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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 2, 2013 19:56:37 GMT -5
I'd have to really think about which console is the worst that I've ever owned. In terms of how large the library was I'd say that the Wii was the worst, though technically that was my girlfriend's console. I honestly think the Sega Saturn was probably the system I played the least, almost everything available for it that I liked existed on the Playstation which also had several great exclusives.
Yeah, I'd say that the Gamecube is low on my list of priority consoles, but not quite in the bottom tier.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Dec 2, 2013 20:01:01 GMT -5
The PSP was the worst system I ever owned. Wii wasn't a whole lot better.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 2, 2013 20:05:15 GMT -5
Oh man, I LOVE my psp. In addition to a few decent exclusives and nice portable versions of favorites that exist on other systems (Warriors, Battlefront, Smackdown, etc.) that thing is an emulation machine. I have almost every major game that I played up through the year 2000 on that thing.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Dec 2, 2013 20:09:58 GMT -5
Well I never managed to hack mine. I was always afraid it was illegal. I had a few good games for it but I was done with mine within the first few months and never really picked it up again.
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Post by wildknight on Dec 2, 2013 20:18:02 GMT -5
I'd have to really think about which console is the worst that I've ever owned. In terms of how large the library was I'd say that the Wii was the worst, though technically that was my girlfriend's console. I honestly think the Sega Saturn was probably the system I played the least, almost everything available for it that I liked existed on the Playstation which also had several great exclusives. Yeah, I'd say that the Gamecube is low on my list of priority consoles, but not quite in the bottom tier. I guess technically I owned a Wii, but I think of that as having belonged to my children, so I don't count it. If I did, yeah, it was worse than GameCube by leaps and bounds. I never owned a Sega Saturn, thankfully. In fact, I haven't owned all that many consoles when I really think about it... Odyssey, Atari 7800 (technically my brother's), NES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, N64, GameCube, Dreamcast, XBox, XBox 360, and Wii (my kids) |
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 2, 2013 20:46:54 GMT -5
Well I never managed to hack mine. I was always afraid it was illegal. I had a few good games for it but I was done with mine within the first few months and never really picked it up again. Hacking isn't illegal, even downloading roms and emulators isn't technically against the law (though the language of this gray area depends on where you live). All that happens when you hack a system is that you void the warranty and anger the corporate suits. I'd have to really think about which console is the worst that I've ever owned. In terms of how large the library was I'd say that the Wii was the worst, though technically that was my girlfriend's console. I honestly think the Sega Saturn was probably the system I played the least, almost everything available for it that I liked existed on the Playstation which also had several great exclusives. Yeah, I'd say that the Gamecube is low on my list of priority consoles, but not quite in the bottom tier. I guess technically I owned a Wii, but I think of that as having belonged to my children, so I don't count it. If I did, yeah, it was worse than GameCube by leaps and bounds. I never owned a Sega Saturn, thankfully. In fact, I haven't owned all that many consoles when I really think about it... Odyssey, Atari 7800 (technically my brother's), NES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, N64, GameCube, Dreamcast, XBox, XBox 360, and Wii (my kids) No, that's a fair amount. It's about half the amount that I own and people seem to think my collection is big so I'd say it's respectable. |
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Dec 2, 2013 20:52:58 GMT -5
Well I never managed to hack mine. I was always afraid it was illegal. I had a few good games for it but I was done with mine within the first few months and never really picked it up again. Hacking isn't illegal, even downloading roms and emulators isn't technically against the law (though the language of this gray area depends on where you live). All that happens when you hack a system is that you void the warranty and anger the corporate suits. I guess technically I owned a Wii, but I think of that as having belonged to my children, so I don't count it. If I did, yeah, it was worse than GameCube by leaps and bounds. I never owned a Sega Saturn, thankfully. In fact, I haven't owned all that many consoles when I really think about it... Odyssey, Atari 7800 (technically my brother's), NES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, N64, GameCube, Dreamcast, XBox, XBox 360, and Wii (my kids) No, that's a fair amount. It's about half the amount that I own and people seem to think my collection is big so I'd say it's respectable. I actually did try to hack mine once but I never could get it to work. I never bothered much after that one time. |
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 2, 2013 21:09:54 GMT -5
The psp? I guess it depends on when you tried it, I did mine a few years ago following a specific online tutorial that worked like a charm. The fact that this happened after Sony had moved on from feverishly updating the system firmware every few minutes to combat piracy probably made the process easier.
