Dreamcast at Gamescom/Cologne

[Captain Dreamcast]

So, is anyone here at Gamescom next week?

The fact is that I will be camping there and want to bring along my trusted Dreamcast to, well, see if people still enjoy an occasional round of Powerstone 2 or whatever I have with me.
A little DC tournament would be neat, wouldn't it? If you're there and up for a challenge, I'll be the one with the VMU on his wrist and the DC controller belt buckle.

[Captain Dreamcast]

Hehehe.

There was no need to bring along my own DC.
Redspotgames had two DCs at their booth, with RRRR and Wind & Water respectively. Since SEGA was too cheap to buy their own booth , I spent most of my time there and got myself into some good discussions regarding... future DC projects.

(Roughly translated from German AND my memory )

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CDC: I was so hoping for Solar Struggle to be on the Dreamcast...

RSG-guy: Yeah, but you can believe me: From a technical standpoint, it is not possible. Well, there is a new Dreamcast project for 2011.

CDC: 2011?

RSG: Yeah, if everything goes smoothly. But I just can't tell you anything about it.

CDC: ...Pretty Please?

RSG: No. But don't you worry, we won't let the dream die.

CDC: (That's MY line!!!)

2011. That was more than enough for me.

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RSG: So, have you bought RRRR and Wind & Water already?

CDC: ...I, errr, always like... y'know... mail order ain't my thing....

RSG: Well, you can buy them both right here!!!

CDC: What about Last Hope?

RSG: Sold out.

CDC: Damn, well, I'll take RRRRDX and Wind & Water  :mrgreen: 

Wow, I actually BOUGHT a Dreamcast game. No, even TWO of them!

DAY 2

Magic happens.
Guess who came to visit: Senile Team, RRRR's developers! To be honest, I went into some kind of fanboy frenzy. Especially after I had a match with Roel, the "chieftain". He tried to let me win, but still I couldn't catch up to him. No, it wasn't even close T_T
Roel and Jeroen even signed my copy of RRRR and gave me a poster and the alternative cover for free. Liënne the animator was there as well, but never said a word to me. My best guess is that she doesn't speak english. Well, we talked a bit about the greatness that is RRRR and Dreamcast programming, nothing overly spectacular.
No progress was made on finding out more about the 2011 project.

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CDC: One slushy please, andsomeinfoonthe2011projectkthxbai.
RSG: The slushy is free for you, but the info is 20000 euros.
CDC: ...

Video defending doesn't pay off nearly as good as you'd believe it to, so 20000 bucks was too much.

DAY 3

Don't you have somewhere else to go?

Well, I spent most of saturday with a friend, checking out some booths (and harrassing some PS3 fans at their booth. Good stuff). After that, we met Senile team in the hallway, and since they recognized me, I decided to ask a bit more... ABOUT 2011!!

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CDC: Sooooooo, will Senile Team be developing the super secret 2011 project?
Roel: ?
Some other RSG guy than before: :shock:  How do YOU know about the project?!
CDC: (Uh-oh. Sounds like the "cool" RSG guy is in trouble) The almighty interwebz.
Roel: Weeeeeeell, maybe Senile Team is working on something for DC, or maybe not.
The RSG guy: Let's just say that somewhere on earth, someone is coding for Dreamcast right now...
CDC: (I thought I had them this time...) Well, bye then and thanks for your time and the game!

DAY 4

Just a small conversation:

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CDC: Well, I'll be going now. See you in 2011 together with your new DC game... which is gonna be a fighter!!! (Bluffing to the max!)
The cool RSG guy: It's not a fighter.
CDC: Well, you gotta admit, it was worth a try  :mrgreen: 
RSG: *serious expression* No.

It's not a fighter, that's for sure. He answered way to fast to hide something.

Well, that's everything DC related from GamesCom.

... There was also a Retro Museum where almost everyone stopped at the DC and said something nice about it, except the 1337 kiddies.

[Bob Dobbs]

Cool. I cannot wait to see this one. I hope that there are at least two more games in 2011.

2011 Wish List
1. Tahi from Reticon.
2. Not Fighters game from RedSpotGames.
3. Something from SWAT.
4. Shenmue 3 - Not Happening from Sega.

Oops, got carried away with #4.

[Radkin]

4. Shenmue 3 - Not Happening from Sega.

Oops, got carried away with #4.

Good list, Bob. Fighters and 2D shooters really need to go away...

[luso_dreamcaster]

Well, there is a new Dreamcast project for 2011.
?

[Captain Dreamcast]

It's that time of the year again!

Things are pretty much like last year, but this time around I'll be handing out betas of the Dolmexica Engine. The same version I uploaded here, so if you feel like saving a CD-R and some bandwidth, you can get a pre-burned ultra copy.
Unless you're from Capcom...

Anyway, I know hardly anyone from this forum will be there, but hey, it was still worth a shot, wasn't it?

[TeamXlink]

Where is the Gamescom?

[Anthony817]

Its in Cologne, Germany every year. They have been showing off some AWESOME Battlefield 3 gameplay there, those Swedes at Dice sure do know how to shock and awe gamers.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FOYHL5tm1M[/youtube]

Definitely going to have to get this for PC, but the PS3 version looks great too, but I am a 360 gamer on consoles, and so far they have been hiding 360 footage, hope it is not a bad sign of lesser graphics, but I bet it is.

[Captain Dreamcast]

Its in Cologne, Germany every year. They have been showing off some AWESOME Battlefield 3 gameplay there, those Swedes at Dice sure do know how to shock and awe gamers.

As awesome as Battlefield 3 is, the average wait time of 9 hours wasn't worth it. For me at least, given the fact that every time I checked out the booth there were hundreds of people standing in line.

Man, that sure was a slow year. Absolutely no Dreamcast stuff going on. Sure, there was a lone Video Defender handing out Betas of a certain 2D Fighter along with business cards reading "Josh Tari - Dreamcast Developer (+Womanizer)", but apart from that, nothing.

Heck, it was pretty tough to explain to everyone what a DC actually is.

Question of the day: "Is Dreamcast the Beta's name"?


Apart from that... well... Sonic Generations, Street Fighter X Tekken, and Rayman: Origins were my favs this year. And they had wait times around 30 minutes or less, which is always a plus!

[Anthony817]

Yeah, if you didn't grow up with Sega, then you probably have no idea what a Dreamcast is, even though the system is not rare by any means, there were what like over 10 million units made, but to the average gamer, the Dreamcast is nothing.

Only true hardcore gamers own or even know what one is, and that is sad, but look on the bright side, it is better to have experienced the little system back in the heyday than to have never know the true beauty of the system.

Heck, my best friend came over the other day and witnessed my playing Shenmue 2, and he was like "God damn that still looks good to this day", so that really brought a smile to my face.

I do know a bunch of youngsters in the community(10-14 years old) that do have a Dreamcast though, and I tell them all I know to butter them up so they know how truly amazing the system is.

As long as we keep the Dream alive, it will not fade away, I think our community is actually stronger now than ever.

We got like 10 Half-Life PC mods ported to Dreamcast as stand alone games, have SD Adapters being mass produced in China, have thousands of people all over the world in the community that probably passively look at all these great sites and don't even post anything. Hell, this site and isozone still get new members every week asking for tips as it is, so its not dead by any stretch of the word.

Anyway, sorry for my ranting, you all know how I can go on and on from time to time haha. XD