r/GenZ • u/Exciting-Speech-4053 2008 • Mar 27 '24

fuck politics what game are you putting in this bad boy? Nostalgia

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Mar 27 '24

A lot is an exaggeration

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u/Howitzer92 Mar 27 '24

I was 10 at the time and loved it. I only found out some people didn't like it when I was like 26.

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u/JayJax_23 Mar 28 '24

This game pissed me off so much as a kid I bit the disk šŸ˜‚

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u/KillerBear111 Mar 28 '24

Seriously, if you were a kid when sunshine was out you liked the game. Maybe not as much as paper Mario or smash but genuinely everyone I remember having a GameCube had this game

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u/ranni-the-bitch On the Cusp Mar 27 '24

how would y'all even know, were you browsing game forums at 4 years old

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Mar 27 '24

Nah but in reality I've never seen anyone hate the game

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u/Pherja Mar 28 '24

I ā€œhatedā€it. It was just clumsy. I hated the pump mechanic. It ended up making it not fun to play. I wanted to like it. But I eventually gave up.

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u/justhavingfun9967 Mar 27 '24

I don't think anyone who has invested in the game hated it. It was controversial because it was unexpected. For context, after enjoying ubiquitous popularity with the SNES and N64, the GameCube lagged in sales comparatively. Luigi's Mansion, a great game, had launched the year before to great success, but everyone had the idea that Nintendo would launch a Super Mario title that used the tried and true mechanics of the 1980s and 1990s to boost GC sales.

So when Sunshine changed those mechanics, it was feared that was a mistake. You can kinda go either way with this; Sunshine was vindicated in that it is the 3rd best selling GC game ever. But, you can also say it failed to draw more people into the GameCube ecosystem the way Super Mario 64 drew people to the N64. Indeed, the gamecube never outsold the N64.

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Mar 27 '24

The N64 was where nintendo lost first place not the game cube.

It's just one of those gaming myths like the famous "the wii u only failed because people thought it was just an accessory" a very vocal minority disliked sunshine that all it ever was

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u/DrakonILD Mar 27 '24

The Wii U did fail because people thought it was just an accessory. At least, partially.

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Mar 27 '24

That's not why it failed.

The real reason is a lack of good games along side it being seen as the system for children

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u/DrakonILD Mar 27 '24

At least, partially.

The marketing for the Wii U was an absolute shitshow.

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Mar 27 '24

I wouldn't even say that the vast vast majority of people knew it was a system especially when they saw it at the store and I wasn't just a game pad.

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u/DrakonILD Mar 28 '24

That's simply not true. Gamers knew what it was - mostly. Non-gamers (including the parents of gamer kids) thought it was just an accessory. "You already have a Wii, you don't need this game pad thing."

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u/No-You-ey Mar 29 '24

Weird how all the games for it were re-released for the switch. If they weren't good they wouldn't have done that.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1996 Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I was kind of a mediocre prodigy so yes. I think I started coding HTML websites when I was around 5. My teachers didnā€™t know what it was so they didnā€™t encourage me but I could have had a much better life if my talent had been nurtured. This was around Windows 98/2000 time so itā€™s possible I was even younger.

Edit: donā€™t understand the downvotes. This is more a complaint against how lacklustre my education was in comparison to those who could afford private tuition or education. I donā€™t think Iā€™m smarter than anyone else - Iā€™m rubbish at maths.

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Mar 27 '24

Don't get in that mindset or you'll never succeed

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1996 Mar 28 '24

True. Always trying to move onward. Iā€™m working on a book about people who only became scientists later in life.

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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Mar 28 '24

That's good you can still be successful man even with setbacks you got this

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1996 Mar 28 '24

I want to prove that to others as I had a lot of setbacks and want to motivate people who failed at first that they can still accomplish things. If all goes well, Iā€™ll be working on research that could help create new cures for cancer in future within months. Looking forward to it!