Recommend me Gamecube games...

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:16 pm

Okay, I'm graduating college this week and my parents offered me a graduation present. I think I am going to ask for a Gamecube, but I don't know a lot of the good games for it.

So far I know I want to get Resident Evil 4, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Metroid Prime 2 Echoes, and possibly Killer 7 and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

What else would be good? I'd prefer to get games that are Gamecube-exclusives, or at least games that also aren't available on Xbox (b/c I already own one). But that's not hugely important.

What are the best platformers? Mario games? RPGs? What else?

Thanks! This will be the first Nintendo console I've owned.

HopeLess · Post by **HopeLess** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:28 pm

Paper Mario:The Thousand Year Door
Smash Bros.
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil Remake

Also, I think Smooth Lou made a thread about all the good GC games a while back, too.

GC rules.

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Wed May 17, 2006 5:55 pm

I loves my GC. Here's my old list, an updated version of an older list that I made maybe a month before that, and a link to my "The great videogames of this generation" thread of a few months before that.

Smooth Lou wrote: http://www.philaflava.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41937

and I just fucking drowned the "Great Games of This Generation" page a few months ago:

http://www.philaflava.com/forum/viewtop ... t=gamecube

But THIS friend, THIS is my fucking masterwork.

It's a list of EVERY game that I own for the GameCube, posted for Kalel about 2 months ago:

Smooth Lou wrote: GAMES I OWN FOR THE GAMECUBE
[*lime colored games are must own]:

007 Everything or Nothing - Really basic shooter, standard EA fare. Not open ended, beatable in a week, got it for XMas last year.

Alien Hominid - Just got it this weekend for $20. Fun game in short bursts, weird art design.

Animal Crossing - One of the few original games this generation, definitely a different game than one would expect. Girls love it, fishing is very rewarding. The time spent in this game is well worth the $20 it goes for now (with it's own Animal Crossing Memory Card.

Beyond Good & Evil - Part one of a trilogy that will never come, my favorite new game this generation. Rare nowadays, but only $20 if you can find it.

Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO - Bought for $10. I hated it. There is nothing enjoyable about it; in fact, I feel as though it has killed my feelings about 2D Street Fighter Games for a long time to come.

Def Jam Fight for NY - Surprisingly fun wrestler. Create a character is dope and soundtrack is top notch. I threw Li'l Kim in front of a subway train, which made this well worth the $30 It's selling for nowadays.

Donkey Konga - Amazing rhythm game, the bongos are my favorite peripheral since, well, possibly ever. Great selection of music and the banana-juggling mini-game is awesome.

Donkey Konga 2 - Nintendo's attempt to make rhythm games "cool", I was really disappointed in the song selection, but having 2 sets of bongos made playing Donkey Konga 1 that much better.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat - The most underrated (and under played, it's only sold 40,000 copies ) 2D platformer in a long time, it is definitely worth a purchase, and will make your arms incredibly strong. I've almost got platinum crests on every level, in fact there's only 7 more platinum crests to go before I beat the thing to 100%. Awesome, Awesome game.

Enter The Matrix - Incomplete movie game. EGM interviewed the developers and they confirmed that they only had 1 day to go from beta to alpha (from testing phase to finished product) in order to meet deadlines, and it really shows. Decent pick-up-and-play, especially when you can find it everywhere for about $10 (I paid $50. D'oh!)

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Great game, muddled down with a lame "Magick" system that ended up aggravating me, but another good purchase for under $20. Scary and fun, and the "sanity effects" will definitely throw you for a loop.

F-Zero GX - Really hard. I mean, really, REALLY, throw-your-wavebird-to-the-ground-in-utter-frustration hard. And I'm only an hour into the game. This one's around $20 too. Very pretty graphics.

Game Boy Player - Get your 2D on with this peripheral. I picked it up for $35 brand new, but I hear it's more expensive now days. Nothing beats playing GBA games on a big screen with a wavebird.

Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee - Very fun pick up and play wrestler with all your favorite monsters. I like it plenty, some of my friends think it's kind of lame. Another game you can pick up for under $30.

Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction - AZMANIG. You will love destroying everything around you and killing cops by hitting them with a wrecker ball. YAY

Ikaruga - Another insanely hard game, a 2D shoot-em-up with some beautiful graphics. Also under $30.

