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DevilRising on 03 April 2013
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Virtual Boy shouldn't even be included on that list. It was a failed experiment with no more than 20 games ever released for it. It was Nintendo's one genuine "piece of shit" moment. They tried something they thought would be neat, but it wasn't, and it failed, as it deserved to.

Ignoring that though, I voted GC. It was a very good console, I liked the controller (except for the Z button and damn analog shoulder buttons....okay and the tiny ass dpad, but otherwise it was comfy). There were many great games I enjoy for it. But it was also the one Nintendo console I, for much of the generation, just didn't have much interest in. Mainly because, along with lack of funds at various times that gen, I also just plain didn't care for some of their more "experimental" releases in their main franchises. I don't HATE Mario Sunshine, but it certainly wasn't what I expected or wanted out of a Mario game. If they had made that exact same game, where you go around cleaning up goo with a water cannon, but it WASN'T Mario, instead some new IP, I might've liked it a lot more. But as a MARIO game went...I just wasn't feeling it.

With Wind Waker, I never really dug the art style, but more importantly, the game itself just wasn't what I was looking for in a Zelda game. Too much sailing, not enough actual Zelda. Twilight Princess came along later and proved to be the new Zelda game I'd been waiting for since Ocarina.

Mario Kart: Double Dash I can say I actually hated, from the beginning. I still gave it a try, but I hated the "Double Car" concept from the moment I heard of it, and just in general, from the pointless baby characters being introduced, to (what seemed to me like) the uninspired track designs, I just wasn't having it. It was a case of Mario Kart 64 being SUCH an amazing game, and Double Dash being just about the most underwhelming, disappointing sequel I could have possibly imagined. Hell, Super Circuit was awesome too. But not Double Dash. Unfortunately for me, MK Wii would have it's own problems too......here's hoping the NEXT console MK game finally gets it right again.

And then there was Star Fox: Assault. I'm not really going to go over Adventures, because I don't HATE that game, I just didn't care for it. It's not even a Star Fox game to me, it's Dinosaur Planet. Not bad, but not my thing. ASSAULT on the other hand? That game got me bad. I saw the trailers that only initially showed the actual Arwing (you know......STAR FOX type levels), and they looked amazing. The graphics were superb, the soundtrack was great, etc. It LOOKED like the Star Fox 64 sequel I had been dreaming of for years. Then I heard about the "get out and run around" missions. I wasn't happy about it, but I figured they'd be a very small part of the game, so if I got those awesome looking Arwing missions from the trailer, I could deal with it. But then I GOT the game, and fuck. Just FUCK. Turned out, about roughly 80% of the game (AT LEAST) was "get out and run around" missions, or some bullshit "get out and run around but you can get in vehicles too" garbage. Not only did those ground missions look FAR graphically worse, but they absolutely controlled like shit as well, and the missions themselves were monotonous. It just killed the entire game for me. I could've accepted the "meh" storyline about Aparoids or whatever. But Nintendo letting Namco make a Star Fox game turned out to be about as sound a decision as letting Team Ninja make a Metroid game.

Which by the way makes me incredibly uneasy that they're letting Namco help develop the next Smash Bros....

Anyway.....yeah. They just had some entries that generation that really turned me off as a longtime gamer. There were ALSO games I really loved, like Melee, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Pikmin, and Chibi Robo. All fantastic games. And I'll include Twilight Princess, because I had been waiting for it on GC, and that's the version I bought, and it was, and still is, the best 3D Zelda and best 3D action game I've ever played. Fitting swan song indeed.

BUT, I still have to rank GC lowest on the list, because I have loved and enjoyed their other consoles far more. Verdict is still out on 3DS, but I'm sure over the years it'll get more games I will actually want, and eventually when I have the $$$$ I'll get one. So sadly GC will probably maintain it's place. But it's still a good system.