Top 5 of the biggest combat games on Dreamcast - The Tompouce Retro Blog
At the exit of the Dreamcast, at the end of 1998 in Japan, the fighting game will explore new territories. The proposals all in 2D, after with a certain golden age a few years earlier, no longer have the wind on its stern, and become a matter of insiders. This will not prevent some publishers from continuing their efforts to propose this demanding players' niche, always more successful securities. However, the majority of the eyes are now widely turned towards 3D, and series such as virtua fighter or tekken who have already acquired their nobility letters on 32 bit consoles. With this finding, the proposals will flock on Sega's 128 bit, with the hope of flying, and repeating the feat of these illustrious flagship series, which often count among the best sellers on their respective consoles. Technological leap requires, the level of control of 3D Baston specialists, associated with the new possibilities offered by the machine will enable them to often offer games for the realization and content largely revised on the rise.
On Dreamcast especially, where we will see this in the ranking that will follow, inevitably, and perhaps for the first time in the history of the media, the Games of the genre in 3D clearly hold the upperpad. This will not prevent some beautiful 2D propositions, Sega having the right tone to keep its links with some reference editors and developers in this area. Wishing again and always keep his brand image, which make their consoles of the essential bridges for the biggest titles from the arcade halls, it is difficult for the firm to the hedgehog and its allies to release such a piece! Against and against everything, the Dreamcast will therefore be the machine of the Baston in all its forms on this generation, leaves to die. You naturally know the word end of the story and the tragic destiny of this superb console, erased too quickly from the videoludic landscape. It was great time to put this beautiful machine in mind in this blog, to spend a few moments with the top 5 of its larger games of fighting. The Dreamcast is eternal in our hearts. Why ? Here are some good reasons!
Number 5: Guilty Gear X
After a very remote output on 32 bit consoles, the direct suite of G UILTY GEAR makes a big wind of freshness on 2D combat titles at the turn of the millennium. This new episode coincides with the rise of Arc System Works, a developer with whom the players will have to count now, on consoles as in arcade. Guilty gear x perfects the formula initiated by the first episode of the series, mainly composed of a casting as unlikely and awesome, a classy presentation that is accompanied by a constreating 2D realization and animated to perfection, all sprinkle with Music with a metal trend that gives a serious desire to unleash the combos on your opponent. And it falls well, because combos you will see, and they are all more impressive than others. Carried by incredible maneuverability, they come out on request thanks to a grip in all respects impeccable, which equals the tenors of the genre. But still need to make the effort to master his character, because Guilty Gear X is a demanding title, your margin of progression is immense, and the degree of precedence to be achieved to hope to overcome your oldest opponents face to face, can lend to delirium. The entire arsenal of the 2D combat game is here resumed accurately. Fist attacks at the foot, white weapon, combos, counter-attack, cancel, everything is there, and allows to reverse situations that sometimes appear very poorly engaged. But the little something more in _guilty gear x, _ it is this desire to energize the fights, and in this, to reward the players who throw themselves on the attack. This will is characterized by a tension gauge that increases as soon as you shake your opponent shamelessly. This gauge can allow you especially, to trigger devastating attacks, with on-line fire, the possibility of annihilating your opponent in a well-placed overwhelming blow. Ruthless, but terribly gristling. Concise on a small word of this Dreamcast version, first to see the day on the stalls, and yet to this day simply, better available version. You know what you have to do if you are baston game amateur ...
