If you compare RE4 GCN with RE4 Wii, the graphics are very comparable. I'm not trying to suggest the GameCube was more powerful than the Wii, but this was a port, and aside from the new controls and extras from the PS2 port, the graphics are nearly identical. Although the GameCube DID have superior video output than the original Wii models.
That's probably because the Wii had too many shovelware titles, but if you go to the good stuff there are planty of Wii games that look better than what the Gamecube had to offer.
MGS: The Twin Snakes was my favorite game of all time on the Game Cube. I've beaten it a million (maybe closer to 100) times. God, I still wish I had that game..
God, this system is amazing. My brother and I grew up on this after my N64 shit the bed. From 2003 on, this system consumed pretty much all my free time (I was a kid, so all I had was free time after school), along with the GBA. The entire 6th Generation was amazing, but this was my favorite of all of them.
"The GameCube didn't have any Street Fighter, King of Fighters or Dead or Alive" So does Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO not count?? I mean, that's basically Street Fighter and King of Fighters combined
I would've rated it equal to the SNES at the time this comment was made. Today, I place the GC and SNES in second, with the Switch just barely edging it out.
Yeah yeah we know. We've gotta admit it was dumb not to show it. We covered this game twice before and that's why but it really should have been in here. We done goofed!
this is a great episode, the gamecube is one of the most underrated consoles, in a wonderful little box full of good games, overlooked by me until i buy my wii and started to explore the Gamecube realm, pure awesomeness, from mario sunshine and zelda wind waker to resident evil remake and viewtiful joe!!!
I have 9 gamecubes. Mainly because of rare full DVD custom top shells and I can repair them really easily. What's also nice about the cube is that without a mod chip or permanent soft mod, you can use SDML and run backups and emulators. You can get widescreen hacks using Swiss to load the game which gives the game more appeal on widescreen tvs. Example would be SMS... Mario wouldn't look so fat (stretched wide) using Swiss. You get more of the screen to see as well that's normally cut off.
Pretty much. Not all games will work either. It will be in true 16:9 but not stretched and you can see a little more of the screen. Gamecube Widescreen Hack Comparison. This shows a comparison between original, stretched, emulated 16:9 in Dolphin and Swiss 16:9 on the console itself. What's also good is Swiss is still being improved on. gc-forever.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=25
I've managed to sell one. It was a viper gamecube custom clear top for full size DVDs and purple bottom with matching controller that was also clear and purple. I don't have problems selling them, I really just like fixing them and making them work. Gives me something to do.
The clear and indigo sold for $125 due to the rarity of the viper case. The others I have I'm not selling online as shipping cost for such a cheap gamecube makes it not worth it. In person I'd do $20 on a good condition one without cords or accessories. Mainly because I take them apart and clean them really good.
I love games that you can "break" to reach the end. Thanks for showing that gameplay footage of Super Monkey Ball, Joe. It's fun to figure out how to take advantage of the system and learn how you can use it.
F-Zero GX is my favorite Gamecube game, the speed and graphics were awesome to look at and the music makes you get pumped up for an epic race to the finish. Great job guys
The Gamecube stands as the pinnacle of gaming for me. Every time I come back to it I get those warm feelings of Christmas morning and playing Mario Kart Double Dash for the first time with my brother. The Gamecube was home to some amazing titles and the last system I can actually call a fun, gaming machine. The third-party support was still relatively strong and a lot of multi-platform games carried over, giving GC owners the best versions of Soul Calibur 2 and Mortal Kombat Deception in my opinion.
Mario Kart Double Dash does not have a 16:9 mode. You can stretch the image like with any game and everything will be distorted, but the game was made to be viewed in 4:3.
I still think the Nintendo Gamecube was a great system, and the games released on it tended to be more enjoyable than most of the ones on the Playstation 2 (at least, in my opinion). :D
Well, there is a bit of an exception in certain cases, usually with some multi-platform games that made it to the GameCube. I've had cases where the the smaller discs did hurt the game, as when being ported the it always was a game of "Did they preserve sound, or visuals?" since the discs just weren't big enough to handle both. Though weirdly enough, the sound taking a hit was usually more noticeable with the horrible compressing done with them with side-by-side comparisons.
It was FAR more powerful than the PS2. Enough to make it almost a generational leap. The only issue (and it was only an issue sometimes) was the GC disks were physically smaller and held less data, so sometimes that resulted in developers using lower quality textures or audio to make it fit. Sometimes they went to multiple disks to solve it.
Stormspark - I don’t believe that the GameCube Nintendo was vastly superior to the SONY PlayStation 2, but it was definitely a step up and games like Luigi’s Mansion, Resident Evil 4, and Star Fox Adventures proves that. Those are examples I pulled from the top of my head, but there are several more.
@@NYCJoeBlack Hardware wise it was a generational leap. The PS2 had a very simple GPU that had to run a separate pass for every texture layer, and couldn't do lighting at all. The Gamecube's GPU could do 8 texture layers and 4 hardware lights in ONE clock cycle. It wasn't just more powerful, it was *vastly* more powerful. The PS2 did have the advantage of better hardware video decoding (though that obviously only affected cutscenes), and more disk space (so some assets could be higher resolution - some Gamecube games that didn't go to 2 disks did suffer from compressed textures as a result).
Stormspark - I am aware of the GCN ability to do 8 texture passing. That was pretty impressive, especially when the Microsoft XBOX could only do 6 texture passing at a time, but to say that the GCN is vastly more powerful than the PS2 might be a bit of a stretch. Listen, out of that generation, the GCN is my favorite system and I own all four systems for they generation; XBOX/GCN/PS2/Dreamcast, but a generational leap? Hmmmm. Not so sure about that one, but if you feel that way, what do you think about the XBOX? That was the more capable hardware in that generation. One of the few things the GCN has over the XBOX was the ability to pass 8 texture passings.
