Mrevilbobguy

And the Afterburner?! Seriously? Not only is that NOT a Nintendo accessory (nor was the Worm Light, but who cares), but it was also the best damn thing to happen to the original GBA.
I installed one into my GBA (along with the Stealth Dimmer Chip so I could adjust brightness with the GBA's buttons) and it was amazing.

BPMο

Taco Bell™

How is Gamecube an overall failure? It was the number two system out of three. (America is not the world.)
And it was profitable,which I hear is one of the many goals of most successful products.

Also most hardcore fighting game players actually prefer a joystick to a d-pad. The More You Know.

kidnicky

VAMP

Jac21

Huxle

Elrinth

Sailorcancer

You had to pause it to see the reason why it's hated.

Sure they had a couple, but overall these videos were either funny, or informational.

Sailorcancer

Good to know you're keeping a positive outlook!

Just kidding, it wouldn't be any fun if we all agreed on everything.

Billkwando

PSN ID: Kadaj24

='(((

why the hate?...

King Seafoam

CRUNK

Konchu

cybereality

Priboi

BigPete7978

kirstpo

None of the last gen controllers were terrible, but the GameCube one was definitely the second worst (the Duke was the worst, but the second XBox controller was the best.)

Bad things about the GameCube controller:
1. Short cord
2. Z Button
3. X and Y buttons
4. Terrible d-pad; nothing like the good SNES or NES pads
5. C stick is too clicky
6. Underside rubber stuff of analog stick gets worn off when you play Mario Party
7. No rumble in the Wavebird; this controller is so popular, but it is big, ugly, and lacks a major feature

Good things:
1. My favorite main analog stick of the last gen
2. Good variety of colors, although stock would sometimes leave you with no options
3. Prominent A button was nice; basically, this was a great controller if you only needed two buttons
4. I like the shoulder buttons with the analog and digital
5. Super comfortable, as long as you never need to use all of the buttons

This list was very weak. No reason to have it go back so far because there is plenty to hate in recent years. Maybe they could have complained about things that are still applicable. Maybe the fact that Gunpey Yokoi was exiled should have been included.

My reasons for hate would be that shovelware crowds out the decent games from the shelves, that nowadays the DS section is 90% Hannah Montana and Petz games, and more than anything, that Nintendo seems to passionately hate people that want to game with their friends.

No online play with the Virtual Console (via virtual second player; no ROM change is necessary, only emulator changes) is insulting. I could play these games online in the SNES era using the XBand and dialup, but I can't play them online nearly 15 years later? Ridiculous.

kingofallcosmos

Wtb more slap-shamisen!

Arttemis

excel_excel

I'm glad they didn't bust on the "We would like to play" commercials, cos they always make me laugh, and I love the shamisen music in the background.

The music is by the Yoshida Brothers, and they're face-meltingly awesome. Watch this video, but don't blame me when they crush your house or office with a giant hakama-clad Godzilla leg of awesomeness (or Monty Python leg if that works for you):

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Billkwando

kingmanic

Now I know to hate them because they used terrible quality hardware in their cartridges and they're preventing gamers' happiness simply because of greed.

Arttemis

3rd party have struggled on the last 3 Nintendo platforms. The wii is displaying a very similar pattern. awesome third party games like Zak and Wiki barely move. Wii 3rd part doesn't sell even 1/2 of what Nintendo 1st party games sell. See Metroid prime as an example (it's 2nd party but same diff). The GC has the same problem and so did the n64. Any 3rd party game sold much less then 1st party ones. Some 2nd party ones did well.

kingmanic

...nevermind.

@kingmanic: Ah, thank you! Now I know to hate them because they used terrible quality hardware in their cartridges and they're preventing gamers happiness simply because of happiness.
I find the latter reason to be a particularly devious action and nominate it to count twice.