Mario Kart Double Dash!! - I love this game to pieces. Beat it all the way through, have every car and driver and level. Awesome multiplayer too, but the battles leave something to be desired.

Mario Power Tennis - Got it as a gift for my B-Day last year, I don't like tennis, so I can't give this a fair review. My brother loves this game, and he loves tennis, so...

Medal of Honor European Assault - Blah FPS, only $9.99. I played halfway through and got bored. Graphics are right out of an N64 game.

Metal Arms: A Glitch in the System - Decent, quirky 3rd person game where you are a hilarious little robot fighting other robots. If you can find it cheap, you might want to pick it up. I give it a solid B.

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - I bought this for $19.99, at Tower. I don't know what it actually costs nowadays, and I'm terrible at this game. I've literally never finished the very first level. Seriously. I can't make it into the very first elevator without getting shot to death.

Metroid Prime - My favorite game of all time. Seriously. I'm in love with Samus Aran, and I will keep playing this game over and over again until the day I die. I love it a lot, and couldn't imagine getting bored with it.

Metroid Prime 2 - A very good game, but more like Metroid Prime 1.5. Same everything from Metroid Prime, but the dark levels are a bit of a chore for me.

Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance - Meh. I used to love 2D MK games, but this one is slow and cumbersome and pulling off finishing moves is a hassle.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - Super fun RPG, I don't like RPGs, but this one is great. It's really pretty to look at and the dialogue is hilarious.

Pikmin 2 - Picked this up used for $30 two weeks ago and I can't tell enough people about it. It's real time strategy, very similar to Lemmings wherein different colored Pikmin can do different things and it's really, really fun to play. The levels are beautiful and the water looks like water (which is as high a compliment as I could possibly pay to the graphic designers). I thought I beat the game last night, but more levels opened up and now it's really, really hard.

Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within - Another gem from UbiSoft, the gameplay just feels right. The platforming is unparalleled, though the graphics and the fighting system leave something to be desired. This game can be picked up for $20 too, very short. I beat the whole thing on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Resident Evil - Beautiful graphics, terrible gameplay. The fixed camera is the same one that plagued the PS1 and Dreamcast Resident Evil games, and it drove me bonkers. I don't recommend this one. Save your money and get

Resident Evil 4 - instead. Best graphics we'll see this generation, I think, and the gameplay is stupendous. Scary as hell and really engaging.

Sonic Mega Collection - A good collection of Sonic games for those of us who never owned a Sega Genesis. Also for fans of the series, there are whole comic books scanned in and they look great.

Soul Calibur II - The best of the three platform Soul Caliburs, you can play as Link from Legend of Zelda. This one is only $20 everywhere, I'm pretty sure. It's an awesome arcade-style 3D fighter.

Sphinx And The Cursed Mummy - Underrated Zelda-styled action game, with fun puzzles and good graphics. If you can find it, it's pretty cheap too.

Splinter Cell - Awesome game. Introduced Sam Fisher to the gaming masses. I would recommend that if you have an XBOX, that you pick it up for that, because the graphics are a bit better (GameCube owners got a port of the PS2 game. WEAK).

Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow - Decent game, not as good as the first, Alarms go off over anything that isn't exactly how the developers wanted you to play. No 2 player mode. Only $30 when I got it, might even be cheaper now.

Star Fox Adventures - Lame. Nintendo was smart to drop Rare, because they fell the hell off.

Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike - Really beautiful space fighting and really cool spaceships, but when you're on the ground the game is terrible. Awesome multiplayer dog fights.

Super Mario Sunshine - Really fun, I agree that the levels without the jet pack are the best part of the whole damn thing. A fun game, if anyone else had made this game, it would have gotten better reviews.

Super Monkey Ball 2 - Awesome game, like a 3D rendition of Marble Madness, with monkeys. Mini-games are very fun, especially monkey pool.

Super Smash Bros. Melee - The best fighting game for the GameCube, a real gem for Nintendo fans of any age. Besides having great 4-player multiplayer, all the trophies that can be collected and the homerun contest and the hit-the-targets contest and the extensive number of characters and levels from Nintendo's past make this well worth the purchase price, which I think nowadays is only $30.

The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition - Had several awesome Zelda games, it was stolen from me sometime this past winter. The bastards!

