generation design: talk about that stanky GAMECUBE

[Sengir]

Does Viewitful Joe count as a NGC game?

sure it was on there first

im not talking gameplay tho. im talking A E S T H E T I Cs. mario with a tribal tattoo. pictures of irl with nintendo character heads taped over. use of graffiti in advertisements



the graphic design n game design n heck even sound direction in the gamecube era was Good Stuff Right There. things werent trying to be sleek and refined. things were WILD and URBAN and SEXY

nintendo was experimental (pikmin, chibi robo, pokemon channel, giftpia, and OF COURSE animal crossing) and not everything was a hit but there was a level of almost unbridled innovation that no one's been able to capture since, even ninty

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I think the thread is way more about the PS2/GCN/XBX generation than the GameCube as a platform... IDK, correct me if I'm wrong... I also think maybe the point of the thread is to discuss the ways different generations were characterized, like if you were to discuss different eras in art history.

Maybe I'm off base though.

yea but im still wanting to skew to the GCN bc it really had a good understanding of the era and still managed to innovate instead of appealing to the mainstream like PS2

or make like exclusively shooters n wrestling games like xbox uwu

e: nintendo was targeting the individual. "who are you". tonnes of gba themes to match to ur personality. buttloads of gcn colors and controller colors and whatnot. Nsider forums to chat with ur community
wii was an obvious departure that focused on 'we'/us. ps3 had no games (joke, ps3 had boring games (joke, ps3 had uninteresting games that lacked any innovation and felt like ps2 dx)). 360 had a focus on multiplayer gaming with sports n shooties. individuality on consoles became "white one or black one or exclusive midnight release mountain dew sponsored special deluxe (less of a mix n match ur style thing)"