Arttemis

and the image of nintendo on the donkey above the guy is genius. nintendo tells you what you want fans, they don't listen to you. otherwise an actual half decent online play system would have already been here. sony and microsoft saw the potential, and made the fans happy. sony didn't even charge you(they knew their online play was inferior to Live, but it still did it's job...FREE)

and chalk another strike up for someone who hates the GC controller. i'm a fan of fighting games. i use the d-pad like most hardcore fans. using the d-pad for fighting games on the GC was freaking ridiculous. and as somebody else pointed out, the c-stick? i mean come on. just put another actual analog stick down there. it really does look like fisher price designed this for nintendo. but hey, if you like it, that's all that matters right?

blackdice

kingmanic

I know! I want to marry that music at this point. I hope my wife won't mind a little polygamy.

@Lokno:

One of the early ones was "Gamertag please" they didn't linger long enough on that, IMHO.

@MURDERFACE: Yes, #75 WAS great. Did anybody else catch the Hudsucker Proxy reference? So awesome.

Anyway, the 360 one was funnier (and I'm a "Wii60" person, as the kids say) but this one was pretty good.

Billkwando

TheDaftPunk

but now on even ground, maybe people will shut up...awww who am i kidding /sob

NocturnOwl357

ffmusicdj

List fails ultimately for not mentioning their refusal to translate Mother 3.

ncsbert

Does anyone else remember when Nintendo was offering free gloves for your hands in Nintendo Power to help dissuade any lawsuits? Or am I just that old?

NinjaBurg3r

Really, aside from 1 or 2 exceptions, Sega and Nintendo are the only decent publishers for Wii games.

... What I would like to see from Nintendo is a stricter submission/proof of concept process. It's disgusting companies are releasing the same games with a new coat of paint over and over. Budget titles or no... that should not be allowed.

RemyDuvalle

MS only has 7 years in the market, and they are MS so its easy to hate.

Xer0Ph0kus

Seriously...these lists are just awful.

Rebochan

Nirual

LittlestLamshi

The main reason for Nintendo hate, for me, is its online strategy, if you can call it that, sucks! Friend codes. No universal "gamertag." People cheat like crazy and they can't/won't do anything about it.

cantbeatmegaman

valhum

101:It wasn't the blowing it was the abrasion of the contacts from pulling the game out and putting it back in. Try it, instead of blowing just pull it out and put it back in a few times or use a little bit of fine grit sand paper on the game contacts and a little bit of rubbing alcohol on a swap on the NES contacts. Nintendo used really cheap contacts on the NES which corroded easily so it made it nesscary to rub off the corrosion.

102:If i had a way to hinder one of my competitors at almost no cost to me, then fucking yes I will do it. Nintendo would be stupid to let GoldenEye go without some extra cash back.
-----------------Aside--------------------
GC Controller: Wasn't that bad. some nice ideas about making the button you hit most bigger was neat. The N64 controller is one of the worst in the last 4 generation of gaming. Utter crap. The wii mote isn't the best thing ever either. It's niche, sometimes used well (Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, some mini games in Mario party/Rayman/Warioware, metroid prime 3.) but often it's a really bad substitute for a normal controller (almost every other game for the console including mario galaxy and super smash brothers). Shaking to replace button mashing is a terrible design choice. Still the wii mote was way better then the n64 controller of the original xbox monster sized one.

kingmanic

kidnicky

/Lordy, is it the weekend yet?

smitty1123

smitty1123

azithinkibe

i still like the PS3 and 360 vids better.

MURDERFACE

Only thing the GC controller can claim to have better than another is that its D-pad was better than the Xbox's D-pad, even though it was a bit too small for my taste.

PixelRambo

But the video did remind me of the Crystal Chronicles RAAAAAGE. I have 2 GBAs, FF:CC, and 4 cables. I knew when I got them that GBAs could boot from the link cable interface. Yet like any peripheral, they put out the obligatory one game (or two? I know one) and dropped it. I don't buy Nintendo peripherals anymore, they are and have always been a scam.

fuchikoma

Pombar

I find it funny that people that like the GC controller hate the N64 controller. I actually liked the N64 controller a lot. Go figure. I thought it worked awesome for the Turok games.

fulgore66

Seiven

Sustenance

@enderx: I noticed that you didn't reply to any posts for examples of fanboys taking it personally. I have a hypothesis, though. Not many of the posts in any of the three threads on these videos so far have really been taking it that personally, so there isn't much to reply to for examples. They seem to be more or less civil disagreements so far.

