[Multiplatform] Console Wars!

Having an avid preference for one piece of consumer electronics over another is synonymous with not being able to afford more than one.

Fucking peasant scum.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Maybe the Dreamcast would crop up more often in these kinds of online polls if, you know, anyone had ever bought one.

Gays.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone on the planet had a Dreamcast except me and Sega nearly went bust because they gave all the money to a kitten sanctuary. Whatever, fags.

Also, the C64 is up there twice now Crash, I hear Dreamcast ownership will do that to a persons mind.

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Yeah well when nerds rule the world I'm sure the Dreamcast will crop up in every poll ever made. Who do you pick for president? Republican, Democrat or Dreamcast. Please fill in your religion for the census, Christian, Muslim, Jew or Dreamcast, etc. etc. etc.

Until that time, I refer my beardy colleague and his ill-fitting hat to my earlier statement:

Originally Posted by Elfstar

Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone on the planet had a Dreamcast except me and Sega nearly went bust because they gave all the money to a kitten sanctuary.

You've got one, Tails has one, Aardark has one, Maggie has one, Crash has two apparently and this representative sample of the wider community would indeed suggest that everyone in the world except me has a Dreamcast. Those kittens must be living in proper luxury.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Skills closed the thread because he's gay for the 3DO.



I was speaking idiomatically.

IT WAS A TROUPE OF GAY NINJA 3DO FANS. THE LAST ONE I LEFT ALIVE TOLD ME WHO SENT THEM AS I CRUSHED HIS LAST, DYING BREATH FROM HIS THROAT.






And the activity log on the edit thread screen, as regards who closed it.

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Originally Posted by Denicalis

No wonder you don't like classic gaming, you've never actually played on a decent console.

You social outcasts might need to own a console to have played on it but some people in the world use the word "Friend" to describe someone who they've actually met. Sometimes these friends live near you and sometimes they buy an unpopular games console which means you get to play on it.

Chu Chu Rocket was kinda fun for an afternoon, the Powerstone games were great and the Bass Fishing thing with the silly rod attachment was mildly amusing I guess but that's about it as far as Dreamcast games being anything special goes and that's certainly not enough to warrant buying one, especially given the continued output of great games for the Playstation at the time with the added bonus that the PS controller wasn't so big it had it's own gravity field. I also suspect that the ability to pirate games right out of the box went a long way to the death of the format and it seems a little backwards to champion a console that you personally contributed to the death of by never paying for any software.

And what the fuck Dreamcast is classic gaming? What are you, twelve years old? Classic gaming is Spectrums and BBCs and Amstrads, possibly Amigas if you're talking noob classic. Just because you discovered computer games fifteen years later than the rest of the world doesn't make the games you discovered classic, Johnny-come-lately.

FELIPE NO

I'm not going to admit that a console that was chiefly responsible for the dramatic collapse of one of gaming's most succesful companies was either awesome or popular.

Like I said, it was ok and there were a couple of good games but there weren't enough that weren't later released on a different platform, the controllers were horrific and nobody ever paid for any software anyway, despite proclaiming it the greatest piece of gaming hardware mankind has ever produced, thereby dooming their own champion and proving that Dreamcast owners were all basically retarded.

I mean, what kind of a sports team fan would you be if you shoplifted this year's shirt rather than bought one? The shitty kind that doesn't get invited to parties, that's what.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Tails

This thread needs less serious and more people taking silly pictures of their Dreamcasts.

Really, Shin. Step back a second and look at the topic you are debating. This is pathetic.

It started pathetic and now has evolved into me not understanding how the system failed so hard given that apparently everyone loved it more than christmas and owned multiple consoles each.

Really, I have nothing against the Dreamcast and did enjoy playing on my mate's from time to time but the fact is, the format was a failure to such an extent it made Sega give up on hardware altogether.

I assumed all this time it was because nobody ever bought one but GFF has proved me wrong and actually, it looks like I genuinely am in the minority for not owning one which in turn has left me confused as to why it was such a collosal failure and I am now merely seeking enlightenment.

And just because some emulator people call games classic, does not mean that's some legal definition or anything. Classic gaming, for those of us who are old enough to remember when you had to type in twentyfive pages of BASIC to play a crappy maze game or load things in on a tape that often didn't work properly onto a computer with less processing power than your average modern microwave is not the Dreamcast, it's the Spectrum, or the BBC or the Amiga and no amount of emulator sites proclaiming Tomb Raider 2 as "Classic" gaming will persuade me otherwise. It's a subjective term and like all subjective terms, it is open to misuse by noobs it seems.


I'm not trying to be too serious Tails, I was enjoying the pictures of Dreamcasts that hate me. =(

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Sorry, I didn't realise I was coming across so serious.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Aardark

How is that then? It's not like the games of any other major console can't be easily downloaded, aside from the PS3 so far (well, they can be downloaded, just not played).

Yeah, I'm sure you can download Suikoden easily enough but my hardcopy's still worth £80 according to eBay.

I dont think I ever knew anyone with a Saturn. Maybe one guy but he was the guy with a Mega CD and all those other weird plug-in bits for the Megadrive, overly generous parents too...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

I'm guessing that'll dip with the recent release of the PSN copy. Love my hardcopy anyway though.

I wouldn't have thought so, it's only sad collectors that would've been paying that much for it anyway, if anyone just wanted to play it they'd have downloaded it and played it on an emulator.

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Are you wearing yesterday's t-shirt as a hat?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Why did you keep two controllers in their boxes? Do you only have one friend?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Powerstone was awesome multiplayer, agreed. We were always all about the Micromachines V3 and Tekken though.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

PS1 yeah, but still got regular play in my circle of friends up to a couple of years ago. Playing eight player on the level with the moving lily-pad never grew old.

How ya doing, buddy?