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Post 9 » Fri Apr 02, pm. Post 10 » Sat Apr 03, am. Quick links. News Forums Dreamcast Lounge Best 4-player party games? At first, the huge number of possible moves and combinations available for use can be a bit daunting, but it keeps you wanting to learn more.

There are also a number of different play modes to keep you involved for quite a while. F Challenge Sega has always been one of the kings of the arcade and has routinely had a handful of excellent racers in its arcade portfolio. However, there is one racer that never received much mainstream exposure, but still holds up as a high-quality racer. The sound alone is enough to get any car enthusiast worked up. Unlike Gran Turismo and Sega GT, F Challenge keeps the complexity of the game down similar to most arcade racers while maintaining an excellent driving experience.

Street Fighter 3:Third Strike Much like shooters, the 2D fighter genre is still heavily targeted towards hardcore old-school gamers. But if you would like a fighter that is incredibly deep for even th e not-so-hardcore, you definitely need to take a look at Street Fighter 3: Third Strike. The Street Fighter franchise took a dive in the mainstream scene after Capcom tried to bring it into the 3D world and kept recycling the Street Fighter Alpha over again. While most gamers loved Street Fighter 2, they lost interest in the later installments and moved onto 3D fighters like Virtua Fighter and Tekken.

With Street Fighter 3, however, Capcom took the advantages that 2D games had precise movements, quick reflexes, and strategy and pushed them to the max. Each of these fighting elements contributes to the heavy strategy element found in the game. Third Strike also included a grading system that rated your fighting skills based on your style and strategy.

Mark of the Wolves is set 10 years after the memorable Real Bout Special. And much like in Street Fighter 3, all the older fighters have now gone and have been replaced by new ones. These new characters give SNK the opportunity to explore their creativity in bring fresh characters with a new style in terms of both fighting and aesthetics.

Much like Third Strike, Mark of the Wolves delivers a top-notch experience for fighting fans that were bored with the stagnation of the 2D fighter market.

As opposed to driving full-size cars that tend to be a bit more complex , Re-Volt puts players in the driver seat of small remote-controlled cars.

Like the classic Micro Machines games, Re-Volt has a number of fun courses that are set in environments from everyday life and use everyday objects, big and small, as obstacles. These fun environments like a neighborhood playground or a grocery store not only served as entertaining tracks for traditional races, but also served as great battlegrounds for the multiplayer mode known as Battle Tag. It can still be found dirt cheap and is an essential party game for the casual gaming crowd.

With an upbeat quest and some innovative and fun ideas, Skies of Arcadia lets you venture off to distant islands to uncover a number of secrets.

Unlike other RPGs which wait until the mid-point to give you an airship, Skies of Arcadia does it right from the bat by bequeathing Vyse and crew with a ship of their own to sail the turn-based combat infested skies. The world is comprised of floating islands, and you use your air ship to travel among them while playing Robin Hood with other pirates.

The story may be similar to traditional motifs such as those in Lunar: The Silver Star, but it still feels new in this age of anti-heroes and whiny main characters. The ship warfare provides for a great alternative to standard RPG character combat, and the characters are a joy to watch with their many facial expressions and animation.

The excellent characters, story, and environments complete the package, resulting in what many consider the best RPG on the Dreamcast and possibly one the the best of the console generation.

A Gamecube version of Skies of Arcadia was also released with a few tweaks, but it does not negate the fact that it is an essential game in a Dreamcast library.

Grandia 2 focuses more on gameplay via an innovative battle system instead of devoting time to a in-depth story and over-the-top visuals. The ingenious system utilizes more than just the attack options. It takes into account everything about your character. It depends upon how fast your character can act, run, and attack.

This can lead to a number of interesting scenarios. In the same lure of Final Fantasy VII and VIII, the magic system allows your characters to be completely customizable and can allow you to pretty much use any character however you want to. You can let your deadliest fighter at the same time be your most powerful magic user.

