13 thoughts on “NEW DREAMCAST GAME IN SHOPS”

  2. Yeah, I saw this last week and thought the same so splurged 20 quid on Deathsmiles instead. It’ll probably be £15 in Gamestation come Easter time anyway.

  4. It’s all 4 games on one disc, according to the back of the box.

    I was going to also post a video panning along the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games shelves, but the preponderance of chunky space marine games might have triggered a mass suicide.

  6. As far as I’m aware, only Sonic Adventure and Crazy Taxi are available through XBLA at the moment, and if they are any example of the quality of the over two ports, I’d avoid this like the plague.

    The Crazy Taxi port is particularly horrible, with horrid, bilinear filtered, upscaled blur-o-vision all over the place.

    I’d rather just dig out my DC and plug it into my telly via VGA, and play the games that way. It looks about 100 times better – Seriously.

  7. Heh, I also just picked up Deathsmiles, but I’m waiting until the wife isn’t around before I play it.

    XBLA Sonic Adventure was terrible! I played the demo and clipped through the wall on the same loop about three times. It’s like there’s some conspiracy to go back and tarnish Sonic’s name by making even his old games look bad with crappy ports.

  8. As far as I’m concerned these aren’t even Dreamcast games. Sonic Adventure is the “Director’s Cut” which was never released on the DC and Crazy Taxi has the loading screens of the PC version. I think all of them except Space Channel 5 Pt 2 are ports of the PC versions. Since Space Channel is in English, it’s probably been ported from the PS2 version.

    I think that’s why we’re not getting Shenmue or Daytona or Jet Set Radio, they’re just going with what they can quickly port rather than doing it properly and writing a Dreamcast emulator. Still at least this means we might get Sega Rally 2.

    No doubt sales will be terrible and Sega will use that as an excuse for not releasing any more DC games and they can go back to doing another re-re-re-release of Megadrive ROMs.

  10. Mentski – some of us don’t have vga cables for our Dreamcasts :( (and they cost about as much as this game)

    Professor dumb – probably for the best. One of the end sequences involves all the characters sharing a bath at the end. No nudity due to strategic bubbles, just excessive cleavage – considering their ages are supposed to be 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17 it’s really not right.
    Actually, letting the wife know right from the start is probably the better option, rather than trying to hide that fact from her and then her finding out.

  11. I’ve been playing Death Smiles a bit too. I like Cave. They remind me of the good old days.

    How this game got a Pegi 12 with it’s pseudo paedo-ness is beyond me though.

  13. Oh yeah, it’s guaranteed once I finally succumb to forking out 20 quid a game will drop to almost half that shortly after. Fallout New Vegas did the same: http://bit.ly/hGhmsu (admittedly, that’s been a few months since I got it (i.e. xmas) but I’ve barely played it so still seems recent)

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