Well, I'm biased. The Fire Emblem series owns my soul.
Quickly, it's a turn-based strategy RPG with a heavy focus on its characters and plot. So expect an army filled with unique individuals (on your side) and lots and lots of dialogue.
Of course, what I just said would be comparable to someone saying that the Mona Lisa is a painting of some woman who smiles a bit funny.
Is it worth getting it on the GC if you never played it on the GBA? I'm sure it's like playing Zelda TP w/ out playing all the zelda games ever made. (aka it doesn't matter which titles of the series you pick out to play)
Just thought i'd ask someone whose soul is owned the the series
Is it worth getting it on the GC if you never played it on the GBA?
Absolutely. In fact, Path of Radiance is far more beginner friendly than the GBA games, because of few new mechanics. For example, in older Fire Emblems you bought items during the battle by visiting in the shops. In Path of Radiance you have shop that you access between each battle.
Is it worth getting it on the GC if you never played it on the GBA? I'm sure it's like playing Zelda TP w/ out playing all the zelda games ever made. (aka it doesn't matter which titles of the series you pick out to play)
Just thought i'd ask someone whose soul is owned the the series
Yeah. Path of Radiance is not related to the Fire Emblems on the GBA.
However!
The upcoming Goddess of Dawn for the Wii is going to be Path of Radiance's sequel.
10. Zelda: Wind Waker
9. Mario Kart Double Dash
8. Resident Evil Remake
7. Super Smash Bros Melee
6. Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4
5. Paper Mario the thousand Year Door
4. Resident Evil 4
3. Zelda: Collectors Edition.
2. Metroid Prime
1. Zelda: twilight Princess
Haven't gotten my GC to my new apartment yet but at the top my head...
10. Doshin the Giant (explanation for you who never seen it)
A wierd but lenghty sim only for us silly europeans. Doshing can be good or evil, and grows in size until he goes away at sunset. Then a new giant comes at dawn. This and Twinkle rpg is likely the only "exclusives" we got since terranigma that was worth shit. Import if you are that kinda guy.
9. Pikmin 2 - Just better then the first.
8. Metroid Prime 2. Didn't find replaying it no where nere as fun as the first. Still fuckin great.
7. Resident Evil 1 - Great freaking remake, and everyone else is going to mention 4 already.
6. Paper Mario 2
5. Killer7 - Crazy awesome.
4. Smash Brothers Melee. I find the singelplayer doesn't get enough praise on the side of the awesome multi.
3. Ikaruga - "Keep playing! Eventually, you will make it" or whatever the game says to you. Totally true, even if i found the colorswitching confusing the first hour.
2. Zelda WW - So good.... Soooo goood. Play some hours and try to stop.
1. Metroid Prime - God damnit, i replayed this shit one million times trying to do hard, 100%, speed runs... Some hate it though.
No Chibi-Robo love? I highly recommend this game. Don't listen to the 'CHORE GAME OLOLZ' reviews, you really don't do much in the way of 'chores' after like the second day. The music, the plot, everything is entertaining and you will look back on it fondly later.
To sum it up, it's the closest thing you will find to a true-to-concept Toy Story game.
You can pick up Resident Evil Remake and Resident Evil Zero for like 8-10 bucks a piece (I found my REmake for $5!) most places, due to cheapness and awesomeness, these are also worth getting.
I am also particularly fond of Crystal Chronicles, but I don't know whether GBA adapters work with the Wii, and I hear talk of a wii and/or ds version on the horizon anyway.
RE4
Super Smash Bros Melee
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Metriod Prime 1
Metriod Prime 2
Tales of Symphonia
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction <--You gotta play this at least once
Timesplitters 3
Super Mario Sunshine
Custom Robo
11: Fire Emblem
12: Tales of Symphonia
13: Animal Crossing
14: Pikmin 2
15: Naruto GNT 4
16: Smash Bros. Melee
17: Metroid Prime 2
18: Paper Mario TTYD
19: Super Mario Sunshine
Vangu Vegro on
In my PC: Ryzom, Diablo III, Naruto Shippuden UNSR, The Old Republic
In my 3DS: Super Smash Bros, AC New Leaf
Last game completed: Steamworld Dig
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I'm not sure if I should include Twilight Princess though, so I won't.
