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Least favorite?

NES 16 2.50%
 
SNES 45 7.03%
 
N64 39 6.09%
 
GCN 66 10.31%
 
Wii 196 30.63%
 
Gameboy 17 2.66%
 
Gameboy Color 15 2.34%
 
Gameboy Advance 16 2.50%
 
DS 11 1.72%
 
Virtual Boy 219 34.22%
 
Total:640
Mensrea said:
Gamerace said:
Gamecube. Worse 1st party offerings and why else buy a Nintendo system?

Personally I love the Wii and it's controls.


Worst first party offerings?

 

Let's examine that statement.

 

Metroid Prime 1+2>>>Metroid Prime 3+ Other M

Wind Waker>>>Skyward Sword

F-Zero GX>>>________

Pikmin 1+2>>>>>>________

Thousand year Door>>>>Super Paper Mario

Wave Race>>>>>___________

Melee>>>Brawl

Sunshine<<<<

So really Mario was the only first party title that improved........

New Super Mario Bros Wii > _______________

Donkey Kong Country Returns > Jungle Beat

Xenoblade > ___________

Galaxy 1 & 2 >>>>> Sunshine

Wii Twlight Princess > GC one

Skyward Sword > Wind Waker

Metroid Prime Trilogy > Prime 1 and 2

MKWii > Double Dash

Excit Truck & Excitebots > _______________

Punch-Out > ____________

Wii Sports Resort > ___________

__________ > Starfox Adventures and Assault

 

Nintendo's 1st party efforts on GCN nearly made me leave them.



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If your going to count titles like excitetruck....

 

NSMBWii is really not better than anything, but I guess I'll give it to you?

DKCR is a fantastic game, that is a win for the Wii.

Xenoblade didn't go against nothing. Baten Kaitos is a fantastic game. Gamecube had more JRPG's, just not all of them were first party. 

Wii Twilight Princess is better how? I can press a button in the gamecube edition, but I have to waggle my arm to do a sword swing that doesn't register half the time? It's a terrible Zelda game anyway, but regardless that point is moot.

Skyward Sword>Wind Waker????! No, just no. Skyward Sword is an atrocitiy plain and simple. Most fans agree. If you liked it fine, but it's generally considered the worst 3D Zelda. Wind Waker is better in just about every way. 

You can't count Metroid Prime trilogy. It is 2 gamecube games. It's not a new first party offering. Compare the games that were made for their respective systems. Cube had 2 of the top 3 metroid games of all time. It wins easily.

Eternal Darkness>>>___________

How is MKWii better than double dash? Frankly I call that a was because Mario Kart is pretty much good regardless of platform.

 Wii Sports Resort is casual garbage, to even bring that up is a point for the cube.

The starfox games aren't bad enough to subtract points for the system. Some decent games are better than no games at all.

 

You failed to even mention pikmin.

Luigi's Mansion>_____

you failed to mention wave race

Wave Race+F-Zero>>Excitetrucks

It's really a pretty easy choice...




For me it is the Gameboy. I had already played my friends Atari Lynx in 1990 before I first played the Gameboy, and after that experience I just could never get used to black and white graphics.

That is also a similar experience to the Wii for me. After playing HD games on the 360 and even the original Xbox, I just could never go back to SD graphics. Of course, I did play some Wii games, it was just never my main system.

The Virtual Boy is fun, but obviously the library is VERY limited. I recall seeing an entire end cap of Virtual Boy systems at Toys R US in 95-96 for $19.99 each. I wish I would have bought all of them. One of the retro stores in Osaka has a Virtual Boy demo kiosk that still works!



Mensrea said:

If your going to count titles like excitetruck....

 

NSMBWii is really not better than anything, but I guess I'll give it to you?

DKCR is a fantastic game, that is a win for the Wii.

Xenoblade didn't go against nothing. Baten Kaitos is a fantastic game. Gamecube had more JRPG's, just not all of them were first party. 

Wii Twilight Princess is better how? I can press a button in the gamecube edition, but I have to waggle my arm to do a sword swing that doesn't register half the time? It's a terrible Zelda game anyway, but regardless that point is moot.

Skyward Sword>Wind Waker????! No, just no. Skyward Sword is an atrocitiy plain and simple. Most fans agree. If you liked it fine, but it's generally considered the worst 3D Zelda. Wind Waker is better in just about every way. 

