PS2 was one of the most disappointing consoles ever made but zoomers weren't alive to remember that. Dreamcast was kicking its ass from 2000-2001.
This is what everyone deeply invested in the hobby thought of the PS2 when it was released:
>one of the worst launches ever
>took the length of the Dreamcast's entire lifespan to get a good game
>hideous graphics with jaggies
>everything is brown and dull after the colorful Dreamcast
>DOA2 port had worse lighting than Dreamcast
>normalfag pandering out the ass after Dreamcast had only creative and cutting edge games for enthusiasts
This is where gaming died.

>>715890709 (OP)
I really hate zoomer historical revisionism.

>took the length of the Dreamcast's entire lifespan to get a good game
That's not saying much considering how fast DC committed seppuku, lmao

Shit hardware as well

PS2 had the strongest year 1 line up.

The picture quality is so clean on dreamcast especially if you hook it up through a VGA cable. PS2's blurry jagged crap is a big letdown in comparison

>>715891108
>actually including The Bouncer, Fur Fighters, Code Veronica X, Evergrace, Street Fighter EX3 and Midnight Club
PS2fags always have exceptionally low standards.

>>715891295
All great games, especially Midnight Club and Evergrace.

>>715891347
Like I said, shockingly low standards.

absolutely abysmal bait

ok but why did the dreamcast die THOUGH???

>>715891920
OP is right though.

>>715891995
How come the games on the right have less color and detail?

>>715890709 (OP)

Dreamcast's total sales were one sixteenth (1/16) of PS2 sales. Dreamcast was irrelevant. I don't know a single person who had one.

>>715892125
Because the PS2 is the original soulless goyslop machine.

dreamturd

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>>715892227
Hey look it's the boring racing sim that ruined an entire genre.

>>715890709 (OP)
>PS2 was one of the most disappointing consoles ever made
are people grasping this fucking hard to be contrarian these days?
give it a few years and /v/ will start spouting about how being tranny is actually based

lol

>>715892393
PS2 is so ugly.

>>715892165
Funny you post that.
Virtua Cop 2 on the right there is on the Sega Dreamcast. Believe it was included on the Sega Smackpack Vol 1.
I know, I played a lot of that shitty looking version.

>>715892324
No my problem if the developers are lazy or amateurs.

>>715892457
why is it so pixelated

>>715892125
The SEGA Ages remakes were made on a very low budget

>>715890709 (OP)
Dreamcast was a nice console. i remember playing Crazy Taxi and the South Park game on it. it's a shame it failed but Sega just kinda put itself in the ground with the shitty Sega Saturn.

>>715890709 (OP)
>from 2000 to 2001, the Dreamcast was kicking the PS2's ass
>PS2 Release date: October 26, 2000
>for 2 months and 5 days, the Dreamcast was KING
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay

>>715892507
>Virtua Cop 2 on the right there is on the Sega Dreamcast.
Wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yTyvsvHg80
>>715892520
PS2 hardware was weak as shit.

>>715890709 (OP)
Yeah but the Dreamcast was fucking gimped by the CD, how were you planning to fit 6th gen titles on only 650MB, fucking FFIX needed 4 disc by the end of the PS1 era.
The retarded gaycube disc format at least had 1.4GB of space.

>>715890709 (OP)
I'm a Segafag and even I'm not this delusional

>>715890709 (OP)
PS2 was really disappointing. It had a good library but didn’t deserve it. People get all hung up on its sales figures too but it sold 50+ million units after the PS3 came out due to a budget launch in South America and because it was positioned as a casual device cheap $99 alternative to the sold out Wii with games like guitar hero and buzz and singstar.