I'll close with an anecdote.

Some weird guy, trying to be interesting, one time: "Holy shit, that was crazy, man!"
Me: "That was a car driving down the street. That's completely normal."

teeth7

Malevolentburrito

TheTog

HELLSRIDER

futurebiblehero

[www.play-asia.com]

teeth7

it's funny.
nintendo's awesome at a lot of things.
but REALLY shitty at a lot of things. Sure, the wii is selling like hot cakes, and I play mine all the time - but if you're not playing the other consoles, you're not a real gamer.

be a VIDEO GAME fanboy.

All either company want is your money.
if they truly cared about 'gaming as an art', we'd see less cooking mama, less lair, less resident evil re-makes, and more god of war, super mario galaxy, etc.

ALL the consoles have truly great things about them, and truly BAD things about them.

enderx

This is the only issue I do have the the GC controller but almost no games use D-pads anymore. There's always the Hori SNES style and the Pelican Retro controller I guess.

battra92

Heyyou27

The shoulder buttons were analog and digital mixed in one. When you pressed the shoulder in all the way the digital switch would click.

@TheTog: oh man think again the GC controler is the worst.

I still think the Intellivision has a firm grasp on that title.

battra92

GC/Wavebird controller? Best controller ever...that's not a Wiimote/Nunchuk. And, yeah, I've used others...Atari 2600 joystick and paddle, Intellivision, Epyx 500XJ, PS1 DualShock, NES, SNES, N64, Xbox, Xbox 360, MS Sidewinder, MS Strategic Commander, etc., etc. My top four controllers would be:

1. Wiimote/Nunchuk
2. GC/Wavebird
3. Epyx 500XJ
4. Tie: PS1 DualShock/MS Sidewinder

I think the 500XJ beats out the DualShock based mainly on fond childhood memories. Best controller ever for the C64! I couldn't decide between the DualShock and the Sidewinder. I liked the DualShock when I was into PS1 games...but I still use Sidewinders to this day and don't care to use anything else for a PC gamepad.

N64 personally ranks as one of the worst controllers.

^ See? I can hate on Nintendo, too.

eugaet

futurebiblehero

Ether02

Aitrus233

KirbyMorph

This one was pretty funny, better than Sony, not as good as MS.

Gray665

Oh, and if it looks like a toy...guess what, it is a toy. They sell game systems at toys r us folks.

That being said, I love the hamburger for the old X-Box too. Hamburger.

onikuwagata

MykalBloom

fulgore66

Honestly, I dont understand why people like Zelda games...

Justcrim

RuneX

TheTog

Lokno

Oh, and if you don't like Electroplankton, fine, it's a love-it or hate-it experience, and even the most diehard fans wouldn't deny that.

Oh, and the sailing in Wind Waker was fantastically conceived, you can't hold that late, long hide-and-seek stretch against the mechanic itself. Replace the railing on the sailing with railing on that last bit of the game, please.

All of these have been under-thought and poorly put together, but being (primarily) a Nintendo fan for my entire gaming career, I've just been waiting for the Nintendo one to declare them as such.

PhantomSpaceman67

Overall, this one left me feeling like they put too many things in that didn't matter and missed a few important things, but oh well. Not like this is canon, anyway.

phinehas

GUNDAM-RX-78-2

Loved the sailing in Wind Waker as well. If anything I wanted more of it, and a bigger ocean with more islands and more stuff happening on/in the water. Would have loved a boss battle against that ghost pirate ship thing using the cannon.

Definitely the weakest of the three lists, they got worse with each successive one.

vantesaur

And yeah, the whole GBA - SP -Micro thing was overboard. The Micro wasn't needed, and the GBA felt the best in my hands to begin with. The DS lite was pretty much just an outward change to draw more people to it (and boy did it work!).