You can't count Metroid Prime trilogy. It is 2 gamecube games. It's not a new first party offering. Compare the games that were made for their respective systems. Cube had 2 of the top 3 metroid games of all time. It wins easily.

Eternal Darkness>>>___________

How is MKWii better than double dash? Frankly I call that a was because Mario Kart is pretty much good regardless of platform.

 Wii Sports Resort is casual garbage, to even bring that up is a point for the cube.

The starfox games aren't bad enough to subtract points for the system. Some decent games are better than no games at all.

 

You failed to even mention pikmin.

Luigi's Mansion>_____

you failed to mention wave race

Wave Race+F-Zero>>Excitetrucks

It's really a pretty easy choice...

No GCN JRPG is as good as Xeoblade though.

TP Wii had faster and more efficient aiming thanks to the pointer, and swinging the remote felt more fun than a button tap. Widescreen too.

Wind Waker is an awful Zelda; half-baked dungeons, and suicide-inducing sailing. Skyward Sword's better level/puzzle designs and 1:1 sword control give it an easy win.

MKWii is better than DD because it has better handling, Karts no longer control like friggin' dune buggies.

Wii Sports Resort is a very good game, it was lots of fun and groundbreaking in its 1:1 motion control.

And the GCN Starfox games weren't decent, they were absolute garbage.

F Zero GX, Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime were the only GCN first party games that lived up to Nintendo's usual sky-high standards, while the Wii had the better version of Prime and TP, along with Galaxy 1 & 2, Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country, and Xenoblade. Even if you discount the multiplats between them that's 6 masterpieces on Wii to 3 on GCN.



curl-6 said:
Mensrea said:

If your going to count titles like excitetruck....

 

NSMBWii is really not better than anything, but I guess I'll give it to you?

DKCR is a fantastic game, that is a win for the Wii.

Xenoblade didn't go against nothing. Baten Kaitos is a fantastic game. Gamecube had more JRPG's, just not all of them were first party. 

Wii Twilight Princess is better how? I can press a button in the gamecube edition, but I have to waggle my arm to do a sword swing that doesn't register half the time? It's a terrible Zelda game anyway, but regardless that point is moot.

Skyward Sword>Wind Waker????! No, just no. Skyward Sword is an atrocitiy plain and simple. Most fans agree. If you liked it fine, but it's generally considered the worst 3D Zelda. Wind Waker is better in just about every way. 

You can't count Metroid Prime trilogy. It is 2 gamecube games. It's not a new first party offering. Compare the games that were made for their respective systems. Cube had 2 of the top 3 metroid games of all time. It wins easily.

Eternal Darkness>>>___________

How is MKWii better than double dash? Frankly I call that a was because Mario Kart is pretty much good regardless of platform.

 Wii Sports Resort is casual garbage, to even bring that up is a point for the cube.

The starfox games aren't bad enough to subtract points for the system. Some decent games are better than no games at all.

 

You failed to even mention pikmin.

Luigi's Mansion>_____

you failed to mention wave race

Wave Race+F-Zero>>Excitetrucks

It's really a pretty easy choice...

No GCN JRPG is as good as Xeoblade though.

TP Wii had faster and more efficient aiming thanks to the pointer, and swinging the remote felt more fun than a button tap. Widescreen too.

Wind Waker is an awful Zelda; half-baked dungeons, and suicide-inducing sailing. Skyward Sword's better level/puzzle designs and 1:1 sword control give it an easy win.

MKWii is better than DD because it has better handling, Karts no longer control like friggin' dune buggies.

Wii Sports Resort is a very good game, it was lots of fun and groundbreaking in its 1:1 motion control.

And the GCN Starfox games weren't decent, they were absolute garbage.

F Zero GX, Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime were the only GCN first party games that lived up to Nintendo's usual sky-high standards, while the Wii had the better version of Prime and TP, along with Galaxy 1 & 2, Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country, and Xenoblade. Even if you discount the multiplats between them that's 6 masterpieces on Wii to 3 on GCN.


no the hell they weren't -_-

 

atleast not Starfox Adventures

 

how the fuck was it garbage?



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enditall727 said:
curl-6 said:
Mensrea said:

If your going to count titles like excitetruck....

