Jak isn’t a stellar game by any metric, but you ain’t wrong either.Didnt help that Jak and Daxter was also a better game than Mario Sunshine
We haven’t. Look at the reactions when a game like Animal Crossing makes it big.It was a decade of cringe. Adult vs kiddy and then hardcore vs casual. Totally painful. Thank god we have moved passed those two arguments for the most part.
I WISH we could go back to being edgy. Now, it's the exact opposite - everyone is competing to see who get be the biggest pansies.
Metroid Prime not mature enough for you?They didn't try very hard with the " mature " approach to be honest. Nintendo half assed it. I know people have found memories of Eternal Darkness but I thought it was very average and worse it looked bad.
They had absolutely nothing on the level of GTA3 or Halo or anything even close.
I think if they had seriously invested in a proper western style AAA game back then we would have had a different Nintendo image then and now.
Alas though they just went all in on the Japanese development afterwards and now we have what we have.
Nooot really a system seller to be honest.Metroid Prime not mature enough for you?
We haven’t. Look at the reactions when a game like Animal Crossing makes it big.
They gave it their best shot. With the PS2 being 24 sides, it was a tough generation.It had twelve edges. To be exact.
They didn't try very hard with the " mature " approach to be honest. Nintendo half assed it. I know people have found memories of Eternal Darkness but I thought it was very average and worse it looked bad.
They had absolutely nothing on the level of GTA3 or Halo or anything even close.
I think if they had seriously invested in a proper western style AAA game back then we would have had a different Nintendo image then and now.
Alas though they just went all in on the Japanese development afterwards and now we have what we have.
Metroid Prime not mature enough for you?
Nooot really a system seller to be honest.
Totally a western thing, as someone who bought a japanese gamecube close to launch and delved into the library from that side i didn't see any of this edgy cringe shit. Gamecube in japan was about fun in it's adverts and it's game library reflected that. Makes me laugh when people brand the cube kiddy when it got all the biohazard games including 3 exclusive biohazard games, zero and remake been exclusive for the life of the console & bio 4 been exclusive for quite a while at least.
It was partially a course correction to try and keep up with Playstation and Xbox. Made sense to try honestly. The fact that it didn't work for them is partially why they realized they need an entirely different approach than the competition, and thus followed it up with the Wii.
This trend is bigger than just being a response to competition though. Sega did this beforehand. 90s era gaming advertising was almost exclusively going for this edgy or comedic vibe.
Desperate Nintendo is good when it creates something influential (Switch, DS, Wii, BotW, Splatoon, etc.). This was just sad.Desperate Nintendo is best Nintendo though.
When it was juxtaposed against edge lord commercials blaring Finger Eleven, it just made the GameCube look more laughable than desirable. The reason Nintendo's "Edgy" attempts failed was because nobody could take their ventures seriously, not when they had a purple lunchbox with a cartoon plumber as mascot.Wait, the purple lunchbox with a handle with tiny discs was edgy? Not in my world it wasn't. Loved some games on it, certainly looked and played like a kids platform.
I would take that over the clickbait garbage that gaming "journalists" write about today. I would argue that the modern 2010's and 2020's are way cringier and immature compared to the edgy 90's and 2000's.It was a decade of cringe. Adult vs kiddy and then hardcore vs casual. Totally painful. Thank god we have moved passed those two arguments for the most part.
I would take that over the clickbait garbage that gaming "journalists" write about today. I would argue that the modern 2010's and 2020's are way cringier and immature compared to the edgy 90's and 2000's.
If Zack Snyder made videogames.These edgelord days were a dark time...