast. It was so new for the time and so fun to play! And it looks just nice even today.

[@mercster]

Love all Dreamcast content, best console of ALLLLL TIIIIME! :) Thanks.

[@ApexLodestar]

GRANDIA II YES!!! I absolutely adored that game. Purchased it on Sega Dreamcast, then PS2, then GOG and lastly STEAM.

[@SamucaSamucao]

5:10 HeadHunter background music... NICE!

[@shadowman5567]

LOL 12:25 As soon as I heard the music I knew what the #1 pick was lol. *Skies of Arcadia* is one of my all time favorites. The Dreamcast was an amazing piece of hardware. Fun times hanging with my buddies drinking and playing NBA 2k1. Chillin' with my girl playing Metropolis Street Racer. Calling out sick from my job to keep playing Shenmue, just to end up literally getting a job _in the game..._ So many fond memories.

[@RetroMoments]

All great choices here. DOA2 still looks beautiful by today's standard. And the atmosphere in Shenmue is incredible.

[@BARONXAVIER]

Capcom fighting games in DC are amazing street fighter 3 and Capcom vs SNK My favorites

[@tobiaslofi]

Thanks for mentioning and rewarding Headhunter! It's one of my fav games ever made!!

[@geminielectro]

The most impressive in Le Mans, are the fx with the glowin' breaks or the rain, but especially the sky. The clouds moving forward and changing, the night falling with the stars and the changing weather... The sound is also incredible! We can ear the other cars on the other side of the circuits, the horns and the crowd, as well as the commentator. And the sounds become distorted with speed wich give an impressive racing atmosphere. Turn the music off and enjoy the race, you'll be amazed...

[@darthwisner47]

Yeeeeeeeeah Dreamcast!!

[@Islandswamp]

Sega should make a console that's just designed to run their classics.

[@agamemnon8163]

No

[@hondamanvtec2894]

Yes....Dreamcast and Sega Saturn games

[@Dessan01]

Sega aren’t really in a position anymore to launch any kind of console, they just don’t have the money for it anymore. Best you can hope for is maybe a Saturn mini eventually.

[@Fattydeposit]

Let it go man. It's been 20 years.

[@FailedFlea93]

Dessan01 They made the genesis mini. They should make a saturn or dreamcast mini.

[@stevemichael9576]

Great video....so many classics I had almost forgotten about here. Truly was an awesome system the Dreamcast. I am so tempted to pick one up again and a crt monitor on eBay!

[@neongreenninja5433]

Nice! very cool games you got here, I feel like im dreaming with all these classics ! Good job

[@entertainmentwizard2703]

The Dreamcast has some incredibly looking games and it's still my favorite console of all time!

[@paulclinton6414]

Going from PS1 and N64 to DC was the last time I was blown away by a generational leap.

[@DrEvil-sd9nu]

My top 3

[@Tolbat]

Dreamcast was the best system ever. Sega was already dead when it launched in the US.

[@snarkybu42]

Thanks to you I have purchased my first dream cast and look forward to start collecting for it!

[@trickyrat483]

Brings back the memories of my MSR addiction in the day. Loved that game.

[@spacepiratejacen2258]

Totally agree! 😀👍

[@robbvanderstoel7725]

I always wondered why I never saw Columns 2 and it never got included in compilations. (Japanese exclusive explains everything).

[@Cafeman_2D]

I keep coming back to DC. I'm currently about 40 hours into my first play of Skies of Arcadia in fact. I'm using a VGA to HDMI device and the games have such a nice look. Thanks for the show!

[@twitchyfingersretrogamingc218]

Sega Dreamcast was one of my fav consoles at that time with so many classic games released for it in its short lifespan 1998-2002 enjoyed your video was amazing plus i need to get back into dreamcast again

[@ClockedIt]

Soul Calibur still to this day is perfection, arguably the most impressive launch title ever released. I would have also added Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike to this list. It's 2D pixel perfection and still looks stunning today.

[@MrAsmodath]

Great video. You sure monetized the hell out of this one. An ad every 2 mins during a 20 minute video is a bit too much. I don't think I'll be checking out the next one.

[@comicbookguy6361]

"The shadow of greed that is." - Yoda

[@jhh-jiynks6568]

SLx, bro you seriously make top notch infotainment

[@ronsilk6212]

skies of Arcadia is still my favorite JRPG of all time. i played through it 3 times and that was at a very hard time in my life. Skies took my mind off my real life and may have saved my life back then

[@SomeOrangeCat]

We never got to see the Dreamcast's full potential unleashed. I mean look at the difference between first and final wave titles on the PS2, Gamecube and Xbox. But thanks to Sega cutting off their nose to spite their face we never got the chance. Hey, have you ever done a "Sega on the Wii" video yet? They did crank out a few stinkers, but they also brought over some excellent titles as well.

[@lazarushernandez5827]

Yep, I always wonder what games might have shown up on the DC if had lasted a few years more...I wonder if we would have seen Outrun 2 on it; the game was released on the Xbox (and its arcade counterpart the Chihiro board) but also showed up on the PS2 and PSP. Might we have seen Ninja Gaiden? or Grand Theft Auto 3?

[@SomeOrangeCat]

@@lazarushernandez5827 Perhaps even a revised controller with a second stick and a couple more face buttons, so multiplat games from later in that generation would be playable.