Tiger-Fever

JamieA

tehFluffz

A couple points though:

1) I never understood the Wind Waker hate. To me it's the best Zelda game. Twilight Princess was somewhat of a letdown and I still need to finish it one of these days. I never minded the sailing and to me it was something refreshing and fun to find and explore every little island.

2.) The Gamecube controller is, in my humble opinion, the best controller of the last generation for everything except 2D fighting games. Too bad there aren't the fighting sticks out there like there is for the PS2.

3.) Oh Noes! Girls and adults is playing mah gamess!!
The casual market sells product. Nintendo expanded the market and saved their sales. My mom would never play anything except Columns, Dr. Mario and Tetris. Now she'll at least play Wii Sports. It was quite a big thing for me to bring home my Wii and have everyone wanting a turn at it.

The only other time I get that is with Mario Kart.

battra92

catapult37

It's nothing invented or exclusive to Nintendo. Just look at car manufacturers during the 50s and 60s? New models every year with bigger tail fins and different colours. But on the gaming angle everyone has released
revisions of their consoles through the years. Colours don't count because obviously people want different colours.

The difference is Nintendo has been making consoles and successfully for longer and Microsoft/Sony/Sega.

cocomo

ajay42

WalkingTheCow

animemecha

thePhildown

Cchrist

Plus they didn't mention the fact that Nintendo now thinks it's a good idea to release multiple version of a console in its gen cycle.

GBP - GBC (yeah I know it's a little different but not enough)

GBA - GBA SP

DS - DSL

NGC - Multiple Color NGC

etc..

pokebud

batdrox

My absolute largest gripe with the Wii is that you can not calibrate the sensor bar for how large your display is. While this might sound silly at first.. try aiming on a projector canvas and you'll see what I mean. I can't aim above half the actual display before I'm over the display in the games, and sidewise I barely cover 25% of the actual canvas to cover it fully in game.

Comparing the Wii to the other two there's a gripe with all three that the Wii handles best, the 360 and PS3 comes shared last (I think the 360 have a slight edge though) with, that needs remedy 20 years ago:

GIVE US MORE COOP GAMES!!!!

The Whaleman

PooPooKaKaBumBum

VishusBurn

As much as people complain about the British games market, it does mean you can still buy brand new copies of this game at marked down price or the normal DS game price.

Also you can pick it up on eBay for less the £20. It is the same with a lot of the harder to find DS games.

cocomo

Jamaces

M.C.-Action

chdir

Waka in Japan

#17 with Reggie clearly reading off a teleprompter
#34 "I loved the Power Glove. It's so bad!"
#44 You let Rare go!? [And they were never the same since then :( ]

Tenchuu

I can see what is coming. I've seen the Rangers transfer deadline one and it is hilarious.

cocomo

c00ler_dood

sparced

Undead98

Molockian

Joolies

Joolies

Although Nintendo seems to have no interest in advertising the Metroid games which is a reason to hate them.

GODofWARasator

Flurp

KM91

So far I'd say the Sony one missed quite a few things to hate on, the Microsoft one was about right and the Nintendo one seemed to be stretching quite a bit to find things to criticise. Maybe if I gave a shit about online play on any system I might have agreed with more of their Nintendo gripes. Overall though, these were a waste of time really.

photoboy

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JakEastside v3

Herabec

Kamizzle

The Vampire Raziel

Shiryu

BornToFlail

ndsOtaku

kanashimaru

Does Not Equal

Yenzo

Yeah I just realised that too. Nintendo's in ability to release games timely in the EU. My current theory on this is that they like to spread out all the money they make over the whole year. I guess they struggle to count it all at once.

cocomo

残心

Nirual

I can almost hear my Wii weeping quietly as I close my eyes for bed.

Witzbold

P.S. Electroplankton is actually pretty good.

DiscipleofJamzy

VictorStillwater

cocomo

BRASH

Dragon_Warrior

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