I always thought the GC would have done better if they had just gone with standard sized discs. Their excuse for using smaller DVD's to fight piracy was moot since there eventually was a mod chip to play burned games.
I never even thought about that. I guess it makes sense since the Wii is basically just a Gamecube. - Actually, two Gamecubes with a carrot stuffed in the middle. ;-)
For me the GameCube could of sold a couple more million units if Nintendo had emphasized the online. I like the GameCube disk size I think its fine just Online I wish the GameCube had more of that. GameCube is my favorite console.
Walter White It probably would have done better if it had normal discs, but as a kid I loved the design of the GC's discs for some reason, probably because they looked cool.
“Melee is a true button masher” LOL holy crap, I guess you hadn’t seen just how competitive and unbelievably deep melee is. It’s one of the most difficult, precise, fast, and sophisticated competitive games out there. If you don’t believe me or didn’t know before, you definitely should look it up.. the fights will blow your mind.
Pat Version that seems like a bit of a non sequitur.. just because the game is sophisticated doesn’t mean its players all have their lives together 😂 you can say that about literally anybody that became obsessive with any game (or activity, or career) That’s also a generalization that doesn’t belong in the gaming community, not all players/demographics/races/people that belong to a subgroup are the same.. hopefully that helps.
Athesies they review a ton of games, so it’s okay if they’re not 100% on everything.. but the date itself doesn’t really excuse it, because people were winning big prizes before 2012 if they had looked into that but I understand why a person casually picking it up would be like “meh it’s a button masher” bc it was still intended as a party game anyway. Just felt like, if they didn’t know it yet, they should know now.. and for anybody else that didn’t know.
@@MarMaxGaming yeah but competitive melee had a much worse reputation at the time anong casual fans i think, like people who played it were a bunch of obsessive dumb people, taking something serious that should never be taken serious. I think i even thought that myself, but im glad my mind has been changed. Honestly giving melee props for its mechanical depth in 2012 seems like it might be a controversial move that wouldnt be worthwhile for the channel to make
Gamecube really does have the best analogue stick for any system. Instead of being rounded, it has groves for all of the 8 main directions. This makes playing 2-D games with the analogue not only doable, but easy as cake! And that's damn good, because the Gamecube also has the worst D-pad of any controller, being made for newborns, obviously
Why thank you! I'm glad you watch the entire show. We figure if people can watch The Godfather for 3 hours straight then they can watch a 20+ minute Game Sack episode! OK, maybe The Godfather wasn't a good example. Waterworld, maybe? :)
As someone who remembers loading up the heavy xbox into a duffle bag to play LAN multiplayer at friends' houses, I always appreciated the carrying handle on the gamecube and how light it was 😄 I had an xbox and always wanted a gamecube too if I had the funds but thankfully I knew some guys that had one. Super fun to play in the dorms bc it seemed like the gamecube had fun, easy to learn party games that anyone could pick up and play!!
Luigi's Mansion also had detailed real-time flashlight shadows and lighting effects which was pretty advanced for that generation of games. Also, Metroid Prime's graphics are easily some of the generation's best. Very very few games came close.
D'onte Graves nooooooo way. The dreamcast has the worst controller ever made. The games were not great either. The Gamecube is on a WHOLE other level. Definitely the most under rated.
+D'Onte Graves That is just all kinds of wrong, Dreamcast had plenty of games and sure the controller was a bit round and putting the cord at the bottom was a really dumb idea but those were really the only issues with it, it's certainly not the worst controller ever, that honor probably goes to the Atari 5200 or the Jaguar or something.
Sammy Lane Im in search for a new GC system since my parents sold it when I was younger so they could buy me the wii (the original model with gamecube game support), now I want it again. It was SOO good
The digital port is now used! Nintendo's component cable had a DAC in the cable itself. However, today in the days of fanmade 3D printed things, someone has made an HDMI adapter that uses the digital port. It uses the audio from the digital port too.
I love the Gamecube, I never owned one, but I have a Wii so its even better, I have a ton of gamecube games , but my favuite games for it are F-Zero GX, XGRA, Mario Kart Double Dash, Timesplitters 2+3, Resident Evil series and Soul Caliber 2
I shun the GameCube because the games for it have held their value ridiculously well. TOO well, even the games that are only decent or "pretty good" cost a ton. I look at them and think, gosh, I could buy like five Xbox games for the price of Luigi's Mansion.
+Derpurs Machinest (Gamer88) yup, thats pretty much street fighter plus king of fighters and other snk franchises etc etc. had lots of fun with that game with mates back in the day
Awesome as always, guys! I can't tell you enough how much I enjoy your videos. I personally was disappointed in the GC in it's day but have grown to really like it over the past couple of years.
Soul Calibur 2 was best for the NGC. Played it on playstation and xbox as well, but the gamecube controller just worked better (surprising as that may be). Arcade controller would be the best though
Well if you were Italian-American living here in the 50's-70's maybe you would have heard those words. :) As to what they mean? You got me, I don't know. People are weird when they make up their racial epithets.
Hey Joe and Dave, fun F-Zero GX fact: Using an Action Replay it's actually possible to play a more-or-less complete version of the arcade version of F-Zero AX that was hidden in F-Zero GX, right down to the arcade game's logo, menu and attract screens. It means you can also play the AX tracks without having to unlock them by beating all the cups in Master mode (insanely difficult) and all the AX ships by (I think) beating all the story modes on hard mode, which is probably even harder.I don't have an Action Replay for my Gamecube, but I was able to get the codes working on an emulator.