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Master's Quest - Ocarina of Time and a remixed Ocarina of Time, known as the Master's Quest. If you can find it, it's definitely worth a purchase. Very fun and the MQ is INCREDIBLY challenging.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Cel Shading was a great way to go with this, I thought it was beautiful. I really enjoyed this game up until Gannon, whom I cannot find in his labyrinthine dungeon. I should really just finish this damn game already. Only $20.

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - Fun Hack n' Slash, really nice to look at, and a good 4 player game. Only $30 or less.

Time Splitters 2 - Very fun, didn't know there'd be Zombies. Several of the main developers for this game made Goldeneye for the N64, and it shows. The cartoony graphics are pretty cool.

Tony Hawk 3 - My introduction to the series. Very fun, but not as good as

Tony Hawk 4 - The best of the Tony Hawk Games, in my opinion. Aesop Rock is on the soundtrack!

Tony Hawk Underground (T.H.U.G.) - Very good game, story mode was a massive undertaking, and ultimately bogged down the game, but still, it was really fun.

Viewtiful Joe - Fun, colorful 2D game, the bullet time is really dope. This game is REALLY hard though.

Wario Ware Inc: Mega Party Game$ - Great Multiplayer madness, even people who don't play games will enjoy this one.

Wavebird wireless controllers - These controllers will change your gaming dynamic. You'll be able to play 4 player without any annoying cables to trip over, and the battery life is awesome.

XIII - A really cool-looking FPS, but it's not really all that fun, much to my dismay.

... Did I really just write all that? My brain hurts.

**Edited to add lime color and Wavebird Controller**

Love,

Smooth Lou

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Wed May 17, 2006 6:28 pm

So if I had to choose 5 games, which ones should I pick?

None · Post by **None** » Wed May 17, 2006 9:27 pm

Beyond Good & Evil
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Metroid Prime
Resident Evil 4
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

eastvandemolition · Post by **eastvandemolition** » Thu May 18, 2006 12:57 am

It depends if you plan to play a ton of multiplayer. If so you gotta cop Smash Bros and Super Monkey Ball 2 (shit is real)

EMCEE DARTH MALEK · Post by **EMCEE DARTH MALEK** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:12 am

Resident Evil 4 is fucking nuts, if you get one game get that. My favourite multiplayer game is mario tennis, shit never gets old. That & timesplitters 3, if you liked bond on n64 that's your game.

De Seven Free · Post by **De Seven Free** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:04 am

My GC Top 5

1. Resident Evil 4
2. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
3. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
4. Super Mario Sunshine
5. Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Thu May 18, 2006 12:07 pm

My top 5 (non-xbox available games):

1) Metroid Prime

2) Super Smash Bros. Melee

3) Paper Mario

4) Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker

5) Resident Evil 4

HopeLess · Post by **HopeLess** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:22 pm

Also, I picked up RE0 and the RE remake for 10 bucks a piece. If u can get them at that price, I'd pick them up as well.

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:26 pm

Got my GC 2 days ago! They didn't have a big selection of games at the store, so I only picked up Res Evil 4 and Zelda. They are dope as fuck...I've spent most of my time peeing my pants with Resident Evil so far, but I know Zelda is gonna own my life in the next week.

I've also ordered Beyond Good & Evil ($12), Metroid Prime ($5) and Viewtiful Joe ($7). Can't wait 'till they arrive.

This is my new favorite toy! Thanks for the help guys.

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:05 pm

The Red Scare wrote:Got my GC 2 days ago! They didn't have a big selection of games at the store, so I only picked up Res Evil 4 and Zelda. They are dope as fuck...I've spent most of my time peeing my pants with Resident Evil so far, but I know Zelda is gonna own my life in the next week.

I've also ordered Beyond Good & Evil ($12), Metroid Prime ($5) and Viewtiful Joe ($7). Can't wait 'till they arrive.

This is my new favorite toy! Thanks for the help guys.

Beyond Good & Evil is phenomenal.

Also, if anyone has played RE4 for the GameCube (not the PS2, the GameCube) and has played an XBox360 game (on a standard TV, non hi-def), how big of a difference is there?

