is there a bigger historical revisionism than the gamecube?

is there a bigger historical revisionism than the gamecube?
people now see it as nintendo's best console, the peak of gaming and how it shaped the landscape of video games forever
when in reality it was a massive flop and the only influence it had was starting nintendo's obsession with moronic gimmicks

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's contrarianism - sold bad so it must be good

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm a Zoomer, grew up on the Wii and even I concede that the GameCube had a better library.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You are a contrarian zoomer.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It does. There are maybe five good Wii games. There are least ten good GameCube games.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >a better library than the Wagglemacchine
        aside from entertaining a few people in retirement homes, nothing good came out of the Wii

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The Wii had plenty of good games. The problem is nobody fricking bought them.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Please name some

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Brawl

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                you're trippin

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I get it

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Captain Rainbow, Disaster Day of Crisis, the good version of Rodea Sky Soldier, Elebits, Fragile, TvC, Earth Seeker, Little King's Story, 428, and this is off the top of my head and ignoring the Nintendo/Nintendo-adjacent games that actually sold well + the Project Rainfall games. There's a lot out there.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Dkc returns, Mario galaxy, Kirby’s epic yarn, animal crossing, okami, ssbb, rhythm heaven, punch out. Those are just the ones off the top of my head. The wii had a frick tonne of games so obviously most of them are shit but there’s still a lot of good ones.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The wii has the entire gamecube library out of the box, so it wins by default.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            why does nobody this argument for the 3DS having the entire DS library plus virtual console out of the box

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              nobody use*

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I do honestly. Exclusives have never been the end-all-be-all of a system, I mean Ys II is one of my favorite games of all time and there have been like 10 different versions of it

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the Wii had as much shovelware as the PS2 but not even half of it's gems
        it's just that it became the normies and "family" console due to novelty and focus on PG games
        WiiU got even worse
        frick, Nintendo thrives on nostalgia and menchildren

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Are you implying the Switch, Wii U, or Wii even remotely had a library of games as good as the Gamecube? It literally was their last good console and no one bought it oddly enough just like the Dreamcast which was Sega's best but also no one fricking bought it. I'd mention the Vita but I don't think I can win that argument even though I am passionate about that little handheld

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Wii
        No
        >Wii U
        No
        >Switch
        Yes

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Hmm. Maybe

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty much this.

      It was the Saturn of that generation and got you called a gay in Middle School.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What the frick kind of zoomer delusion is this?

        Oh, you mean from the poors who could only afford a PS2 because they begged their parents and told them it was a DVD player, or from the dickheads who only player Call o Duty shooters who don't matter?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's called having parents who enforced the age ratings and not having older siblings who already got a PS2 for Vice City.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    People changing their opinions on things isn't revisionism. Nobody is claiming the console didn't underperform.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I loved my GameCube at the time. Some of the games looked really good for the era and despite a small library it had a lot of bangers.
    As a supplement to your PS2 it was great. It in no shape or form replaced it however

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >bangers
      Of course a GameCube zoomie would say this.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm in my 40's and an oldgay anon. I'm just english

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I’m in my 40s
          Sure you are Jayden. Post proof

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Videogames, gay. And even if he did he'd be banned for 'doxing', I know, I've fallen for this stupid little trap.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Contrarianism + played by "people" who were born after the gamecube's release. I've seen someone claim the Wii U was only a flop by Nintendo standards.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    As with the n64, it was defined by a small number of high quality first party games that in theory could have been experienced on any hardware.

    I haven't seen anyone claim that it's the peak of anything other than the Smash series. But then again I don't watch youtube videos like the one you posted.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >gamecube games still being played professionally
    smash bros melee
    >ps2 games still being played professionally
    ???
    >xbox games still being played professionally
    ???

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >he doesn't know about the R&C3 comp scene
      >he doesn't know about the Shrek Superslam scene

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >meme games
        Who cares.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know about the R&C3 comp scene, that sounds sick.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If you use an emulator to play smash competitively, it cant be called a GameCube game. Especially using fan made patches.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Meleegays aren't human so it doesn't count.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    most people did not have a game cube in the 2000's it was the PS2 and xbox that was popular

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the shitbox only outsold the gamecube by 3 million units. PS2 whooped both their asses.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I remember it being 3rd place.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Gamecube had a solid library imo but PS2 was just built different.