Hey guys, recent sub and I've been binge watching my way through all the episodes! I love all the funny segments you guys do at the end of each episode hope that doesnt change any time soon. The handle on the back of the console is actually for a monitor that was released for the system btw ;p
That Super Monkey Ball montage brought back some goooood memories. Me and my friend played SMB pretty much all summer back in '03...well that and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.
It would be awesome to have another episode. This one is very good, covers a lot of games but the gamecube has plenty of lesser-known good quality titles that you guys may have played. No RPGs were mentioned, despite the gamecube having a few of them(but not even close to the PS2).
a game i still kind of play on my system is "Chibi Robo". sure, if you think about it, it's just chores in a game, but your a tiny robot fighting off robot spiders, seeing cool characters and you get awesome abilities and outfits. and i'm looking forward to the 3DS game coming out.
I wonder just how many people you pissed off for saying the fighting isn't deep in Super Smash Bros. Melee, a game that has so many mechanics that you move your hands at a million miles a minute that it's near impossible for me to keep up with just WATCHING people who are truly good at melee exhibit their finely honed craft.
ClexYoshi A decent amount, but not as many as I would have imagined. But Dave (who made the comment) really does like the game. He owns all the versions on different systems and plays them a lot. Not at tournament level or anything... just for enjoyment.
but of course, and there's nothing wrong with that! I certainly can't play it at any sort of tournament level, that's for sure. I knew people who could in my youth. Regardless, I just wanted to point it out because it seemed like such a strange comment to make about the game. I love the show the more and more I watch. Especially the 3DO episode, as my father got one of those for himself in 1994.
I loved my Gamecube when I had it. Wave Race: Blue Storm is great game. I don't understand the complaints of the controls, I found them easy to handle.
The handle was really the most pointless feature ever. I mean, sure it made carrying the console easy I guess.. but what about the controllers, power supply, AV cables, GAMES?! lol You have to put all that crap in a bag so at that point the handle becomes irrelevant.
apperently you never saw the carrying case. www.ebay.com/itm/like/301032037334?lpid=82 i used it. a lot and it was a great feature that was not really appreciated. i used it to go game with my family at their house or friends too.
Ivan Bergara Never seen one of those. That's really cool! But the case could've had a handle of its own. The person who designed that case just decided to make use of the otherwise useless Gamecube handle :)
brandon9271 So true..., the handle on the console would only had made sense if the console had a built-in battery and connect to the tv by bluetooth, without that, the handle is usless
They didn't take it apart amd say anything about tje internals. AND the fact it actually has more ram and faster GPU than a lot of people's beloved ps2, and was actually much more capable machine as far as those aspects are concerned, besides resolution.
On the melee segment "The fighting is far from deep." "A true button masher." Im just gonna assume you guys don't know about L-canceling Wavedashing and all the technical aspects of melee.
I remember buying a used GC off of ebay back in 2005. It came with Resident Evil Zero, the REmake, RE 2, RE 4, strategy guides for all of them, a brand new unopened extra controller, 2 memory cards, and an action replay. Needless to say, I didn't get much done for months :)
nintendokings button masher, lack of depth, easy to play? right then I paused to write this and I'm feeling like this will be shallow general facts since that comment about smash shows they don't have that deep of research into this lol if it was another game but come on the console's banner game?
"More than twice as uch as a sega dreamcast" - I'm not hater or fanboy, I do like gamecube, but that statement is more like "look how shitty sales had the gamecube". I mean Gamecube was supported from 2001 to 2007, while Dreamcast 99-2001. And telling us that it sold twice as much is schowing that gamecube did not sell well at all. BTW Wii is backwards compatible, cause it's only overclocked GC.
Jobim gilbert They are higher cause they're overlocked... and they added some RAM to hold more textures. But it doesn't change the fact that Wii is overclocked GC. Do you think why it's backwards compatybile? Wii isn't powerfoul enough to make an emulation.
I like the Dreamcast but the Dreamcast had a quick death that's why even if sega continued making dreamcasts they couldn't of gotten enough sales to keep going, the PS2 was dominating the Game market. In 2000-2002 the PS2 was the cheapest dvd player on the market so it didn't really sell because of the games released for it. I owned and still own a GameCube.
lone wolf I don't know about Wii U, this shitty console does not interested me. But from what I checked, it has diffrent guts than the Wii. While if you check every thing in GC and the Wii, you will se exactly the same guts. Also that's the way they make the Wii backwards compatibile. Same guts= it can play games from previous gen.
Custom Robo is arguably one of my favorite Gamecube games, and I wish the series would have continued past the even more niche DS game it had. Even its dorky little story and characters had a charm to them that I see myself coming back to every once in a blue moon.
Yeah, I think you're right. I'm not really educated in racial slurs but I think it's something white Americans would call Italian immigrants in old times.
Wow. Some of those manoeuvres in Super Monkey Ball were insane! Didn't know they were possible. I spent so much time on that game when it first came out. Real shame it got worse with each sequel.
I bought both of these Super Monkey Ball games when I saw this video around 3 years ago, watched it again and those skills you have Joe at 15:45 are amazing, I played this most of the time when hanging around friends when drinking, it's a great party game
Actually you guys are wrong about the cube not having fighting games. there was... -Capcom vs SNK -Soul Caliber 2 (where you could fight as link) -MK: deadly alliance -MK: deception -Bloody Roar To name a few, as well as many beat'em ups, boxing and wrestling games. This only took a few seconds of online searching to find boys.