This is merely an off the cuff list, so, oh well.
10. Killer7
9. Skies of Arcadia Legends
8. Resident Evil 4
7. Beyond Good & Evil
6. Soulcalibur II
5. Lost Kingdoms II
4. Wind Waker
3. Smash Brothers Melee
2. P.N.03
1. Metroid Prime
It was difficult to knock F-Zero, Ikaruga, Eternal Darkness, Pikmin 1/2, Mario Sunshine, Gladius, Geist, Path of Radiance, Rogue Squadron 2/3, Tales of Symphonia, Paper Mario 2, and Prime 2 off the list.
i knew your list would match mine. you not-on-list matches mine as well.
11: Fire Emblem
12: Tales of Symphonia
13: Animal Crossing
14: Pikmin 2
15: Naruto GNT 4
16: Smash Bros. Melee
17: Metroid Prime 2
18: Paper Mario TTYD
19: Super Mario Sunshine
Okay...I can understand Tales of Symphonia, and even Paper Mario TTYD...but Naruto? How the hell is Naruto on your list and not RE4?! Or Eternal Darkness?!
Okay...I can understand Tales of Symphonia, and even Paper Mario TTYD...but Naruto? How the hell is Naruto on your list and not RE4?! Or Eternal Darkness?!
Top 10 would porbably have much less variations on the GC if everyone contributing played every single A - AAA title.
Okay...I can understand Tales of Symphonia, and even Paper Mario TTYD...but Naruto? How the hell is Naruto on your list and not RE4?! Or Eternal Darkness?!
Top 10 would porbably have much less variations on the GC if everyone contributing played every single A - AAA title.
Indeed - I haven't played RE4 (but even though it doesn't really sound like my kind of game, I intend to try it out if I can get the money problems sorted), and while liked ED, there are too many games I liked a lot more to include it in the top 10 (well, top 19 )
Oh, and I forgot about one game... Put Zelda FSA at #15, and move all the other games down a notch, with Sunshine at 20... Isn't a top 10 anymore then, but hey, it wasn't from the start...
Vangu Vegro on
In my PC: Ryzom, Diablo III, Naruto Shippuden UNSR, The Old Republic
In my 3DS: Super Smash Bros, AC New Leaf
Last game completed: Steamworld Dig
Okay...I can understand Tales of Symphonia, and even Paper Mario TTYD...but Naruto? How the hell is Naruto on your list and not RE4?! Or Eternal Darkness?!
Naruto GNT is a fantastic fighting game series. Fantastic. It deserves to be on a top whatever list as much as RE4 does.
It's one of the best multiplayer games on the 'Cube.
1.Metroid Prime
2.F-Zero
3.Metroid Prime 2
4.Zelda: Twilight Princess
5.Resident Evil 4
6.Wave Race: Blue Storm
7.Eternal Darkness
8.Zelda: Wind Waker
9.Mario Sunshine
10.Paper Mario
11.Metal Gear Twins Snakes
Fairly standard list I suppose, except for Wave Race. I'm just a nut for unique (as in non-car) racing games with a good feel.
The Metroid Prime titles have such a deep, complete sense of immersion, and connection with the GC controller, they truly justify the system's existence.
When all is said and done, there was definitely a lot of untapped potential in the Cube. 3rd party developers neglected to tap into the unique texture and special effects capabilities of the system, instead just dumping half assed ports on it. Where did we ever see real use of pixel shading/bump mapping, except in Rogue Leader and Twilight Princess?
Ikaruga and Viewtiful Joe are great, but their rigid linearity keeps them off my top list. Navigating the same environmental puzzles in exactly the same way over and over makes repeated playthroughs become stale. I prefer more pure combat based gameplay in my arcade style beat em ups/shooters.