    But the game had some cool stuff on it too, and the fact that Smash Bros Melee withstood 2 decades in the competitive scene is pretty bonkers though I think its finally start to die now.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >built different
      Frick off underage

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is not even historical revisionism, it’s just bullshit. It has a few gems, but so did the dreamcast. Nintendo saw it as a failure because it was a failure.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >this garbage is going to reach the bump limit a second day in a row
    God damn this place sucks

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >no you can't discuss video games on a video game board

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Good joke, dumbass. Enjoy the cubie vs anti-cubie shit. Really engaging stuff

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >all these anti-gamecube threads
    What eceleb was it this time?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      He's literally in the OP

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Saturn schizo got sick of obsessing over the N64 and has now moved on to shitting on the gamecube.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the kids who had one have grown to remember it fondly and sales were sufficient to form that kind of generational memory.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >that one kid who has a Gamecube
    "What's Halo?"
    "Mario isn't for kids."
    "What's an 'on-lyne'? Is that European for gay? LOL!"
    "I haven't even been invited to one party. What do you mean 'third'?"
    "My console has a handle so I can beat myself to death with it once I see the much larger library of the PS2"
    "Every console going forward will only have one analog stick"

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I played pso gc online on my GC and never used any online for xbox or ps2

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >"I haven't even been invited to one party. What do you mean 'third'?"
      lol

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What kind of "gimmick" did the gamecube even have? It was basically just a more powerful N64. The Wii is when Nintendo went full moron with the gimmicks and they've never recovered since.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Big old green button was the beginning of simplification for Nintendo, there are interviews with Nintendo developers who claim this.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the handle was the gimmick. Bring it everywhere!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      controllar

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It looks funy and has cartoon zelda

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The cube sucked ass and sold like shit, but it was part of gaming's peak, so naturally it's gonna be looked at fondly compared to today's slop

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nintendo gays are the biggest gays you'll ever find so of course theyll live the Crapcube and claim it's the best console.
    Same exact shit they do with the snes, n64,wii and switch.

    I'm more concerned why people would watch picrel considering the amount of bs he says

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The NES and SNES are amount the best consoles of all time though. The PS1/2 was their spiritual successor in terms of library. The N64, GC and Wii were enormous steps down though and cannot be considered the best of anything.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >The NES and SNES are amount the best consoles of all time though

        Gona have to stop you right there Tyrone.
        You dont need to say anything else. You already revealed your hand

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, it's called not having shit taste. Genesis games were largely turds with a few good gems here and there. NES is where all the best franchises emerged and have solid entries on their own merits if you aren't a graphics babby.

          The most games, the most genres = the best consoles. This is why N64 and GC were steps down. Cope and seethe segababby. Your version of Aladdin doesn't make up for anything

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            LOL holy fricking cope!

            Why are Nintendo morons all the same?
            It's always MUH chrono trigger! MUH star fox! MUH ff6 MUH f zero!

            Its after those that they start to run out of options as 90% of the snes library was censored downgraded bullshit with boarders at the top and bottom of the screen.

            The mega drive had hundreds of epic games on it ranging from sonic 123k, sor123, alien soldier, gain ground, golden axe 12, rocket knight adventures, gundtar heroes, dynamite heady, ssf2, mk etc etc.

            Just admit you owned a snes as a kid and are such a console loyalist that you cant admit it was a crap console with downgraded and censored games.

            I had a snes and mega drive as a kid and the snes was utter shit

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Some people prefer the Genesis
              Some people prefer the SNES
              However, deep down, we all know Israel is an apartheid state

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Because you had shit games for SNES. Poor selection. The games you listed as Genesis classics are run of the mill mediocrity; generic beat-em-ups, Contra wannabees, SF2/MK (which are shit), shit arcade ports, etc. And of course, gotta love that fart music and worse graphics.