Taylan Demir OK. Yep. We're done here. Blocking you. We don't need 8-year-olds throwing temper-tantrums in our comment section. Our audience is way better than that.
Update: Metroid Prime Trilogy can be had as a downloadable Wii U title from the eshop. Despite getting the opportunity to get the metal case upon the initial release, I grabbed the trilogy because fuck disc swapping. So it isn't hard for any Wii U owners or new Nintendo gamers to get into the trilogy.
I kind of wish that sega comes back into the console market. We need someone more like nintendo to remind sony and Microsoft how to actually make a console...
If I recall correctly, Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike were particularly impressive in terms of geometry. Factor 5 were tech wizards on the level of Naughty Dog. It was sad to see them go after the Lair fiasco.
There's actually quite a bit: Resident Evil 0,1, 4, and Code Veronica, Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes, Tales of Symphonia, Killer7, Baten Kaitos 1 and Origins, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Double Agent, and some other insignificant games.
I guess you guys are right, I just never encountered that. I was thinking from how I experienced it though, and here in the Netherlands I never found a double CD box, but then again I don't remember finding the games in the stores here so maybe they weren't released here locally.
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The Gamecube went from one of the most overlooked consoles to one of the most cherished, and I'm glad.
ikr, snes is the one i like the most, but game cube, that's the one i love the most
Is it just me or do the graphics on these look better than most Wii games?
If you compare RE4 GCN with RE4 Wii, the graphics are very comparable. I'm not trying to suggest the GameCube was more powerful than the Wii, but this was a port, and aside from the new controls and extras from the PS2 port, the graphics are nearly identical. Although the GameCube DID have superior video output than the original Wii models.
@@AgentMorgan2010 The Wii recycles much of the Gamecube's hardware. Which is actually why it can run Gamecube games without any issues.
Qwerty343D The Wii was essentially a GameCube Pro, before the concept of Pro systems existed.
@@spooky_electric exactly
That's probably because the Wii had too many shovelware titles, but if you go to the good stuff there are planty of Wii games that look better than what the Gamecube had to offer.
Call me cheesy, but I love the dad humor in this show...
They are really funny guys and do not adhere to any sort of political correctness which is what I love most about them.
I agree with Cheesy completely
I miss Dave. I wish that he'd come back for one more episode. Maybe one day...
MGS: The Twin Snakes was my favorite game of all time on the Game Cube. I've beaten it a million (maybe closer to 100) times. God, I still wish I had that game..
God, this system is amazing. My brother and I grew up on this after my N64 shit the bed. From 2003 on, this system consumed pretty much all my free time (I was a kid, so all I had was free time after school), along with the GBA. The entire 6th Generation was amazing, but this was my favorite of all of them.
HardcoreGamer4Ever Wow I didn't know the N64 had an ass.
+GameCube Rocks lmao. Maybe it's the port under it haha
@@ultra6466 where do you think superman or banjo toie came out from?
Dave used to look so tense in camera back in time. Its nice to see how much relaxed he seems today and the dad jokes keep flowing
"The GameCube didn't have any Street Fighter, King of Fighters or Dead or Alive"
So does Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO not count?? I mean, that's basically Street Fighter and King of Fighters combined
@John DiLoreto Bruv it was in the arcade.
Soul Calibur II was available for Game Cube with Link (Zelda) as exclusive character.
@John DiLoreto No it absolutely counts but people make mistakes so why not let it slide.
You didn't talk about Mario Sunshine? One of the best games on the GameCube!!! Sadness.
The guy playing Monkey Ball should do a let’s play of the game.
His name's Joe.
bigshr00m Joe mamma!
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8 years later, and I'm still impressed by your Super Monkey Ball skills.
Second best nintendo console IMO. Snes 1st.
Definitely, I fully agree with that. Snes representing 2D, GameCube representing 3D
Snes is king!
I would've rated it equal to the SNES at the time this comment was made. Today, I place the GC and SNES in second, with the Switch just barely edging it out.
My words... But most of my friends don't agree.
This was my very first Game Sack episode I watched. I believe it took me about 6 years before I became addicted to this content.
Yeah yeah we know. We've gotta admit it was dumb not to show it. We covered this game twice before and that's why but it really should have been in here. We done goofed!
Dam how good does Rogue leader look! I was always impressed with the Gamecube :)
ThePSXcollector strangething is why arent better looking games in the system, keeping in mind that was a launch title!
Happy Birthday Gamecube! Gamecube turned 15 today! Still my favourite console. :-)
MiGiz I can't wait to celebrate the 15th anniversary of my favorite and most underrated GameCube game......Super Mario Sunshine
time doesnt exist on youtube
this is a great episode, the gamecube is one of the most underrated consoles, in a wonderful little box full of good games, overlooked by me until i buy my wii and started to explore the Gamecube realm, pure awesomeness, from mario sunshine and zelda wind waker to resident evil remake and viewtiful joe!!!
I have 9 gamecubes. Mainly because of rare full DVD custom top shells and I can repair them really easily. What's also nice about the cube is that without a mod chip or permanent soft mod, you can use SDML and run backups and emulators. You can get widescreen hacks using Swiss to load the game which gives the game more appeal on widescreen tvs. Example would be SMS... Mario wouldn't look so fat (stretched wide) using Swiss. You get more of the screen to see as well that's normally cut off.
How does that work? Does it just make the Gamecube render more of the image? No Nintendo-proper game on the system is in 16:9.
Pretty much. Not all games will work either. It will be in true 16:9 but not stretched and you can see a little more of the screen. Gamecube Widescreen Hack Comparison. This shows a comparison between original, stretched, emulated 16:9 in Dolphin and Swiss 16:9 on the console itself. What's also good is Swiss is still being improved on. gc-forever.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=25
Do you ever sell any gamecubes?
