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Recommended Gamecube Games?
Claw Shrimp
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I was cleaning my garage and found my old GC that I don't think I've touched in a couple of years. I'm thinking about keeping it at my girlfriend's place. The only console she owns right now is her old SNES. I was wondering if the good people of G&T could recommend some coop or must play games that she could play.
So far I've got:
Animal Crossing
BG&E
Metroid Prime I & II
Soul Caliber II
Tales of Symphonia
Wind Waker
Zelda Collector's Edition
I was thinking about picking up Viewtiful Joe I & II and Alien Hominid and Ikuraga. Maybe Super Monkey Ball 2
There's also the Mario Party Games. I've heard that 4 and 7 were descent.
And if I were to pick up a new console, what are the different offerings in terms of multiplayer coop that they have? She really likes Little Big Planet.
So far I've got:
Animal Crossing
BG&E
Metroid Prime I & II
Soul Caliber II
Tales of Symphonia
Wind Waker
Zelda Collector's Edition
I was thinking about picking up Viewtiful Joe I & II and Alien Hominid and Ikuraga. Maybe Super Monkey Ball 2
There's also the Mario Party Games. I've heard that 4 and 7 were descent.
And if I were to pick up a new console, what are the different offerings in terms of multiplayer coop that they have? She really likes Little Big Planet.
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As far as other stuff, Mario Sunshine was much maligned, but is actually a very good game.
edit:: Since you've got Tales of Symphonia, I'm also going to recommend Paper Mario and the Baten Kaitos games. Everyone loves Paper Mario, it's easy to get into, simple, funny, and fun. The Baten Kaitos games aren't quite as good, but are still fun and have an amazing combination of the best plot twists and music, but the worst voice acting of any rpg's EVER. You can turn the voices off though.
edit again:: Eternal Darkness is also amazing, and smash bros is kind of standard...it's actually surprising you don't have it already.
I hear VJ2 is a lot worse than the first one, so maybe get that first.
PN03 is certainly worth playing. It is a 3rd person shooty game, but kind of unique. It is low on content, but in a lot of ways a precursor to RE4 and God Hand (it is produced by Shinji Mikami too)
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem has probably aged horribly, but it was good when I first played it.
Rogue Leader for single player - Excellent Star Wars flying shooty game.
Rebel Strike (the sequel) for coop - it has the whole of the first game as coop, and a significantly worse single player.
I really like the Pikmin games, and iirc, the second one has a coop mode (never played it beyond the single player).
F-Zero GX is probably my favourite racing game ever. Gorgeous looking, incredibly fast, and brutally hard, but so much fun to play. Has split screen up to 4 players.
Alien Hominid is kinda neat too, and 2 player.
Lost Kingdoms II
Pikmin II
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Double Dash
All of those games are fantastic, even though Pikmin and Double Dash are the only co-op ones. I personally find Skies of Arcadia and Paper Mario to be very friendly to people who don't play too many games. Lost Kingdoms is just awesome and still holds up, in my opinion.
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All the Resident Evil games are available, some of them better than their ps2 or earlier versions.
If you like Fire Emblem or sRPGs, Path of Radiance is my favourite Fire Emblem so far. Really fun, lots of options, about as good as I can imagine an sRPG being.
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes usually causes an arguement, but i think it has better gameplay than MGS1, although worse cutscenes. If you haven't played an MGS, it's worth a look.
Burnout 2 is my favourite racing game ever. The series became PS2 exclusive after 2, but that was when EA bought it out, and I never enjoyed any of the other games as much. I don't even enjoy racing games a whole lot, but Burnout 2 on GC is perfect for me, and I still fire it up any time I want to go fast.
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also as mentioned, mario sunshine and smash. i think the star wars games were serviceable too.
Also, if you haven't played it elsewhere, pick up Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, as it's really one of the most enjoyable puzzle-platformers created. If you like it, you can buy PoP: The Two Thrones, skipping the notorious Warrior Within if you don't want to try your own hand at it, and not miss a beat in terms of story or gameplay mechanics.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is, by far, my favorite multi-platform release last generation; hell, it might just be my overall favorite game last generation.