My understanding is that Sony has gone out of their way to make the Vita an especially difficult machine to hack (instead of, you know, making the machine something that most people would want) so I guess the psp is probably going to remain my go-to system for portable emulation.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Dec 2, 2013 21:13:42 GMT -5
I had the PSP 3000, I don't know if that has anything to do with it. An acquaintance of mine in high-school had a hacked one and offered to do it for me but I was afraid he'd mess it up.
I never tried that hard. I screwed around with it like an hour one day trying to follow a tutorial and for some reason it just didn't work. In the end, I ended up giving it to my sister who played it a lot more.
It's dead now though, won't even power on. Could be the battery though.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 2, 2013 22:45:00 GMT -5
Ooh, I hope you didn't brick it. That can happen if you do some things that you shouldn't during the hacking process. The PSP 3000 (that's the one that's like this weird Blackberry phone, right?) has a different hacking method, as I recall. Fortunately my psp slim was one of the easiest, I emailed the same files to my friend back home and helped him to hack his over the phone.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2014 12:06:33 GMT -5
I loved my Gamecube. When I got my gamecube it was the first system I had got since the first Playstation. I had been busy in life and hadn't had a whole lot of time for gaming between then so I had never purchased a PS2 or whatever other systems were popular then probably Xbox. The game cube had been out for a while when I picked mine up so I got it new for I want to say under $150. It was packaged with Animal crossing which as odd a game as it is was pretty innovative. I liked the controller just fine, it was a little awkward but not nearly as cumbersome as the N64 controller. I also liked that the games were about $10-$20 bucks cheaper than the games on the other systems. I could get most of the games I wanted, plus all of the Nintendo exclusive tittles. I also got the wave bird controllers which were the first effective wireless controllers I had ever used up to that point. It also offered the super Gameboy attachment that would allow you to play Gameboy and Gameboy advanced games through the console. Over all I'd say a pretty good little system.
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 3, 2014 16:12:39 GMT -5
This thread is 2 months old but if someone wants to talk about the Gamecube I suppose it's the right place.  What I liked about the system was the occasional exclusive. What I didn't like was the color, the controller, the fact that very few good third-party franchises could be played on it, that it didn't have the abilities of competing systems (dvd, custom soundtracks, etc.) and that the good exclusives that it DID have were few and far between. The Nintendo 64 was their first major home console that I didn't love, and with the Gamecube and Wii the company steadily increased the trend. |
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Post by wildknight on Feb 3, 2014 16:13:40 GMT -5
N64 had great games. GameCube was garbage, and it's wrestling games are some of the worst console wrestling games since the NES era.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Feb 3, 2014 16:39:14 GMT -5
Man I loved the DOR series and the gamecube controller. Required taste I guess.
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Post by wildknight on Feb 3, 2014 16:43:26 GMT -5
Man I loved the DOR series and the gamecube controller. Required taste I guess. "Acquired." Day of Reckoning games had some good ideas, but as a whole the games were terrible. They were extremely limited in scope, and had no real replay value. I can never remember which of the two it was, but one of them had the most frustrating match in wrestling story mode history, to top it all off. |
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Feb 3, 2014 16:46:16 GMT -5
yea, acquired lol. That was a fail on my part
I really liked the controls and gameplay but you are completely right on it being limited. Small roster and not many match types. The story mode ended with a Ironman match in the first one, so it must be the second one you are talking about. I haven't played 2 in forever, I liked the first one better for some reason.
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Post by wildknight on Feb 3, 2014 16:48:27 GMT -5
2 had the awful stamina meter.
The match I'm referring to was either a triple threat or fatal four way, and winning it was a huge chore.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Feb 3, 2014 16:53:10 GMT -5
I remember there being a fatal-4-way match in a steel cage on the 2nd one that was a huge chore but I can't remember if it was the last match or not. Very well could have been.
The stamina meter probably was the difference. I wasn't a big fan of that.
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Post by miketheratguy on Feb 3, 2014 19:10:15 GMT -5
The N64 was okay. Good but not great. It did have some good exclusives (Zelda, Perfect Dark, Mario, Conker's bad Fur Day) but the PS1 had great exclusives of its own in the form of Metal Gear Solid, Grand theft Auto, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Twisted Metal, Tekken, Smackdown and more and the system's controller wasn't a horrendous nightmare.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Feb 3, 2014 19:27:51 GMT -5
The N64 was okay. Good but not great. It did have some good exclusives (Zelda, Perfect Dark, Mario, Conker's bad Fur Day) but the PS1 had great exclusives of its own in the form of Metal Gear Solid, Grand theft Auto, Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Twisted Metal, Tekken, Smackdown and more and the system's controller wasn't a horrendous nightmatre. I didn't even own a PS1 and I agree with you on this assessment. Did you ever play Banjo Kazooie? |
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