Which of These GAMECUBE Games Should I Play?

MK:DDII is the only one I've played but Super Monkey Ball is meant to be rly good iirc?

worst Starfox, maybe worst Mariokart, old sports games. Eugh.
Smash Bros if you've got someone to play with, i guess? list needs Pikmin.

it has an empty metroid prime case :(

also has mario sunshine but i think disc is scratched

haha yeh Prime would be no1 with a bullet

maybe worst Mariokart,

true but it's like pizza

Mario Sunshine is prob the most challenging Miyamoto Mario, went back to it this year and got further than ever before but still zillions of levels from the end. rly satifying gameplay tho

Smash Bros if yer drunk with others

Hit up the local used shop or CL, plenty of great titles available for insane cheap

Smash Bros. otherwise Spider-Man 2. I'm sure the graphics are dated now, but I'm not sure if any other games have really gotten that great city-swinging feel

Yeah I don't really know the GameCube library but if you really are looking forward to holing up with some rainy-day gaming, none of these really are bowling me over. Conventional wisdom says to find cheap Metroid Prime or Mario Sunshine, I think. Paper Mario: TTYD is fun too if you like light RPGs - I played the first five or ten hours of that when I was dating a girl who had a GameCube and I have really fond memories of it.

DoubleDash is okay if you've got people to play with, but it's not a patch on Mario Kart 64.

If it were me I'd probably end up playing the Spider-Man game even if it turned out it sucked, just because, yknow, Spider-Man. In this way, my video game habits have really not changed since I was 12 and had to pick out something to rent for the weekend from Multi-TV-Video.

if you need more random GC recs hit me up - that was my only gaming system for most of the '00s

i played a ton of mario kart so far w/ ppl, lots of fun. tried 007 mp but the controls were too frustrating to be enjoyable. super monkeyball is fun but i've only done the 10round ones so far - so they're mostly pretty easy. probably 30 or whatever levels are more challenging. i liked nfl street but no one else did - you get to pick like 6 players from a team (i picked mcnabb, dawkins and then whoever else's names i recognized from that year's iggles team) and then it's like street rules football.

i found another stack:
tony hawk's pro skater 4
x-men legends
jedi knights ii: jedi outcast
007 everything or nothing
lord of the rings
harry potter and the chamber of secrets
the hobbit
beach spikers

surely one of these must be good?

MONKEY BALL

I remember X-Men Legends looking awesome to me at the time.

Jedi Knight 2 was AWESOME on my pc. Force-throwing stormtroopers off high gangplanks will never not be fun.

go to gamestop and buy killer 7 for 0$

Jedi Knight 2 was AWESOME on my pc

^^^ which answers the question "wth does the Empire build all these bases with unprotected drops?" "because awesome it is, young Padawan".

Gamecube single player: Nightfire - really captures the flavour of those Bronson era Bonds, much better than the formulaic FPS PC version.
Gamecube multiplayer: Super Smash Bros. Melee

go to gamestop and buy killer 7 for 0$

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, August 17, 2012 3:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

THPS4 - it's fine Tony Hawk, pretty much the same as 3, but i think spider-man or vader or someone is playable?

x-men legends - fun enough beat 'em up, much better with co-op. they made a million sequels to this with x-men legends 2 and those marvel ultimate alliance games

beach spikers - sure, it's totally stupid and simple - like a PG-rated version of DOA volleyball - but get a few beers and play some matches against other people, it's kinda dizzy and amusing

btw Dr. Casino, Spider-Man 2 is actually legit great, one of the few Spidey games you can say that about... not even because they did everything right, but just the one thing extremely right

THPS4 - it's fine Tony Hawk, pretty much the same as 3

Except 4 is the one where they removed the 2 minute time limits and kind of ruined the flow of the whole thing imo.

Spider-Man 2 is actually legit great

YES.

When this homeowner comes back you need to punch them for not owning Resident Evil 4 or Rogue Leader or Sunshine or Luigi's Mansion or Pikmin or I dunno, any of the mere dozen GC games that were worth bothering with.

That Eternal Darkness game was pretty f cool

Maybe the home owner is visiting a friend for a gamecube party, with the good games.

Shocking omission from the recommendation subthread so far = the Zelda games, Twilight Princess but especially Wind Waker.

Skip 007 games, Medal of Honor, NBA, NHL, Madden, NFL Street, MK, LOTR, Potter, Smash Bros, THPS4, Kart b/c what's the point. They're worse versions of other things. And Backyard Football is just bad.

If you don't like baseball skip that Mario one. I do like baseball so I'd probably play it but I'm kind of obsessed w/ baseball atm.

