That Dreamcast intro screen will never, ever get old.

24:05 A buddy and I were touring id about a month before Quake 3 DC was released. We were walking through and noticed Quake 3 on a TV with a Dreamcast under it. Neither of us knew it was in the works, so we grabbed Marty Stratton (he was giving us the tour since he was kinda the guy that managed Quakecon and we were there as volunteers) and said "DUDE! Is that Quake 3 running on a _Dreamcast?!"_ He got a big grin and said "Oh yeah! You guys wanna see it?" Super fun way to find out about it. Fun fact: the PC version of Quake 3 could crossplay with the Dreamcast online. You had to patch back to version 1.16n and download a map pack that contained all the Dreamcast specific maps and you were golden. We actually ran a server for it at one of the CPL events. id's engine tech was just crazy flexible and could be made to perform on anything. I'm fully convinced John Carmack is a hyper advanced AI that aliens left on our planet just to give us amazing video game engines.

Man, that Dreamcast intro is so calming. Almost like it has a zen type of feel.

I was one of the 12 people that had the Dreamcast broadband adapter and the mouse and keyboard. Playing Quake 3 against people on dial up and on a controller with one stick... good times. The Dreamcast really was so ahead of its time.

There is something incredibly beautiful about the way the Dreamcast renders. I don't know what it is, but nearly every game on the console somehow looks good in a way I can't describe.

Learning there is a Dreamcast FPS with brain jacking and a villain named Geist really takes the only wind out of the GameCube game Geist's unique feature lol.

Dreamcast was a gem. The fact that one could use the memory card as a tamagotchi and even play games on it, shows that the console was too far ahead of the curve.

I lived in Japan when this went obsolete and I grabbed every game in their catalogue at cents on the dollar (well yen). A year later I gave it to my young cousins. 25 years later they still talk about how fun that console was.

Unreal Tournament gets a nice framerate boost if you plug in a keyboard, open up the command command line and type in a command which disables decals. This will disable decals left from bullet holes and fragged players, and it'll make the game perform better.

I know it's weird, but I miss the "Shwacked!" running joke. Something about it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

There's also an Omikron: The Nomad Soul. Its not exactly a FPS, but it has FPS elements. Its a 3D open-world adventure fighting FPS game made by Quantic Dream

I love kaneko's artstyle in Maken X. I have a collection of most of the games he's worked on, and have the PS2 version of the game called Maken Shao

Man, never expected you to cover something like Maken X. That is a game where Kazuma Kaneko really went wild with the art. So sad that he doesn't get the recognizition he rigjtfully deserves.

The Dreamcast start-up screen gives me goosebumps every time.

QUAKE III: I beat Xero on the highest difficulty mode by hiding behind a pillar and railgunning him to death. He couldn’t see me and had no path tracking to me. There’s no other way to win that match!

GMan, if youre gonna tease our tips by playing Dreamcast games. Then you'll need to play Illbleed

9/9/99, the greatest release date a console ever had and ever will, also that VMU, man was that a fun system.

Let's raise a toast for the Dreamcast. 🍷 It was gone too soon

God that DOA2 intro with the bomb factory song “exciter” really is the best intro I’ve ever heard!

Steam Deck has been an amazing way to re-experience Dreamcast games, especially shooters. Why? Because once you have EmuDeck set up, you can easily remap shooter controls to be much more intuitive. So for example, because the DC lacked 2 analog sticks, typically the face buttons would be for movement while the analog stick would be for aiming, which was awkward. But on Deck, you can instead map the left stick to the face buttons for movement and the right stick for aiming. But here's where things get wild and what sets the Steam Deck above the other handhelds... You can then do gyro aiming in Dreamcast games! So that when the right stick or right trackpad is merely being touched (as in the gyro is only activated when they're touched and isn't active all the time), the gyro can act as the Dreamcast's left stick, so you now have full on gyro aiming acting as the left stick in Dreamcast shooters. Or you can map the right trackpad to emulate the Dreamcast's left stick, and have trackpad + gyro aiming, which feels even more accurate. And speaking of the trackpad - Silent Scope on Dreamcast feels insanely good to play using the Steam Deck's trackpad, way more intuitive and faster than using an analog stick, so the trackpads are fantastic for on rails shooters, which the DC had a lot of. If you're an old school Dreamcast fan, get yourself a Steam Deck. Once you have EmuDeck set up, no other device on the market does a better job at placing your Dreamcast games directly on the main UI in such an elegant fashion. And then there's the added layer of being able to easily customise the controls or the frame rate - on a per game basis.

