Did the era of Dreamcast sort of mark a peak in gaming?>Support for Sega's own fast/streamlined/documented SDK or Windows CE (to make porting games from the PC easier)>Hitachi SH4 chips>480p with the DC's PowerVR GPU>Rarely-used volumetric per-pixel shadows and volumetric fog features>Order Independent Transparency and is the only system to date that came with OIT at the hardware level>16MB of RAM>Native VGA out support>independent filesharing between memory cards without the console needing to be present>a large (again, for the time) optical disc format that stored up to 1GB of data>Plans to download Dreamcast games directly to the 40GB HDD, a feature that Xbox 360 realized>Had the highest quality video output of the generation, while PS2 was known for having the lowest quality and looking the blurriest overall>Sonic Adventure, Shenmue, Soul Calibur, Jet Set Radio, Skies of Arcadia, Resident Evil Code Veronica, Dead or Alive 2 were technically impressive>Modern game controller is heavily inspired by Dreamcast controller
>>12130790Yeah, everything that came afterwards is where the modern era of gaming began.
How's that D6 controller?
>>12130790The Dreamcast was like the involuntary ejaculation of a dying animal.
>>12130820Now the ghost of Sega wears the dead skin mask of Microsoft.
>>12130790>era of Dreamcast>youtube induced rantyikes
>>12130790I got one at launch and it was based. Sort of regretted later not holding out for a PS2 as it was a few years before I was able to get one but I wouldn't trade my Dreamcast memories for anything. And I did a lot of emulation on it much later down the line when that became a thing.
