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>>12423562
And yet cubies dont have Drake and Josh on their side

>>12423562
Cube's tiny discs hum
graphics punch, load times whisper
PS2 fans flinch

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>>12423569
>makes a mario reference

>while clearly playing a ps2

I hate boomer writers so fucking much, also they referenced the GameCube via the GameSphere.

>>12423575
SMW and SM64 are completely playable on the PS2.

Open source loader apps extended the life of the ps2. Also, iso hacks like FFXII IZJS and undubs.

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>>12423575
lel its even more retarded when the game sitting on the table is pic

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>>12423562
Both suck, Xbox is teh pwnage

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>>12423784
Pffft, let's see what based Andy has to say about all of this

>>12423569
I think that might be a red GBA SP on the table.
>>12423774
Good eye, reminds me of how I was able to recognize that in a Christmas episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm unwraps Cool Boarders 2001 for PS2, and says it's "the exact video game I asked for". But if he's supposed to be such a super genius, surely he should've asked for SSX Tricky instead.

>>12423784
I read that entire feature. It claimed the GC emitted dangerous gamma rays. I repeated that to a bunch of friends at school and now feel like a retard.

>>12423809
What magazine is it from? Do you remember which issue?

Trannycube

>>12423562
If it weren't for Melee Gaycubes would be in the landfill.

>>12423562
PS2 versions of games were graphically weaker compared to GC (e.g. all the Capcom Five PS2 ports were worse and RE:CV is better on GC), the PS2 still had shitty loading times like the PS1 did, and you could have four-player multiplayer parties without buying an extra accessory.
That being said the PS2 had better 3rd party support/RPGs at the time continuing from the PS1 so this is why many people remember the PS2 more fondly: the games, like GTA3. But as far as the system itself goes, the GC is more technically impressive and has aged better.

>>12423978
PS2 has the best exclusives Gaycube and Shitbox having better graphics doesn't matter if they barely have exclusives. Also if best graphics is deciding factor we should exclusively be glazing PC.

>>12423893
Nah, after fleeting fad-tier success of the Wii and the disaster of the Wii U, Nintendo pivoted hard with the switch by copying Disney's advertising/branding style. Like with Disney Adults, Nintendo turned their buyers into a legion of drones who worship them like a cult. And all those Nintendo Adults then started buying gamecubes en masse and now it's basically the most expensive mainstream system to collect games for. There was a time when the only people who cared about gamecubes were meleefags, but that's a time long since passed

>>12423786
Holy prophet of the console wars. To this day unrefuted.

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>>12424162
This is true. Remember back in 2014 how N64 was considered a joke? Then after the Switch comes along everyone is going on about how GOATED the N64. I'm truth the only Nintendo console that stands on its own two feet is the SNES, even the NES post retirement popularity was fuelled exclusively by AVGN.

>>12424175
>prophet

lmao wut? Nintendo’s competitors were portraying them as the kiddie games company way before the early 00s

>>12424507
>This is true. Remember back in 2014 how N64 was considered a joke? Then after the Switch comes along everyone is going on about how GOATED the N64

No, I don’t. Your timeline here is absolutely bizarre. Pretty sure there was plenty of nostalgia for the N64 way before 2014, anon.

>>12423786
He's on point. The only exclusive FPS the cube had was Geist.

>>12423784
>plays xbox game cratridges
???

>>12424741
>Pretty sure there was plenty of nostalgia for the N64 way before 2014, anon.
It was mostly kept in the closet but always had pretentious rumblings to it. The 64fag was a known phenomenon from the 90s.

>>12424803
Keep in mind that this board is primarily from the perspective of North America and Japan. You claiming that there wasn’t much N64 nostalgia prior to 2014 sounds insane to me.

>>12424815
I am a different anon, my perspective on 64 nostalgia is colored by someone who has always had an interest in old games and by 2014 had watched Matthew Matosis' videos on mario 64, zelda 64, and many other videos related to n64 games, exposed to n64 speed running, 64 discourse on boards like 4chan and other sites and regularly visited retro game stores in person.

64fags always existed, but true blue 64 nostalgia peaked around the late 2010s. It's still a retro console with common casual appeal, so nostalgia is common for people not really into retro games or even games as a whole.

>>12424818
I guess, although the Wii Virtual Console started putting out N64 titles in 2007.

>>12424507
People have always loved the N64. They're wrong, but they do love it.
It's always been a shit controller with about a dozen games that everyone can list.

>>12426847
I always tolerated it.

While I do like the PS2, it is pretty disappointing when compared to the PS1.
In the PS1, booting up into the bios for Memory Card management let you see both cards on full and quickly gauge and plan out your copying and deleting. On PS2 you have to look at each card individually and there's no real measure of how much space there's left (beyond the exact amount of space left, but that's not a good visual indicator. 3 megs sounds big but if you try to save Socom 2, you're fucked).
Add to that the sliding disc tray that only opens if the console is plugged in (something only fixed in the slim model) and your discs might become trapped in the console if you're planning on moving it somewhere. And even then, the Slim models scratch discs and renders then unplayable, plus isn't as good at reading dual layer disks.

>>12423562
>shit nobody cares about
The bottom line is always the games, which the PS2 had. The gamecube's library had some gems but it couldn't even compete with the N64's.

>>12424818
>>12424507
It totally makes sense that lots of people would care about being nostalgic for the N64 over other consoles. It's top 2 dozen or so titles exist in a way allows a meaningful community to form around them collectively that doesn't really make sense in the same way for most other consoles.

This attitude of "oh, those poser N64 people, yeah I'm superior to them because I care about so many other other old games" feels tryhard, the best N64 games are both fantastic and hold up with solid and well refined gameplay in ways that make them more worth someone's time to go back and re-explore them decades later. It's like there may be tons of great games on the PS1, but not many of them are the kinds of things that tons of people are going to want to actively go back and continue to explore.

For instance, a number of the best PS1 titles are 'cinematic platformers', like Tomb Raider and Oddworld, which are fantastic and even repayable, but once you know them well the grid layouts and deliberately stiff controls that let their puzzle platforming work stop offering you that much. So it's like yeah, they will have their niche communities, but Nintendo doesn't simply offer "mass appeal for plebs", they offer games that you can really sink your teeth into that reached a kind of peak with the N64 and there's damn good reason Mario, Zelda and Rare games make people want to go back and see what more they have to offer more than other stuff from the time. Like, GT was good but there are so many other racing games that do what it was trying to do better. I can't blame N64fags for making good use of their time and attention.

>>12428718
I generally agree with this, although the N64’s library loses a lot of its luster if you’re like me and don’t really care for Rare’s platformers or their britbong 'humour'.

>>12428718
Then we have the flipside of the 64fags, pretentious and delusional. These people have always existed and have basically never played anything but Nintendo in their lives. Their entire point of existence is to insist that N64 games are somehow more special or of a distinct caliber. They insist they aren't casual, but they have identical playing behavior to casuals but this time with excuses for their limited taste.

>>12428718
https://trcustoms.org/ there is literally tons of custom levels for classic tomb raider ,tendies are so delusionals

>>12428741
Like, I'm a huge Tomb Raider fan and am well aware of the custom levels that exist for the series. But I also understand how far N64 game hacking has come and how relatively limited Tomb Raider's engine is in comparison.

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>>12423562
As an adult who has to worry about the electricbills I grew to appreciate the energy-efficiency of the GameCube over the powerhogs that are the PlayStation 2 and especially Xbox, Nintendo products in general are very good about this consideration except for the Nintendo 64.

>>12423569
Is that an Xbox DVD remote?