Maken X is such a great game. I love the lore, the character design, the gameplay--for me, that's almost exactly how I play Oblivion. It's all just so unique. That first playthrough was such a trip because of how interesting the worldbuilding and the aesthetics and design were. The soundtrack is utterly phenomenal. Shoji Meguro did such a great job with the soundtrack and it's such a shame people don't acknowledge it as much as they should. It also has just an incredible amount of replayability given the 6 endings the game has. That game makes me wish they did a proper remaster of Maken X just because theres so much character lore and worldbuilding lore to be expanded upon. It has so much potential for a good modern remake. I have Maken X on my top 10 Dreamcast games of all time and I stand by it. Its still just so good.

I think if Sega hadn't burned its bridge with AMD which in turn cost its connections with EA and some other high profile 3rd parties, and they had included a DVD player in the DC, theyd have lasted that entire console generation. Might have even prompted them to make a DC2.

37:27 reverb farts

that dreamcast startup theme is (❁´◡`❁)

0:57 I remember having to send my Hydro Thunder disc to the publisher because it had no music, and they sent me a fixed copy. Ahh... before we got internet updates. I loved that game.

Can’t wait until Gman reviews the FPS libraries of the Atari Jaguar, 3DO, GameCube, SNES, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, Gameboy & Gameboy Advance, DS, Xbox, and Amiga.

Thanks Gman to remind us old folks what it used to have vs what we have now. Kids these days will never know the struggle we had to deal with using those hardware. It was painful yet fascinating simultaneously.

Left stick to aim, right face buttons to move was standard on N64, it was even the default on a few ps1 games (e.g. alien resurrection). For some reason it swapped over a few years later and everyone forgot that it was ever the other way round

For a millisecond, you had me wondering if purposely avoiding the Kiss game every time I saw it on store shelves was a mistake. Luckily, I'm glad I didn't miss out on that disaster. I think something they could have done to circumnavigate the lack of a second thumb stick, they could have gone the Metroid Prime route, where you press and hold a button to lock in on an enemy, which allows you to move and strafe while staying on target. A dedicated 180 button on the D-Pad would help, too. N64 could have used a similar system just fine, too. Honesty, button combinations are a pretty smart way to take advantage of limited buttons.

It's a shame western developers never really came to terms with the Dreamcast hardware. It had so many great hardware optimization features that made it extremely competitive or even ahead of PC hardware at the time (1998-2000). Like how the tile-based deferred rendering helped with geometry culling and improved rasterized performance, or how 4-bit paletted texture could be compressed to a ratio of 32:1 instead of 4:1. Theoretically allowing the Dreamcast to offer 60MB worth of texture memory, as long as you designed them with 16 colors in mind (I mean you don't need much more for "single-material textures" like grass, dirt, wood, stone, steel etc. and you can always use other texture formats where it makes sense). For engines and graphics assets built ground up for the hardware it was just way ahead of its time. unfortunately, many western developers just made straight conversions of PC games using PC optimized engines, resulting in pretty crude results on the DC... Quake III is really the only game showcasing a decent effort of hardware optimization.

I remember playing Kiss pycho circus on pc like 20+ years ago

I needed to hear that intro, it soothes my soul.

Dude, another awesome video. Have to say brother you've put me onto quite lot of awesome games I've otherwise overlooked or just missed out on entirely. What a legend.

I owned Quake 3 for PC, but I found out after purchase that my PC couldn't run it. So I was quite happy with the Dreamcast port and noting that they played very similar to eachother.

