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curl-6 on 26 January 2013
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Jumpin said:
curl-6 said:
ASStronaut said:
curl-6 said:
ASStronaut said:
Anyone that chooses a disc based system is a young ass kid or a fanboy

I'm not sure if it's permitted to call people that here, but I definitely agree that there's no way any  disc-based system is sturdier than the N64 or SNES.

I would say, based on the poll results, that most of the voters are young ass kids.

I have noticed a disproportionate amount of Gamecube love on these forums; it seems many users here spent their childhood and/or teens with one.

I have noticed that too in a lot of posts. Only through the callow eyes of a child could the Gamecube have seemed like any kind of a good console and a good time for Nintendo - rather than the darkest of the dark for Nintendo fans. It was the one console era where Nintendo abandonned innovation and general philosophy, and very deliberately focussed on the 12 and under market with a purple lunchbox console and a fisher-price controller, it could have been marketed as PS2 jr, and it would have made more sense than being Nintendo's main console.

Although I would guess it is mainly trolling from non-Nintendo fans trying to say that a bad Nintendo console is better than good Nintendo consoles, because most of the so-called Gamecube fans seem to be relatively anti-Nintendo. 

I wasn't around for the NES era,( grew up with the SNES in the early 90s) but the Gamecube was definitely the lowpoint of Nintendo's home consoles for me. There were some beacons of brilliance in the dark, like Metroid Prime, F Zero GX, and the incomparable Resident Evil 4, but it was sorely lacking 2D platformers, and even Mario and Zelda turned out poorly with the disappointing Sunshine and Wind Waker.

It wasn't a terrible console, but it failed to live up to what I expect from a Nintendo home system.