SoulCalibur - Sega Dreamcast Review
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In 1999, Namco released one of the most impressive arcade ports yet seen in gaming. It just so happened to be on Dreamcast.
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Episode Notes:
1. Soul Edge(PS1) and SoulCalibur(DC) captured on real hardware.
2. Arcade SoulCalibur captured from MAME.
3. There have now been 6 mainline SoulCalibur games as well as numerous spinoffs.
4. Namco was involved in only 3 more DC games after SoulCalibur.
Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (2000)
Mr. Driller (2000)
Namco Museum (2000)
5. An Xbox 360 Live Arcade version showed up in 2008, but it's missing some of the features of this version.
6. I had always thought that if SoulCalibur 2 was released on the DC, Joe Musashi from Shinobi would have been Sega's character.
7. Sega advertised and distributed SoulCalibur in Europe.
8. This is one of the better games for the DC visually. I've read that each frame is made up of 30,000 polygons and there are 60fps. All things considered, it really showed the DC had the oomph to do some great next generation visuals.
9. I've seen the arcade SoulCalibur in the wild once in my life. It really was rare in my area.
10. You may notice that all these battles are set to 1 round for the win. I did this so I could capture gameplay for all the fighters. I beat SoulCalibur 17 times for the 2 hours I captured footage.
11. The sound section features two different songs. The first you hear is "The Cursed Image" and the second is "Unblessed Soul".
One of the best fighting games of all time. One of the best launch games of all time. One of the best games of all time.
I’m with you on two of those. But I’m biased like anyone else.
Couldn’t have said it better
Check, and check, and check.
A+
I miss those days, Soul Calibur was such an amazing game packed to the gills with content on the Dreamcast. It was better than the arcade in all forms, and it was a system seller. I loved the Dreamcast, such a happy period in my memories of gaming, when it died, a part of the gaming industry died too. Sega left the hardware business and gaming just hasn't been the same since.
I’m with you on the first two statements it’s hard for me to say it’s one of the best games of all time between the millions that exists. I will say it’s probably in the top ten to me of games I played the most in my life
Ah, I remember driving home with my cousin from Toys R Us with a brand new Dreamcast, and Soul Calibur on 9/9/99. What a great day!
I skipped my class that day. You don’t go to class when you have a new Sega console, Sonic Adventure and Soul Calibur! 9/9/99 forever... then House of the Dead 2, Code Veronica and Crazy Taxi a little later, omg.
Aye, I got mine Christmas of that year. My best friend got one at launch though, and it was my time on his Dreamcast that sold me on it entirely. I wanted one and when I got it, I was so happy. I then got Soul Calibur a few months after that and was immediately blown away. I miss the Dreamcast, I miss when Sega was a titan of the hardware industry. Ever since they left, gaming hasn't been the same.
@@DesertRainReads absolutely we need the true Sega back.
I feel you,
I missed out on launch day because it didn't have the money to buy one then, but made up for it the following year when I lucked out and got one on sale at Toys R US, with Daytona USA game!!
@Brian Babin MvC2 is in my top 3 of all time probably and the only fighting game I've completely memorized and the Dreamcast version absorbed me. I thought I was good until I got instantly bitch slapped playing on xbox live years later lol. Turns out I was just good against my drunk buddies.
Man i spent a whole summer only playing soulcalibur. Unlocked literally everything, had the gold title screen. The last few art gallery were expensive af.
It was such a beautiful game, I remember unlocking everything on it myself. I miss this game, and I miss the Dreamcast. When Sega left the hardware business, a part of gaming went with it too. It just hasn't been the same since.
@@DesertRainReads
Yeah when Sega left the console business they became a different company altogether. They feel like just a shell of their former selves.
you can download a save for PS2 version.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu I do agree, aside from Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza, and the Genny collections, I feel they just don't have the same staying power with their games like they once did. The Sonic games have taken a massive nosedive in terms of quality, mainly from being pushed out way too early with game breaking bugs. Sonic '06 is a prime example of this, fans have since been working on ironing it out. Same with Sonic Unleashed. Both were developed for the wrong generation of systems I feel and both had too short of a development cycle.
@@DesertRainReads if you have a pc, check-out the redream emulator...
