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curl-6 on 20 August 2016
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Nuvendil said:
curl-6 said:

Yeah, the Gamecube is Nintendo's least impressive console in my opinion. Amazing hardware, lacklustre software. As an SNES/N64 kid, I felt really let down by it. It has some real gems, but I think nostalgia and hipster culture places it in higher regard than it deserves.

I disagree as an N64/SNES kid :P .  I thought it was very good.  I think that nostalgia and hipster culture elevate the N64 higher than it deserves.  Not cause it's bad, it isn't.  But whenever I hear people say that Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Golden Eye, and other games in that vein "haven't aged a day," it really bothers me.  I'm playing the 3DS version of OoT and it has clearly, badly aged.  If Nintendo launched a new Zelda with characters written like OoT and the ammount of vast, empty space with absolutely nothing in it they would be drawn and quartered.  Cause the characters are as engaging as cardboard boxes with silly faces and Hyrule Field, while an impressive achievement on the system, is a desolate void.  Shoot, people wanted to hang Nintendo over the Sky in Skyward Sword and yet Hyrule Field in OoT is better?  And don't get me started on the camera control in these games.  Just saying, so much of the hype over N64 I don't get.  I loved mine, but I think a lot of the praise it gets *now* is unwarranted.  

N64 has definitely aged the least gracefully of Nintendo's systems, but games like Mario 64, Starfox 64, and Ocarina of Time felt like true epics, overflowing with raw ambition, while their GCN followups felt watered down by comparison. (Pardon the pun :p)