 

NSMBWii is really not better than anything, but I guess I'll give it to you?

DKCR is a fantastic game, that is a win for the Wii.

Xenoblade didn't go against nothing. Baten Kaitos is a fantastic game. Gamecube had more JRPG's, just not all of them were first party. 

Wii Twilight Princess is better how? I can press a button in the gamecube edition, but I have to waggle my arm to do a sword swing that doesn't register half the time? It's a terrible Zelda game anyway, but regardless that point is moot.

Skyward Sword>Wind Waker????! No, just no. Skyward Sword is an atrocitiy plain and simple. Most fans agree. If you liked it fine, but it's generally considered the worst 3D Zelda. Wind Waker is better in just about every way. 

You can't count Metroid Prime trilogy. It is 2 gamecube games. It's not a new first party offering. Compare the games that were made for their respective systems. Cube had 2 of the top 3 metroid games of all time. It wins easily.

Eternal Darkness>>>___________

How is MKWii better than double dash? Frankly I call that a was because Mario Kart is pretty much good regardless of platform.

 Wii Sports Resort is casual garbage, to even bring that up is a point for the cube.

The starfox games aren't bad enough to subtract points for the system. Some decent games are better than no games at all.

 

You failed to even mention pikmin.

Luigi's Mansion>_____

you failed to mention wave race

Wave Race+F-Zero>>Excitetrucks

It's really a pretty easy choice...

No GCN JRPG is as good as Xeoblade though.

TP Wii had faster and more efficient aiming thanks to the pointer, and swinging the remote felt more fun than a button tap. Widescreen too.

Wind Waker is an awful Zelda; half-baked dungeons, and suicide-inducing sailing. Skyward Sword's better level/puzzle designs and 1:1 sword control give it an easy win.

MKWii is better than DD because it has better handling, Karts no longer control like friggin' dune buggies.

Wii Sports Resort is a very good game, it was lots of fun and groundbreaking in its 1:1 motion control.

And the GCN Starfox games weren't decent, they were absolute garbage.

F Zero GX, Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime were the only GCN first party games that lived up to Nintendo's usual sky-high standards, while the Wii had the better version of Prime and TP, along with Galaxy 1 & 2, Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country, and Xenoblade. Even if you discount the multiplats between them that's 6 masterpieces on Wii to 3 on GCN.


no the hell they weren't -_-

 

atleast not Starfox Adventures

 

how the fuck was it garbage?

The flight sections were a joke. They were too short and lacked challenge or variety.

The on-foot stuff was like Zelda after a lobotomy, with all the intelligence and elegance stripped out and replaced by generic, by-the-number puzzles, and one-dimensional combat that boiled down to pessing A while enemies attacked one at a time.

The voice acting was ear-bleedingly bad, with Prince Tricky being particularly awful.



curl-6 said:
Mensrea said:

If your going to count titles like excitetruck....

 

NSMBWii is really not better than anything, but I guess I'll give it to you?

DKCR is a fantastic game, that is a win for the Wii.

Xenoblade didn't go against nothing. Baten Kaitos is a fantastic game. Gamecube had more JRPG's, just not all of them were first party. 

Wii Twilight Princess is better how? I can press a button in the gamecube edition, but I have to waggle my arm to do a sword swing that doesn't register half the time? It's a terrible Zelda game anyway, but regardless that point is moot.

Skyward Sword>Wind Waker????! No, just no. Skyward Sword is an atrocitiy plain and simple. Most fans agree. If you liked it fine, but it's generally considered the worst 3D Zelda. Wind Waker is better in just about every way. 

You can't count Metroid Prime trilogy. It is 2 gamecube games. It's not a new first party offering. Compare the games that were made for their respective systems. Cube had 2 of the top 3 metroid games of all time. It wins easily.

Eternal Darkness>>>___________

How is MKWii better than double dash? Frankly I call that a was because Mario Kart is pretty much good regardless of platform.

 Wii Sports Resort is casual garbage, to even bring that up is a point for the cube.

The starfox games aren't bad enough to subtract points for the system. Some decent games are better than no games at all.

 

You failed to even mention pikmin.

Luigi's Mansion>_____

you failed to mention wave race

Wave Race+F-Zero>>Excitetrucks

It's really a pretty easy choice...