I've managed to sell one. It was a viper gamecube custom clear top for full size DVDs and purple bottom with matching controller that was also clear and purple. I don't have problems selling them, I really just like fixing them and making them work. Gives me something to do.
The clear and indigo sold for $125 due to the rarity of the viper case. The others I have I'm not selling online as shipping cost for such a cheap gamecube makes it not worth it. In person I'd do $20 on a good condition one without cords or accessories. Mainly because I take them apart and clean them really good.
I love games that you can "break" to reach the end. Thanks for showing that gameplay footage of Super Monkey Ball, Joe. It's fun to figure out how to take advantage of the system and learn how you can use it.
I'm surprised you didn't mention Super mario sunshine or Metal gear solid
In description.
F-Zero GX is my favorite Gamecube game, the speed and graphics were awesome to look at and the music makes you get pumped up for an epic race to the finish.
Great job guys
The Gamecube stands as the pinnacle of gaming for me. Every time I come back to it I get those warm feelings of Christmas morning and playing Mario Kart Double Dash for the first time with my brother. The Gamecube was home to some amazing titles and the last system I can actually call a fun, gaming machine. The third-party support was still relatively strong and a lot of multi-platform games carried over, giving GC owners the best versions of Soul Calibur 2 and Mortal Kombat Deception in my opinion.
why does noone ever mention metal arms glitch in the system
Mario Kart Double Dash does not have a 16:9 mode. You can stretch the image like with any game and everything will be distorted, but the game was made to be viewed in 4:3.
Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil 4 - best games on the Gamecube.
HiDefJesus no
I still think the Nintendo Gamecube was a great system, and the games released on it tended to be more enjoyable than most of the ones on the Playstation 2 (at least, in my opinion). :D
Well, there is a bit of an exception in certain cases, usually with some multi-platform games that made it to the GameCube. I've had cases where the the smaller discs did hurt the game, as when being ported the it always was a game of "Did they preserve sound, or visuals?" since the discs just weren't big enough to handle both.
Though weirdly enough, the sound taking a hit was usually more noticeable with the horrible compressing done with them with side-by-side comparisons.
It was FAR more powerful than the PS2. Enough to make it almost a generational leap. The only issue (and it was only an issue sometimes) was the GC disks were physically smaller and held less data, so sometimes that resulted in developers using lower quality textures or audio to make it fit. Sometimes they went to multiple disks to solve it.
Stormspark - I don’t believe that the GameCube Nintendo was vastly superior to the SONY PlayStation 2, but it was definitely a step up and games like Luigi’s Mansion, Resident Evil 4, and Star Fox Adventures proves that. Those are examples I pulled from the top of my head, but there are several more.
@@NYCJoeBlack Hardware wise it was a generational leap. The PS2 had a very simple GPU that had to run a separate pass for every texture layer, and couldn't do lighting at all. The Gamecube's GPU could do 8 texture layers and 4 hardware lights in ONE clock cycle. It wasn't just more powerful, it was *vastly* more powerful. The PS2 did have the advantage of better hardware video decoding (though that obviously only affected cutscenes), and more disk space (so some assets could be higher resolution - some Gamecube games that didn't go to 2 disks did suffer from compressed textures as a result).
Stormspark - I am aware of the GCN ability to do 8 texture passing. That was pretty impressive, especially when the Microsoft XBOX could only do 6 texture passing at a time, but to say that the GCN is vastly more powerful than the PS2 might be a bit of a stretch.
Listen, out of that generation, the GCN is my favorite system and I own all four systems for they generation; XBOX/GCN/PS2/Dreamcast, but a generational leap? Hmmmm. Not so sure about that one, but if you feel that way, what do you think about the XBOX? That was the more capable hardware in that generation. One of the few things the GCN has over the XBOX was the ability to pass 8 texture passings.
I always thought the GC would have done better if they had just gone with standard sized discs.
Their excuse for using smaller DVD's to fight piracy was moot since there eventually was a mod chip to play burned games.
You're absolutely right; people always find a way.
And if you're really ambitious, you can hook up a Wii's DVD drive to a GameCube.
I never even thought about that. I guess it makes sense since the Wii is basically just a Gamecube. - Actually, two Gamecubes with a carrot stuffed in the middle. ;-)
For me the GameCube could of sold a couple more million units if Nintendo had emphasized the online. I like the GameCube disk size I think its fine just Online I wish the GameCube had more of that. GameCube is my favorite console.
Walter White It probably would have done better if it had normal discs, but as a kid I loved the design of the GC's discs for some reason, probably because they looked cool.
“Melee is a true button masher” LOL holy crap, I guess you hadn’t seen just how competitive and unbelievably deep melee is. It’s one of the most difficult, precise, fast, and sophisticated competitive games out there. If you don’t believe me or didn’t know before, you definitely should look it up.. the fights will blow your mind.
To be fair it was 2012 when this was released so it makes sense they wouldnt think the game was complicated
If it's so sophisticated why do none of the players take showers?
Pat Version that seems like a bit of a non sequitur.. just because the game is sophisticated doesn’t mean its players all have their lives together 😂 you can say that about literally anybody that became obsessive with any game (or activity, or career)
That’s also a generalization that doesn’t belong in the gaming community, not all players/demographics/races/people that belong to a subgroup are the same.. hopefully that helps.
Athesies they review a ton of games, so it’s okay if they’re not 100% on everything.. but the date itself doesn’t really excuse it, because people were winning big prizes before 2012 if they had looked into that but I understand why a person casually picking it up would be like “meh it’s a button masher” bc it was still intended as a party game anyway. Just felt like, if they didn’t know it yet, they should know now.. and for anybody else that didn’t know.
