• 🍉 Albert 🍉
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    61 month ago

    I think Dreamcast ran at a much higher frame rate, it looked amazing.

    if any franchise needs a reboot is that podracer game.

    high speed gladiatorial races. Mario kart with more boomboom

    • @cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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      51 month ago

      I played this demo for a game called Ascent: Rivals at a convention last year. It was like a modern pod racing game, it was pretty cool. They have a demo up on steam that I’ve had in my wishlist for a while now, tho I haven’t really looked at it in a year.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉
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        41 month ago

        hope that instead of getting a cease and desist, they get offered to make an official podracer

      • @Furbag@lemmy.world
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        31 month ago

        Deathgrip is another spiritual successor in the same vein as the one you linked, although it’s been stuck in development hell for a while now I think. I haven’t heard anything about the project since the demo hit and it’s still set to release into early access in 2025

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉
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        21 month ago

        At the time, the Dreamcast seemed a generation ahead of the competition, I’m still in disbelief that it failed

        • @BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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          41 month ago

          If it had two sticks and a DVD drive, it would have been really great. But they stuck with the kinda dumb Saturn layout, despite the Dual Shock being out for a couple years at that point. The keyboard and mouse support was an awesome addition, but a dual analog controller would have been awesome.

        • @ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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          11 month ago

          It was mainly the fact that the games could easily be copied by anybody with a decent CD burner.

          Shortly after a game dropped, a guy would come around my work selling shady copies on cdr in jewel cases with bubble jet printed covers for $20.

          Can’t sell a system if nobody is buying games.

          Also, had a buddy that used a bootloader on it to watch downloaded anime back when only the must mainstream stuff was available in the West.