Still have my Sega Dreamcast, SoulCalibur holds up well to this day....
I have mine too!
I’ve still got mine with the VGA box adapter as well.
@@venom74799 Ditto
Same here
Old games are always better imho. Banzai!
I got a $200 speeding ticket like 2 days before 9/9/99. Bought a dreamcast instead of pay the fine. Been dodging an APB ever since. I regret nothing.
And you are the living breaking definition of the word HERO
Damnnnn savageeee😭😭😭✌💪💪💪
This was also one of the best, if not THE best looking Dreamcast games. Graphically amazing.
Hell it still looks good even today
Not bad for an American launch title.
In my opinion it's one of the best looking the the series. If the polygons were as high as the 2nd game it would really be insane.
@Daniel Long Dead or Alive 3 on Xbox was impressive too
@@vsanz4758 she kicks high...
This game was MIND BLOWING. I never saw anything that looked this amazing at the time.
Soul Calibur's music also has a unique sound. Many of the tracks sound like Marches in their percussion. Most other games would only tap into that for a "military" moment (and usually watered down and boring). But Soul Calibur has every flavor of a March, and has a wide range of unexpected melodies on top of that percusion. You hear that blend and immediately think, "Soul Calibur."
Not many games have that distinct a sound that's all its own.
The OST is on par with RPGs in some areas!
Even in Soul Calibur 6 I change the stage music for the Soul Calibur original Soundtrack. Is simply breathtaking! The same thing in Tekken 7, I prefer the Tekken Tag Tournament 1 and Tekken 3 original Soundtrack rather than the new tracks.
Honestly, the most impressive “in its time” game ever, Soul Calibur forever changed the balance of poet in video games. Before SC, the arcades were king and home consoles could only hope to match them. Soul Calibur passed anything the arcades had to offer, and home gaming never looked back.
well, sure,
but some of us knew that Killer Instinct on the SNES was ahead of its time for home console on affordable hardware.
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd That's like talking about a 50-horsepowers-car from the 1980s, while watching a documentary about a 800-horsepowers-Ferrari from 2020.
ever playd the killer instinct arcade ? We don't care for games in your part of the multiverse ? you superficial gamer :P
I was in college when this game came out. Left my dorm door open and epic tournaments ensued. Sharing beers with newly made friends was good times! 2v2 drunk college kids playing Virtua Tennis was also good all nighters.
Virtua Tennis was the shit!
@@thescentprofiler5539 Not really a tennis-fan, but when I saw Virtua Tennis back then the first time, I thought, it was real humans.
The reason I bought the Dreamcast right when it launched. Ah, the memories. Thanks, Lord X.
I wasn't able to convince my Mom to help me buy a Dreamcast until February 2000 so we could play Crazy Taxi, but I remember getting my hands on a copy of Soul Caliber shortly after that. Even at that point at Age 13, I had somehow never seen the arcade game, and I had no awareness of exactly what Caliber was other than a fighting game. I somehow brought this game home with no awareness of how good it was actually going to be, I just remember saying to my Dad in the car, "Here's another game I'm gonna kick your butt in!" and then we went home and popped in the disc and I'm pretty sure our jaws both dropped to the ground at the graphics
This video strengthens the balls of Sega Lord X!
but the soul still burns...
@@mephosto there’s a cream for that.
@@nicholasbullock1709 I don't know how Sonic and pals would feel about that
Soul Calibur from Dreamcast is still the game that impressed me the most as a player, light years ahead of arcades, something that no one could ever imagine and that even left the powerful games of model 3 in the dust, an incredible and unforgettable game and beautiful even today !!
If this was released on Model 3, the graphics would've been even more mind-blowing
The graphics absolutely blew me away at the time, and the weapon combat was really cool. This is one of my favourite fighters, even if fight fans will say it lacks depth or something. I still go back and play it often. And it's still awesome.
I always take that "lack of depth" criticism with a grain of salt. Soul Calibur's gameplay has plenty of depth to it, but it isn't as overly complicated as modern fighting games are. It just means Soul Calibur is more approachable for the casual fighting game fan, whereas a lot of fighting games these days are targeted squarely at die-hard fighting enthusiasts who don't mind spending hours memorizing all the frame data of every move. Personally I don't find that a lot of fun, and it's one of the reasons why I have fallen out of love with the fighting game genre over the years.