@@MarMaxGaming yeah but competitive melee had a much worse reputation at the time anong casual fans i think, like people who played it were a bunch of obsessive dumb people, taking something serious that should never be taken serious. I think i even thought that myself, but im glad my mind has been changed. Honestly giving melee props for its mechanical depth in 2012 seems like it might be a controversial move that wouldnt be worthwhile for the channel to make
Gamecube really does have the best analogue stick for any system. Instead of being rounded, it has groves for all of the 8 main directions. This makes playing 2-D games with the analogue not only doable, but easy as cake!
And that's damn good, because the Gamecube also has the worst D-pad of any controller, being made for newborns, obviously
Why thank you! I'm glad you watch the entire show. We figure if people can watch The Godfather for 3 hours straight then they can watch a 20+ minute Game Sack episode! OK, maybe The Godfather wasn't a good example. Waterworld, maybe? :)
5:37 "The fighting is far from deep."
*cringes*
"it is far from difficult"
That one hurt
As someone who remembers loading up the heavy xbox into a duffle bag to play LAN multiplayer at friends' houses, I always appreciated the carrying handle on the gamecube and how light it was 😄
I had an xbox and always wanted a gamecube too if I had the funds but thankfully I knew some guys that had one. Super fun to play in the dorms bc it seemed like the gamecube had fun, easy to learn party games that anyone could pick up and play!!
You made me want to discover Metroid Prime and Eternal Darkness, thanks guys!
gamecube has the best controller of all time imho
you guys missed WWE Day Of Reckoning 1&2 made by thq no other system has these games which makes them Nintendo exclusives
Luigi's Mansion also had detailed real-time flashlight shadows and lighting effects which was pretty advanced for that generation of games. Also, Metroid Prime's graphics are easily some of the generation's best. Very very few games came close.
The most underrated console of all time
Nah, that was the Sega Dreamcast. This is a very close second, since the GameCube is definitely more powerful and had excellent games.
*****
who's trolling???
D'onte Graves nooooooo way. The dreamcast has the worst controller ever made. The games were not great either. The Gamecube is on a WHOLE other level. Definitely the most under rated.
schram21891 Sega Saturn is much underrated like the PC engine imo.
+D'Onte Graves That is just all kinds of wrong, Dreamcast had plenty of games and sure the controller was a bit round and putting the cord at the bottom was a really dumb idea but those were really the only issues with it, it's certainly not the worst controller ever, that honor probably goes to the Atari 5200 or the Jaguar or something.
the montage ad accompanying music was very well done. what was the name of the song for the montage?
The Nintendo Game Cube...the lil awesome system could and did deliver.
Sammy Lane Im in search for a new GC system since my parents sold it when I was younger so they could buy me the wii (the original model with gamecube game support), now I want it again. It was SOO good
The digital port is now used! Nintendo's component cable had a DAC in the cable itself. However, today in the days of fanmade 3D printed things, someone has made an HDMI adapter that uses the digital port. It uses the audio from the digital port too.
I love the Gamecube, I never owned one, but I have a Wii so its even better, I have a ton of gamecube games , but my favuite games for it are F-Zero GX, XGRA, Mario Kart Double Dash, Timesplitters 2+3, Resident Evil series and Soul Caliber 2
Timesplitters 2 and 3 are the best shooters of the 6th generation
Love the track played during the montage! Its Roger Buster's Theme from the F-Zero GX soundtrack in case anyone is interested and its here on YT.
I shun the GameCube because the games for it have held their value ridiculously well. TOO well, even the games that are only decent or "pretty good" cost a ton. I look at them and think, gosh, I could buy like five Xbox games for the price of Luigi's Mansion.
I just got luigi's mansion for 10$ on Craigslist. The games aren't much at all. Just hunt for deals. Easy stuff
Michael Hilstrom Always on the hunt. Found a few good ones here and there, but the pace is much slower because of the expense being higher on average.
Is the struggle
yes but luigi's mansion is probably better than all 5 of those xbox games combined.
greenmumm Better than say, Chaos Theory, MechAssault, Ghost Recon 2, Mercenaries, and Psi Ops? I think it depends on which five games.
;)
Damn, somebody REALLY likes Monkey Ball.
That skit at the end was so dumb it was amazing. Keep 'em coming!
Capcom vs snk 2 is on GC
+Derpurs Machinest (Gamer88) yup, thats pretty much street fighter plus king of fighters and other snk franchises etc etc.
had lots of fun with that game with mates back in the day
Featuring Kyosuke from rival schools and Morrigan from Darkstalkers
The D pad makes it the worst version though.
No DLC
No Online
No internet to play
Good times for Gaming
All hail the Gamecube, the best and most underrated system of all time. So awesome. I'm thinking of getting this off Ebay.
Your name is gamecube rocks and you don't even have one? Jeez, jumping on bandwagons for no reason..
Ps2 wipes itself with the gamecube
***** The Great Xbox destroys the Ps2 with it's graphics!
Ps2 exterminates xbox with it's 3rd party support and it's 3000 games
Gamecube kills Ps2 with it's controller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome as always, guys! I can't tell you enough how much I enjoy your videos. I personally was disappointed in the GC in it's day but have grown to really like it over the past couple of years.
The GameCube is my favorit system ever
"my parents crossbred and im a mutt" i love dave and gamesack
Soul Calibur 2 was best for the NGC. Played it on playstation and xbox as well, but the gamecube controller just worked better (surprising as that may be).
