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Alkibiádēs on 09 January 2017

The Gamecube was my first home console ever and also my favorite. It had many great games, my favorites being Mario Kart: Double Dash and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.

I also enjoyed SSX3, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I also owned a Fantastic Four game that reviewed like trash, but I enjoyed playing it with a friend. I also remember owning a The Sims game, but not sure which one.

It had great first party support and decent third party support, something which not even the Wii had.



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Cloudman on 09 January 2017

The gamecube was the 2nd time I've had my mind blown from video games. I remember going to a gamestop and seeing a crowd playing Smash Bros. I got a chance to play and we were on Mute City. The music plays, cars zoom to the screen, and then the fighting starts. This was a huge leap compared to Smash Bros 64, and everything just moved much faster. It was amazing to play this for the 1st time, and I knew I needed the gamecube. And Melee continued to be the game I enjoyed the most for many years. I played it a ton with my friends in high school, and continued playing with new friends in college, playing Smash every night in someone's room and having the gamecube ready 24/7 in the living room, and it was awesome!!!!

I enjoyed other games on it though, like Fire Emblem, Mario Sunshine, and Eternal Darkness to name a few. It was definitely an awesome console.



 

              

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TheLastStarFighter on 10 January 2017
Kuksenkov said:
TheLastStarFighter said:

Note that I said "looked" as opposed to "look", meaning, when I was in college, the system and games looked stupid to me.  The system itself looked like a toy, with bright colors and plasticy parts.  This was in stark contrast to PS2 and XBox which were looking to be sinister and mature.  But as far as games, Mario Sunshine looked like a joke.  The game was based around a gimmik of a watergun, which seemed like a side story, not a true Mario adventure.  And the name sounds "gay".  I hate saying something is gay other than a person who is actualy homosextual, and I hate using the word with a negative tone.  But as a straight male in his early 20s when the title was released, the last thing I would be interested in is something that had "gay" overtones.  Mario Sunshine just sounds over-the-top nice, friendly, colorful, whatever you want to call it.  Childish?  The whole concept made me feel that Mario was no longer for me and my interests.

Then Zelda was a cartoon.  And a Cartoon with big eyes and big heads and tiny child bodies.  And I wept.

You were we call nowadays a "bro". Too bad you couldn't look at Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 0 through 4 and Code Veronica, F-Zero, Blood Omen 2, Geist, Turok Evolution, etc. Oh, all the games that appealed to college bros at the time were also there, sans Halo. You could've been a better person at a younger age.

I'm quite content with the person I was at that age.  There is nothing wrong with wanting to present an appealing image to friends and potential romantic interests.  And while I recently enjoyed WWHD on Wii U, I would still prefer they never entered the toon relm with Zelda.

Also, GCN didn't just miss out on Halo.  GTA, COD and Final Fantasy were all absent from the system.  I'm not a fan of RE so the GCN was really, really lacking.



TheLastStarFighter on 10 January 2017
Wright said:
Wright said:

I googled Gamecube Gay and this came up.

Though to be fair, this one would have been much better.

Yeah, GCN is definitely the gayest system of all time.  I even tried to introduce it to my XBox, but it only wanted to system link with other Gamecubes.