The frame buffer was too small so most games are interlaced using frames rendered as fields with alternating odd and even shifted frames to match the interlaced fields. The aliasing plus the interlacing created awful jaggies Dreamcast didn’t have. The original units stopped reading dual layer DVDs and CDs. The hardware was too difficult to develop for and some early games didn’t bother with the vector units because of this so they wound up looking worse than the best on Dreamcast. Middleware and developer familiarity eventually improved and obviously it has a huge library but it did nothing to deserve this at all. And yes it was ugly. It is still ugly. It’s not as ugly as a PS5 but it’s not aesthetically nice to look at.

>>715892295
Both look good. Why are you comparing Ivy with Setsuka, anyway? Ivy is in SC3 too. She's in every SC game as a matter of fact.

>>715892712
Dreancast CD's were a gigbyte actually

>>715892387
>give it a few years and /v/ will start spouting about how being tranny is actually based
it is? this is a toxoplasmosis pedophile tranny board bud, has been for the last 20 years

>>715892841
dreamcast is not far from a ps1 game

>>715892227
Polyphony Digital sacrificed their first born and sold their souls to make GT3 look as good as it did on that shitty PS2 hardware. People take for granted how much of a technical marvel it was. They never repeated this wizardry on any other console though

>>715892864
Still too small.

/thread

>>715892393
I don't get it, the PS2 version rapes the Dreamcast one here.

>>715892939
Lots of PS1 to Dreamcast ports were way better on PS1 as well. DC is in a weird spot. Gen 5.5 for sure.

>>715892457
The lighting was better but the resolution was lower plus they used half resolution frames to match interlaced fields causing horrible pixelation. When Capcom ported Code Veronica they cautioned it was not up to the graphical standard set on the Dreamcast. I remember having an early progressive scan TV that was the first expensive thing I ever bought (and a waste of money) and Devil May Cry turned to 240i/p in motion and 480i/p standing still. It was awful to look at but you can probably duplicate the same thing on a modern TV to see how bad it looked

>>715890709 (OP)
Sega killed all their goodwill with the 32X and Saturn.

>Dreamcast launched with a dial-up modem and a web browser disc
>instead of pioneering online multiplayer with all their multiplayer arcade games they just sat on their asses and forgot to produce enough broadband adapters
My first experience with online gaming was SOCOM II but I wish it was with the Dreamcast library

Don't forget about the Jaguar

Imagine playing phantasy star online instead of this lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGs0mbrX_gE

>>715892587
Saga announced their departure from hardware while Dreamcast had a slight hardware sales lead over the PS2. The difference was PS2 was selling every unit and DC wasn’t selling.

>>715893813
Why do women liked FFXI and now FFXIV so much?

>>715890709 (OP)
There's a reason Gamecube is vastly more popular nowadays

>>715893138
And yet everybody wants to emulate the games from the purple one

>>715893904
Tendies trying to rewrite history? Just like they tried with the N64 kek, both consoles pieces of shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoxOj4gMTSg

>>715890709 (OP)
>>one of the worst launches ever
>>took the length of the Dreamcast's entire lifespan to get a good game
>>hideous graphics with jaggies
>>everything is brown and dull after the colorful Dreamcast
>>DOA2 port had worse lighting than Dreamcast
>>normalfag pandering out the ass after Dreamcast had only creative and cutting edge games for enthusiasts
>one of the worst launches ever
It was sold out everywhere all holiday season.
>took the length of the Dreamcast's entire lifespan to get a good game
And then it killed the Dreamcast's 2 year lifespan
>hideous graphics with jaggies
Like every other console that generation
>everything is brown and dull after the colorful Dreamcast
You know the Dreamcast had like 200-300 shovelware games, many of which were indeed also brown and shit.
>DOA2 port had worse lighting than Dreamcast
Who fucking cares
>normalfag pandering out the ass after Dreamcast had only creative and cutting edge games for enthusiasts
What the fuck does this even mean? Retard

>PS2 was one of the most disappointing consoles ever made
what is it that compels you to tell lies?

