The Gamer's Quarter

Ketch · . Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 420

I'm thinking of getting a GameCube to go along with my PS2, do you think it is worthwhile? What games would you recommend the most?

The games I'm thinking of getting are Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda: Four Swords adventure, and Pikmin 2 / Luigi's Mansion,edit: and maybe Animal Crossing.

Any comments?

Mister Toups · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject:

eternal darkness
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seryogin · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

A Game Cube is worth getting. It's fairly cheap at the moment, so you can play the five or six games on it that are truly worth playing.

You know, like Ikaruga, Skies of Arcadia, Resident Evil 4, and so forth.
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David JS · . Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 12

Yes, especially at this late stage.

Eternal Darkness is plenty for some, but I had real gripes with it. For horror, my preference goes to the Resident Evil Remake for some reason (even over Resident Evil 4 in certain respects).

Super Monkey Ball and FZero GX each justify the console, and then there's stuff like Metroid Prime, Paper Mario, Smash Bros: Melee. All can be had cheap.

Mario Sunshine is fine, if visually tedious after a while. Luigi's Mansion is greatly underrated (being Luigi's lot). Haven't played the others you mentioned, though I know Zelda: Four Swords demands like-minded friends and lots of hardware around.

Toups: has Gamer's Quarter 4 been published yet? In the mail?

wourme · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 362 Location: Maridia

These are my favorites:

Wind Waker (not to mention the ported N64 games)
Skies of Arcadia
Pikmin 1 and 2 (if only one, then the first one)
Paper Mario 2
Metroid Prime (the first one)
Ikaruga
Eternal Darkness
Cubivore

I thought I would like these, but didn't:

Zelda: Four Swords Adventure
Luigi's Mansion

Mister Toups · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

BrokenFiction · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject:

The Cube has a little more life in it just yet, and it's a great deal. I'm looking forward to:

Chibi Robo
Odama
Harvest Moon: Magical Melody
Zelda: Twilight Princess

And if the gods smile upon us just right, maybe we'll get English versions of Giftpia and Homeland...

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

If you're looking for franchise collections, I think the gamecube is pretty much the go-to system as well. Mega man, Zelda, Sonic, Resident Evil, even Pac-man. I'm going to second everything here, as well as a GBA player. Overpriced as a peripheral, a steal for what it actually is. Also, if you're looking for high-definition output make sure you get an earlier-produced system, with two outputs on the back.

ApM · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

Super Monkey Ball hates you, with the firey passion of a thousand suns. And not the playful, let's-fuck-with-you hate of something like SMB2j, either. I mean, it would really rather you just shut it off and never look at it again.

Anyone here futz around with Gamecube homebrew? Is there even anything worth looking at?

kuzdu · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject:

I'll second Toups on REmake. I think I'm actually one of the few people on Earth who likes it more that RE 4 (and it's good to finally have some company David). But between those two and everything else mentioned above, a GameCube is worth a lot more than they're selling it for these days.

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject:

any of the hudson remakes (cubic lode runner, star soldier, pc genjin). mr. driller drill land. with a freeloader you can play all of these on an ntsc gamecube (you can't save in drill land, though).

and a gameboy player with a hori pad (which i believe are being marketed in north america as "gameboy player controllers" now - i've seen them at the nintendo store).
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

So, aside from what everyone else has put:

PN03: While a lot of people give it slack it is a really excellent game, it is just not what you will be expecting it to be. It is very excellent though.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (ONLY if you have 2 players both with GBA's*): While a terrible one player game it is an excellent Gauntlet-esq multiplayer game that only gets more interesting the more players you have.

Sonic Heroes (don't you bastards yell at me): I don't really know why I liked the game so much, but I really did. It was designed to be played with the GC controller, and you can easily see that once you start to play (I would not want to play it on any other system). I hated SA2, but for some reason loved this 3D sonic game. In fact I like it more than SA1 which I enjoyed quite a bit. But, don't get it if you want to listen to everyone else and/or hated both the previous sonic adventure games.

Viewtiful Joe: While it wares out its welcome towards the end of the game it is really great at points and (I assume) looks much better than the PS2 version.

Supporting these recomendations: Sonic Collections, Monkey Balls, Paper Mario 2, Metroid Prime (even though I never finished it), Resident Evil 4, Zelda 4 Swords (see FF:CC controller warning).

Going to go ahead and say this REmake is no better than any other RE game, it will not make you feel any different about RE as a series or about the first RE. The only good thing about the game is that the terrible voice acting is gone and there is a better intro movie.

