They could look like dog shit for all I care, as long as it's COMFORTABLE and functions well
They created a few new IPs, but no franchises other than Xenoblade. Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion and Animal Crossing all have 3+ entries.
GCN has the most comfy controller of all time, unless you have hands like feet.
I never owned an N64. I basically happened into owning a GameCube because I let a PC gaming friend convince me that Xbox would be no good and that GameCube was the way to go because of: Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime, eventually Super Mario, and eventually Zelda. Initially I wasn't taken by Mario Sunshine, and I was pretty pissed at Wind Waker's reveal. In hindsight, however, Mario Sunshine is superior to Mario 64 in every conceivable way, and Wind Waker's art direction has left the game in a near ageless state.
One per year, meanwhile Xbox had many with the third party support they had, it doesn't need to be straight M rated, anything E-T rated but whose audience were more on the 17-21 or older could be missing on Gamecube.Eh?
But when your library is THAT large, it kinda doesn’t matter as much. As you said, Gamecube’s library was strong but small. PS2’s was fucking massive so even with the garbage weeded out you were still left with one of the most insane gens for a console ever seen.
(keeping it to games that stayed exclusive for a year, though most people I know played series like Devil May Cry and Silent Hill on PlayStation as opposed to Xbox)
Ace Combat 4 and 5
Ape Escape 2 and 3
Dark Cloud 1 and 2
Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2
Dragon Quest VIII
Everybody’s Golf 3 and 4
Fatal Frame 3
Final Fantasy X and XII
Front Mission 4 and 5
God of War 1 and 2
Guilty Gear X2
Haunting Ground
Ico/Shadow of the Colossus
Jak and Daxter 1-3
Katamari 1 and 2
Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2
Klonoa 2
Mark of Kri
Metal Gear Solid 3
Okami
Onimusha 2 and 3
Persona 3 and 4
Ratchet and Clank 1-3
Resident Evil Outbreak 1 and 2
Rogue Galaxy
Rule of Rose
Shadow Hearts 1-3
Shin Megami Tensei 3
Sly Cooper 1-3
SSX
Suikoden 3
Tales of the Abyss/Legendia
Xenosaga 1-3
Like, do you know why nobody remembers the bad PS2 games? Because there were way too many great games on the system for our brains to have room to remember the bad games!
Eh?
Both are overrated, the favor by fans today of the latter seems to revolve around sensationalism, like something about it being the first 3D game with a camera you can spin around the character which computers had since what the ST? Even if you focus on third person action games it was beat tot he punch, and I think PSX had some sims that did it. I suppose you could say first platform game to use it but that's not the misinfo that's spread about it, it's that Mari 64 invented stuff, in fact, I remember when Golden Eye on the N64 supposedly invented the ability to shoot at different parts of an enemies body, which was also done on computers. Maybe the first on console, though I think some 2.5D FPS game on PSX did it before but that may have been full body. Actually didn't Sega have a game that did that before Golden Eye?
Banjo was already declining in interest pretty fast after Tooie and outside Dk64 GE, Rare had past their peak on the console. Starfox Adventures sold well in line with late N64 Rare with a favorite brand from that console seeing its first release on the gamecube and it didn't move the needle at all. I don't think games of either Banjo or DKR2 would have done much for the Gamecube. Nintendo needed to do some work themselves on that first-party and third-party wise instead of people thinking they needed to rely on Rare again which i don't think was going to be able to happen successfully twice. They didn't save the last few years of the N64. and barely moved the needle up front with the Gamecube. Didn't do much for the GBA either.
Eh? GC not only had horror games, they also had the best ones.
Who cares? It launched on the GC which according to who I was quoting said it had no M rated games.
Who cares about sales in context to what I was saying when you quoted me?
And like one per year, the PS2 was the main console for this, and even the Xbox had hits like Silent Hill and Fatal Frame that the GC missed, you may even put Doom 3 in as well.Eh? GC not only had horror games, they also had the best ones.
Eh? GC not only had horror games, they also had the best ones.
Yes, that's what I'm trying to convey, games that are not rated M but whose main audience is at mature ages: Midnight Club 2 and 3, Burnout 3-Revenge, Tomb Raider Legend (for most of 2006), Fighting Games outside MK and SC2, 2K Sports and etc. For M Rated games it goes worse: for example Rockstar decided to redo the contract with Sony because they wanted to release GTA on Xbox, Eidos which dropped out from Gamecube early on returned mostly for Lego Star Wars and none of their M-rated games in this return were in the console.
Sorry going off on a tangent. I hadn't really considered this until you brought up this point. I definitely remember there was a huge backlash against Nintendo's kid friendly image that stuck with them from the time Sega started courting kids who were ready to "grow up" during the SNES/Genesis days that carried over to about the PS2/Xbox/GC era. Those entire 3 console generations, it was super passé in gaming to be considered "kid friendly."
Are you responding to another post? Because the one you quoted didn't talk about his buddies liking the N64 or comparing sales between N64 and PS1 or GameCube and PS2..