Or, you can let your powerhouse warrior be your healer. The gameplay is, however, riddled with a few flaws. It is somewhat unfortunate that if you take the time to put an extra 10 minutes into leveling up at each dungeon, the game will be ridiculously easy.

And by ridiculously easy, I mean that you will go through the entire game without using items. Shenmue brings games one step closer to reality via its time scale and attention to detail.

All non-playing characters actually have their own lives to lead, and enemy encounters are presented realistically. You can also interact with nearly every object and learn and master several different martial arts. The atmosphere in the city of Shenmue is simply amazing — each building, sidewalk, table, chair, crate, and every other environmental nuance has been rendered and calculated with an insane amount of detail and elements such as the color and intensity of the lighting is carefully reproduced for each environment.

I must give a fair warning, however, Shenmue is not for everyone. Shenmue requires patience the first disc or two spends most of its time setting up the story as opposed to letting Ryo bash some skulls.

Individual gamers will either love or hate Shenmue — and will love it or hate it for the same reasons. Space Channel 5 has a handful of simple game elements that make it unique and the game does a good job of starting out easy and gradually getting more difficult.

Even when the moves become so complicated you get angry and want to hurl your controller across the room, the quality of the music helps bring you back. Space Channel 5 is another one of the essential games that are dirt cheap, so there is no reason not to pick this gem up. Chu Chu Rocket! This little gem from Sega was extremely popular and recognized by most gamers who had actually played it and virtually unknown otherwise.

Chu Chu Rocket is a unique puzzle game that not only served as a good brain-teaser in single-player mode, but also has solid multi-player features. Chu Chu Rocket takes a cue from Lemmings, in that you must guide hapless creatures to safety.

The goal in Chu Chu Rocket is to guide mice to the safety of rockets, past the dangerous cats and bottomless pits. The only downside is that the brain-numbing multiplayer mode can be hard to describe to newbie friends. The single player mode is also a great deal of fun that will keep your brain in tip-top shape.

The game presents you with a variety of missions in which you must solve the single screen puzzles by guiding your mice to the rockets via the use of arrows. You are only given a specific amount of arrows, and with later levels it can be very challenging working out exactly where the arrows must go to guide your mice to safety.

Much like more modern games like Super Monkey Ball, it makes you think creatively to reach your goal. A true classic. Propeller Arena is the coolest one. Yes, but it was leaked. And it is awesome. I love captial letters…. I cannot believe you left Phantasy Star Online out of the list! Segagaga is an RPG-simulation hybrid where players control a new Sega employee who's tasked with saving the company against their competitors.

Not only is the game development premise revolutionary, but it features constant representation from popular Sega series , both as allies and enemies. Segagaga is one of the last truly great games released for the Dreamcast, but it's also such a niche experience that's tied to the Dreamcast's life that it's understandable why nothing else has been done with it. Godzilla films and the larger kaiju genre have become unexpectedly popular outside of Japan over the past decade.

It's encouraging to see a return to these giant monsters, but the Dreamcast wasn't afraid to embrace the Godzilla franchise back in the late '90s. Godzilla Generations is a destructive and satisfying action title where players control Godzilla and four other iconic kaiju from the series as they wipe out cities and fight other monsters.

Subsequent Godzilla games have been released over time, but there's lots of acclaim over this classic game that's stuck back on Sega's console. Releases during the lifespan of the Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2 typically made 3D games their priority, but there are some 2D titles that are absolute gems that have gone overlooked due to their old-fashioned look. EGG largely trades in beautiful hand-drawn environments, yet it switches to a modern 3D approach for its boss battles.

Elemental Gimmick Gear is one of the Dreamcast's stranger games and so it's not a major surprise that it wasn't a priority to bring to other consoles. Hideo Kojima is the current auteur game developer, but several decades back Kenji Eno tried to fulfill this role with Sega.