Arcade controller would be the best though
Well if you were Italian-American living here in the 50's-70's maybe you would have heard those words. :) As to what they mean? You got me, I don't know. People are weird when they make up their racial epithets.
my favorite video game console of all time without question
Hey Joe and Dave, fun F-Zero GX fact: Using an Action Replay it's actually possible to play a more-or-less complete version of the arcade version of F-Zero AX that was hidden in F-Zero GX, right down to the arcade game's logo, menu and attract screens. It means you can also play the AX tracks without having to unlock them by beating all the cups in Master mode (insanely difficult) and all the AX ships by (I think) beating all the story modes on hard mode, which is probably even harder.I don't have an Action Replay for my Gamecube, but I was able to get the codes working on an emulator.
They are wrong, GameCube had Street Fighter, it was named Capcom vs SNK 2, it was the game i played the most on GameCube with my friends.
Luigi's Mansion had such a unique atmosphere no other games could achieve. I love it. I think that's what makes the game.
Hey guys, recent sub and I've been binge watching my way through all the episodes! I love all the funny segments you guys do at the end of each episode hope that doesnt change any time soon. The handle on the back of the console is actually for a monitor that was released for the system btw ;p
Thanks!
Game Sack buenos juegos.!!! Fascinante su canal.!!! 👌🏻
hola :D
That Super Monkey Ball montage brought back some goooood memories. Me and my friend played SMB pretty much all summer back in '03...well that and Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.
My favorite all time system.
It would be awesome to have another episode. This one is very good, covers a lot of games but the gamecube has plenty of lesser-known good quality titles that you guys may have played. No RPGs were mentioned, despite the gamecube having a few of them(but not even close to the PS2).
This my favorite Game Sack episode. Also, fantastic montage music!
a game i still kind of play on my system is "Chibi Robo". sure, if you think about it, it's just chores in a game, but your a tiny robot fighting off robot spiders, seeing cool characters and you get awesome abilities and outfits. and i'm looking forward to the 3DS game coming out.
I wonder just how many people you pissed off for saying the fighting isn't deep in Super Smash Bros. Melee, a game that has so many mechanics that you move your hands at a million miles a minute that it's near impossible for me to keep up with just WATCHING people who are truly good at melee exhibit their finely honed craft.
ClexYoshi A decent amount, but not as many as I would have imagined. But Dave (who made the comment) really does like the game. He owns all the versions on different systems and plays them a lot. Not at tournament level or anything... just for enjoyment.
but of course, and there's nothing wrong with that! I certainly can't play it at any sort of tournament level, that's for sure. I knew people who could in my youth. Regardless, I just wanted to point it out because it seemed like such a strange comment to make about the game. I love the show the more and more I watch. Especially the 3DO episode, as my father got one of those for himself in 1994.
ClexYoshi It's deep but not THAT deep honestly. Games like Street Fighter have a much higher skill ceiling.
Wakasaurus Rex that so wrong
Supercool nata Nope, it's just the truth.
Best video game show on TH-cam. Very informative and always interesting content.
Why'd he not talk about Mario Kart: Double Dash!!?
I loved my Gamecube when I had it. Wave Race: Blue Storm is great game. I don't understand the complaints of the controls, I found them easy to handle.
I love playing GameCube on my wii
Fun Fact on the F-zero GX there is actually the F-zero AX content on the disk that can be accessed with something like the action replay and swiss.
The handle was really the most pointless feature ever. I mean, sure it made carrying the console easy I guess.. but what about the controllers, power supply, AV cables, GAMES?! lol You have to put all that crap in a bag so at that point the handle becomes irrelevant.
apperently you never saw the carrying case.
www.ebay.com/itm/like/301032037334?lpid=82
i used it. a lot and it was a great feature that was not really appreciated.
i used it to go game with my family at their house or friends too.
Ivan Bergara
Never seen one of those. That's really cool! But the case could've had a handle of its own. The person who designed that case just decided to make use of the otherwise useless Gamecube handle :)
brandon9271 So true..., the handle on the console would only had made sense if the console had a built-in battery and connect to the tv by bluetooth, without that, the handle is usless
They didn't take it apart amd say anything about tje internals. AND the fact it actually has more ram and faster GPU than a lot of people's beloved ps2, and was actually much more capable machine as far as those aspects are concerned, besides resolution.
"The fighting is far from deep." "A true button masher." LOL! You can not be any more wrong.
I was about to say the same
wind waker, wave race: blue storm, and animal crossing are my favorite gc games
On the melee segment "The fighting is far from deep." "A true button masher." Im just gonna assume you guys don't know about L-canceling Wavedashing and all the technical aspects of melee.
Melee is a new game when you learn how to play competitively
SeizureSaladDressing
Thats what she said.
Lol nerd
Corey Cooper Lol what a nerd its not like I just commented on a youtube video about video games my life is so productive.
Ryanime NERD!!!!
I remember buying a used GC off of ebay back in 2005. It came with Resident Evil Zero, the REmake, RE 2, RE 4, strategy guides for all of them, a brand new unopened extra controller, 2 memory cards, and an action replay. Needless to say, I didn't get much done for months :)
Hello? Mario Sunshine?!
Omg... The... Nostalgia Factor... Omg... I need to make a super mario sunshine altar
lol me 2
yoshilover man Hello? Description?!
yoshilover man And above all, they forgot *Resident* *Evil* *4* and Zero!!!!
lol ya
Enjoy watching your show guys, it's quite addictive so working my way through them all. Keep up the good work chaps!