Also, it came out at a later date, but Tomb Raider: Legend did eventually come out on the GameCube, and it looks and plays nicely on the GameCube. I would definitely give that a go.
If she's not opposed to sports pretty much all the Mario sports games are good - Golf especially. My favorite two sports games in recent memory also were on the Cube - Sega Soccer Slam and Beach Spikers. Both are REALLY approachable games and tons of fun. I would highly recommend picking them up.
Though some of the on-foot sections kind of suck.
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I think that, instead of rogue leader, you mean rebel strike. Rebel strike has all of 2's levels, but they're only playable in co-op.
Crap, I think you're right. The one I was thinking of has the second game, though only through co-op (which kind of sucks, now that I think about it).
Still, not a deal breaker. And GC games should be cheap as dirt by now.
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Prime 1
Eternal Darkness
Wind Waker
Melee
RE4
Personally, I really enjoyed Pikmin, Fight Night round 2, and the Mario baseball game.
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Most are buy the looks of it. Shipping cost is sometimes more expensive than the games themselves off of Amazon. Ikuraga used is still about $20 though.
It really fluctuates. I was at Gamestop (I've got no other options in the area), and some games were really cheap, but big titles like Pikmin and Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes were still pretty high used (seriously, they had like, 7 or 8 copies of Pikmin, all at $20.)
Do pick up Killer7 if you get the chance, that shit be freaky-deaky. Be prepared to have no idea what the fuck you're doing for the first few hours of gameplay.
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee is pretty much the first Godzilla game to actually feel like, well, Godzilla. Has some quirks (to unlock monsters, you have to play through adventure mode many many times, and you start with 4!) but it still has a place in my heart.
Other titles I've liked, not mentioned yet: X-Men Legends I and II, Timesplitters 2, Beyond Good and Evil, Simpsons Hit and Run (basically a GTA game), Spider-Man 2, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and the Resident Evil remake.
Criminally unknown and underappreciated game where you collect and put together teams of "borgs" which come in various humanoid (thieves, knights, samurais, gunslingers, fairies, angels, demons, etc) and mechanized forms (mechs, tanks, planes, rockets, ICBMs, giant airships etc) and fight other teams, taking direct control of whatever borg is active. They all have special skills and unique abilities, and it all gets downright chaotic at times, and horribly addictive trying to collect them all.
I dusted this off over the holiday weekend, it's still lots of fun.
If you can get her to sit down long enough to play it, Phantasy Star Online has a great split-screen mode.
Animal Crossing City Folk is also arguably superior to the original game.
Finally, you can get the games on the Collector's edition disc cheaper on the Virtual Console than you'll likely find that disc for.
Also Donkey Kong Jungle Beat & Pikmin are better on the Wii.
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Thing is, Metroid Prime's controls are pretty great to start with. I'm sure wiimote aiming improves the experience, but at the same time I don't know how they handle being able to cycle weapons and visors as easily as it was with the Gamecube controller.
Actually, I think you can do progressive scan just fine on a GC if you have the component cables. You may need to hold B at startup for progressive scan to work, though.
The Baten Kaitos games support progressive scan as well, btw. Beautiful games.
And yeah, I also support Twin Snakes, I never played the original MGS, but I enjoyed it, missile-backflips notwithstanding.
The gamecube had a lot of good games, guys.
But you're more likely to find the ark of the covenant than a set of GC component cables for a decent price.
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No one's saying it didn't. Hell, I never owned a GC, and I'll still say it had a lot of great titles.
Supports progressive scan if you can find the cables. Call local Gamestop/EB stores, they may have them used for their standard price of $4.
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It was multi-platform, but you might have missed it on ps2.
Freedom Fighters
Second Sight
Eternal Darkness
I played the shit out of these games.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil 4
Pretty good choices if you like survival horror.
This is like the only game I miss playing from my PS2 collection. As much as I love Paradise, Burnout 2 was my racing game. I put so much time into playing it, I could drift entire races. A friend of mine bought Midnight Club and kept bragging about it, but I just didn't find a game in it that compared to Burnout 2. I'll heartily add my recommendation for the GC version.