3DO has several interesting options for exclusive FPS games, especially with PO'ed getting a remaster soon. I still want a Saturn FPS video though, gotta see you trudge through Congo.

I played Maken X to death back in the day. The differences between the japanese and european versions were pretty big. The special attacks actually only cost health in the european release, so in the jp version you could just spam them to no end. And the guy in India had actually a completely different character model in the jp version as well. He had six arms, a completely different face. Good times, good times.

As weird as DC controllers were, they were indestructible. The one analogue stick was a hall-effect, first and only such in consoles for 25 years now.. Only in the last years have 3rd party premium controllers rediscovered the tech. Microsoft made a big deal of bringing back hall effect triggers for Xbox One controllers years ago (Dreamcast pioneered those too). But Microsoft has stuck with those nasty potentiometer analogue sticks, they and Sony seem to have a 99 year contract with Alps for those awful things.

Its genuinely funny you bringing up the 357 sound effect, because there were more sounds from Spec Ops and Rainbow Six specifically that made shining features in Madness Combat and Thing Thing years if not decades later

I remember getting my Dreamcast as a christmas present, along with the game Shenmue (which I had been quite fascinated by reading about it in game magazines). I still have the Dreamcast and Shenmue to this day.

Made dinner and a new Gman video pops up. Perfect timing

Nice video as always ! Pretty sure Maken X was an inspiration for Metroid Prime... 18:20 Nice typo from Atlus (anymore*, not any more)

All those Roadhouse mentions and not a single clip of Peter Griffen saying "Rrrroadhouse!"

That outro video vibe man.

Soulcalibur for the Dreamcast was so amazing dude hell yeah

"Lady, you're scaring us" 😆

Wasn't expecting to see a peek of Hydro Thunder in a Gman video, but I'll gladly take it.

The soundtrack to Quake 3 slaps so hard. Fun fact though, Front Line Assembly did some of the tracks as did Sonic Mayhem.

Damn, I had repressed the mouseball cleaning. Thanks for reminding me.

I had Quake on PC back in the day. I used to put the disc in my cd player and rock out to the Soundtrack.

I'd like to see you cover Killer 7 like this! I recently got it after remember seeing it in Game Informer as a kid. I've not played it as I'm trying to complete some other games first but I'm stoked to get to it!

It is nice to see some love for Maken X, I hope it gets a full video but also a look at the ps2 Remake Maken Shao: Demon Sword it became 3rd person (Still with tank controls) but some content too.

3:42 - I always loved how the Bull Squid's death sounds like The Undertaker's manager, Pall Bearer.

Dude great vid idea. Stoked

The loading times on Soldier of Fortune where hilarious, I could even take a bath or cook while the game was loading.

For some reason, that picture of smiling Gordon Freeman sends me rolling every time I see it

8:00 bro, I remember seeing carnEvil at the movie theater once and it stuck with me for life.

Thanks for keeping the dream live. I logged probably hundreds of hours of online Quake III on Dreamcast. Such an incredible port.

Maken X is so good! You have to make a video on it. I would also recommend PetRock's video, as he explains all the Chinese I-Ching and how it ties into all the characters and their motivations. This game is a gem. Peak Atlus.

My bowling alley had Carn-Evil and i used to just dump quarters into it every Sunday. Love that game to death and was always surprised as Midways most successful light gun game they didnt do more with it.

I really wanted to play the full version of KiSS: psycho circus, I only got the demo but boy was it fun and intriguing.

A toast to one of gaming's very last home console of the 20th century. 🥂 To many of us, Sega's departure really hit home for the loyal fanbase of all these games. But i wonder, if rail shooters should've also been included on this list since its also in first person perspective but that's another debate for another time I guess. RIP Sega (1983-2000). 🕯💐

My old man bought us one and we loved it. I’m currently tracking down games right now for the Dreamcast as a collector hobby. Will always be one of my favorite systems

The Kiss shooter has a special place in my memories, mainly because it made me a member of the Kiss army and introduced me to the wonders of rock and roll music

I loved playing quake 3, Soldier of Fortune, and Psycho Circus on the Dreamcast as a kid. Such great memories… that DC intro is forever engraved into my mind!

