Gamecube hate?

[ShankHA32]

I dont understand peoples fixation with the PS2 to be perfectly honest. I thought the gamecube was my awesome little speedracer that made the best games for me, and i loved each one to death.

I felt the PS2 just spewed games at me, trying very hard to make me like it, when i just turned back to playing RE4 for the 400th time.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The Gamecube had a couple of great games, but for the most part, its library was composed of either high-level crap or decent-to-great games that were also on other consoles.

It didn't suck, but it certainly came close.

 

[gim73]

Your list isn't bad, and you bring up some points, but I'll have to counter:

Mario Sunshine deserves to be a mario game about as much as Mario 2 did. It was the sad token mario game that followed Mario 64, and was waiting to grow up to Mario universe.

Zelda windwalker: again a valley of talent, where as the 64 gave us ocarana of time (awesome game) and majoras mask (good enough), this was a dismal failure in the long line of zelda greatness. At least Twilight princess was much better.

Skies of Arcadia: Ported to the gamecube from the dreamcast.
PSO: Once again, ported from the dreamcast.

Viewtiful Joe: this guy made it to the PS2, a better, backwards compatable system

There is no doubt that smash brothers and metroid were the high points for the system. Personally, I would place Tales of Symphonia as a reason to get the system. I loathe that japan got a ToS release for the ps2.

However, on that note, once again nintendo failed to get good third party support, especially in the RPG department. The ps1 and ps2 DOMINATED the rpg department for their entire lifetimes. N64 and gamecube did nothing to encourage quantity or quality coming out. They abandoned quality rpg's on these systems entirely and released rpg's on handheld systems.

Do I hate the gamecube? no, I hate nintendo for failing me during the N64 era, and not fixing it's flaws in the gamecube era, and I continue to hate them for making the Wii even less appealing. For a company who had it all figured out during the NES/SNES era, they have had to market their systems almost entirely by their first party releases. Backwards compatability and built in cd/dvd player helped rocket the sales of sony and microsoft past them.

Also that generation had a weird price coincidence where all three systems were going for roughly the same price. Compared to today where the ps3 is horribly overpriced, the Wii is practically a steal and the Xbox 360 is comfortably in the middle, we see the effects of the declining economy on choice of video game systems. Wii gets bought more by parents because it's cheaper. Xbox gets bought more by gamers with their own income because it has the best selection of games. Level the playing field by making price reletively the same and you get alot of hate for the gamecube because the ps2 and xbox had so many more good exclusive games. I might have bought the gamecube for a game like KotOR or Morrowind, but nintendo probably would have butchered them.

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

It's the only console I had last generation (but I eventually got a PS2) and I was perfectly happy. It's probably because of the lack of online play. Very few games had online play and all of their servers have been shut down.

Anyone else think that the GameCube controller looks like a robot barfed?

 

[Draco Kaiser]

It was my first console ever.

 

[AvsJoe]

I agree that the GameCube doesn't deserve the hate that's being piled on to it lately, but it didn't do anything special in terms of innovation. It was kinda just... there. I'm not gonna say anything stupid like it didn't compete with the Xbox or the PS2, but it didn't do anything to stand out of the crowd. I loved it, but it's still my least favourite console of the generation.

 

[jboking]

OP: The way I see it, people hate the gamecube for one of two reasons. One, they never owned one. Two, they owned another of the current gen consoles and could never get over the weaker graphics of the cube.

360, PS3 and Wii are current gen.

See that it was in reference to gamecube, so when I say another of the current gen consoles, it refers to that time frame. So a ps2, xbox, dreamcast, or pc.

ps. Did you honestly not get what I was saying? If you did then why bother responding in that manner?

 

[Zombie Nixon]

What's a gamecube?

 

[Terminal Remedy]

Personally, I loved the Gamecube. The controller was great, the console was small and didn't way 9 pound *cough* xbox *cough* and, over all, functioned great. But I think the only reason most people hated it was because of the game library, which I must admit, wasn't too great. I mean sure, there was Zelda, Metroid, Mario, resident evil, etc, but these few great games couldn't hold up the console by itself. Other publishers were busy creating more and more games for the other consoles. The gamecube's "childlike" appeal mostly repelled away most grittier company's who moved to the xbox or PS2. So is it the systems fault? No, nor is it Nintendo's fault. Publishers decide which console their games are on, over all that choice decides the fate of those consoles.

 

[Tanfastic]

I loved my gamecube almost as much as I love my Wii. HOWEVER Playstation does infact get last place, xbox is made of 100% win.

 

[PirateKing]

The GameCube was the first of the last generation consoles that I bought. I loved it. Great games. It introduced me to the MGS series.
It's hard for me to say which is better, but I'd have to go with the GameCube over the PS2. The main thing the PS2 had for me was Ratchet and Clank.

 

[Dommyboy]

The main reason my friends gave me that the Gamecube wasn't good was because it didn't have Halo. I found that the Gamecube had far better single player games in comparison to the competitors of the last gen.

 

[gim73]

It's the only console I had last generation (but I eventually got a PS2) and I was perfectly happy. It's probably because of the lack of online play. Very few games had online play and all of their servers have been shut down.

Anyone else think that the GameCube controller looks like a robot barfed?

meh, the controller wasn't BAD.

Then again, look at the N64 controller. That thing was designed for people with THREE HANDS!!!!!! And there were companies out there with the GAUL to make games that required you to use all the buttons on the controller at the SAME TIME. SNES had an easy to use controller that has generally been accepted as all around greatness. I have no problem with the standard dual shock design controller. As long as the controller's cord is long enough, I can handle many things. Nobody likes a 3 foot long cord.

Oh, online play wasn't really that big of a deal in that generation. Back then people still played in lans and generally played PC games if they wanted online content.

 

[Jimmyjames]

I loved Gamecube. Great little system, and typical for Nintendo wasn't over designed or overcomplicated. Wii is basically a glorified gamecube, minus the Wiimote.

 

[NintenTim64]

I certainly enjoyed playing my 'cube. I feel that it has a bit more originality and creativity in its games compared to other consoles, and it was certainly better than the Wii, simply because games could revolve around playing like its an actual console (which it was) rather than gimmicky hand movements.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

I loved the Gamecube more than any other system because of one thing

ETERNAL DARKNESS SANITY'S REQUIEM

 

[axia777]

I loved my Cube but I generally just felt burnt by Nintendo. The few games that were great made me happy but it really was not a well supported system.

 

[accountant]

Weeeeee, fanboy frenzy!

 

[Deleted]

I think its the design. Silver box shoulda been standard the purple look ridiculous.