Ordered a dreamcast sent to my house
Sonic didn't work
NFL 2k was awesome
Soul caliber remains the biggest generational leap I've ever seen
thumbs up if you ever got home after a long day/night and put this one your DC to just relax and enjoy the music
Fond memories of playing this in college. My soul still burns . . .
Welcome to the stage of history brother!
Me too, I must have played with you. Soul Caliber was great at college
Soul Calibur is a textbook example of a 10/10 game. There is absolutely nothing that this game can be faulted for. Graphics technology, art design, animation, gameplay, sound effects and music all come together in a package that is as close to perfection as you can possibly get. This game blew me away as a kid and it still looks and feels amazing to this day; it has aged very gracefully. Most of its many sequels are fine games in themselves, but none of them can hold a candle to the majesty of this one perfect moment in time.
This game looks amazing in 4k on a dreamcast emulator.Hard to believe it's over 20 years old.
I'll always remember, on launch day I had the dreamcast, this game, Sonic Adventure and Marvel vs Capcom along with the official arcade stick. I finally had arcade perfect games at home and this game helped bring in a whole new era of gaming
Those Dreamcast arcade sticks are pricey to get now and hard to find
It's amazing how Soul Calibur still holds up graphically to this day!
Dude these graphics were MIND BLOWING at the time. I couldn't believe it
Same here!
I got this game when it released. Favorite Dreamcast game of all time. Still play this on an emulator.
When the Dreamcast arrived I was blown away by the graphical power of the console, and even better when I first played Soul Calibur in it I just couldn’t believe the amazing playability and graphics. SEGA’s Dreamcast IS my favorite console of all time and Soul Calibur IS my favorite and must played game in my gaming life! If you cannot play it in a Dreamcast play it in a Xbox One or Series X/S as a backward compatible game from the Xbox 360 Live Arcade era! LOVE IT!
I enjoyed this game on my Dreamcast in the early 2000's. I re-lived it with friends in the 2010's. And now my younger brother is enjoying it in the 2020's.
Who cares
That's pretty awesome. Keeping the console alive.
The Sega Dreamcast had a library of timeless classics.
Yes that is why it's still my favorite console I've ever purchased
Soulcalibur was a masterpiece. There was something truly magical about it.
This and Dead or Alive 2 were fricking mind-blowing at the time, graphics-wise.
My first taste of this was at a computer show shortly before the Dreamcast released in North America. One vendor had the Japanese version hooked up to about 8 CRT monitors and I just stood there watching in awe. One of my favorite fighters and it's aged quite well.
If you weren't around on 9/9/99, you can never understand how huge the Dreamcast launch was. It wasn't just a system launch, it was like an event. There was nothing like it until the PS5 launch and even then, it's still kinda subdued in comparison.
Soul Calibur wasn't just an arcade port but an entire reconstruction of the game graphically that still looks amazing 20+ years later. So many memories of inviting friends over after the first day of school on 9/9/99 for games of SC, Power Stone and Sonic Adventure.
I'm compelled to report that I took second place in a Soul Calibur contest at E3 in 2000. I lost to Gergeley Csaszar, who was enjoying the success of the DC Ecco game he'd produced. It was a great week in my life, and it was all about the Dreamcast.
I remember playing this at the local arcade. It was such a cool game.
Voldo. One of my fav fighting game characters.
I fully attribute DC SC as the keystone for every 3D fighter that came after it. 3D fighters to this very day use what SC laid out the groundwork for. I'd even say morso than Virtua Fighter.
I miss the Dreamcast and I so miss when Sega was a titan of the hardware industry. Gaming hasn't been the same since they left it behind. There were a plethora of awesome titles on the Dreamcast from go. Sonic Adventure, NFL2K, Power Stone, Soul Calibur, just to name a few. It was a system that sadly went out like a super nova, blowing up violently just as more amazing titles were hitting too.
Marvel vs Capcom 2. Code Veronica, Crazy Taxi 1& 2, Street Fighter III..the list goes on and on
I didn't play this a lot on the Dreamcast but I have the XBLA version, I love it. The Dreamcast had so many great fighting games.
