You would think that it would be hard for the Dreamcast to follow in the 2D footsteps of its sibling, the Sega Saturn and its massive collection of 2D shoot-em-ups. However, the Dreamcast is the perfect complement to the Saturn and is a essentially a requirement in and shmup fanatic's collection.
While it only started out with a few shooters from Psikyo and Capcom (most of which looked like nice 2D Saturn games), it gathered quite a library by the end of its life. In fact, MOST of the 2D shooters for the console were released well after the Dreamcast was "dead" in the United States.
So yes, if you wish to play most of these, you will need to learn how to play Dreamcast imports. But if you are a shooter fan, you will not regret investing in some of these Dreamcast gems.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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A major reason why the Dreamcast is such an amazing console is the strength of its shmup library. Even today shmups are still being made and released on the Dreamcast, with the brilliant Triggerheart Excelica being a recent addition.
Games such as Gigawing, Ikaruga, Castle of Shikigami 2, Bangai-O and Zero Gunner are amongst my favourites on the system.
While the Saturn has a shmup library of greater depth (plus the fact that playing shmups with the Saturn pad is gaming heaven) the strenght of the Dreamcast's shmup library should not be ignored or underestimated.
Guess current developers would feel that if its not pushing the current technology to the limit then its not worth making.
Its a shame as there is something to learn from these games, and if they were fun to play then, they'll be fun to play now.
I have played ikaruga over and over...
Hands down, one of the best shmups ever.
I always liked Shootemups but they never seem to sell well in North America. But they seem to be having a kind of come back with Xbox Live and PSN. So I would like to see more games like these make there way over seas.
As for the Dreamcast it was a marvel in its own right with Shmups. It had a great group of different ones and its sad not many people ever gave the Dreamcast a chance to live.