Number 4: Power Stone 2
Capcom was a key developer of Saturn, and the same will be on Dreamcast. Certainly, he will continue to feed the brand new and last console of SEGA in grandiose securities often from his successful licenses, but he also arrives for our greatest happiness, to innovate. Power Stone leaving early 1999 on Dreamcast, at the same time as a certain Super Smash Bros. On Nintendo 64, marks the birth of a new kind of console fighting title: the 3D arenas multiplayer bit. And his direct suite, with his possibility of playing four, striking hard, very strong. As delirious as his eldest, the arenas completely crazy, are as alive as your characters, and evolve the time of the fight to make every game of unwavering moments. You will not know or head between your opponents and these decorations that clearly, do not want you only good. This is obviously not everything, the game system is not left in Power Stone 2, and to enforce yourself in the arena, you will need to be able to skill of course, but also from Jugote and tactical. Because any object of the decor has a utility in this magnifice Capcom title. The slightest object can be used to your advantage ... or turn against you! Tables, chairs, pillars, but also tanks, swords, bombs, everything is good to hurt his opponent. And it will not be too much to hope to overcome on the battlefield. Ultimate weapon available, the famous Powerstones who give their name to the game, will appear in the arenas so that each player can also pick them up. Once a fighter has managed to bring together three of these sesames, your hero will turn temporarily by overpowering, capable of decimating his opponents in the space of a few seconds through devastating special attacks. A moment of grace, mixed at a moment of overpower, having fatally a great impact on the fight. In these moments, Power Stone 2 Beyond its rough appearance, reminds us that it is a great fighting game, developed by a stronger Capcom of its forces than ever.
Number 3: Project Justice
A Capcom Mulled in Safe Developer of His Strength, it has been said, and who will chain the successes by carrying his great licenses on Dreamcast as we suggested above, with a lot of success, like the portage of this Project justice released in 2000 in arcade, and welcomed the following year on Dreamcast. But what famous series is this title come from, may wonder the neophytes? Project justice as its name does not indicate it, is nothing but the rest of RIVAL SCHOOLS, released two years ago on PS1. A sad title of Baston, already all in 3D, who made the happiness of many players, but also mine, as you can see in the top 5 of the largest 3D combat titles on the machine. The beautiful novelty of this suite, which still places us and always in the middle of a joyous band of Japanese college students as talented as the greatest martial masters, is the possibility of training either a team of two fighters either But this time, three characters, which will then offer possibilities of raised combos. The system of combo and counters of these same special attacks is located in the heart of the gameplay and make it possible to appreciate all the madness of Capcom. The title retains, for our greatest pleasure, the shifted spirit of the series initiated with RIVAL SCHOOLS, and see for example the Hayato teacher of Aikido put a spanking in Shoma our hero of baseball player emeritus, for what will be the One of the innumerable improbable pellets offered by more inspired developers than ever. If we add to that a maneuverability still fluid and permissive, which allows everyone to have fun after a few minutes of play, and a realization necessarily revised, and at the height of the expectations on Dreamcast, we obtain nothing of less than a must-see of the machine. A game to try or revive with friends, and offers an experience always intact. What to ensure a place on the podium of the day is not it?
Number 2: MARVEL VS. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
It is still and always Capcom that we find in second place of this ranking, at the level decided declined very well. And for good reason, since it sends us with this marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes Nothing less than the best 2D combat game of the machine, for what is also possibly the summit of this series of crossover, which nevertheless continues to live its life on various more recent consoles. An episode that already takes ultimate gift tunes to the fans of the characters of Marvel, Capcom and in particular street fighter and consort, with a casting scarcely imaginable of 56 playable characters. Yes, you have read, 56 fighters who come here all equipped with special attacks more specculary than the others, for more than ever, we put on the sight. Immense energy discharges, stratospheric jumps, several combos, which will be able to see your three characters on the screen to get out of an attack that you will never have imagined possible in another game than this _marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, _ completely crazy. The action hears does not propose the least dead time, and wants to be a real fireworks, what it succeeds amply, while forgetting to include some subtleties of gameplay, so that specialists of the kind could Make the difference all the same! A beautiful way to satisfy regular players, like novices or amateurs who like to get happily on the head for some parts. Easy to take charge, and difficult to master in its slightest detail. The brand of great games, certainly. The achievement is in the tuning of the effort on the gameplay, since the presentation is simply beautiful, the characters are animated in perfection and everything takes place in decorations in 2.5D sublime, even if some will find that 'They break the beautiful bias of the series that highlighted a beautiful Pixel Art as a playground so far. We can only bow to the quality of the work provided by Capcom's craftsmen. A magnificent title, which has a lot of energy to resell, and that has been staying for two decades now, what is best in terms of Crossover in a Beat Them All. A reference in sum.
