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Most underappreciated

Nintendo Eentertainment System 12 1.95%
 
Super Nintendo Eentertainment System 14 2.27%
 
Nintendo 64 82 13.31%
 
GameCube 414 67.21%
 
Wii 91 14.77%
 
Total:613
LemonSlice on 11 July 2014
curl-6 said:

My favourite game of all time is on Gamecube: Resident Evil 4.

You're the first one to mention the game. How can people talk about the Gamecube being underrated without mentioning RE4? How?



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curl-6 on 11 July 2014
AZWification said:
curl-6 said:
The real letdown of the Gamecube was that it took franchises that were epic and awesome on N64, like Starfox, Zelda, and 3D Mario, and butchered them.

IDK, curl.. Zelda, Smash, Mario Kart, Metroid, Paper Mario and F-Zero were all pretty awesome on the GC!

Twilight Princess, F Zero GX, and Metroid Prime 1 & 2 were awesome, I'll give you those.

But 3 of those 4 had superior Wii remakes.



burninmylight on 11 July 2014
oniyide said:
burninmylight said:
oniyide said:
burninmylight said:
fatslob-:O said:

If it's any Nintendo console that's underrated it's the WII ... I don't understand the hate for a good console. 

NES got the credits it deserved, SNES was a little overrated, N64 and GC were trash because they didn't come close to delivering a worthwhile experience.


I almost agreed with an entire post of yours! But yeah, the Wii has plenty of worthy games for serious gamers that never require you to wiggle. I hate it when people act like every game makes you shake, rattle and roll.


Most of them do, and thats what the problem was.

It's not a problem if you read reviews beforehand so you know what you're getting into, and only play what sounds relevant to your interests. How is that any different than any game on every console ever?

Most of the good third party games made for the hardcore gamer crowd let you forego motion controls entirely, and many even gave you the option to play with a Classic Controller. There are a few that required motion input, like Okami, Zak & Wiki, and Red Steel 2, but if you have a problem with motion controls in games like those, that's a "you" problem, and I question why you ever bothered to own a Wii at all. Okami was truly enhanced by motion controls and turned combat from a button masher into a timing and rhythmic brawler, and painting actions more seamless and natural. If you take the motion controls out of Red Steel 2, you have no game.

There was a lot of crap that was born from motion controls, but anyone who thinks it never enhanced any games is only kidding themselves.

By the way, when I say "you," I don't mean at oniyide, I mean "you" in general.

only core gamers are gonna read reviews. We all know that and even them only some of them do. Hell if reviews were that important Just Dance would have died years ago.

I dont have a problem with those games. Red Steel 2 is one of my fav games on the system. I bought the Wii for those games. But my problem is there werent ENOUGH of those games. There were way too many crap like Bachelor or generic game collection #443 than there were things like Red Steel 2.

And IMHO it didnt enchance ENOUGH games. Besides FPS i cant really think of a genre that truly beneffited from the motion controls. IMHO i think alot of gamers felt like this hence why they are not enamored by the Wii. But thats just one issue.


Again, if someone doesn't  bother to read reviews, that's their problem, and that's the reason Just Dance is overrated. In fact, it feels like the post above is augmenting my feelings that the Wii is the most underrated, because people didn't bother to do their homework on finding the good games.

When you say the unique control scheme didn't enhance enough games, you're mostly thinking of games that were completely defined by their controls, a la FPS and stuff like Zak & Wiki and Okami. There were plenty of games that made more subtle use of motion controls and/or the IR pointer that replaced typical button inputs in ways that weren't memorable, but didn't hurt gameplay either.



burninmylight on 11 July 2014
Jumpin said:
GameCube is SUPER-overrated on this site. It was easily the most pointless Nintendo console with the least innovation, but there are plenty of people here who somehow think it was the best one.


I love my GameCube games, but I couldn't agree more. That's why I called GameCube the hipster console and Wind Waker the hipster game.



Pavolink on 11 July 2014

Wii.



Proud to be the first cool Nintendo fan ever

Number ONE Zelda fan in the Universe

DKCTF didn't move consoles

Prediction: No Zelda HD for Wii U, quietly moved to the succesor

Predictions for Nintendo NX and Mobile


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AZWification on 11 July 2014

I also don't understand why would anyone vote for the NES and SNES.. Those systems are anything, but underrated!



                
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Chris Hu on 11 July 2014

The GameCube for sure currently playing a game that was first released on the GameCube Tales of Symphonia.



WagnerPaiva on 11 July 2014

The WiiU, for sure. And why can´t I vote for the WiiU? The fact that it still has a lot to show and already impressed is a even more valid reason for it to be the one, come on!



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

oniyide on 11 July 2014
LemonSlice said:
curl-6 said:

My favourite game of all time is on Gamecube: Resident Evil 4.

You're the first one to mention the game. How can people talk about the Gamecube being underrated without mentioning RE4? How?


cause a better version of teh game was released not too long after on PS2, then on Wii then on PS360 you get the point



mysticwolf on 11 July 2014

Gamecube without a doubt



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