No GCN JRPG is as good as Xeoblade though.

TP Wii had faster and more efficient aiming thanks to the pointer, and swinging the remote felt more fun than a button tap. Widescreen too.

Wind Waker is an awful Zelda; half-baked dungeons, and suicide-inducing sailing. Skyward Sword's better level/puzzle designs and 1:1 sword control give it an easy win.

MKWii is better than DD because it has better handling, Karts no longer control like friggin' dune buggies.

Wii Sports Resort is a very good game, it was lots of fun and groundbreaking in its 1:1 motion control.

And the GCN Starfox games weren't decent, they were absolute garbage.

F Zero GX, Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime were the only GCN first party games that lived up to Nintendo's usual sky-high standards, while the Wii had the better version of Prime and TP, along with Galaxy 1 & 2, Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country, and Xenoblade. Even if you discount the multiplats between them that's 6 masterpieces on Wii to 3 on GCN.

If you are going to disregard Wind Waker, then I'm distregarding Skyward Sword. In no way is SS better than WW. It's linear, has forced motion controls that add nothing, is loaded to the gills with filler, is uglier than WW, has no good sidequests, and a weak story.

WW combat is better thanks to parry system. SO much to explore, and so much to explore that is completely optional. Excellent sidequests. A simple, yet good story with the best gannondorf in the series. To top it all off, it's the best looking Zelda in the series. The dungeons get the slight edge in SS, but really it's not by a wide margin. They are all excellent. Also, lol Fi ruined the game in a lot of ways. No annoying guide in WW. 

As far as JRPG's god, Baten Kaitos is about as good of a game as Xenoblade, sure it's not quite there, but it's right up there. You can't just discredit it.  Cube also has a lot more JRPG's, and they are all pretty damn good.

TP swinging was not more fun than a button tap at all. It was fun for five minutes, but it was a gimmick that I wished I could have turned off.

Better handling? I didn't notice that at all. That is a wash like I said before.

Wii sports resort is not a really good game. It's casual garbage. I played all the minigames once, and then put it down. It merely used 1:1 motion, it's not like it used it in a way that benefitted fun gameplay. It was a glorified tech demo.

I wouldn't say absolute garbage, but alright. 

So let's count the "Masterpieces"

GCN has: Metroid Prime 1, Metroid Prime 2, Eternal Darkness, F-Zero GX, Wind Waker, Pikmin 2,

Wii has: Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 Xenoblade and Donkey Kong Country and I guess we'll count these even though I think they suck Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword

So am I missing something here? Cube had just as many "masterpieces", and they were IMO much higher quality.




curl-6 said:

And the GCN Starfox games weren't decent, they were absolute garbage.

StarFox Adventures is super awesome. It is one of the best games i played on a 6th gen console.



curl-6 said:
enditall727 said:
curl-6 said:
Mensrea said:

If your going to count titles like excitetruck....

 

NSMBWii is really not better than anything, but I guess I'll give it to you?

DKCR is a fantastic game, that is a win for the Wii.

Xenoblade didn't go against nothing. Baten Kaitos is a fantastic game. Gamecube had more JRPG's, just not all of them were first party. 

Wii Twilight Princess is better how? I can press a button in the gamecube edition, but I have to waggle my arm to do a sword swing that doesn't register half the time? It's a terrible Zelda game anyway, but regardless that point is moot.

Skyward Sword>Wind Waker????! No, just no. Skyward Sword is an atrocitiy plain and simple. Most fans agree. If you liked it fine, but it's generally considered the worst 3D Zelda. Wind Waker is better in just about every way. 

You can't count Metroid Prime trilogy. It is 2 gamecube games. It's not a new first party offering. Compare the games that were made for their respective systems. Cube had 2 of the top 3 metroid games of all time. It wins easily.

Eternal Darkness>>>___________

How is MKWii better than double dash? Frankly I call that a was because Mario Kart is pretty much good regardless of platform.

 Wii Sports Resort is casual garbage, to even bring that up is a point for the cube.

The starfox games aren't bad enough to subtract points for the system. Some decent games are better than no games at all.

 

You failed to even mention pikmin.

Luigi's Mansion>_____

you failed to mention wave race

Wave Race+F-Zero>>Excitetrucks

It's really a pretty easy choice...