Number 1: Solcalibur
MARVEL VS. Capcom 2: NEW AGE OF HEROES is certainly a reference in 2D combat game, but this observation is even more visible for the well named soulcalibur when the case of its during 3D is discussed. Undeniable success of Namco in Arcade and on Dreamcast, this game, revolutionary will say some, is clearly at its release in 1999, ahead of its time. By its technical qualities first, or I would take a step back, the following observation: in 2021, the finesse of the graphics is certainly no better, if one must confront it with the last productions, But it remains quite honorable and perfectly holds the road facing many more recent titles. Above all, this plastic still so nice to the eye today, and always so coherent, draws the best of the Dreamcast capabilities and is resolutely largely above the lot, to make the most impressive title of the machine . All the other technical elements, light effects, through the quality of the animation of a confusing fluidity, to the delicious maneuverability, are of the same level and leaves us pensive on the capacities of a NAMCO to propose from Other titles of this caliber on Dreamcast, if given the means. What can I add to this soulcalibur who has not been said already? It has an absolutely irreproachable cast, allowing you to choose your style of combat and thus derive the best of each character that will have to approach with a state of mind that is clean. Each white weapon is very different in a very different way, bringing a variety in the blows and sequences hitherto rarely seen. Each step aside, every feint, every adjustment movement to better break the distance to its importance in soulcalibur, something to make a certain requireance, but O happiness, on which we are instantly having fun. Sacred performance! It was not less necessary to become the second game of history, and of course the only of the Dreamcast, to obtain the perfect note of 40/40 in the famous Famitsu magazine. He will then be the second to realize this feat, that he will share for a time with the only famous hero of Nintendo, a certain elf of the forest with green tunic, also passed successfully at all 3D. We find soulcalibur at the only place he deserves in this ranking, the first, and even beyond, up there, up there, to the pantheon of the video game. _ _
Here is a sacred panel that this one, because believe me, to get such a top 5, I had to proceed to a sacred sort. The Dreamcast did honor to the genre, it is a little to say it, despite its relatively small life. It certainly does not have to blush from the comparison with its 128 bit lodgers. You will better realize it by browsing the usual list of recaliates of the day, starting with the two games that I hesitated at length to introduce into the rankings today, and who will be entitled to this famous sixth place . Yes it's like that, there are two sixth places this week, but as life is well done, one of these titles is in 3D, and the other ... you guessed it, in 2D. This is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure First, which features us with its superb pixels for a very original combat game and will make the happiness of the fans of manga or animal. ** Dead or Alive 2 Then, the second part of the Ninja Team series, more beautiful and bouncing than ever. A sacred pair of ... games, that you absolutely have to discover, and who deserve their place in many tops 5. ****
** Do not focus on the case of * _ * Marvel vs Capcom * _ * first name, ** Almost as good as his little brother, but who presents a formula very close to that of his eldest, to say a few words of * * Capcom vs. SNK, another formidable Crossover, and a dream of child that is realized for many followers of the Baston! SNK reminds us that he is still present in the heart of the players, and this happens on Dreamcast, through quality portages. ** The excellent conversions of * * The King of Fighters: Dream Match 99, The Last Balde 2, or fatal fury: Garou Mark of the Wolves * are all proofs of good taste of a legend developer who does honor to the beautiful white console of Sega. More anecdotal, titles such as plasma sword, or Fighting Vipers 2, will find an interest if you have ever ecured the rest of the catalog. But before that, trying to a nice alternative to combat games as we usually hear, through ready to rumble Boxing round 2, a game halfway between boxing game and the title of Baston, s 'Maker very refreshing. Finally, how to finish this post without mentioning the case * Virtua Fighter 3TB, a very good game to remaining, but which marks the removal of the series that had reached a first apogee with the second episode on Saturn. Maybe paradoxically the biggest Louvé de Sega on his dear dreamcast ... **
* Do not hesitate to throw yourself in the arena as you know so well, there is a lot to say about the fighting games on Dreamcast, where quantity often rhymes with quality. Before leaving the world of console builders, Sega left us with the Dreamcast a sacred heritage, and the brilliant evidence of his technical mastery. Let's pay homage here again. *
* And very quickly for a new top 5, since the good weather does not seem to settle to dictate my departure on vacation ... *
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