There are still some noted GC classics I have yet to get to, like the RPGs, Killer 7, and other RE titles. I better jump on that action before GC titles dissapear from retailers.[/code]
I have a great fondness for games that do stuff I haven't done before. So this list of 10 games is focussed on quality gaming experience that is unique. That you won't find done the same way but better or done the same way at all in other games or on other platforms.
In no particular order.
Metroid Prime. Get 2 if you liked it. An axtraordinary first person adventure, a worthy followup to Super Metroid and a brilliantly designed game. To me this is the pinnacle of the GC. It was something new, something unique and something flawless. There are no games like it anywhere or anywhen else.
Pikmin 2, and you might as well get 1 on the cheap. This and Herzog Zwei are the only good console RTS games. And this one's the best. Charming, fantastic, inventive and surprisingly artistic in it's vision.
Chibo Robo. Along with Psychonauts this mixes adventure gaming with platform gaming. It manages to be very diffirent from it's critically acclaimed compatriot yet at least as good. If not better and I've played both.
Geist. It's production is flawed. The framerate isn't always up to snuff (though it never dips as badly as, say, SotC), the action portions are too easy and the Art Design is mostly bland. But it's offset by a lot of effort. Though the design team might not have the same talent as the metroid prime team, they did do the same as the metroid team did and try and make every room and corridor and part of the enviroment unique. The action portions might be too easy, but they're really just a short changes of pace from the rest of the game and the lack of difficulty means they won't frustrate. Now the game itself is a wonderfully unique first person adventure game that totally fascinated me. It's a 7 out of 10 game, but like Phoenix Wright (7 out of 10 in EGM I heard) it is a very interesting one.
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. The very, very first true 3d beat them up. Unlike devil may cry and such this game can't by improved by being changed to 2d graphics (damn crappy camera in DMC3). In fact, this game can't work at all in 2d. It's the best superhero game yet, and a wonderful, powerful and extremely empowering experience to play. It does the power fullfilment fantasy of comics better then comics, and for it's embracement of large, explosive chaos it has extremely robust controls.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Better then the first, and you don't need to have played it to play this one. Better then the handheld Mario Rpg games or the Super Mario RPG game because those are still very close to the traditional structure of the JRPG. This game takes the JRPG and does away with all of the crap that holds the genre down, all the crap that remained in the genre since the 8-bit games because it's 'traditional'. This is the Chrono Trigger of the last generation but improved over even that one. It's an RPG with no random encounters, no grinding, no passive gameplay.
It's like a fractal game. You've got this big game that's made of smaller games. Those smaller games are made up of even smaller games. Those small games are made of even smaller small games. It keeps surprising you, it keeps you engaged, it makes a game of doing anything in the game.
Eternal Darkness. Old school survival horror without all the usual control frustrations. Old graphics but still very effective and some very neat attention to detail. Very inventive in it's effect but it is by far most noteworthy for two things. It's the best western developed survival horror game yet. The way it integrates it, admittedly average, story into the gameplay structure really elevates the experience and provides for a new way to experience a story in a gmae I haven't seen anywhere before or since.
Zelda, either WW or Twilight Princess, though Twilight Princess is a far better game, WW is diffirent from the rest of the series. But the biggest reason to list these as must haves from the GC library is because you won't get a similar gaming experience anywhere else. There is no game series like the Zelda series.
Ikaruga. It only clicked with me last week that this is an old school shooter where the instinct to shoot everything that moves won't get you far. Choosing what to shoot, when to shoot and where to position yourself will get you further then mere reflexes. I can't say much more about this game because I've only recently managed to scratch beyond it's surface, but what I can see makes for a very, very interesting game.
Smash Brothers Melee. Obviously. There have been a few similar efforts to make platform fighting games and there have been the likes of Kung Fu Chaos and Powerstone. But those are long gone whereas Super Smash Brothers remained, and iterated.
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Fuck you. A list is supposed to be short and sweet. What more explaination is needed beyond "this is my top ten list of ___."?
