Valve is missing out by not putting a handle on the new steam machine.
Anon remembers the GameCube
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zephiriz@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gaben is offering us the chance to start up a handle 3d printing business!
alienzx@feddit.nl 1 month ago
No n64 was
rapchee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the controller though
errer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ahead of its time, for the future when man would be blessed by genetic technology to bestow 3 hands upon themselves
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The controller was perfectly fine. The concept was slightly ridiculous and I don’t think I ever played a game that actually used the left side, but ergonomically it was fine.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I know, how are you supposed to lower yourself to anything else when you’ve already held perfection.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No ps1 was
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’d argue PS2 is objectively better since it’s also a PS1 too
elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I hope the GabeCube has a handle too
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I had a GameCube back in the day no one ever moved it’s around with the handle. Sure you could move the console but you still had all of the wires and of course the controller to move as well so the handle wasn’t really helpful.
I never understood who they handle was aimed at.
In Siri you could take it over to your friends house but realistically all you did was just set it up where you wanted it and then never move it.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Didn’t it have local LAN multiplayer for some titles? I think that’s why the handle was on it, but it’s been a long time.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I sort of agree and sort of disagree.
People absolutely did move their consoles around then. When I’d stay at my friend’s or a family member’s house, I’d often take my Dreamcast or GameCube, because I knew they didn’t have one.
They’d do the same when they came over to my house, because I never had a PS1/PS2.
Where the handle doesn’t make sense is what you said with the cables and controllers. I’d always put the console in the same place I put my controller(s) and cables - a bag that has its own handles.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean they’ve shown it, so we know it doesn’t.
But the community will make it happen.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I believe the PS3 was.
Very powerful machine, Sony was losing money on every sale.
Full of features including a web browser (which at the time was very impressive).
Full online functionality without any monthly costs
Upgradable hard drive
Full backwards compatibility (at launch).
It just didn’t sell as much as the ps2
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have one of the super chunky OG PS3s thats compatable with PS1/2 games as well as DVD and bluray. I don’t play it anymore but I’m never getting rid of it.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Nahhhh the 360 was better…
At the time, i was all-in onps3, because of the rrod bullshit, but looking back, virtually every single title that was released on both platforms, runs and plays better on 360.
both consoles were and are amazing today!
you can soft-exploit any ps3 in existence with only a usb stick and run all the unsigned code you want.
the 360 is significantly more complicated, there is a soft-mod out there now, but it’s a little finicky. if you are brave and handy with a soldering iron you can put an RHG chip in there and reflash the bios to allow you to run unsigned code. I dropped a 2tb hdd into mine, which is more than i need for any and every game i ever even considered playing.
the ps3 is worth owning and playing for ps3 titles, the xbox360 is better for everything else.
bottom line: seventh gen was best gen
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The ps3 was superior to the 360 in raw performance. The problem was the architecture was so novel, most developers never bother porting their engines. So games ran like shit.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Had linux too
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Conditional backwards compatability and while it did have online features a lot of them required a subscription to access.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Which features needed subscription?
I remember, on the ps3, if a game had multiplayer, you had to pay for Xbox live on the 360 but you could play for free on the PS3.
Maybe it was for premium features? I didn’t really care about that
eah@programming.dev 1 month ago
1980s: You have to walk to the arcade, you have to stand to play, and you are charged for every minute of play time.
1990s: Computer technology has improved to the point that anyone can have the arcade in their home, you sit to play, and you are charged once for the game and can play for as long as you want.
2010s and onward: Home internet connections are now ubiquitous, enabling instant digital money transactions from anywhere, so the games industry can now nickel and dime you for everything. The coin machines are back.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Bullshit, there are more high-quality games out now than ever before.
Not only are all the games from back then easy to get and emulate, you also have high quality pay-once-enjoy-forever PC games: indie up to big corporations.
Who cares that mostly indies and mid-sized studios produce non-exploitative shit? There are do many masterpieces constantly coming out.
The golden age is now.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
you are charged for every minute of play time
I mean yeah, except that if you were good you could play a really long fucking time on one quarter so your per-minute rate was very low.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fortune in misfortune though, at least in this day and age it’s much easier paying those games without paying them. Although the DRM on some of the newer games have been a a bitch and a half.
Still, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!!
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console.
Original Xbox because you could slap on a no solder mod chip and boot from the hard drive. Suddenly you could switch up the loader, run modded games, run emulators… Truly ground breaking for the console scene.
Or SNES if you’re the kind of weirdo who buys a console because they like games.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console
My friend spent summers in Greece with his family. He said there was a shop there where you would give them like a dollars and you would take the game home, burn it, and bring it back. Of course this is what doomed the Dreamcast. Noone wants to make a game for a system where you can just a disc into a consumer burner and copy.
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah… Then we were all sad and shocked when Sega got out of the console market.
But it was fun while it lasted.
Axeman666@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I will always die on the hill claiming Dreamcast as the best console. It was so far ahead of it’s time and it had so many great games. I would kill for Sega to release a new console, but I imagine many of the people who helped create the Dreamcast went on to work for Nintendo. I’ve always considered the Wii and Wii U to be the true successors to the Dreamcast and I’ve wondered if they were created with the help of people who made the Dreamcast.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I miss ROM-Hacking Luigi’s Mansion. Had some huge drama on some forums and crashed out. I’ve never recovered since.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I need details about this.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
If you look up Mario’s Mansion, that is my project. It also has some weird edits in it (like the money being replaced by Luigi’s Mansion beta disks). I hid away once the pressure and shame and anxiety became too much. Got to learn how to use a hex editor though!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
no dvd or cd capability
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Only three shoulder buttons. No select button. Absolute garbage D-pad and right analog sticks.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 month ago
No bloat! /s
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I refused to buy one for two reasons:
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the principle of me not having any money
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it’s not a fucking cube. It’s a cuboid.