              You are mentally ill, and the sheer list of SNES games completely fricking mogs your babby tier beat-em-ups.

              >Megadrive
              Ah yes, Europoors pretending they have a remotely decent opinion on videogames.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >sonic
              One of the most overrated franchises ever. EV-ER.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The NES/FC/FDS was the best console up to that point/in its time, but it set the new standard. Every subsequent console of note met or exceeded its library in terms of value. It's only a slightly larger software catalog than the SNES and has far more worthless shovelware. A lot of the software from the first ~3 years is either so insanely simplistic that it's only interesting as a historical footnote (most of the Nintendo no-brand sports games) or outright bad arcade ports.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Even the failures of the 6th generation were better than the peaks of nugaming.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PS2 is obviously the greatest console of all time but gamecube was also awesome in its own right. I don’t see how acknowledging this is contrarianism or revisionism.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >1:40

    why does this guy have like 8 wii-us?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Funny

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Gamecube was a fricking awful console and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t. The only reason it’s looked back on fondly is because it was Shitendo’s last traditional console.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Zoomers still seething that the shit they grew up with (wii, wii u, xbox 360, PS3, games, etc) are all ass compared to the previous generation ITT

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the 360 was leagues ahead of the shitcube

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Stop coping. Just let it go.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >zoomers grow up on gamecube
    >zoomers old enough to make youtube videos and post online about stuff
    >online discourse prominently features people saying the gamecube was the best nintendo console
    WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW IS THIS HISTORICAL REVISIONISM??? IS THIS THE israeliteS FELLOW GankerROS??? WHAT GREAT CNOSPIRACY IS THIS AAAAAAAAAAA IM LOSING IT

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why are we pretending gamecube is strictly a zoomer thing? I was born in 1992 and gamecube was a decent chunk of my youth lol.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nobody on Ganker knows what a zoomer actually is. It's all millenials projecting. People say fricking halo is a zoomer game. Meanwhile the people playing it were teens in the 00s, aka millenials.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It was one of the first consoles to release during my generations' birth. Granted it wasn't my first mine was a PS1. The gamecube was my second.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      millennials are experts at this
      see
      now they claim that it's was zoomer thing when zoomer were bare a year old when the gamecube was out

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Most zoomers who have fond memories of that console generation had older siblings who they likely watched play these games.

        t. millennial with a zoomer sister 10 years younger than me

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Is it that hard to imagine parents buying a 6 year old console for their kid, or getting one hand-me-down? Lots of millenials have NES/SNES nostalgia too

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Most millennials didn't even need the hand-me-downs to have SNES (or Genesis/Mega Drive) nostalgia, they got those consoles when they were new.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >They're now claiming Zoomers are from 1997

            Fricking hell "Generation" charts are moronic.

            Millennials, according to the moron who made this, don't even come in the millennium.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Millennials, according to the moron who made this, don't even come in the millennium.
              That was never the reason they were called millennials- they are called that because they are the generation born after Gen X that can remember the turn of the millennium happening

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Uh huh no.

                Millennials were called millennials because they grew up during the millennium.

                Of course all these generations groups are fricking arbitrary as frick besides "Boomers are post war baby boom", so the names slide around and had no consensus but if this is where its landed, its fricking moronic.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Millennials were called millennials because they grew up during the millennium.
                Your problem is that you saw the word, made up your own definition, and are now too stubborn to move away from it. Americans in general have this issue where you would rather stick to your proven ignorance than ever admit you're wrong.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No. You're just latching on to the most modern definition and attempting to memory hole all the past definitions because the fricking moronic idea that zoomers are from the 90s appeals to you.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >No. You're just latching on to the most modern definition and attempting to memory hole all the past definitions because the fricking moronic idea that zoomers are from the 90s appeals to you.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yes. Generation groups are a social construct, and they're not fricking decided by some c**ts at a government meeting or something, it comes because people come up with names to logically describe things, like Millennials being kids who grew up in the millennium.

