If anyone still has a Gamecube - Put Eternal Darkness on

Steveh_monkey · 11 Apr 2011 at 20:33

And how could you forget this beauty?

Best £50 I ever spent.

Niju Rosu · 11 Apr 2011 at 21:44

Eternal Darkness was indeed awesome!

*looks at shelf and ponders a long night*

adam cool dude · 12 Apr 2011 at 08:17

Nitefly said:
Go back and play those games now, I assure you they won't be as good as you remember

The only game there that is worthy of the title excellent is arguably Donkey Kong 64 - and I wouldn't argue in its favour. Some of your choices are... interesting

EDIT - actually yeah, conker was rather special.

Quite, apart from first party games the gamecube was rubbish.

N64 and gamecube had rubbish 3rd party support.

That was the whole point of owning the cube and 64. For the first party titles. Not the 3rd party support. :rolleyes:

Some of the best games of all time appeared on those consoles. Gamerankings and Metacritic proved this point which has a lot more bulk than your opinion.

finite · 12 Apr 2011 at 08:33

Pilot wings 64 was not crap. I played Wave Race 64 the other day and it was just as awesome as it ever was. I need to find my original console to test out Top Gear rally again.

daz · 12 Apr 2011 at 09:52

mame said:
I was pretty sure my £250 > £150 > £99 was correct and after a quick google it appears that it was. It sticks in my mind because a friend had one pre-oredered from Woolworths and moaned with each price drop.

Whilst the N64 and games were expensive, it's easy to forgot the PS1 was £299 at launch without a game, and the Saturn was £399 at launch with a game. Adjusted for inflation, the consoles these days are ridiculously good value for money.

Again adjusted for inflation it's amazing that you can buy a game for £40 today that has had the equivalent of a blockbuster movie budget spent on it, compared to some of the rubbish that was pumped out in the 90s and sold for £50 a pop. It's easy to have rose tinted glasses about games you played when you were younger... and whilst there are a lot of great games from history that *are* still fun today, you have to consider the thousands of titles released that are never mentioned because they were so bad.

It's interesting to look at the types of games that stand the test of time - games that were perhaps derided for their graphics originally (e.g. Zelda III) or whose graphics were merely perfunctory seem to be longer lasting than those whose graphics were revolutionary in some way. Although one example where I think this isn't the case is Mario 64 - clearly a massive leap forward graphically compared to anything else around at the time, it's still a massively fun game today...

mame · 12 Apr 2011 at 13:51

daz said:
Whilst the N64 and games were expensive, it's easy to forgot the PS1 was £299 at launch without a game, and the Saturn was £399 at launch with a game. Adjusted for inflation, the consoles these days are ridiculously good value for money.

Again adjusted for inflation it's amazing that you can buy a game for £40 today that has had the equivalent of a blockbuster movie budget spent on it, compared to some of the rubbish that was pumped out in the 90s and sold for £50 a pop. It's easy to have rose tinted glasses about games you played when you were younger... and whilst there are a lot of great games from history that *are* still fun today, you have to consider the thousands of titles released that are never mentioned because they were so bad.

It's interesting to look at the types of games that stand the test of time - games that were perhaps derided for their graphics originally (e.g. Zelda III) or whose graphics were merely perfunctory seem to be longer lasting than those whose graphics were revolutionary in some way. Although one example where I think this isn't the case is Mario 64 - clearly a massive leap forward graphically compared to anything else around at the time, it's still a massively fun game today...

Not quite sure why you quoted me before all that. The relevance of the £250>£150>£99 is that the console dropped to 40% of its original price within a few months and that's why it appeared on Watchdog.

Yes consoles are really cheap these days..... ?

WatchTower · 13 Apr 2011 at 07:00

I have this. Ahh the days when Nintendo consoles had good games. Good days.