The Worst Dreamcast games.

[Regus]

I Spy also falls into the same catagory as Seventh Cross Evolution.
It could have been great, but alas, it was not meant to be.

[NachoHat]

tell me... tell me... you did NOT just say that. tell me!

those two tomb raider games are the mad dopage. alright, i'm exaggerating. they're not the mad dopage, but i like them a lot.

suckaaaaa!!!

Nope, I said that. I hate the Tomb Raider games more than just about any gaming series these days. That's not to say there aren't games that I find worse than Tomb Raider(*cough*Rise of the Robots*cough*) but I can't think of any that bad for DC.

You can like them all you want. I still think they're crap.

[mollipen]

Originally posted by el dodo
You may LOVE the game, Shidoshi, but PSO is not Phantasy Star, and should really have been given an original name as the start of a new franchise.

Says who? Some of the original people who made Phantasy Star worked on PSO, it had some of the same races (Numan, Android), it had many of the same items and technologies. The same can be said about Phantasy Star 3. Technically, one of the biggest connections it had to the other PS titles was that it was an RPG.

Sure, I would have loved it had PSO had more collections to the original games. The game could have taken place on Palma, Motavia, and Dezores. No reason it couldn't have. We could have had more connections, like the Musk cats and so on. That still doesn't make PSO not a Phantasy Star title.

If Sega had gotten together a totally new crew with no history with PS, and put together a game that had NO feeling of connection, and a game that didn't fit having the name PS - a game like Metal Gear Solid for example - THEN I could argue the point. But there is enough PS in PSO to make it not a case of just using a francise name to sell a product.

[Josh]

Originally posted by shinobi
-Baigai-0: Im sorry but this sucks!

Gah!

[Shooting Love]

Says me
PSO is NOT Phantasy Star

[gamevet]

Originally posted by el dodo
Says me
PSO is NOT Phantasy Star

The only way it is not Phantasy Star, is the way the game plays. Instead of a traditional RPG like PS it is an action RPG. The game has many enemies from past Phantasy Star games, weapons and money system. If you ask me, 3 is more of a departure from the series, than PSO.



On to the subject. Time Stalkers was a poor excuse for an RPG. Your character would not keep it's level, upon completion of a dungeon. What a piss poor idea, and it made you wonder if the people that made the game had any idea what playing an RPG was about.


World Series Baseball 2k1 was the worst WSBB game ever. The Saturn and even Genesis versions of World Series were a better game of baseball.

[Shooting Love]

The only way PSO can rise from status of worst Dreamcast Game Ever is if Sega develops a traditional PhantasyStar RPG for the current or future crop of consoles.
mmm, an analogy: Say you're a diehard MarioFan, and Nintendo released Luigi's Mansion as the continuation of that franchise -there are those who could argue it is still a Mario game. Yet, of course that is not an issue because we all know Nintendo has a traditional Mario near relese. Consider that there was no hint that MarioSunshine or any other was to be developed,--only Mario's Brother's Mansion 2 was the only evidence of the Mario series' continuation. As a diehard Mario fan I would be pretty dissapointed at the prospect of never again playing a traditonal Mario romp through the garden. I might even vehemently dislike the Mario's Brother's Mansion game because it represents the departure and end of a beloved series of games.

Going back to my first post:
PSO and Daytona may not be the worst games

Sure we all know worst refers to crappiest playing game on the Dreamcast.-(or maybe crappiest graphics to some).
Please allow my response as a matter of fact, as I am shaing with you the worst game playing experiences I've encountered on Dreamcast.
I've enough sence to stay away from games like Spirit of Speed.

GBA gives me hope there may again be an original traditional Phantasy Star. But as for PSO, if I care to play an ARPG, I'll play Landstalker, or Record of Lodoss War.

[Shooting Love]

thank you!

Originally posted by gamevet
The only way it is not Phantasy Star, is the way the game plays.

I couldn't have summed it up any better myself

[Kidnemo]

Originally posted by shinobi
-Baigai-0: Im sorry but this sucks!

OMGOMGOMG!

One of my favorite DC games, I'm sorry to hear that you didnt "get it"...

[mollipen]

Originally posted by el dodo
mmm, an analogy: Say you're a diehard MarioFan, and Nintendo released Luigi's Mansion as the continuation of that franchise -there are those who could argue it is still a Mario game.

*rest snipped*

Okay, let's play with the idea of Mario.

Were you around for Mario Bros.? As in, the original? "Somethin's gummin' in the plumbin', poor Luigi's in a bind..." Mario Bros.?

When Super Mario Bros. hit, the game was NOTHING like the original Mario Bros. game. Yet it was still classified as part of the series. Would you say that Super Mario shouldn't be considered to be a Mario title?

But, let's say that you do consider Super Mario to be a Mario title. What about Mario 64? Again, the game changed COMPLETELY. You went from a 2D sidescrolling platformer to a 3D adventure game where the style of gameplay and objectives were completely changed around. Yet it, too, was still considered to be a Mario title. Would you say that Mario 64 isn't a Mario game?

If you would call Super Mario Bros. a Mario title, and Mario 64 a Mario title, then I can't see how you can say PSO is not a Phantasy Star title.