                Fricking "Zoomers" was a term popularized by Ganker of all placed fricking hell.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No Black person you can just look it up millennials have always been the children of Gen X where the frick did you get the idea that they had to be children in the early 2000s seriously show me any article or paper pre-2015 giving that definition.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Of course all these generations groups are fricking arbitrary as frick besides "Boomers are post war baby boom"
                Not really. Generally speaking, people of the respective generations do tend to cluster together when it comes to cultural attitudes, ideas, political views etc. There will always be some outliers but the recent millennial vs "zoomer" culture clash highlights this in a way that will be definitively preserved thanks to the internet.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Whatever else you think, we can all agree that the Gamecube was a much better and more impactful console than the Neo Geo.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The neo geo has a much better library of games anon.

      Waku waku 7 on its own humiliates practically 80% of the crapcube library

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    More like gaycube

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i like the gamecube a lot, but i'll concede its not super influental. its a very niche console.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    As someone who actually thought it was that was because they were a dumbass 10 year old when it launched, it REALLY seemed that way in some circles. I barely knew anyone that had a PS2 until after PS3 had come out. I know better now but if I were to cling onto my nostalgia as gospel I'd be saying the same things too.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It has some of nintendo's best games on it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      such as?
      don't say sunshine

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Resident Evil 4

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You already know all of them, why should I list them all when you're just going to cope?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          no I'm going to be fair and unbiased

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            SSB Melee
            Luigi's Mansion
            LoZ Wind Waker
            LoZ Twilight Princess
            Pikmin 1 and 2
            Metroid Prime 1 and 2
            Mario Kart Double Dash
            Paper Mario TTYD
            F-Zero GX
            Animal Crossing
            Pokemon Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness
            Kirby Air Ride
            And yes, Mario Sunshine

            [...]
            [...]
            Mario and Zelda were at their absolute worst on GC and Wii. The only series that were elevated on GC were Smash and F-Zero, to a degree where we will never get something as good as them.

            Wrong

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              It has many of the best and most experimental entries in Nintendo's biggest IPs:
              >Melee
              An accidental masterpiece that's still being played competitively 20 years later
              >Luigi's Mansion
              >Pikmin
              The first entries series that are still unique
              >Metroid Prime
              A masterpiece and a perfect transition from 2D to 3D for Metroid
              >Animal Crossing
              SOVL
              I don't need to go over every game. The point is that it was the period when Nintendo was figuring out how to transition most of their IPs to 3D; however, they didn't have a template for IPs outside of Mario, Zelda, and Mario Kart, which had previously made the transition to 3D on the more limited N64. So they ended up doing things that you wouldn't see Nintendo do again until the Switch, the first home console in a while without a gimmick. Even Sunshine was different from 64, in the sense that it presented its levels as contiguous parts of a thematically consistent world. The Gamecube was the biggest jump most of Nintendo's series ever had to make.
              The best example of this is probably Star Fox, because it failed to make the transition to 3D - twice. Adventures and Assault both show the risks of what Nintendo was doing at the time through their flaws.

              The Gamecube was weird because Nintendo was willing to do weird shit like Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin or Chibi-Robo, or bring franchises into 3D that didn't get a chance to on the N64, like Metroid, and basically only Metroid, and some games were pretty great like Melee or F-Zero but their tentpole output was really half-baked.
              >Sunshine was a sequel that elicited "yeah it's Mario I guess" from critics, a far cry from 64 and later Galaxy's enormous acclaim
              >Double Dash was literally just "lmao two dudes on a car" and later, better Mario Karts would just streamline that later innovation by letting you hold multiple items
              >Wind Waker sent Nintendo as a whole into damage control from its reveal at Space World
              >as an inverse to Metroid Prime, Fire Emblem was fricking clunky and hideous despite being an SRPG that has less to worry about compared to an adventure FPS
              >Nintendo didn't even know what the frick it wanted out of some of its other franchises, Star Fox became an action adventure with Adventures and then tried going back to basics with Assault, Donkey Kong played the bongos, Nintendo Wars became a quasi third-person shooter RTS which was kinda neat I'll admit
              >Animal Crossing came out west though which was great

              On the flip side, Iwata was keen to recultivate third party relationships after the N64. JRPGs came back to Nintendo platforms, as well as third party developers in general. It was a big deal when Square-Enix announced Final Fantasy ports and new projects for GCN/GBA. Nintendo didn't forsee the rise of shooters in spite of being host to the most popular shooters of 5th gen, but it still got stuff like MoH, the then-new Call of Duty, EA's James Bond joints, and Timesplitters, and I'll admit my own personal fondness for Geist's single player.