2 might seem like pedantry, but it would have cost them almost nothing in terms of plastic to make it a cube without having to redesign the internals, or they had used an honest designer in the first place.
Honestly, it still itches me now. If I had one I’d 3d-print a little extension to fix it.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It sounds like it should have mostly been point 1, but the GC was wildly affordable when it came out.
Sawblade02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
2, if you have a game boy player installed, it becomes an actual cube. I stumbled into a matching orange set at a thrift shop in Japan years ago and will keep it forever.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve just looked that up and it fixes everything!
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the_q@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
SNES was best.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Did it have Blast Processing?
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think I spent more time trying to get the PSO hack to work than I did playing the actual games.
that’s a lie i played animal crossing and double dash until my eyes were bleeding
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Dreamcast.
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No it was the 4.77 MHz 8086. It beeped and it hummed, providing much needed warm air to my room - the only insulation of which was nkotb posters.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
In early 2026 a new contender will arise
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wasn’t the Wii objectively better since it could also play GameCube games?
chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
mfw someone calls nintendo “based” 🤢
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
animal crossing on the gamecube had a lot of “microtransactions”. part of the functionality of the game was tied to having a gba/gamecube link cable. another part was tied to having an e-reader, along with several series of cards you had to collect in almost a “gacha” like sense.
Una@europe.pub 1 month ago
Nintendo64
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I KNEW I MISSED SOMETHING!
Opening that case and seeing the two discs was mind-blowing at the time. I remember getting stuck and scouring gamefaqs, only to ask on the forums and was told I was stuck on the “hard” path.
Thanks for reminding me, I’ll add it :)
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
ttyybb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Simply put, yes. This reminds me, I have to look into using the GameCube startup animation for booting my computer
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
and can the gavecube be its successor?
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Original Xbox and the duke. Full computer, can install xbmc, basically the steam box of it’s time but sold way under cost.
ShyFae@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t know about objectivity being the best. I do remember a video where the dropped that generation off a stairs and was only one that worked, although the lid had to be held down. Also I remember hearing it was both the most powerful of its gen and wasn’t sold at a loss.
It was definitely my favorite console. Got into the wii but overtime I grew out of concals and moved onto doing all my gaming on pc.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Playstation 2 has all of these benefits and more.
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
GameCube was the first console in the house that was actually MINE and not my sibling’s, and so it will forever be the best to me, especially with games like:
And others I’m surely forgetting
Crampi@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m sorry but when I hear Nintendo gamers talk about all their games it’s like “I play a lot of different games like: ‑ Mario ‑ Mario ‑ Mario with a green hat ‑ Mario with boxing gloves ‑ Mario in a car” 😁
fox2263@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Haha so true.
Although looking at all the game announcements last week it felt like a lot of them were the same game, so a similar situation these days I think.
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
OK, but let’s be real, Nintendo isn’t competing on the strength of their hardware, its that they (used to) have IPs that slap. If I had a choice to play a 3rd party game on a Nintendo console or PC, I’m picking PC.
Nowadays, I am not a Nintendo fan. I don’t like their practices and either the IPs aren’t as good anymore or maybe I’ve aged out of the demographic, so I don’t really have a horse in the fight. But the point is, if you’re gaming on a Nintendo console, its probably because you’re playing a Nintendo IP.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Better than Skyrim, Skyrim, Skyrim but it’s the same as Skyrim, and Skyrim
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, they are different games with different mechanics.
Mario Tennis and Super Mario Bros are less similar to one another than Call of Duty and Battlefield, despite them being from the same publisher and having the same characters.
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The Metroid Prime games were incredible. Also shout-out to Chibi Robo, I loved that game.
korendian@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
2 > 1
and I’m not apologizing.
starik@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I have been looking for this game for at least a decade and I finally got a copy over the summer.
Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Sunshine fucked so hard, I’m looking directly into your soul with that at the top of the list and let me tell you, I fucking see you dude.
And I love it.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
My brother!
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ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 1 month ago
Wind Waker but no Twilight Princess? :o
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I got it on Wii instead - it was basically the reason I purchased the Wii in the first place because I thought the game looked so cool.
It had such a unique atmosphere, I wish Nintendo had the balls to revisit something like that.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
God I miss Wind Waker. Still waiting for that HD remaster.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
There is a Windwaker HD, so the HD HD remaster would be Windwaker 4K
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Sorry for forgetting your namesake! I never had this one.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
F-Zero GX, Phantasy Star Online, Sonic Adventure 2, Cubivore, Star Fox Adventures, Kirby Air Ride, Pikmin
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
One of the very few M rated GameCube games… and, as far as I know, has a unique core sanity mechanic that fairly routinely breaks the fourth wall, aimed at driving you, the player, at losing your own sanity, not merely depicting this happening to your character.
Also, IIRC, the first iteration of Pikmin, a genuienly novel kind of game. Luigi’s Mansion, also a pretty unique kind of game.
Oh, and they remade Metal Gear Solid on it, with better graphics than the PS1.
Dymonika@lemmy.one 1 month ago
I cannot *believe" you’re omitting Tales of Symphonia!