It's fairly reasonable to say that RE4 has the BEST graphics of the current generation (XBOX, PS2, GC), and I'm wondering how it holds up to the next-gen (AKA XBOX 360).

slimebucato · Post by **slimebucato** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:33 pm

^ Well my memory of RE4 is a little fuzzy, but I have 100+ hours in Oblivion for the 360 and on a pure aesthetic level, RE4 looks comparable. Oblivion might be a bad comparison though, as alot of the games graphical power was put into generating massive amounts of landscape, etc.

The thing is, it is obvious that Capcom sucked every little bit it could out of the Gamecube for RE4, and for the 360 it seems like the "face-value" graphics for Oblivion were almost an afterthought.

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:49 pm

ChristPuncher wrote: The thing is, it is obvious that Capcom sucked every little bit it could out of the Gamecube for RE4, and for the 360 it seems like the "face-value" graphics for Oblivion were almost an afterthought.

That's kinda what I'm thinking. I mean, from standard def to HD, there's no question what's gonna look better, but I think that RE4 probably held its own against year one XBOX 360 games. A real testament to the current technology, I gotta say. Especially considering the low load times on the GC version.

I remember when Donkey Kong Country came out for the SNES when PS1 and N64 were coming out and being just BLOWN AWAY by the graphics. I played it recently, and I've gotta say they are still very impressive considering the hardware.

agent b · Post by **agent b** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:06 pm

KILLER 7

Combo7 · Post by **Combo7** » Fri May 26, 2006 5:19 pm

The Red Scare wrote:Got my GC 2 days ago! They didn't have a big selection of games at the store, so I only picked up Res Evil 4 and Zelda. They are dope as fuck...I've spent most of my time peeing my pants with Resident Evil so far, but I know Zelda is gonna own my life in the next week.

I've also ordered Beyond Good & Evil ($12), Metroid Prime ($5) and Viewtiful Joe ($7). Can't wait 'till they arrive.

This is my new favorite toy! Thanks for the help guys.

Those are probably the top 5 gamecube games (although I think BG&E is on the other consoles too). Great picks.

Smithee · Post by **Smithee** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:05 pm

dear smewth lew,

well, as it happened i didnt take back that paper mario: teh 1000 yr door. i decided to open it & pop it in teh cube. & well....it'z teh best. game. evar.

thnx 4 teh advice, mayyyyn.

ER 4 liggidy.....

HopeLess · Post by **HopeLess** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:03 pm

Allan Smithee wrote:dear smewth lew,

well, as it happened i didnt take back that paper mario: teh 1000 yr door. i decided to open it & pop it in teh cube. & well....it'z teh best. game. evar.

thnx 4 teh advice, mayyyyn.

ER 4 liggidy.....

the cursed doors are the funniest shit ever in a game.

Smithee · Post by **Smithee** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:29 pm

^ i just finished the level w/ rawk hawk i dont think im that far yet.....this shit is so addictive i luv it!

HopeLess · Post by **HopeLess** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 7:38 pm

Allan Smithee wrote:^ i just finished the level w/ rawk hawk i dont think im that far yet.....this shit is so addictive i luv it!

yeah you had to have seen them...those locked boxes that "curse" mario with new abilities...shit had me cracking up.

this game is amazing...for real.

Ty · Post by Ty » Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:07 pm

Awesome time to get a GC. As I'm sure you've found with those cheap games ($7 Viewtiful Joe is UNBELIEVABLE) of course.

I have a pretty thick library that spans just about every genre except turn-based RPGs cause those are few and far between on Gamecube and turn-based RPGs haven't been fun in like 10 years.

Check out Donkey Konga with a couple of the bongo controllers, some friends, and lots of booze. Best time you can have gaming.

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:24 pm

Ty wrote: ($7 Viewtiful Joe is UNBELIEVABLE) of course.

yep. I love this game, but it is FRIGGIN HARD. I don't think I've played a game this challenging since the NES days. I can't even beat the first damn level. The helicopter always gets me.

Move Free · Post by **Move Free** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:17 pm

The Red Scare wrote:
Ty wrote: ($7 Viewtiful Joe is UNBELIEVABLE) of course.
yep. I love this game, but it is FRIGGIN HARD. I don't think I've played a game this challenging since the NES days. I can't even beat the first damn level. The helicopter always gets me.

its easy, but you gotta know the tricks

go into slow motion and then you punch the bullets back at the helicopter. once you figure out that trick its suprisingly easy

but word to this game being hard