              When it comes to actual Nintendo franchises, Gamecubegays are the apotheosis of rose-colored glasses to an obnoxious extent, but there was a lot of great stuff outside of the usual Mario/Zelda stuff.

              explained it better while i was typing this

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Melee

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Mario, Zelda, the list goes on...

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          such as?
          don't say sunshine

          It has some of nintendo's best games on it

          Mario and Zelda were at their absolute worst on GC and Wii. The only series that were elevated on GC were Smash and F-Zero, to a degree where we will never get something as good as them.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Mario and Zelda were both worse on Wii and Wii U.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Where or not Mario 3D World is better than Sunshine is up to taste. The latter is extremely unfinished.

              BOTW takes a steaming shit on WW, TP and SS. Despite all its flaws, it's the first good Zelda since Majora's Mask.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >BOTW takes a steaming shit on WW, TP and SS. Despite all its flaws, it's the first good Zelda since Majora's Mask.
                And... opinion discarded.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sunshine
        Pikmin 1 and 2
        Metroid Prime 1 and 2
        Kirby Airride
        Super Smash Bros. Melee
        LoZ: Wind Waker
        Animal Crossing
        Paper Mario: TTYD
        Resident Evil 4 (while it was an exclusive)
        I also heard F-Zero GX and the Fire Emblem games were the best of the respective series.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          SSB Melee
          Luigi's Mansion
          LoZ Wind Waker
          LoZ Twilight Princess
          Pikmin 1 and 2
          Metroid Prime 1 and 2
          Mario Kart Double Dash
          Paper Mario TTYD
          F-Zero GX
          Animal Crossing
          Pokemon Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness
          Kirby Air Ride
          And yes, Mario Sunshine
          [...]
          Wrong

          It's like a manchild/child molesters favourite games.....

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ohhh, this is a Sony cope thread.

    PS2 was the povo console and it was literally the weakest system.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Except it had the strongest library despite being the weakest, and conceding that it beat out N64 and GC has nothing to do with being a Sony fanboy. It's called being sane.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Hahaha yeah go back to playing God of Quick Time Events you fricking loser

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I hate that game, and I detest Sony first party exclusives. PS2 mogged in terms of third party support from varied developers. GC only had a handful of good third party games, and a handful of 1st party.

          SSB Melee
          Luigi's Mansion
          LoZ Wind Waker
          LoZ Twilight Princess
          Pikmin 1 and 2
          Metroid Prime 1 and 2
          Mario Kart Double Dash
          Paper Mario TTYD
          F-Zero GX
          Animal Crossing
          Pokemon Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness
          Kirby Air Ride
          And yes, Mario Sunshine
          [...]
          Wrong

          Most of those games are just okay, and PS2's number of good games demolishes that list. In fact, you just posted a standard list of what a GC owner's only options were. They're across a bunch of different genres as well, so if someone had a preference for that style of game they had nothing else.

          WW and TP are also shit by the way, and like Sunshine are only propped up by infants who owned a GC as their first console.

          >BOTW takes a steaming shit on WW, TP and SS. Despite all its flaws, it's the first good Zelda since Majora's Mask.
          And... opinion discarded.

          Your opinion is even more worthless then. Aonuma's cancerous game design became extremely apparently in this era. The most railroaded and handholding Zelda games, they're piss easy, terrible pacing, zero fun side content or upgrades, too many cutscenes, shit dungeons (other than TP), fetch quests, etc.

