The Metroid Prime games were incredible. Also shout-out to Chibi Robo, I loved that game.

Sunshine fucked so hard, I'm looking directly into your soul with that at the top of the list and let me tell you, I fucking see you dude.

And I love it.

I'm sorry but when I hear Nintendo gamers talk about all their games it's like "I play a lot of different games like: ‑ Mario ‑ Mario ‑ Mario with a green hat ‑ Mario with boxing gloves ‑ Mario in a car" 😁

God I miss Wind Waker. Still waiting for that HD remaster.

• Luigi's Mansion

Metroid Prime, F-Zero GX, Phantasy Star Online, Sonic Adventure 2, Cubivore, Star Fox Adventures, Kirby Air Ride, Pikmin

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

One of the very few M rated GameCube games.. and, as far as I know, has a unique core sanity mechanic that fairly routinely breaks the fourth wall, aimed at driving you, the player, at losing your own sanity, not merely depicting this happening to your character.

Also, IIRC, the first iteration of Pikmin, a genuienly novel kind of game. Luigi's Mansion, also a pretty unique kind of game.

Oh, and they remade Metal Gear Solid on it, with better graphics than the PS1.

I cannot believe you're omitting Tales of Symphonia!

Gaben is offering us the chance to start up a handle 3d printing business!

the controller though

No ps1 was

I had a GameCube back in the day no one ever moved it around with the handle. Sure you could move the console but you still had all of the wires and of course the controller to move as well so the handle, and of course you would need TV at the destination so wasn't really helpful.

I never understood who they handle was aimed at.

In theory you could take it over to your friends house but realistically all you did was just set it up where you wanted it and then never move it.

I mean they've shown it, so we know it doesn't.

But the community will make it happen.

I have one of the super chunky OG PS3s thats compatable with PS1/2 games as well as DVD and bluray. I don't play it anymore but I'm never getting rid of it.

Nahhhh the 360 was better....

At the time, i was all-in onps3, because of the rrod bullshit, but looking back, virtually every single title that was released on both platforms, runs and plays better on 360.

both consoles were and are amazing today!

you can soft-exploit any ps3 in existence with only a usb stick and run all the unsigned code you want.

the 360 is significantly more complicated, there is a soft-mod out there now, but it's a little finicky. if you are brave and handy with a soldering iron you can put an RHG chip in there and reflash the bios to allow you to run unsigned code. I dropped a 2tb hdd into mine, which is more than i need for any and every game i ever even considered playing.

the ps3 is worth owning and playing for ps3 titles, the xbox360 is better for everything else.

bottom line: seventh gen was best gen

Conditional backwards compatability and while it did have online features a lot of them required a subscription to access.

Had linux too

Man I would love to read about a bunch of luigis mansion romhacking drama

I need details about this.

I will always die on the hill claiming Dreamcast as the best console. It was so far ahead of it's time and it had so many great games. I would kill for Sega to release a new console, but I imagine many of the people who helped create the Dreamcast went on to work for Nintendo. I've always considered the Wii and Wii U to be the true successors to the Dreamcast and I've wondered if they were created with the help of people who made the Dreamcast.

Only three shoulder buttons. No select button. Absolute garbage D-pad and right analog sticks.

Gotta give some of its still exclusive games a go, like Napple Tale

Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the "just because we can!" breed of design.

The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.

Yeah, the original Wii revision with the ports for GC controllers and memory cards had legit GameCube hardware right on the motherboard, much like the OG "fat" PS2 had built-in PS1 hardware.

In fact, some custom Gamecube builds eschew the GC motherboard altogether in favor of a cut-down Wii motherboard, modified to boot directly into GC mode. It's pretty cool.

By that logic, PC is objectively better because it can emulate almost any console.

Bullshit, there are more high-quality games out now than ever before.

Not only are all the games from back then easy to get and emulate, you also have high quality pay-once-enjoy-forever PC games: indie up to big corporations.

Who cares that mostly indies and mid-sized studios produce non-exploitative shit? There are so many masterpieces constantly coming out.

The golden age is now.

you are charged for every minute of play time

I mean yeah, except that if you were good you could play a really long fucking time on one quarter so your per-minute rate was very low.

Fortune in misfortune though, at least in this day and age it's much easier to play those games without paying for them. Although the DRM on some of the newer games have been a a bitch and a half.

Still, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!!

edit, added pic putting my money where my mouth is