You were spoiled for choice on the Dreamcast.
I once saw the arcade cabinet in one of my local arcades but never had the chance to play it, mainly because it was always busy, as much as any of the Capcom and SNK fighting games. When I played it on the DC, what blew my mind wasn't the graphics even thought they were incredible. It was the music and the audio in general what captivated me. To this day, the music in DC SoulCalibur is my favorite of all the DC games that I've played and have watched being played.
This was an absolute must on 9/9/99! Speaking of that legendary date, man, Dreamcast had a rock-solid launch lineup! This, Powerstone, NFL Blitz, Hydro Thunder, Sonic Adventure, House of the Dead 2, and more!! The soul still burns in 2021!!
9-9-99 I took a sick day from school so I could get the Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure, and Soul Calibur. Fondly remember spending the entire day. That intro for SC... Just beautiful. Game still looks great to this day.
This was the big one! Launch Day, no load times, Dreamcast Arcade Stick, the Soul Still Burns 😎
Absolute glory moment for Sega fans around the world. This was a pure showcase of what the dreamcast could do.
The Greatest fighting game created and still is....There is only one thing to nitpick about and it's a bit too easy to do ringouts in the game...
Dreamcast had the best launch line up ever. Fight me.
Godzilla wants a word with you
They went in all guns blazing for the US launch.
I think the GameCube might be the one console that makes an argument against it, but that’s it.
@@SilverAxe13 Fair enough, but at the same time I think dreamcast launch lineup edges gamecube out on sheer 'holy shit they ain't fucking around'
@@singletona082 Yeah man, it was some next level stuff. Smash Bros. Melee is really the only reason I give the GameCube a slight edge. And hell, it released 2 weeks late so you could even argue that it doesn’t count. Dreamcast was a day one must-have console.
I remember the first time i saw this game in action. I was in my animation class when a friend takes it out of his backpack straight from Japan. He hooks it up to the animation monitor and we are floored by it. From that point on, I knew the Dreamcast was going to be special.
I remember seeing Dreamcast games for the first time on a video in Electronics Boutique. My best friend and I at the time were buying games for our PlayStations. When that video came on we were absolutely mesmerized by it. We both believed and argued with the cashier that everything we saw was pure FMV. There was no way in Hell games looked like that on a home console. Back in mid '98 you would be hard pressed to find arcade cabs worthy of that picture. He preordered his Dreamcast right then and there while I did my preordering at Toy's R US (he got the last one, bastard). ;)
The day the Dreamcast dropped I had to work a double shift and I missed picking it up. My best friend and now roommate got his however. The very first game I saw running on his Dreamcast was Soul Caliber and I was completely floored. The 6th generation was the greatest leap in graphical fidelity we had ever witnessed before and it stood the test of time for a very longtime.
At any rate, that next morning (I didn't even go to bed) I picked up my Dreamcast with Soul Caliber, House of The Dead 2, and Sonic Adventure. While he had NFL2K, Soul Caliber, and I want to say Hydro Thunder. That night we threw a huge house party with both Dreamcasts running at the same time. We had Soul Caliber tournaments running all night long in our livingroom. What a time to be out on your own and a gamer. Too this very day we still throw huge get togethers solely for the love of gaming.
Addendum- The 6th generation was the greatest leap in graphical fidelity we had ever witnessed before and it stood the test of time for a very longtime. This leap was so profound that it took three generations of gaming to finally surpass it. For a long time I thought the days of great improvements by leaps and bounds to be largely behind us. Thankfully, that isn't the case, the 9th generation has become a return to form for both Microsoft and Sony. Seeing games running in 4K@60FPS HDR10 w/Ray Tracing on is simply breathing and reminds me of the time I fist laid eyes on the Sega Dreamcast....long may the game industry live.
The Dreamcast Soul Calibur was, and still is, simply amazing. This game had me and everyone else addicted in 1999.
This game was and still a masterpiece. This was also my first game that came with my Dreamcast when I bought it at Steal from a friend of a friend. The graphics were mind blowing considered it was a big jump form the prey generations of systems, but also it was a huge upgrade from the arcade version.
