Gamecube: The Most Underrated Console of all time? (XboxMessiah)

XboxMessiah takes a seemingly uncharacteristic look at the Gamecube: A console that was under-appreciated and pushed away by bigger systems. By talking about the pros and cons of the Gamecube, XboxMessiah hopes to put the spotlight on a console that deserved it.

[CheatsMcGee]

The Game Cube had a very good number of must own games for it. My personal favorite being the remake of Skies of Arcadia. That game was so awesome. =D

[Dukeoffl]

when it comes to Skies of Arcadia Legends, I agree so much it hurts.

[Bodyboarder_VGamer]

Skies of Arcadia wasn't a remake, just a port. The Dreamcast version was superior.

"Previously a Dreamcast-only RPG, Sega's exclusive developer Overworks has taken the time to properly "P-O-R-T" it to GameCube..." http://cube.ign.com/article...

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I was a GC owner since launch and I only have 2 games for it. Metroid Prime and Zelda Wind Waker the rest? A pile of crap. The system was more powerful than the PS2 but nobody took advantage of that to make great games, just crappy Startfox Adventures or stupid shoot-em-up like Rogue Squadron. The N64 and GC were fail consoles with like 2-3 great games. And yeah, great > good but still too few.

[heroicjanitor]

I had both a gamecube and a ps2, and I almost never played the gamecube. This was before all of this fanboy bull I just naturally went away from the gamecube, but then again it's unfair to put it up against the ps2, which was the best of all the systems I owned(SNES,N64,psone,ps2,wii,p s3)

[Darkfocus]

I had a Ps2 as well and an xbox but I played my cube far more than my Ps2. Cube had some of the best games of all time. of course I picked it up a year & 1/2 into its life span so there were already a lot of games for me to play through.

why do you have the wii in a list of the best systems you owned even as a massive fan of Nintendo which why I picked it up in the first place I would say its probably my only system that I've ever kind of regretted purchasing I've ever owned.

[raztad]

A couple of friends of mine still love the GC. Eternal Darkness and Pikmin are the games they used to play. Recently I gave them RE 4 and Mario Paper.

The gamecube is a solidly built and capable system but it got no chances against the incredible library of PS2 games. However the GC is back with a vengeance is called the Wii.

[sikbeta]

The Gamecube was a great Console, those exclusives that I played on it, really deserve more appreciation

[ico92]

me and a group of friends spent 6 hours straight one sunday playing a marathon of super smash bros melee, we actually played the sh!t out of that game

[Nihilism]

The Gamecube is my favourite console. It had the most amazing games, Rogue Squadron: Rebel Strike= epic MF win.

I sunk a hell of a lot of hours into gamecube games. Possibly the most awesome part of all. The bonus disk I got with windwaker, that had Ocarina of Time, with upgraded graphics.

[Mikeyy]

I agree, I loved my Gamecube, it had Solid Resident Evil titles, and Solid nintendo Titles.

I remember when Windwaker was about to come out, I could'nt accept the cell shaded graphics, boy was I wrong, that game was a masterpeice.

Sadly I havent played any official marios on it. I think Super Mario Galaxy on Wii made up for it.

Its mostly 3rd parties that fail nintendo.

[McErono]

The cube? it is the dreamcast my friends!

[Confused]

Agreed.

[darkequitus]

Agreed

[Blaster_Master]

The only reason why the Gamecube worth having was because of Skies, which was originally for the Dreamcast, but you can just play it on your Wii and your set.

[redDevil87]

IMO the best thing to come from the gamecube was resident evil 4

[HolyOrangeCows]

Pikmin 2.

[Bnet343]

Most underrated has to go to Dreamcast, but the Cube was good.

[Tyler_XMB]

I remeber playing Luigi's Mansion, Super Smash Bros Melee, LoZ:WW,LoZ:TP, Paper Mario 2, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Soulcalibur 2 and many more games.

[BasilMarceaux]

Both the gamecube and dreamcast were and still are, superior to the wii. Its such a pity that those two are so underrated and that the wii is so very very overrated.

Just my opinion though, I dont have any stats to back that up.

[Confused]

How did consoles go from the brilliance of the Dreamcast to the steaming pile of sh!t that is the Wii? Amazing...

[Lavalamp]

Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube. Good times.

[crazyturkey]

Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime 2:Echoes
The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker
The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
Smash Bros. Melee
Mario Kart Double Dash
Rogue Squadron III
Pikmin
Resident Evil 4(when it was exclusive)
Mario Sunshine (Don't judge me)
Soul Calibur II (Ok not exclusive but it had Link which made it the best version)
That's all I can think of the top of my head................

It should have sold better now look at the Wii, we can only blame ourselves for what Nintendo turned into.

[DreamcastFanboy]

No, most of the games sucked much like the Wii.

[Handhelds_FTW]

No, that would be the Sega Saturn.

[hatchimatchi]

i was gonna say the same thing. I love my gamecube but the saturn was such an awesome system. I still regret it to this day that i sold mine all those years ago. I've been thinking about picking one up off amazon though.

Albert Odyssey was one of the best jrpgs i ever played, plus Working Designs brought over so many good jrpgs to the saturn.

[roderick1210]

Great article. Never owned a GameCube but I believe that is going to change. I'm on my way to GameStop now.

[kevin360uk]

The Gamecube was indeed underated, but the most underacted console has to go to Dreamcast

[lordkemp007]

Last month i was in hospital for 2 weeks.

As a small way of thanks i donated my Gamecube and stacks of games to the childrens ward. (before you say it - no i was not in the childrens ward)- I hope the kids get fun out of it and wish them all a speedy recovery.

On topic it was a fabulous system. Resident Evil 4 was my favourite game and i adored the joypad.

[HOSe]

The Wavebird is also one of the best controllers of all time. gamecube lives on as the wii, but with a much worse library of games

[Mikeyy]

I had 2 of those Wavebird Wireless Controllers, the thing that sucked was they have no Rumble. i ended up buying 2 regular Black controllers instead, Much better IMO.

I will give the Wavebird props on its Range. I was Playing Resident Evil from the fence all the way in my back yard. Its really far.