>>715894102
It’s true though. GameCube sold a fraction of the units but has far more nostalgia and demand for its library than the PS2. This isn’t historical revisionist it’s just a fact

>>715893138
this releases sealed the ps2 faith to become the greatest traditional home console ever created

>>715894335
>smaller amounts of people are more vocal about the small amount of things they have in common than a larger amount of people that had more variety available

>>715894453
Damn, what a stacked year 2001 was. Tony Hawk 3 isn't even on there.

>>715893902
Men aren't women.

>>715894453
>MGS2 and a bunch of overrated shit
meh

>>715894241
Anon, I had 4x PS2s (but only one at a time) and a whole library of games that are still in the basement somewhere. But it was a very disappointing console. A disappointing console that had some great games but disappointing nonetheless. I wish all of the exclusive games had appeared on the GameCube or Xbox instead. Some wouldn’t have fit on GameCube discs though. Also the controller sucks, as somebody who owned a PSX with a digital pad and then got the analog afterthought I am amazed they have kept this tacked-on as an afterthought stick placement all these years and that gamers are okay with it

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>>715894637
in 2002 these games was mindblowing, zoomer

>>715894453
This image gets posted a lot and don’t get me wrong these were mostly great but this is more because games today are shit and that many good games has not been released at once in the last 15 years or longer. The GameCube and Xbox had disappointing launches and holiday seasons in terms of games…. For their time. But if you look at them today they look like amazing launch libraries. It’s because games today are trash programmed by Indians in 8 year development cycles

>>715893863
For the first like two years of the PS2 lifetime it was being outsold by the PS1, in fact PS1 was selling so god damn well that it managed to sell more units during the lifetimes of the Xbox and Gamecube than either of those two
The Dreamcast was a half-gen console between PS1 and PS2 in terms of power and features, so was there really a place for it when it was guaranteed a third place behind both of those?

>>715894478
Nah, GameCube is one of the most popularly emulated consoles and that’s an objective (not subjective) fact. Emulation itself is a small amount of people anyways. PS2 emulation hasn’t even really progressed in well over a decade and is far from perfect but not enough people even care about it (plus it’s fine for most things)

>Be OP
>Be zoomer as fuck
>It's summer so has all the free time in the world and spends it scrolling down through videos
>Watch random youtube video "HERE'S WHY THE DREAMCAST WAS THE BEST CONSOLE OF ALL TIME AND WHY IT KICKED THE PS2's ASS" from Dreamcastguy69
>Take it all in and believes every single word like the zoomie he is
>Proceeds to make a thread on 4chan to own the nonbelievers and also to kill one Donkey Kong thread

I hate zoomers so much it's unreal

>>715893904
Yeah, cuz it isn't a pain in the ass to emulate, however you'll usually end up playing the shittier version of a multiplat game.

>>715895054
>the topic of conversation is about a console's lifetime
>brings up emulation
your head is full of rocks

>>715890709 (OP)
Nah, I was an idort that gen and had all the consoles and they were all good in different ways with their own exclusives. The PS3 on the other hand was awful and made me drop Playstation forever.

>>715894926
Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance wasn’t exclusive, it was on GCN and Xbox. Also it wasn’t mind blowing. Ace Combat wasn’t mind blowing. Ico was a niche snooze fest artsy game. GT3 had been out for half a year.

>>715894950
Consider going from Ace 3 to Ace 4, FF9 to FF10, GTA2 to GTA3, fucking Rising Zan to DMC1.
Fuck you, those were amazing release titles and great improvements from what came before.

>>715895054
you don't even keep up with the scene shut the fuck up, gc emulation is good because of 2 insanely dedicated autists (one being a tranny) working on ONE game (twilight princess) ps2 emulation is nearly as good today because equally as dedicated autists stepped up and did the same
n64 emulation was awful for years despite supposedly being beloved according to tendies, and only somewhat recently became less shit because of 2 dedicated autists, one of which is the same tranny from the gc/wii scene

like just shut the fuck up don't talk about shit you don't actually know about

>>715895130
more like
>be OP
>be a faggot
>post bait
>>715895054
You're shitposting or you haven't looked at PS2 emulation in the last few years then, PCSX2 2.0 removed the need to fiddle with HW hacks by having a database of per-game preset settings on top of having a database of cheat table fixes for anything else (widescreen, no interlacing patches).

