Well... as I said a few posts back, I didn't get a Dream machine until earlier last year. Ten years ago, all the cool kids were playing this new Sega thing and I had just received an N64. Believe me, I asked my parents for one, as any reasonable eleven year-old would, but they just wouldn't have it.
The thing that made me want the Dreamcast was the return of my buddy Sonic. Sure, we had Sonic R and the teaser hubworld for Sonic Jam, but from what I've gathered, those range from "Boy, I'd rather forget about it." to "It's just a hub". Sonic Adventure was the FIRST TRUE SONIC since Sonic and Knuckles. We waited what seemed like eons for it and it sure delivered. It was pretty damned fun from what little I played.
Let's fast-forward to late last year, I had just found a Dreamcast for only a few shekels and got some decent games along with some crappy sports titles. Naturally, the first game I wanted to try was Sonic Adventure. I'm just going to flat out say it, that game is a fabtastrophy. It has got to be one of the best worst games I've seen in recent years. We got all the neat stuff like the fish jumping out of the water and running at those speeds for the first time, but at the same time, we also had to deal with load times, awful voice acting, a horrendous hub and the general redesign of the characters to try and bring it to modern standards. For it's faults though, I still find it kind of endearing. It's almost like a puppy that chews your shoes to bits but looks cute doing it.
Anyways, aside from that mess up there, I did find some games that are objectively and subjectively good. There were games like Crazy Taxi, Ikaruga, Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, Bangai-o, Skies of Arcadia, Jet Grind Radio, Powerstone, Soul Calibur and many others. The Dreamcast era, although brief, was a fertile time for video games.
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