Give Us Back The Old Nintendo (Nowgamer article)

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Boutros said:

I don't understand why someone would say that the Gamecube was a bad console.

Here's a quick list of awesome games:

Luigi's Mansion - Worst Mario themed launch game 

Pikmin - Great for certain audiences, much improved when you have a pointer

Super Smash Bros. Melee - Balance issues, glitches exploited, though overall amazing like the rest of the series, however Brawl addressed the first two issues

Animal Crossing - Many people love this game but it's home is on the portable system, the design is perfect for the portable game mindset

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Haven't played but heard it was cool) - Also heard this was a cool little game but the same problem everyone had... no one played it/bought it

Mario Party 4 - Mario Party on N64 was better

Metroid Prime - Clunky Controls

Star Fox Adventures - Not actually Star Fox

Super Mario Sunshine - Amazing game, but other Mario games have more fluid design

F-Zero GX - Amazing game, also this was Nintendo and Sega so one of those games that don't strictly fit first party

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Amazing game missing a lot of dungeons and difficulty 

Mario Kart: Double Dash‼ - Required even more ports than the GC had to offer to take advantage of the unique aspect of this game, so you had to go out and buy those useless Ethernet adaptors

Mario Party 5- Mario Party on N64 was better 

Wario World - Great game but not many people bought into it

Donkey Konga - Great concept with a pretty terrible track list

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures - This one is easy... 4 GC to GBA link cables and 4 GBAs required... nuff said

Mario Party 6- Mario Party on N64 was better

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - Now there's clunky controls AND an annoying dark world

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door - Quite possibly the best GC game and best RPG last gen

Pikmin 2 - Same thing as Pikmin 1

Battalion Wars - No where near the appeal of the Advance Wars series and was improved ten fold with the Wii

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat - No one bought the bongos as it is and many aren't gonna pay more than they have to for a game

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - So hardcore that it punches your hardcore balls off

Mario Party 7- Mario Party on N64 was better

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Same game was put on the Wii with controls that immersed you, Wii had a lot more backing of excitement

 

And then there's also some cool third-party games:

Skies of Arcadia Legends - Dreamcast game

Tales of Symphonia - People loved it *shrug*

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Same issue as Four Swords

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean - Not a game for everyone 

Baten Kaitos Origins - Not a game for everyone 

And you missed the biggest Third party game to come to the console RE4 even if it was ported to PS2

Not exactly sure who called Gamecube a bad console here but there were plenty of haters last gen and they all ignored the GC users with their "kiddy" games gonna try to help you with that list though, my comments are in bold, but the majority of the problems consist of people having no interest or there are better versions else where, either there was a better N64 title or there's an improved Wii port/sequel, F-zero GX is one of those few games that doesn't fit that but it also sold like shit so no one really paid attention to it.

Hopefully this helps address why people say GC was Nintendo's slump