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  • Ok, no more excuses people. Dreamcasts are $50 US brand new. That's the price of a game for the 'Box, PS2, or 'Cube. Considering how cheap the games are for that system, you'd be a fool not to get one

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #26618  by New and Improved Zeus
 Wed Nov 21, 2001 11:42 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Ok, no more excuses people. Dreamcasts are $50 US brand new. That's the price of a game for the 'Box, PS2, or 'Cube. Considering how cheap the games are for that system, you'd be a fool not to get one</div>

 #26619  by Gone to Shakers
 Thu Nov 22, 2001 12:48 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Good luck trying to find one</div>

 #26620  by Stephen
 Thu Nov 22, 2001 12:53 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Cheap is good. I bought an N64 along with Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Perfect Dark for less than $100 last week. The hell with all these new consoles: I've got five years of N64 games to catch up on.</div>
 #26621  by Gone to Shakers
 Thu Nov 22, 2001 3:09 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Games from the last year or so, there were a lot of good games from earlier too, but I'll just stick to the ones I played recently.

1) Conkers Bad Fur Day, you NEEEEED this game, if you like platformers at all, this is perhaps still the best to date. Also, if you like Action movies, like Terminator, Alien, a Clockwork Orange, Jaws, etc.. you'll be right at home with this game =)
Yes, even with Gamecube, Dreamcast, and PS2, I actually got in a 2 hour multiplayer game of this today.
2) Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Calibur, another good title, the game has a Story that outdoes any other strategy RPG on the market at the moment, including FFT. The only problem is, I am 60 hours+ into the game and have been playing it for 10 months now, it's very long.
3) Banjo Tooie. I loved Banjo Kazooie, I think some Mario fans hated it, not sure, it's a fun as hell, and I assume Banjo Twoie is better considering the Graphics are a large step up and the Gameplay is likely refined.
4) Super Smash Brothers, addictive as hell, 1 player easily will give you 30-40 hours of gameplay you won't tire of.
5) Perfect Dark, this game probably makes the best use of the graphics (except for maybe Banjo Twoie). I don't know if you heard of N64's "Bottleneck" problem, where due to the amount of RAM and other aspects, the processor power could not be fully exploited, if Nintendo had gone CD's and 12-16 Megs of RAM, with a processor 3 times as powerful as the competition, blah blah blah.... Anyways, Perfect Dark was the first game to get around these problems to an extent.

Zelda Majora's Mask, perhaps the most compelling gameplay on the system, it lacks the atmospherical setting of the first game I found.

There's a new Bomberman game coming out for N64, other than that, that's about it. SNES was still going until 1998, even though games were slim. Some of them were the best titles on the system for their respective genre's. To name a few: Kirby Superstar (beats the hell out of any 2D platformers, including DKC), Harvest Moon, and Terrangima (Illusion of Time).

Hope I could have been a bit of help. Oh yeah, they finished that Expansion for Zelda Ocarina of Time, but I don't know if it will ever be released.</div>

 #26623  by S.Cody2
 Thu Nov 22, 2001 6:47 am
<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Why do you think it costs $50, champ?</div>

 #26625  by Eric
 Thu Nov 22, 2001 1:12 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>You can't find Ogre Battle anymore. Except Ebay.</div>

 #26635  by New and Improved Zeus
 Fri Nov 23, 2001 11:37 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Get Majora's Mask as well. You won't be disappointed (unless you don't like unique, challenging, teen+ oriented games)</div>

 #26638  by Stephen
 Fri Nov 23, 2001 3:35 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>An expansion for Ocarina of Time? I had no idea such a thing existed, or was even planned. Got a link I can check out?</div>

 #26640  by Stephen
 Fri Nov 23, 2001 4:08 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I know about Majora's Mask. Look at the last sentence of Seeker's message again.</div>

 #26643  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Fri Nov 23, 2001 10:33 pm
<div style='font: 9pt verdana; text-align: left; '>PAPER MAAARIOOOOO! Most delightful RPG I've played since Skies of Arcadia. Also quite possibly the most perfectly balanced RPG ever.</div>

 #26663  by Torgo
 Sun Nov 25, 2001 9:58 pm
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Ogre Battle is a great but very long name. Truly deserving of the subtitle "The Neverending Story."</div>