Spiderman apparently has a "life-size" manhattan, if I remember the game you run around helping people and fighting crime like GTA, only Spiderman.

From that list I would say Monkey Ball IF you haven't played it/don't intend to play it on your iOS device. It's not necessarily "better" on there but it's more or less the same and as such you'd be spending time redundantly.

The others (Starfox, x-men, jedi, hobbit, beach spikers) I have no opinion aside from beach spikers which i would probably personally play just because wtf is "beach spikers."

Super Monkey Ball! If the main game gets frustrating, some of the mini games are pretty great, too.

NHL Hitz 2002 is a pretty great one you can probably get for like two bucks these days; it's fast-paced and intuitive enough to compare well to stuff like NBA Jam, and quite addictive to boot. But I do remember the 2003/Pro versions kind of dialing everything back in the name of more realism or whatever which nerfed a lot of the funner aspects of the game.

Oh yeah, that really odd Capcom cel-shaded side scroller Viewtiful Joe is really a neat and utterly unique game, even if the gameplay gets a little repetitive

Yeah, Viewtiful Joe is great! I don't think I ever made it more than halfway through the game, but it's really a lot of fun.

I think that it's one of those games that makes an awesome demo or whatever, because the first couple hours you play the game are awesome. It's just that later on the gameplay doesn't really change and you just wind up getting more and more abilities that aren't really as good as the ones you get early on, so it just ratchets up the complexity but not the difficulty. Some of the VJ2 bosses were a real pain in the ass though. Especially since in the end you have to fight them all in a row again. Never liked that gimmick...

yeah you're pretty much right, but i still loved viewtiful joe - though god yeah the difficulty stays hard the entire game. but it's actually pretty satisfying in a way in that gritted teeth, i'm gotta beat this fucker kinda thing, just the game runs a bit too long

Local gamespot had pretty much nothing (and no dreamcast games at all!) but I did pick up metroid prime for >$5 which seemed like a good rental price. I thought about buying the preowned GameCube to go with it ($30) but they had no other good games. They did have a buy 2 get 2 free but I couldn't find 1 let alone 3 more games to buy. I'll enjoy prime tho. I hope!

Yeah those Prime games are pretty good though I wish they were less problem solving and more action. Haven't played it in years but IIRC the game was like this: you start in some overworld with a bunch of doors and other forcefields, none of which you can get through, except for maybe one or two, which lead to the blue gun, which opens the blue doors, then you get the grappling hook which allows you to go over to another section so you can find the red gun, then you have to remember where the red doors were, so you can get the missile launcher which blows up that glowing wall you saw two hours ago, and so on and so forth. Some people really dig that style of game, I guess.

The nifty 3-D rotatable map is pretty handy for finding the doors you now have access to, I recall.

I'm curious though what the first of these progress-through-gear games is? I think of it as a Zelda thing.

Zelda and/or the original Metroid pretty much nail down the fundamentals of the genre, and I think frogbs is right - you either buy into that as a satisfying gaming experience, or just start to feel like you're going through the motions. Probably depends on the quality of the action experience that strings those things together. I always found OG Metroid too clunky, but Super Metroid was pretty sweet just for the jumping and blasting experience. Symphony of the Night adds more RPG stuff like leveling up and swapping out gear based on stats rather than on red-key/blue-key stuff. It kind of plateaus once you're powerful enough that the combat poses no risks, but it remains beautiful to look at and listen to anyway.

Probably also has roots in older maze/dungeon games, for that matter.

The original Metroid had it! And oddly, the original Zelda for the most part didn't force you to go to the dungeons in a set order.

The original Metroid had it! And oddly, the original Zelda for the most part didn't force you to go to the dungeons in a set order.

― Nhex, Friday, August 17, 2012 1:33 PM Bookmark

Ehhh - - sorta true, there are some you can enter way ahead of "schedule," but there's definitely ones that you need the raft and the bridge/ladder thing for, right?

But yeah - - something nice about the idea that you can try for one that's ahead of your current station, if you think you're tough enough. Only problem was that it's not like there were necessarily big rewards for doing that, like if the higher-numbered dungeons had more heart containers in them or something. Would be nice to see that dynamic IMO.

you can do sequence breaking in most Metroids, but you need a faq to do them usually
Dark Souls is basically the original Zelda in 3D, you can wander about where you want but face the risk/reward of going somewhere out of sequence

yeah tbf, none of these games were designed, or want you to, actually do them out of sequence

The nifty 3-D rotatable map is pretty handy for finding the doors you now have access to, I recall.

The problem for me is that I have some kind of brain problem that prevents me from really reading these maps correctly

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