[@3dmarth]

The GameCube doesn't seem like the best example, seeing as it had so many gorgeous games in its early years, and then support kind of fell off later. But I agree with your point. The Dreamcast was really held back by the techniques and the standards of the day. Back in 1998, games like Metal Gear Solid and Banjo-Kazooie represented the pinnacle of console graphics. You still saw characters animated with outdated techniques (with each limb being a separate model), and many of the fancy next-gen tricks like ripple effects, depth of field, frame buffer reflections, bump maps, and shadow maps were rare, if not unheard of. And audiences didn't know or expect any better! The PSP and especially the 3DS give some hints as to what later Dreamcast games could have looked like.

[@cd-rommasterclass19]

Man, what a video; You should check out Aero Wings 2 and Aero Dancing i ("i" stands for internet); they look the part; the second game has bump maps going on, under rainy clouds; looks good; and Aero Dancing i, sports some of the most insanely detailed jet models and texture detail that I've seen in that generation; Ace Combat be damned (I love me some Ace Combat, though). When it comes to racers on Dreamcast, I'm torn between Daytona USA 2001 and Le Mans; cuz Daytona has a much more advanced dynamic shadowing system goin on; scenery casts dynamic 3 dimensional shadows and these cast realistically on vehicles when you drive through them... impressive stuff for a 2001 release; and... I can't help but mention the car models in Tokio Xtreme Racer 2; they're unbelievably high poly, but other than that, it doesn't have much more going for its visuals... ...speaking of platformers; Sonic Adventure 2 was one of the most beautiful games at the time of its release, its texture resolution and detail was absurdly good! Adventure 1 had a few great things goin for it too; it had tons of reflective, shiny textures goin on, everywhere! ...it was ahead of its time in many departments; but its draw distance was... not that good, and models, although super stylish, were really blocky, unfortunately. You shold, too, give Red Dog a shot; it's not the best looker, texture wise, but it has dynamic shadows on vehicles and regular enemies, and they react to explosions, light sources and stuff; it's a cool game all around!

[@l1uchill]

Awesome Video and great content!

[@jaydee1124]

Dreamcast was A++ quality. I hope that one day Sega comes around to releasing some kind of collection for the games.

[@NotesandNerds]

The Dreamcast is certainly one of the best systems that fall into that "underrated" category. There are so many quality titles compared to the "stinkers". I am not a big fan of that damned controller, and need to get something a bit more modern, like the Retro Fighters controller (I have the Genesis version that I use for my Genesis Mini and love that thing). I am lucky to have the version of the console that can read burned discs, so I admit I have one helluva collection of titles that is rather lengthy coupled with the dozen or so legit discs. One game I think you should have considered for the racing list was the amazing Star Wars Ep 1 Racer. It was leaps beyond the N64 version, which was already impressive to begin with. The customizability, the steady difficulty curve, the fluid controls, and that speed.

[@eponymous7910]

Ep 1 Racer is a good call 👍

[@dapperfan44]

I have Space Channel 5 both legit and burned. I bought the game but it's like a piece of history, I couldn't bring myself to take it out of it's shrink wrap. Same with Sonic Shuffle, except I opened it carefully and kept it in its wrapping to keep from getting the case scratched up. Plus, next to Pocket Adventure it's one of the few Sonic games that only stayed on it's original system.

[@yanceyboyz]

Episode 1 racer on N64 did have some better features than the DC version, the DC had better resolution but it was a pc port missing a bunch of visual effects.

[@derealized797]

I always thought that "E.G.G." or Elemental Gimmick Gear, looked great on the dreamcast. It was hand drawn action RPG, with a mix of 3D battles in some places. Also... not sure how much it counts but, Stupid Invaders looked great as well. It's a point and click style adventure game. Pretty good too I thought, but not exactly pushing the hardware to its limits.

[@Shannon-ul5re]

I picked up a dreamcast at the midnight launch with soul, sonic and ready to rumble. It was amazing, I had so many games on the platform and loved that vga box to connect to my monitor.

[@garyjenson7602]

Dreamcast blew my mind back in 1999

[@TheIMMORTALKAHNHD]

Yeah.....i love you man but we DEFINITELY not matchin on tbis list. I know as an old fan you like to buck normalcy and pick obscure stuff over poular well known ips but this wasnt it for me

[@SegaLordX]

What do you feel was so off putting?

[@TheIMMORTALKAHNHD]

@The Deadpool Who Chuckles. bet that was the highlight of your day. Also i got parkinsons. I normally just short hand such cuz its easier. Dont want ya to fel bad just others to see ur an arse.

[@TheIMMORTALKAHNHD]

@@SegaLordX we just have different taste. Lately the gsps been growing wider snd wider. Here we only had about one game in common. Ive been an slx fan damn near since start. Its weird to see the gap between taste growing since those early videos.

[@PhuryousOne]

I still remember seeing Soul Calibur for the first time. A friend of mine had it and it absolutely knocked my socks off visually like no other home console game ever did, and I had to get a copy for myself immediately.

[@thalia.viraldreams5737]

My Dreamcast evangelism at the time consisted of showing off Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive 2, NFL2K, Jet Grind Radio, Crazy Taxi, PowerStone 2, Virtua Tennis Marvel vs Capcom 2, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Skies of Arcadia and Test Drive Le Mans

[@geneprogamer3936]

Dude I remember reading articles about HeadHunter in the Sega Dreamcast Magazine. I was so hype for it and never got to play it.