The music and stages are still one of the best in the series next to soul caliber 2. A few months ago I played through the entire game to unlock all of the characters and I’m still collecting all of the weapons, but we know that takes time lol.
Soul calibur was so good back in the day. Its so weird these days and the new mechanics are just dumb... 1-4 were the best. 1 and 2 are tied as my favorites. Thank you for showing soul edge... lots of people dont know about that one! One day ill try it.
Soul Calibur was THE game to own if you were a Dreamcast owner.
Late 1999....
we've played it a lot at a classmate's house after homework.
What an experience...we've also organized a full tournament with all the classmates.
I still remember the first time I saw it: I still can feel the goose bumps I experienced on that afternoon!
Then, we talked with all classmates about the console and, in occasion to the birthday of my friend, all of them came at his house to play the game, where each one was waiting for his turn with both eyes shocked!
That was a huge moment, short but huge, to be a proud owner of a Sega console...great memories.
I'm really in love with the packaging/appearance of the Dreamcast games, very different from the "DVD style" games of the boxes for PS2 and X Box.
They have a very collectible feeling for me, I don't know why but that's it.
This game blew my mind when I first saw it running on a Dreamcast. Never before had I seen an arcade port look orders of magnitude better than the arcade original. It was chock full of extras for replay value and also had one of the best musical scores ever. A masterpiece formula that I wish other companies would emulate. THIS is how you do a proper arcade port.
I remember playing the demo for hours when I have my Dreamcast originally and many more hours after that when I finally got the game.
I preordered a reserved copy of this game with my Dreamcast reservation, and it did not disappoint. Soul Caliber was the killer app on Dreamcast for me and I played it so much that I think I unlocked the entire game within the first couple weeks of owning it. I even took it to work with me the the first day after the Dreamcast release so everyone could play at lunch.
Dreamcast port my favourite, second favourite is the GameCube port, the sound on the Dreamcast was just a incredibly immersive experience.
Ah, the game that launched the beloved franchise into the stratosphere. I love this game and its two sequels with all my heart. I bought them multiple times. They have aged extremely well. I play the series to this day and I always will.
Soul Calibur was the reason I got a Dreamcast. Not on launch, but around 2 years later. But man, did it feel good to play and own this gem. The DC is the only SEGA console I ever bought ( was more a Nintendo guy in my childhood ), but given the amount of titles I bought after that it is a console I hold dear to my heart. Good review!
A truly classic weapon based fighting game... I hope Soul Calibur continues on well into the future that will rival the likes of Tekken and Street Fighter!! Until then, we can at the very least dream!
When you live in a dangerous neighbourhood games like this can be a blessing. Kept us out of trouble during summers in Toronto. We would spend hours on the Dreamcast and hours away from trouble.
You're absolutely spot-on about the Sega arcade ports - they really short-changed home gamers! Games like Daytona USA were awesome in the arcade, but at home, that limited number of tracks just won't cut it!
I distinctly recall being at my friends place with this game on the DC playing through his new Sony Trinitron 32" flat screen and just losing it at the crisp graphic and particle effects. To this day it's still number one in my books for that memory alone!
Just bought SC 6 today on PC. My first soul caliber. I grew up with mortal kombat and street fighter, but man is this game fun, refreshing, and beautiful to watch play out. Great purchase.
the game still looks amazing the huge characters the silky smooth 60fps animations and hit sparks sound effects and music just make the game one of the greatest.
Hundreds of hours spent playing this game, both sober and high as a kite. Kilik vs. Mitsurugi became the battle of all battles for my best friend and I. Good times.
I actually remember "Soul Edge" when I was a kid because I would often find the arcade cabinet at a gas station that my cousin used to work at. :D
This was my first game on a brand new system....i will never forget this day.
Thank you for this video i was smiling the whole time ^^
I’ve been a fan of this series since the early days of the PS1! I can remember when SOUL BLADE first came out and how it blew everyone away! Graphically and gameplay wise it was just epic! And I completely agree with your assessment on SOUL CALIBUR on the Dreamcast. It was simply a revelation in terms of a home console fighter.
I’ve always felt that Namco treated this series with a lot of time, care and class! The graphics and music have always been gorgeous! And I’m still a fan of this series to this very day.