*:Not micro's** or DS's
**Although I hear there is a way to make Micro's work

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject:

oh, and alien hominid.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Battalion Wars
Cubivore
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition
Mario Golf
Mario Kart: Double Dash
MGS: Twin Snakes
P.N.03
Pac Man Vs.
Super Monkey Ball 2. Yes, it's damn hard, sometimes annoyingly so. I've been stuck on the last world for about 2 years now. It's still fantastic though.
Wario Ware

I've been looking forward to Chibi Robo forever, largely cause it always looked like something that should have been on the Dreamcast, but Game Informer recently panned it as a kid's game with no depth. Now I'm suspicious, because I wasn't aware that it was in that "kiddie" genre and it could be a dealbreaker as such, but on the other hand this is Game Informer so I'm not certain whether or not they ever played the game.

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

I'm going to third PN03, it's a bit obtuse, but it's brilliant, and the only rhythm game I ever loved (PROTIP: I gave you a protip in there).

Also, keeping in mind I'm not much of a survival horror fan, a store demo of Resident Evil 4 was the reason I bought my cube and it didn't disappoint. F-Zero is tough but fair but not particularly nice about it.

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

Tranquility?

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

yeah, that's it. my description makes it sound like ddr: san-fran senior citizen's remix.

GSL · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:16 am Post subject:

DonMarco · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 349 Location: 33903

F-Zero is more than worth the $10 you'll gladly pay for it.
Resident Evil 4 recently went down to $20, but it's a crapy sequel.

I most higly recommend the first Midway Arcade Treasures.
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Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

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Ketch · . Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 420

Well, I've bought a second-hand one with some 2nd hand games (and 1st hand cheap copy of Vieutiful Joe).

Pikmin 2, Super Mario Sunshine (for some Mario nostalgia), Metroid Prime (was buying the first hand copy but they couldn't find it so offered 2nd hand one - rip off merchants!).

I'd prefer to have bought it all first hand, but saved a little bit of money this way. Payed about 75 pounds total. (A new GC with Super Mario Strikers) was 85 pounds. Sadly, I think that all these second hand sales does is support heroin habits.

Some good suggestions to put on the radar! I'll keep an eye on Chibi-robo, and fingers crossed they will bring out GiftPia.

Lackey · . Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 1107 Location: Canada

When I got mine used it came with a bunch of cables for God Knows What (not a Cube) and it was covered in ugly stickers (for snowboards?). One of the controllers has buttons which are either loose or permanently half depressed and a mysterious greasy texture which doesn't seem to wipe off.

In conclusion, I want a silver one : (
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Ketch · . Joined: 17 Sep 2005 Posts: 420

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chompers po pable · . Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142

Just wanted to add a few cool things about the GC Ikaruga.

1- it's on the GameCube.

2- there are a few new modes of play, including conquest (which awards you replay videos of each chapter, perfect (?) replays which are immensly helpful if you are interested in the game), arcade mode, ranking mode...most of the add ons are cool, but the replay videos are key.

3- I have both the DC and GC copies, and from what I can tell, the game is identical on both systems. I've heard talk of the GC having worse sound, choppiness, etc., yet I have never experienced any problems at all with the game. Even the post boss explosions slow down identically to the DC version. (I heard this was changed)

4-There's nothing wrong with the GC controller, and if you must have digital input, I imagine the Hori pad is just as responsive as the DC controller, and a whole hell of a lot more comfortable.

side note- they cut out all of the mid chapter poetry that is in the DC version. Also, in the extras section of the GC version, none of the character bios text, or the story has been translated. In fact I believe they cut it out of the game. (I would have preferred they just leave it in the game untranslated, at least)

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject:

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

GSL · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject:

chompers po pable · . Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142

get both versions.

The first time I made it to chapter four on one credit, I was playing with the GC controller. Weird, as I swear by digital input for shooters.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject:

chompers po pable · . Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142

I need to spend some serious time with the GC version, after reading what St.Louis wrote about the choppiness factor. I seriously didn't notice it. Reminds me of playing GSH on the new SP, during the overhead shooter level, the background was a little jumpy. I thought it was weird but shrugged it off, and come to find out it was the hardware causing it.

Dess, the only reason I own both is because Wes said it was okay. I bought Ikaruga DC long before the GC version came out. When I saw the GC version in the game shop for seven bucks, I picked it up immediately.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject:

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chompers po pable · . Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142

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chompers po pable · . Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142

It took some getting used to for me as well. After hearing how the controls were the best ever etc., I was a bit surprised that the game still controls like a tank in some ways (tanks can't jump)...though after getting used to it, I can't imagine a better way of doing it...and the controls, along with the cheesy voice at the beginning of the game that says "Resident Eeeevil Fourrr," are both endearing throwbacks to the original.

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

'best controls ever' is definitely a thing that's relative to other games in the series. Playing through REmake and Zero made me ache for an eternal-darkness-like control scheme.