          They're dogshit, and BOTW brought Zelda back to being relevant, despite its huge issues like shit combat, copy pasted dungeons, and nonsensical garbage like it's implementation of weapon durability. Despite those flaws it is an infinitely better game than those GC and Wii turds, which killed Zelda.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It has a solid library if you're experiencing it all for the first time now, but when the system was new the games were drip-fed over the course of years, and there were so few genuinely high quality games that almost everyone who had a GameCube had basically the same library of games

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Are you describing the Switch?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No but nice meme

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Go on at prove me wrong.

          Switch, like the Wii, like the PS2, had thousands of mid to shovelware games, and only a small handful of games that most people actually wanted. Fricking, the Switch is noticeably abysmal since its mostly just a port/remake machine. What truly great game was made exclusively for the Switch... Mario Odyssey? And?...

          Half its top tier roster of Must Have games are Wii U ports, and nobody is calling that console a must own.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Half its top tier roster of Must Have games are Wii U ports, and nobody is calling that console a must own.
            It was popular on Ganker to say that it was, back before all its games were ported to Switch.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The GameCube was a cool piece of hardware that was sadly overshadowed by the PS2 and had to compete with the Xbox. Overall, a better library than the N64. The Wii is basically an overclocked GameCube with better memory management . The original models have built-in GameCube controller ports. The Wii-U's PPC CPU has some sort of 'Gamecube' compatibility mode that can be unlocked via modding. It's basically there because the Wii-U Has a Wii BC mode.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >It's basically there because the Wii-U Has a Wii BC mode.
      It's actually there because the gamecube backwards compatibility was supposed to be a feature but nintendo cut it because the price of a drive mechanism that could accept gamecube mini-dvds and normal ones would rise the cost of the console by 5$. I'm not kidding that's literally it. They cut it to save money.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I mean that's nothing unusual for Nintendo. Fact is Nintendo has literally NEVER gone two console generations in a row using the same medium as the media device, meaning that none of these consoles had compatible hardware. I mean the GBA's cartridge slot could accept GB/C cartridges but that was a handheld and it was also the one time. For the rest they needed an entire separate port. For the N64 and the GBC, it was to combat piracy, but I think the only reason they chose flash storage for the Switch despite it being way more expensive than disks was primarily because they didn't want to shove an entire CD port onto their console/handheld hybrid.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Discs are too slow as well. Ever had the misfortune to play physical Wii U games?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Sure but none of the third parties want to use the SD cards because they're too expensive. Even when they do use them, it's always the cheapest possible option forcing you to download the rest of the game onto your Switch anyway, rendering the entire idea of owning the physical game pointless.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The GC library is good, but the only reason people think it's meaningfully better than SNES or WiiU+Switch is because they grew up with one. It had a wider breadth of titles worth playing than N64 and Wii, so it comes off better in retrospect despite many of those titles being middling.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Calling the Gamecube Nintendo's best console has been a thing on Ganker for years. It was the last Nintendo console to compete directly with Sony and Microsoft before Nintendo gave up and started relying on gimmicks.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah, I don't really get it. I had one, and enjoyed several of its' flagship titles, but it didn't really have any staying power to me. Then again that was the first generation I became an idort. I ended up with a Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox all within a short amount of time of each other so my attention was divided across all three consoles.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Until the XBONE I don't think you can call any major console "bad." They all had at least enough games made specifically for them to justify the price tag. You have to get down into shit like the Jaguar before you find consoles without enough to back up the asking price.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I really liked f-zero gx, pso (with online), WW, REmake, RE zero, melee, prime 1 and twin snakes. It didn't have a lot of games but I loved them. It was Nintendo's Dreamcast.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    why its always gamecube babies

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You're an absolute moron

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >image contains many creative and risk-taking titles

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Video games, homosexual, VIDEO GAMES.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Chad Warden = epic mic drop. Chad Warden wasn't even an 'e-celeb'. He just dropped a few videos on youtube. Riled some 'fanboys up', made a few response videos to shut up his haters, and just balled out.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Congratulations, you are now old enough to feel the way about the Gamecube that your parents' generation felt about the SNES

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Shut the frick up moron the SNES was also a great system.

