bouzane said:
Jumpin said:
Byclop said:
Luigis Mansion, Wave Race, Rouge Leader, Starfox Adventure, Eternal Darkness, RE Remake, RE Zero, MGS Twin Snakes, Metroid Prime, Zelda WW, Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart DD, F Zero GX, Metroid Prime 2, SW Rebel Strike, RE 4, FF CC, Tales Phantasia, Baten Kaitos, Pikmin, Smash bros Melee, Paper Mario 2, Animal Crossing, Mario P Tennis, Fire Emblem.......and still claiming the GC was a bad console? WOW guys...seriously... |
This is a list of mainly sub-par series entrees (Mario Kart Double Dash, Mario Sunshine, F-Zero Cube, Wave Race Cube), along with bad games that GameCube supporters like to pretend were good in order to fluff up lists like these (Eternal Darkness, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Luigi's Mansion, "Rogue" Leader), and games that didn't even exist on the system (Tales of Phantasia).
This was the thing about the GameCube, even the few actually good games it had (like RE4, Animal Crossing) were better and more popular on other consoles. You also had to put up with the weirdest and least functional controller ever released: tiny d-pad that was essentially unusable, shoulder buttons that were very unresponsive, a trigger button that no one can even find, and face buttons that you can never transition between because of that giant green button in the middle. Try using that controller on the Wii, it is impossible to play many SNES and N64 games because required button combos are impossible: Mario World is a good place to start.
I don't even think that GameCube is only the worst console Nintendo released, I think it is the worst console ever released that sold over 10 million units. It is the only console that has no classics; and that list above is evidence, since not one game that can be counted a classic is listed on it; the closest it gets are a very small handful of bad ports that are considered classics on other consoles - or in the case of RE4, a game vastly improved upon when released on other consoles (Wii and PS2).
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Double Dash was sub-par? It was probably the best game in the entire series when it was released, it towered over the laughably bad Mario Kart 64. I also don't understand the hate for F-Zero GX, that was simply a masterpiece. Eternal Darkness may have been ugly and a little wonky in terms of controls but it was easily one of the most compelling horror games I have ever played. What about Ikaruga, Future Perfect, Soul Calibur II, Killer7, Viewtiful Joe and the under-appreciated Serious Sam: Next Encounter?
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You're right, I gave Mario Kart Double Dash too much credit; it was easily the worst and most broken Mario Kart game in the series - one of the two bad Mario Kart games (the GBA one was bad too, but not as bad). Terrible, short, and unmemorable tracks; a weapons system that is broken; and the whole double-racer Kart idea was one of the dumbest ideas Nintendo ever brought into a game, and just worsened the overpowered weapon problem. Mario Kart 64 was the best game in the series until Mario Kart DS, and it has many memorable tracks that will be in many future games; on the latest 3DS version, they brought two Gamecube tracks over and they are the worst tracks in the game - the boat is the worst track I played in the last 3 games.
Soul Calibur 2 was easily the worst main series Soul Calibur game - and hardly playable with a Gamecube controller; even Link couldn't save the Gamecube version from being the worst to play. The Single Player mode was MUCH less interesting than the original Soul Calibur on Dreamcast. It was overall a very disappointing game.
Ikaruga (Radiant Silvergun was SOOOO much better), Eternal Darkness, and Viewtiful Joe are even more overrated than the overrated Wii titles like Madworld, Zack and Wiki, and No More Heroes. I'll give it Eternall Darkness had an interesting idea (Insanity Meter and various historical eras), but it was very poorly executed and nothing was really added to the enjoyment of the game with either of those additions - it was just a bad survival and horror game, and quite possibly the most overrated game ever released on a Nintendo console.
I haven't played Killer 7, but it looks like just another bad game for angry 10 year olds who hate their mom, by the No More Heroes developers.
I only played F-Zero GX for about 10 minutes, but I was bored long before I was finished...
I haven't even heard of the other two game, let alone played them.
All of these games (except Soul Calibur 2), had they been released on any other console besides the Gamecube, would have been considered shovelware.