One you add explaination for each item, its no longer a list, its an essay.
Is it worth getting it on the GC if you never played it on the GBA? I'm sure it's like playing Zelda TP w/ out playing all the zelda games ever made. (aka it doesn't matter which titles of the series you pick out to play)
Just thought i'd ask someone whose soul is owned the the series
Absolutely. In fact, Path of Radiance is far more beginner friendly than the GBA games, because of few new mechanics. For example, in older Fire Emblems you bought items during the battle by visiting in the shops. In Path of Radiance you have shop that you access between each battle.
However!
The upcoming Goddess of Dawn for the Wii is going to be Path of Radiance's sequel.
Fuck...why can't the wii play GBA's and DS games!
9. Mario Kart Double Dash
8. Resident Evil Remake
7. Super Smash Bros Melee
6. Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4
5. Paper Mario the thousand Year Door
4. Resident Evil 4
3. Zelda: Collectors Edition.
2. Metroid Prime
1. Zelda: twilight Princess
10. Doshin the Giant (explanation for you who never seen it)
A wierd but lenghty sim only for us silly europeans. Doshing can be good or evil, and grows in size until he goes away at sunset. Then a new giant comes at dawn. This and Twinkle rpg is likely the only "exclusives" we got since terranigma that was worth shit. Import if you are that kinda guy.
9. Pikmin 2 - Just better then the first.
8. Metroid Prime 2. Didn't find replaying it no where nere as fun as the first. Still fuckin great.
7. Resident Evil 1 - Great freaking remake, and everyone else is going to mention 4 already.
6. Paper Mario 2
5. Killer7 - Crazy awesome.
4. Smash Brothers Melee. I find the singelplayer doesn't get enough praise on the side of the awesome multi.
3. Ikaruga - "Keep playing! Eventually, you will make it" or whatever the game says to you. Totally true, even if i found the colorswitching confusing the first hour.
2. Zelda WW - So good.... Soooo goood. Play some hours and try to stop.
1. Metroid Prime - God damnit, i replayed this shit one million times trying to do hard, 100%, speed runs... Some hate it though.
To sum it up, it's the closest thing you will find to a true-to-concept Toy Story game.
You can pick up Resident Evil Remake and Resident Evil Zero for like 8-10 bucks a piece (I found my REmake for $5!) most places, due to cheapness and awesomeness, these are also worth getting.
I am also particularly fond of Crystal Chronicles, but I don't know whether GBA adapters work with the Wii, and I hear talk of a wii and/or ds version on the horizon anyway.
Super Smash Bros Melee
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
Metriod Prime 1
Metriod Prime 2
Tales of Symphonia
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction <--You gotta play this at least once
Timesplitters 3
Super Mario Sunshine
Custom Robo
List fanboy.
Gotcha Force.
Got-cha Force.
1-10: Wind Waker.
If you want a real top 10:
11: Fire Emblem
12: Tales of Symphonia
13: Animal Crossing
14: Pikmin 2
15: Naruto GNT 4
16: Smash Bros. Melee
17: Metroid Prime 2
18: Paper Mario TTYD
19: Super Mario Sunshine
In my 3DS: Super Smash Bros, AC New Leaf
Last game completed: Steamworld Dig
i knew your list would match mine. you not-on-list matches mine as well.
10. Metroid Prime
9. Tales of Symphonia
8. Paper Mario TTYD
7. Animal Crossing
6. Resident Evil 4
5. Resident Evil remake
4. Timesplitters 2
3. Mx Superfly
2. Doshin the Giant
1. PN03
Top 10 would porbably have much less variations on the GC if everyone contributing played every single A - AAA title.
PSN/XBL: dragoniemx
Hey, I said it was controversial, right?
Indeed - I haven't played RE4 (but even though it doesn't really sound like my kind of game, I intend to try it out if I can get the money problems sorted), and while liked ED, there are too many games I liked a lot more to include it in the top 10 (well, top 19
Oh, and I forgot about one game... Put Zelda FSA at #15, and move all the other games down a notch, with Sunshine at 20... Isn't a top 10 anymore then, but hey, it wasn't from the start...
