As someone who transitioned from only owning a Dreamcast to only owning a Gamecube and thus had to scrape the bottom of the barrel of each library, the Dreamcast had more to play on it.
Neither of them had a Playstation library (what else did back then?), but the Gamecube had Nintendo's first party lineup and a few Japanese third party crumbs, while the Dreamcast had possibly SEGA's most varied and creative first party lineup ever along with a monstrous lineup of ports from what was basically the last great era of Japanese arcade games. I mean shit, just look at fighting games alone. The Dreamcast had Garou, Last Blade 2, Marvel 1 and 2, 3rd Strike, Soul Calibur, DOA2, and probably some other shit. The sole crown jewels of FG gaming on the Cube were Melee and Soul Calibur 2. Oh, and those three Mortal Kombat games most people don't like. You wanna know what 2D fighting games the Cube had? Capcom vs SNK 2 EO. That was it. I know. The Nintendo Power magazine advertisement for that shit pointed out the fact that it was the first Capcom fighter on a Nintendo console since the SNES version of Alpha 2.
I just do not understand how GAF holds the Gamecube in such high regard. Circa 2003 everybody on the internet hated that system. I stuck by it during those years and even I can look back and see its library for what it was. Hell, I'm looking at around 40 Gamecube games on my shelf right now -- almost every game on the system worth playing.
Neither of them had a Playstation library (what else did back then?), but the Gamecube had Nintendo's first party lineup and a few Japanese third party crumbs, while the Dreamcast had possibly SEGA's most varied and creative first party lineup ever along with a monstrous lineup of ports from what was basically the last great era of Japanese arcade games. I mean shit, just look at fighting games alone. The Dreamcast had Garou, Last Blade 2, Marvel 1 and 2, 3rd Strike, Soul Calibur, DOA2, and probably some other shit. The sole crown jewels of FG gaming on the Cube were Melee and Soul Calibur 2. Oh, and those three Mortal Kombat games most people don't like. You wanna know what 2D fighting games the Cube had? Capcom vs SNK 2 EO. That was it. I know. The Nintendo Power magazine advertisement for that shit pointed out the fact that it was the first Capcom fighter on a Nintendo console since the SNES version of Alpha 2.
I just do not understand how GAF holds the Gamecube in such high regard. Circa 2003 everybody on the internet hated that system. I stuck by it during those years and even I can look back and see its library for what it was. Hell, I'm looking at around 40 Gamecube games on my shelf right now -- almost every game on the system worth playing.