No GCN JRPG is as good as Xeoblade though.

TP Wii had faster and more efficient aiming thanks to the pointer, and swinging the remote felt more fun than a button tap. Widescreen too.

Wind Waker is an awful Zelda; half-baked dungeons, and suicide-inducing sailing. Skyward Sword's better level/puzzle designs and 1:1 sword control give it an easy win.

MKWii is better than DD because it has better handling, Karts no longer control like friggin' dune buggies.

Wii Sports Resort is a very good game, it was lots of fun and groundbreaking in its 1:1 motion control.

And the GCN Starfox games weren't decent, they were absolute garbage.

F Zero GX, Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime were the only GCN first party games that lived up to Nintendo's usual sky-high standards, while the Wii had the better version of Prime and TP, along with Galaxy 1 & 2, Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country, and Xenoblade. Even if you discount the multiplats between them that's 6 masterpieces on Wii to 3 on GCN.


no the hell they weren't -_-

 

atleast not Starfox Adventures

 

how the fuck was it garbage?

The flight sections were a joke. They were too short and lacked challenge or variety.

The on-foot stuff was like Zelda after a lobotomy, with all the intelligence and elegance stripped out and replaced by generic, by-the-number puzzles, and one-dimensional combat that boiled down to pessing A while enemies attacked one at a time.

The voice acting was ear-bleedingly bad, with Prince Tricky being particularly awful.

Starfox Adventures was pretty much what Donky Kong 64 would've been like on the Gamecube

 

and i'll go so far as to say that StarFox was THE BEST Adventure game that Rare has EVER made

 

you're probably just mad because you were expecting Starfox Adventures to be like Starfox 64 with him flying in the spaceship for the whole game or something

 

and why the fuck do people keep comparing it to Zelda? This game is in leagues with games like Donky Kong 64, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Banjo Kazooie and Kameo.. NOT Zelda



Mensrea said:

If you are going to disregard Wind Waker, then I'm distregarding Skyward Sword. In no way is SS better than WW. It's linear, has forced motion controls that add nothing, is loaded to the gills with filler, is uglier than WW, has no good sidequests, and a weak story.

WW combat is better thanks to parry system. SO much to explore, and so much to explore that is completely optional. Excellent sidequests. A simple, yet good story with the best gannondorf in the series. To top it all off, it's the best looking Zelda in the series. The dungeons get the slight edge in SS, but really it's not by a wide margin. They are all excellent. Also, lol Fi ruined the game in a lot of ways. No annoying guide in WW. 

As far as JRPG's god, Baten Kaitos is about as good of a game as Xenoblade, sure it's not quite there, but it's right up there. You can't just discredit it.  Cube also has a lot more JRPG's, and they are all pretty damn good.

TP swinging was not more fun than a button tap at all. It was fun for five minutes, but it was a gimmick that I wished I could have turned off.

Better handling? I didn't notice that at all. That is a wash like I said before.

Wii sports resort is not a really good game. It's casual garbage. I played all the minigames once, and then put it down. It merely used 1:1 motion, it's not like it used it in a way that benefitted fun gameplay. It was a glorified tech demo.

I wouldn't say absolute garbage, but alright. 

So let's count the "Masterpieces"

GCN has: Metroid Prime 1, Metroid Prime 2, Eternal Darkness, F-Zero GX, Wind Waker, Pikmin 2,

Wii has: Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 Xenoblade and Donkey Kong Country and I guess we'll count these even though I think they suck Metroid Prime 3, Skyward Sword

So am I missing something here? Cube had just as many "masterpieces", and they were IMO much higher quality.

Linearity with tight design like in Skyward Sword is better than WindWaker's big boring ocean. That andf 1:1 sword control that actually connected the player to the action, and graphics with more than Wind waker's grand total of 5-6 garish colours on screen at once.

Wii Sports Resort was terrific fun; 1:1 virtual swordplay was a quantum leap, the likes of which was envisioned at the Wii's birth but finally came to fruition with WSR. Moving a virtual sword precisely with your own hand, that was sci-fi stuff the gen before. I can't count the number of hours me, my family, and my frends sepent with that game.

Metroid Prime 2 was held back from being a masterpiece by its excessive backtracking and unbalanced difficulty.