Man I love the Dreamcast. The sound alone of the startup screen makes me smile and brings me back to simpler times.

Have always loved my Dreamcast! Keep up the good content!

those are some lovely comedic inserts

Virtuacop was a game me and my brother always played on the Dreamcast. I never knew it was based off an Arcade game until we didn't have the console anymore

Damn that intro brings back many of memories most of these kids will never know the struggle of memory cards

Lovely. Quake 3 Arena was my first taste of online shooters. Great stuff.

I'd love to hear you do a full retrospective on both the Quake and Unreal franchises.

The Dreamcast is my favourite console of all time. It didn't have a long Life span but it had so many classic games

Before we had a PC up to snuff for gaming, we had quake 3 arena and the modem. I was too young to really comprehend how ahead of it's time the Dreamcast was when I was playing death matches with my friends who lived 25 mins away by bike

ah man, just hearing the Dreamcast start up put a smile on my face, i needed that today.

Quick man wake up Gman's back!

Some of my go to shooters on the Dreamcast back then were sof 2 and slave zero, while not the best ports still fun games. Also Ding Chavez is forever a legend : )

Dear Gman, a few games that are right up you alley: - Bullet Witch - Infernal - 3rd Birthday

Maaaaan I was so excited thinking you’d review Gundam Side Story 0079. I loved that games demo disc.

I came here because you include the 1st R6 and Rogue Spear. Ty for uploading this.

awesome content i exactly needed

Also need to get the weird Gundam fps on the console, I picked it up a couple months ago and was honestly kinda surprised

id love for you to cover the remaining Bond shooters!

Shwacked! Has gotten a few genuine chuckles out of me over the years but out of all recurring Gman bits, for me none of them come close to the day he started putting in soundbites from Tourettes Guy Take 11:16 for example. No one on this Earth can emote cuss words with the sheer conviction of Tourettes Guy.

Gman is an MVP, seriously! 💪 Looking forward to this as a Bank Holiday treat! 😊

I had a mouse and keyboard for the Dreamcast for Quake and HL. Can't wait for the Saturn amd Genesis video.

9:48 I remember one day my dad came home with brand new boxes copies of KISS Psycho Circus, Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2, 4x4 evo, Blair Witch vol. 1, and Rune. He got them from a promo that was being run at the radio station he worked at. I wonder if that's any connection to what you were talking about?

13:58 the quality of the audioin the game is insane i thought someone was trying to whisper in my ear during the vid

Seeing the Maken X sword did memory unlock on me. I swear i played it before and completely forgot it existed.

Prostate exam while wearing Oven mitts 😂

Good job!

Legend has it Soldier of Fortune is still Loading. To be fair with Half-Life, even though version leaked was the "Gold" version that would supposedly be sent to the factory for pressing, the developers came out years later and said that the last few weeks before release were going to be spent optimizing the game better for the Dreamcast, and fix the ever growing save file bug on the VMU (at the beginning of the game a save would be around 32 blocks, but near the end it would balloon to over 100 blocks). Still can't believe it was cancelled a mere month before release date. I also remember them developing a second version that was multiplayer only which included Deathmatch and Team Fortress Classic.

Man's content always on point

Ah, Outrigger, Maken X, Rainbow Six, and Soldier of Fortune, my childhoods... Yes, do a retrospective on Maken X, please!

Great video 😂

Nice video!

Never in my life did I think GmanLives would review MakenX

This reminds me of the definitive version of Spider-Man 2000 => The Dreamcast Port

The Homelander clip gets me laughing so much. Every. Single. Time.

Tourettes Guy, GOT'EEEEMM guy, couple of mom jokes and the reverb fart....that's all that's really necessary...instant like!

You’re the first person outside of Megaten fans that I’ve seen review Makken X. It’s enough for me to give it a a chance now.