Who here liked the Gamecube?

[SonicWaffle]

Ok so I notice that more than a lot of people I know bash the Gamecube. The biggest reason for this being that it had no good games.

People bash the 'cube? Morons. It was a great console. Though I have to admit, the first time I ever unpacked mine, the controller sat in the palm of my hand and my reaction was "WTF, they expect me to play with this? Do they think I have hands the size of a Barbie doll?"

As always with Nintendo controllers, though, it turned out to be brilliant once you got used to it.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requim, was one of the best; and unfortunately under-rated, games of it's day. Only on Gamecube.

Don't forget the brilliant remake of Resident Evil! For a console that people kept calling childish, it sure had some good horror games...

 

[SonicWaffle]

I still don't get the immense amount of hate for The Gamecube, I mean it's not like it was bad or anything, it just lacked good exclusive games, which even then is an exaggeration.

Nintendo was of course making a lot of good games for it, then there's "Eternal Darkness," can't for get that one and...

Um...

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Well, shit.

Edit: "Viewful Joe."

Um...

Rogue Leader, one of the best non-RPG Star Wars games ever made. An absolute bastard to earn all the medals on, though.

 

[Eumersian]

I loved the GC. RE4, Super Smash Bros., Super Mario Sunshine, Star Fox: Adventures (yeah, I liked it too), Metroid Primes 1&2, Metal Arms?

There were a lot of good games for that system.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

Ok so I notice that more than a lot of people I know bash the Gamecube. The biggest reason for this being that it had no good games. To this I call shinanigans. I freaking loved Smash Bros., Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door, and Wind Waker. I even liked Mario Sunshine and that Starfox game with the dinosaurs. Don't ask me why I liked them but I did. So I wanna know, did anyone like something from the Gamecube?

'Shenanigans'

Sorry I just needed to correct that...

I didn't own one but the times I played one it was great fun and quite ahead of its time.

It just didn't have the support of the PS2.

I second your shenanigans. The Gamecube and its games were the shit. That's what made the Wii so disappointing.

Im going to pistol whip the next person who says shenanigans.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I have many fond memories of playing these games on the Gamecube- Super Smash Brother Melee, Leged of Zelda: The Wind Waker (and LoZ OoT Master Quest), F-Zero GX, Phantasy Star Online episode 1 and 2, Super Mario Sunshire, Time Splitter 2 and 3,Viewtiful Joe, Gotcha Force (one of the most underated game ever), Beach Spiker, Star Wars Rouge Squardron 2 and Soul Calibur 2 (it freaking had Link)

 

[GeorgW]

I loved the Gamecube, one of my first consoles (may even have been first, but doubt it. My memory isn't all that good...). I hate the Wii though, a real shame. At least we have the 3DS coming, that's gonna be awesome!
The controller and CDs got some heat, and not without reason, but I don't really find it all that hated. The games were great, everybody knows that!

 

[traineesword]

I love the gamecube. its by far still my most favourite console. It was much easier to carry around than the PS2, and a lot of the best PS2 games didn't come out until the nearing end of that generation whilst the gamecube had experienced brilliant games throughout its lifetime.

The gamecube has so many of my childhood hours spent on it (this part of my childhood being just after my 9th birthday up til just after my 13th, however, it has continued to recieve a lot of love up to even now as a 17 year old).

I've have fond memories of games such as
Pokemon Collosseum
Harvest Moon: a Wonderful Life
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Megaman Network Transmission
Fire Emblem: path of Radiance
Ikaruga
Tales of Symhonia
Paper Mario: the thousand year door
Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
Pokemon XD: Gale of darkness
Mario kart: Double dash
Legend of Zelda: Four-sword adventures
(The) Mario Party (series)
(Sonic Heroes, Shadow the Hedgehog and Resident evil 4 aswell, but those also came out on PS2 at the same time... but i much prefer playing them on GC regardless )

and this is without stating the many re-vamped remakes such as the Resident Evil Series and the Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, which are also brilliant.

maybe i am just very bias though, i spent so many hours with my friends on so many of these games and would not have traded a minute of it. Sure, i've had fun with the PS2 and maybe thats even getting more use out of me at the moment (My friend had Persona 4, one of the few games worth playing left to be played by myself... also i need Shadow of the Collosus) yet i still have sunk so many more hours into the Gamecube... its just a brilliant console.

EXTRA- and i can still think of many games on the Gamecube i would love to play: the metroid trilogy for a start, Mario Sunshine... yes, i love the gamecube but have actually never played mario sunshine see how much more i've yet to experience!

 

[MegaMannZero]

Double Dash, Rogue Squadron, and.......XIII XD

 

[me.vicky]

I, and my boyfriend, both are Gamecube fans. And I still play Mario Sunshine to this day. After Mario Paint, it is my favourite game.

 

[Rusman]

Skies of Arcadia, Tales of Symphonia, and Eternal Darkness are all in my top 10 favourite games. And it also had Beyond Good and Evil, Time Splitter 2 and 3, Smash Bros. Metriod Prime 1 and 2. Fantastic console.
Plus it was super light and even had a handle on the back, helpful!

 

[Psychemaster]

Ok so I notice that more than a lot of people I know bash the Gamecube. The biggest reason for this being that it had no good games. To this I call shinanigans. I freaking loved Smash Bros., Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door, and Wind Waker. I even liked Mario Sunshine and that Starfox game with the dinosaurs. Don't ask me why I liked them but I did. So I wanna know, did anyone like something from the Gamecube?

The problem with all of the titles you've listed was they're all first party. Now, I have nothing against good first-party software, but the main issues with the Gamecube were twofold:
1. The third party support for it was pitiful at best - as you stated, most of the best titles were first party;
2. Nintendo's refusal to adopt the widespread storage format of the time: the DVD - by using a smaller disc they limited the space available for developers and made it very difficult for multi-platform releases to make it onto the console.

 

[kouriichi]

I loved my gamecube. I think one big reason was because it reminded me of my Dreamcast.

 

[Embz]

I love the gamecube, I still have mine and even bought another one in case it broke

 

[zHellas]

Mario Kart; Geist; Custom Robo; Mario Sunshine.

 

[MasterV]

It was good, I loved every second of playing games on it. But it sorely lacked in 3rd party support after a point and the PS2 pretty much destroyed it. No two ways around it.

 

[Exterminas]

I liked it, was a solid console with a decent graphic and a standard setup of nintento titles.

 

[traineesword]

The Gamecube is awesome, the slim version though kinda sucks.

was there a slim version? i did a google search and the closest thing it yeilded was a purple dreamcast, which i suppose you could mistake it for... unless of course you're using some code for the wii, which is still kinda misleading... Plus, the Wii is within itself a different console that is capable of playing gamecube games.

anyway, i mostly posted to just smile and express my joy for the love the gamecube is receiving. I'm glad so many others think its brilliant too, even if it can't play DVD's