Melee: ''far from deep/difficult'', ''true buttonmasher''. They have no idea
Exactly what i was thinking.
nintendokings button masher, lack of depth, easy to play? right then I paused to write this and I'm feeling like this will be shallow general facts since that comment about smash shows they don't have that deep of research into this lol if it was another game but come on the console's banner game?
nintendokings also, I'm using that was his young link vs giant DK lol that'd explain it
Love all those funny scenes at the end of all videos. You guys know how to make games more fun than they are all ready are.
"More than twice as uch as a sega dreamcast" - I'm not hater or fanboy, I do like gamecube, but that statement is more like "look how shitty sales had the gamecube". I mean Gamecube was supported from 2001 to 2007, while Dreamcast 99-2001. And telling us that it sold twice as much is schowing that gamecube did not sell well at all.
BTW Wii is backwards compatible, cause it's only overclocked GC.
CPU and GPU were of a higher clock in the Wii. In addition, the flash ROM and additional RAM were much larger.
Jobim gilbert They are higher cause they're overlocked... and they added some RAM to hold more textures. But it doesn't change the fact that Wii is overclocked GC. Do you think why it's backwards compatybile? Wii isn't powerfoul enough to make an emulation.
I like the Dreamcast but the Dreamcast had a quick death that's why even if sega continued making dreamcasts they couldn't of gotten enough sales to keep going, the PS2 was dominating the Game market. In 2000-2002 the PS2 was the cheapest dvd player on the market so it didn't really sell because of the games released for it. I owned and still own a GameCube.
MocnyBrowarek so the according to you the wii u is overclocked wii? Haha nice jokes on these comments sections
lone wolf I don't know about Wii U, this shitty console does not interested me. But from what I checked, it has diffrent guts than the Wii.
While if you check every thing in GC and the Wii, you will se exactly the same guts. Also that's the way they make the Wii backwards compatibile. Same guts= it can play games from previous gen.
Custom Robo is arguably one of my favorite Gamecube games, and I wish the series would have continued past the even more niche DS game it had. Even its dorky little story and characters had a charm to them that I see myself coming back to every once in a blue moon.
Best Nintendo console.
Yeah, I think you're right. I'm not really educated in racial slurs but I think it's something white Americans would call Italian immigrants in old times.
"My enthusiasm for the Star Wars universe has dropped off" You have no idea past Dave, lol. After Disney got ahold of it I have zero interest.
Wow. Some of those manoeuvres in Super Monkey Ball were insane! Didn't know they were possible. I spent so much time on that game when it first came out. Real shame it got worse with each sequel.
Best. controller. ever.
I bought both of these Super Monkey Ball games when I saw this video around 3 years ago, watched it again and those skills you have Joe at 15:45 are amazing, I played this most of the time when hanging around friends when drinking, it's a great party game
No Super Mario Sunshine?
What a shame...
I was wondering the same but then I read the video description above and there is an explanation
I want Paper Mario TTYD
Yeah...
1:25 Wait, what?! If I press the center of reader, the disc just pop out? I can't believe it took 20 years for me to realize that!
Smash Bros. Melee is a non-deep fighter that has a lot of button mashing.
Daveplz.
Actually you guys are wrong about the cube not having fighting games.
there was...
-Capcom vs SNK
-Soul Caliber 2 (where you could fight as link)
-MK: deadly alliance
-MK: deception
-Bloody Roar
To name a few, as well as many beat'em ups, boxing and wrestling games.
This only took a few seconds of online searching to find boys.
I like these reviews, but they seem too scripted. I think it would sound more natural if they improvised more.
All these years later and still there's games for GC I want to play
12:06 Joe you salty sega fanboy...
**Licks self** Hmmm I guess I am kind of salty.
Game Sack resident evil 1 was good very intense
Game Sack
U fuck !!!! U CALL SMASH A BUTTON MASHER U FKN SEGA PEACE OF SHIT FANBOY!!!!! u make me sooo mad !!!!1
Taylan Demir
OK. Yep. We're done here. Blocking you. We don't need 8-year-olds throwing temper-tantrums in our comment section. Our audience is way better than that.
Game Sack Okay.. but you really must admit it's as much of a button masher as kirby
Update: Metroid Prime Trilogy can be had as a downloadable Wii U title from the eshop.
Despite getting the opportunity to get the metal case upon the initial release, I grabbed the trilogy because fuck disc swapping.
So it isn't hard for any Wii U owners or new Nintendo gamers to get into the trilogy.
so where's Sega today, Joe?
Over there... to your right.
sega better
I kind of wish that sega comes back into the console market. We need someone more like nintendo to remind sony and Microsoft how to actually make a console...
my last console was the dreamcast
So was Sega's.
If I recall correctly, Rogue Leader and Rebel Strike were particularly impressive in terms of geometry. Factor 5 were tech wizards on the level of Naughty Dog. It was sad to see them go after the Lair fiasco.
You said "games had to be split into multiple cd's often" but that almost never ever happened..
I have Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 AND 2005 and they came in two separate discs.
There's actually quite a bit: Resident Evil 0,1, 4, and Code Veronica, Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes, Tales of Symphonia, Killer7, Baten Kaitos 1 and Origins, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Double Agent, and some other insignificant games.
I guess you guys are right, I just never encountered that. I was thinking from how I experienced it though, and here in the Netherlands I never found a double CD box, but then again I don't remember finding the games in the stores here so maybe they weren't released here locally.
Wasn't rouge agent 2 disk also? Been so many years lol
Btw one of the best James Bond related games IMO It was amazing for the time
IT'S FROM F-ZERO GX I DON'T KNOW THE TITLE ALL I KNOW IS THAT IT'S FROM F-ZERO GX!!
Ssbm is very deep, how dare you
How could you not mention Twilight Princess?? I know it was on Wii as well but the Gamecube at lease made him left-handed.