      Fricking 100% cope on the brain I swear

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Snoy consoles being good is a big revisionism

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    was he even around to remember how much of a non-factor nintendo was in that generation of consoles?
    if someone told me there were more people playing the 64 than the gamecube when the wii came out, i wouldn't doubt them.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Gamecube was weird because Nintendo was willing to do weird shit like Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin or Chibi-Robo, or bring franchises into 3D that didn't get a chance to on the N64, like Metroid, and basically only Metroid, and some games were pretty great like Melee or F-Zero but their tentpole output was really half-baked.
    >Sunshine was a sequel that elicited "yeah it's Mario I guess" from critics, a far cry from 64 and later Galaxy's enormous acclaim
    >Double Dash was literally just "lmao two dudes on a car" and later, better Mario Karts would just streamline that later innovation by letting you hold multiple items
    >Wind Waker sent Nintendo as a whole into damage control from its reveal at Space World
    >as an inverse to Metroid Prime, Fire Emblem was fricking clunky and hideous despite being an SRPG that has less to worry about compared to an adventure FPS
    >Nintendo didn't even know what the frick it wanted out of some of its other franchises, Star Fox became an action adventure with Adventures and then tried going back to basics with Assault, Donkey Kong played the bongos, Nintendo Wars became a quasi third-person shooter RTS which was kinda neat I'll admit
    >Animal Crossing came out west though which was great

    On the flip side, Iwata was keen to recultivate third party relationships after the N64. JRPGs came back to Nintendo platforms, as well as third party developers in general. It was a big deal when Square-Enix announced Final Fantasy ports and new projects for GCN/GBA. Nintendo didn't forsee the rise of shooters in spite of being host to the most popular shooters of 5th gen, but it still got stuff like MoH, the then-new Call of Duty, EA's James Bond joints, and Timesplitters, and I'll admit my own personal fondness for Geist's single player.

    When it comes to actual Nintendo franchises, Gamecubegays are the apotheosis of rose-colored glasses to an obnoxious extent, but there was a lot of great stuff outside of the usual Mario/Zelda stuff.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I liked how unhinged Sunshine and Double Dash felt presentation-wise. Galaxy and MKWii felt stiffer and safer to me, though I enjoy how moddable the latter is

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The "Why did you do this" stuff was all a result of not actually planning anything. Adventures was retooled late in dev to be Star Fox and Assault was an arcade game hastily retooled as a console game. The DK stuff was just applying the brand to mediocre games that otherwise wouldn't sell. Battalion Wars was only given that branding because Advance Wars did well internationally, it wasn't designed as a Wars spinoff from the jump.

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know why but I really hate this homosexual's face.

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it's just its turn on the nostalgia train, early 00's is suddenly super hip to zoomies!
    people are super fricking nostalgic for the atlantis cartoon now too, despite the movie being not much more than a footnote in disney history.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    gc > n64 > wii u > wii > switch

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      For me its:
      N64 = Wii > GCN > Wii U >>> Switch
      N64 was my first console so I may be biased

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >is there a bigger historical revisionism than the gamecube?
    Zoomers claiming GTA IV was good.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It was the dying breath of Nintendo before they became irredeemable

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The only problem gamecube had was the minidisk format, because of that most companies just didn't want to bother cutting half the games just to fit on one of those disks.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nintendo was too israeli to pay for the DVD licensing fee and they made their own cucked minidisc.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That guy was like 4 years old when the gamecube released, he doesn’t actually know anything about what he talks about aside from Wikipedia articles that anyone could look up.

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >dude only sales matter lmao

    You fricking moron. You absolute troglodyte if a human being.

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i liked it b***h

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The library just wasn't there and even though it technically had better specs than the ps2 the mini disks ensured textures would look worse in ports, and it had worse specs than the xbox anyway.
    It really says everything that even the newcomer xbox outsold it given the xbox was a hundred bucks more expensive, sold like shit outside of America, and was only promoted for four years before being killed for the 360.

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it was their last traditional console, and it had such a killer library of vidya. not like you would know a thing about it.

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I dare you to beat F-Zero GX on hard you little b***h. I played RE4 before you did.

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i still think the gamecube controller is the best controller design ever made till this day

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