One of my favorite games on the PS4 is SOUL CALIBUR VI. It’s a beautifully refined experience that brings the series back to its roots while also offering a lot of great new content for its players. The character creation mode is fantastic as you and your friends can make fighters completely original. It’s a lot of fun doing local battles with your buds against original characters!
Honestly...the SOUL CALIBUR series is the best 3D fighter out there in my humble opinion.
SNES's port for Killer Instinct, then later came this killer ... to edge everything
the Tekkens could never get the edge
@@WithScienceAsMySheperd Me and my friends loved the KI arcade game. And where as the SNES port was admirable, it still was just a 16-bit port at the end of the day.
The greatest most beautiful shining moment for the Dreamcast. Before it all fell apart and the Dreamcast was cast aside for the PS2,GameCube and Xbox. It was sad when it all fell apart but it was a beautiful shining moment for a moment.
i remember picking this up as my first game on launch day. i think i played for like 10 hours straight.
The level of complexity to the 3d combat blew my mind at the time. I really felt like i'd brought an arcade cabinet into my bedroom. SOOO many great fights with my friends and family!
I still play this regularly on my two Dreamcasts. And _yes_ , I am flexing with *TWO DREAMCASTS* !!!
I am flexing 3 Dreamcast consoles. Model 1, Model 2, and a Sealed Model 2.
I have 3. They were practically being given away at one point. Not sure what models they are.
Got this on launch and played with my friends into the wee hours of the morning. Great memories.
Everytime i see a dreamcasr game..makes me remember how great a generation upgrade it was..what beast of a system for 1999.
1st Best Dreamcast Game. Full. Stop. 🥰
Basically the reason I bought a Dreamcast in october of 1999. The best fighting game by far, and in the 90s, even late 99, fighting games were HUGE. It sill holds up very well today.
This was the game that sold me on a Dreamcast. The amount of content was mind-blowing for the time. One of my favorite things was the intro edit, which allowed you to change the characters shown during the intro (possible because the entire intro is rendered in real time, no FMV anywhere). Could be very amusing, especially when you replace Sophitia with Astaroth and show him standing daintily in a field :)
This game was unbelievable when it was released, the fact that it was better than the arcade was something that anyone couldn't even think about, it blew everybody's minds. To this day this is my favourite in the series, still holds up very well visually, and the gameplay and perfectly balanced roster haven't been matched in later releases.
This and Sonic Adventure were the games that sold me on the Dreamcast. I freaking LOVED my Dreamcast back in the day when it first came out! I thorougly supported the system and remember being SUPER disappointed when I heard it was being discontinued. To me it felt like it came out of nowhere, as the system felt like it was doing amazingly as far as I was concerned, and had great games coming out for it at a steady pace all the way up til the end. I never understood why it died off myself.
I still play this one til this day. even got my family involved and we place bets on fights regularly
Soul Caliber and Crazy Taxi were the reasons I asked for a Dreamcast for Christmas after it came it. These were the first games for me where it finally felt like we had Arcade quality games at home with zero compromise. That's before the PS2 came out.
I remember in the 2001 I was working with Verizon helping them setup their video-on-deman pilot project. This was a small group and in the back of their lab/closet they had this huge CRT tv and they had a dreamcast hooked up. When I used to come over for meetings we would all catch in a few rounds of Soulcalibur.
Man, those were the days....
I have Soul Calibur on my Dreamcast and my XBOX Series X.
This is how much i love this game.
Thanks for this episode Sega Lord X.
Soul Caliber on the Dream Cast represented the largest jump in graphics fidelity of any console generation from the previous one. That game was so beautiful and fluid. light years of the Play Station or N64.
The Japanese are crazy for passing on this masterpiece.
so true
My copy of Soul Caliber was one of only 3 games that I had for my Dreamcast and it occupied the disk tray 90% of the time. We would sit around and play that game for hours on end over the course of several years. That 1 game alone justified my ownership of the console. That game was so amazing that years later I even got a copy of it for my PS2, and I played the living hell out of that copy too.
I've played Soul Edge, Soulcalibur 2, 3 and 5, never played the famous Dreamcast version of the first Soulcalibur but I still remember when I looked at its pics on magazines, I was overwhelmed by those polygons and colours!