>>715894730
>A disappointing console that had some great games
That would be the dreamcast. Ps2 had great games in every category.
>Nah, GameCube is one of the most popularly emulated consoles and that’s an objective (not subjective) fact.
Fact,how, using which data? Emulation development is dependant on the hardware used. Wii-u emulation is generations above xbox 360, are you gonna tell me that wii-u was more popular than the 360?

>>715890709 (OP)
Do yanks live in a parallel dimension?

>>715895457
True, OP is a known nincel 48 year old virgin that spends all day on 4chan /v/. He's simply false flagging as a Dreamcast chad. There exists no bad blood between Dreamcast chads and GODstation 2 chuds. Nintendo fans proving they're the worst fanbase of all time, yet again.

>>715891108
>ps2/gc crazy taxi
>480i
>soulless va replacements

>>715895184
Console lifespan you say? The GameCube dropped to $99 in 2003 and completely sold out during the holidays despite demand which was a bigger issue in Japan. It was restocked after the holidays when nobody cared. This contributed to the console dying and having a short lifespan. Nintendo killed it off in 2007 after the Wii released. Microsoft killed off the Xbox in 2005 when the 360 was introduced. Sony sold 50-60 million more PS2s after the PS3 released and mostly on South America to a bunch of swarthoids who love GTA because of their generic sociopathy and low IQ. It was introduced at a budget price. They didn’t release anything new except Buzz and Singstar. This is why PS2 is “the king” because they sold 50-60 million of them to a bunch of brown savages in third world shitholes after the PS3 came out

>>715895470
Wii U emulation is more popular than 360 emulation because everybody wanted to play BotW 8 years ago and also most 360 games have PC ports.

>>715894102
This, pretty much only weird ass kids had the Gaycube back in the 2000s, I remember in junior high pretty back in 2004 pretty much every kid had a PS2 or an Xbox, and I think there were two kids with a GC.

>>715895907
>blah blah blah sony won blah blah blah ps2 had lots of sales blah blah blah everyone worldwide loves the ps2
wow, you showed him

>>715895470
PS2 hardware was disappointing. It was ugly. It stopped reading discs. Developers hated it. Most games ran at 512x400 resolution because of the frame buffer. Yes it had good games but it never deserved them. The PS2 sold on brand loyalty (which didn’t work with PS3), hype, being a DVD player, and some of the early exclusive games like MGS2 and GTA3. Then it became too large of an install base to ignore. I was always an idort adult who had everything. All 3 of these consoles and Dreamcast all had disappointing aspects but PS2 was the most disappointing despite its large library. This should be that hard to understand.

>>715895907
All those words just to say the PS2 is an amazing console with universal appeal and penetrated and secured markets controlled by the competition and is remembered fondly by 50-60 million people all over the southern hemisphere and 100+ million all over the northern hemisphere. PS2 truly has something for everyone.

>>715896353
>Most games ran at 512x400 resolution
Same as gamecube.

>>715896353
I don't give a shit about anything you wrote, none of it changes that the PS2 had an amazing racing game library with GT, TXR, Enthusia, the WRC games etc (plus the multiplats) and that was an easy sell for me, to this day I believe that the PS2 was the console to have (or to emulate) for racing games

>>715892227
GT3 on a CRT is even more beautiful

>>715893060
GT7 runs on PS4 at an almost rock solid 60 FPS at 1080p

>>715890709 (OP)
>PS2 was one of the most disappointing consoles ever

Ow fuck off

I have nothing to contribute to this conversation except this funny image I found.

>>715891295
Yet you won't comment on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game or Cubivore. Curious.