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The best one is...

Xbox 77 13.03%
 
Gamecube 350 59.22%
 
Dreamcast 164 27.75%
 
Total:591
d21lewis on 06 July 2017
Miguel_Zorro said:

The original XBox had one of the best selections of launch titles of any console launch.

The Dreamcast was also strong.

The Gamecube was just bad.

I disagree. 

Got my Cube at launch and it came with some of the great games from PS2's best year (imo) thanks to being multi Plat. By the end of its first couple of months Tony Hawk 3, SSX 2, Wave Race, Smash Bros, Luigi's Mansion, Star Wars, etc.

 

*Edit* Got a Dreamcast, too. I didn't get it until 2000 or 2001 but until I got it I was envious. It had the best quantity of good games I'd ever seen.



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curl-6 on 06 July 2017
VGPolyglot said:
curl-6 said:

I’m gonna go with Xbox.

Halo 1 and 2 are classics, and it had plenty of other strong titles like Star Wars Battlefront, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Chronicles of Riddick, Timesplitters 2 and 3, Shenmue II, Burnout 1-3…

Excellent and underrated console.

Some of the games you listed, like the TimeSplitters games, are on the GameCube though.

You could play games like Burnout and Timesplitters on GC, but not Star Wars Battlefront, Jade Empire, KOTOR, Chronicles of Riddick, Half-life 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, etc. (And of course, not Halo)



Seventizz on 07 July 2017
curl-6 said:
VGPolyglot said:

Some of the games you listed, like the TimeSplitters games, are on the GameCube though.

You could play games like Burnout and Timesplitters on GC, but not Star Wars Battlefront, Jade Empire, KOTOR, Chronicles of Riddick, Half-life 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, etc. (And of course, not Halo)

The GC never got Burnout 3 - arguably the best game of the franchise.



danasider on 07 July 2017

Have people forgotten about Metroid Prime? When I think about GC, that game pops into mind. It was phenomenal. Along with Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, it was in my top 3 games of the generation. And that's saying a lot considering we also had so many classics which most of the posts have covered thus far between all those systems.

GC wins for me, though I will say PS2 was my favorite of the gen. Understand that it's not in the poll because it'd crush the other systems...



bonzobanana on 07 July 2017
curl-6 said:
VGPolyglot said:

Some of the games you listed, like the TimeSplitters games, are on the GameCube though.

You could play games like Burnout and Timesplitters on GC, but not Star Wars Battlefront, Jade Empire, KOTOR, Chronicles of Riddick, Half-life 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, etc. (And of course, not Halo)

plus many of the games looked much better on xbox with more content and sometimes better frame rates. You got true 5.1 sound, 32bit colour and decent fmv sequences. I've played many of the same games on both xbox and gamecube and you just have to give it xbox about 98% of the time to have the superior version, the difference with ps2 was even more in the xbox's favour. Even the later wii often had inferior versions to Xbox. So not just more titles but better versions of the same titles. While rubbish by today's standards the xbox gpu is about 20 gflops performance, gamecube was 8 gflops a huge difference. Not that I'm saying xbox is superior on all levels but overall the Xbox was considerably more powerful.



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Damo on 07 July 2017
bonzobanana said:

plus many of the games looked much better on xbox with more content and sometimes better frame rates. You got true 5.1 sound, 32bit colour and decent fmv sequences. I've played many of the same games on both xbox and gamecube and you just have to give it xbox about 98% of the time to have the superior version, the difference with ps2 was even more in the xbox's favour. Even the later wii often had inferior versions to Xbox. So not just more titles but better versions of the same titles. While rubbish by today's standards the xbox gpu is about 20 gflops performance, gamecube was 8 gflops a huge difference. Not that I'm saying xbox is superior on all levels but overall the Xbox was considerably more powerful.

I remember playing Burnout 3 on the Xbox. It felt like a different game compared to the PS2 version.



Wyrdness on 07 July 2017
danasider said:
Have people forgotten about Metroid Prime? When I think about GC, that game pops into mind. It was phenomenal. Along with Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, it was in my top 3 games of the generation. And that's saying a lot considering we also had so many classics which most of the posts have covered thus far between all those systems.

GC wins for me, though I will say PS2 was my favorite of the gen. Understand that it's not in the poll because it'd crush the other systems...

Yeah Metroid Prime was some game, not only did it match up to Xbox games on a visual sense but it still looks good today and came early in the GC's life, Echoes also looked great, not many games that gen matched the Prime dual you're right in that they're the GC's main flagship title when mentioned.



green_sky on 07 July 2017

Xbox > Gamecube > PS2. Dreamcast?



curl-6 on 07 July 2017
danasider said:
Have people forgotten about Metroid Prime? When I think about GC, that game pops into mind. It was phenomenal. 

I haven't forgotten it. An amazing game, and a true classic. But one game, even if it's a masterpiece, isn't enough to tip the scales in GC's favour in my opinion.

bonzobanana said:
curl-6 said:

You could play games like Burnout and Timesplitters on GC, but not Star Wars Battlefront, Jade Empire, KOTOR, Chronicles of Riddick, Half-life 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, etc. (And of course, not Halo)

plus many of the games looked much better on xbox with more content and sometimes better frame rates. You got true 5.1 sound, 32bit colour and decent fmv sequences. I've played many of the same games on both xbox and gamecube and you just have to give it xbox about 98% of the time to have the superior version, the difference with ps2 was even more in the xbox's favour. Even the later wii often had inferior versions to Xbox. So not just more titles but better versions of the same titles. While rubbish by today's standards the xbox gpu is about 20 gflops performance, gamecube was 8 gflops a huge difference. Not that I'm saying xbox is superior on all levels but overall the Xbox was considerably more powerful.

While there were GC exclusives that could hold their own against the best of Xbox visually, yeah, multiplats were generally superior on Xbox.



bonzobanana on 09 July 2017

Rogue Squadron II was always the Gamecube title that I thought was most impressive on the console and Factor 5 even hand assembled some of the code to optimise it as much as possible or so an article I read claimed. It just looked fantastic and performed like a real high end arcade machine of the time. Amazing. I loved Metroid Prime but the graphics weren't very realistic with big blocks of colour and minimal texturing and as much as I loved windwaker visually it was more about the amazing art style. However Rogue Squadron looked better than any Xbox space games and you wondered if the xbox could pull it off to the same standard but then Gran Turismo at 1920x1080i on ps2 also looks very impressive. I do think however that the Xbox could easily achieve that and had quite a few 1080i games.