Certainly the best home port of all time, best fighting game on the Dreamcast, and one of the best games overall of all time. Such a shame how far the series has fallen. This was when it was about being a real mind game and not just another dial a combo mess. Online play was the only thing this game missed, but sadly the ONLY way it would have been possible in that day and age was with a direct dial system. Which honestly would have been good enough for most fans, but Sega wasn't into the idea of online play without a network in-between.
Dreamcast to this day is still my favorite console ive ever had. The games that released on it in its short life span were evolutionary
Love your vids!!
I was all about the dreamcast at launch but I saw so focused on Sonic Adventure I really hadn't paid much attention to it. Picked up a copy of this on a whim a couple weeks after launch by skipping lunch at school every day and pocketing the change for a new dreamcast game, had never played the prequel or arcade version. Absolutely blown away. That was the one game that almost got a couple of my friends to not wait for the PS2 to come out (but they did anyway LOL)
One of the best, if not the best game on the console. I would play the game at home. Then while going to the movies would say, what the heck and play the arcade machine. Blew my mind and for the first time in my life, the dreamcast looked better than the arcade. Incredible game.
I remember playing both Soul Edge and Soulcalibur on the arcade machine as a kid. As soon as I saw Soulcalibur was available for download on current gen consoles, I did not hesitate
The Dreamcast arcade games are all pretty much 10 out of 10. The Dreamcast is the ultimate arcade machine if you count the Japanese releases, with the best arcade titles of all time, only missing F-Zero GX, and Gradius V. The console was pretty much the pinnacle of arcade game development, finishing the arcade culture with a bang. It was so extreme that when the Dreamcast went down the arcade culture did as well. DDR games were probably the last proper arcade hits, and it was all around this time.
We knew this game was under the Christmas tree in 1999. My brother and I discreetly picked it up, undid the wrapping, removed the disc and put back the empty case, re-wrapped under the tree. We unlocked everything in under a week, playing in my brother's bedroom to avoid suspicion, then just before Christmas we sneaked back the game in its packaging and feigned surprise and excitement as we unwrapped it a second time. Good times.
I still can't believe 20+ years later how good this game looks.
Amazing rivalry with this game back in the day. My buddy had it and a Dreamcast and we would go at it for match after match. Nightmare vs Siegfried. It got to the point that we just started doing SURVIVAL matches to see who could go farther as our VS matches :D
Loved it for all the EXTRAS you could unlock. This and Soul Edge were great with all the extra goodies.
The fact we're still talking about this game and VF3tb barely ever gets a positive mention speaks volumes
Virtua what now? Just kidding, but I seriously don't even remember VF3 AT ALL. Soul Caliber however... So many great memories.
And VF3tb was pretty amazing in its own right..
On hell of a accurate review. I mean this game changed video gaming for me in a big way. The fluidity of movement, the characters, THE STORY TELLING! it was a big deal to me and still is today thats why i bought a dreamcast and soulcalibur to relive it all over again.
I loved the ability to edit the intro and swap in and out characters, change where they appeared, etc. I remember having an entire intro of just Lizardman and it made me laugh all the time, cause there's a shot where Sophitia is getting up and brushing her hair to the side... But lizard man is doing it now lol
The Dreamcast is the most memorable system launch for me... I skipped school to go pick up my reserve at Babbage’s on 9/9/99. I bought the system along with Sonic Adventure, Power Stone, and TrickStyle. I didn’t want to get two fighters. Two days later however, I took TrickStyle back and got Soul Calibur. (You could exchange new games like that back then sometimes)
I do have fonder memories of Soul Calibur II, but that’s likely because it was the last fighter I played the hell out of at an actual arcade, when enough people were there to have tournaments and such.
I love these sega memories keep the videos coming
I got my Soul Calibur at Christmas 2000. I was late to the DC. I'd taken a long break from gaming and the DC got my attention. I bought plenty of new import games for $90 so I didn't wait for everything to collapse and then buy the products. By Christmas 2000, Amazon were selling new DC games like Soul Calibur and Power Stone for less than $10. I bought about 8 of them. I had Soul Calibur hooked up via VGA. I agree with the commenters that the music is exceptional and I find it moving. I spent ages unlocking everything.