In my 3DS: Super Smash Bros, AC New Leaf
Last game completed: Steamworld Dig
2.Animal Crossing
3.Wind Waker
4.Pikmin 2
5.RE4
6.Viewtiful Joe
7.Gotcha Force
8.Metroid Prime
9.Ikaruga
10.Cubivore
BTW, it looks Cubivore has been re-printed as you can now buy it again from Videogameplus.ca.
It's one of the best multiplayer games on the 'Cube.
9. Wind Waker
10. Metroid Prime
2.F-Zero
3.Metroid Prime 2
4.Zelda: Twilight Princess
5.Resident Evil 4
6.Wave Race: Blue Storm
7.Eternal Darkness
8.Zelda: Wind Waker
9.Mario Sunshine
10.Paper Mario
11.Metal Gear Twins Snakes
Fairly standard list I suppose, except for Wave Race. I'm just a nut for unique (as in non-car) racing games with a good feel.
The Metroid Prime titles have such a deep, complete sense of immersion, and connection with the GC controller, they truly justify the system's existence.
When all is said and done, there was definitely a lot of untapped potential in the Cube. 3rd party developers neglected to tap into the unique texture and special effects capabilities of the system, instead just dumping half assed ports on it. Where did we ever see real use of pixel shading/bump mapping, except in Rogue Leader and Twilight Princess?
Ikaruga and Viewtiful Joe are great, but their rigid linearity keeps them off my top list. Navigating the same environmental puzzles in exactly the same way over and over makes repeated playthroughs become stale. I prefer more pure combat based gameplay in my arcade style beat em ups/shooters.
There are still some noted GC classics I have yet to get to, like the RPGs, Killer 7, and other RE titles. I better jump on that action before GC titles dissapear from retailers.[/code]
How can you have a GC and not have this game?
His reasoning was that he loves the high quality hardware, but isn't particularly compelled by their software.
In no particular order.
Metroid Prime. Get 2 if you liked it. An axtraordinary first person adventure, a worthy followup to Super Metroid and a brilliantly designed game. To me this is the pinnacle of the GC. It was something new, something unique and something flawless. There are no games like it anywhere or anywhen else.
Pikmin 2, and you might as well get 1 on the cheap. This and Herzog Zwei are the only good console RTS games. And this one's the best. Charming, fantastic, inventive and surprisingly artistic in it's vision.
Chibo Robo. Along with Psychonauts this mixes adventure gaming with platform gaming. It manages to be very diffirent from it's critically acclaimed compatriot yet at least as good. If not better and I've played both.
Geist. It's production is flawed. The framerate isn't always up to snuff (though it never dips as badly as, say, SotC), the action portions are too easy and the Art Design is mostly bland. But it's offset by a lot of effort. Though the design team might not have the same talent as the metroid prime team, they did do the same as the metroid team did and try and make every room and corridor and part of the enviroment unique. The action portions might be too easy, but they're really just a short changes of pace from the rest of the game and the lack of difficulty means they won't frustrate. Now the game itself is a wonderfully unique first person adventure game that totally fascinated me. It's a 7 out of 10 game, but like Phoenix Wright (7 out of 10 in EGM I heard) it is a very interesting one.
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. The very, very first true 3d beat them up. Unlike devil may cry and such this game can't by improved by being changed to 2d graphics (damn crappy camera in DMC3). In fact, this game can't work at all in 2d. It's the best superhero game yet, and a wonderful, powerful and extremely empowering experience to play. It does the power fullfilment fantasy of comics better then comics, and for it's embracement of large, explosive chaos it has extremely robust controls.
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Better then the first, and you don't need to have played it to play this one. Better then the handheld Mario Rpg games or the Super Mario RPG game because those are still very close to the traditional structure of the JRPG. This game takes the JRPG and does away with all of the crap that holds the genre down, all the crap that remained in the genre since the 8-bit games because it's 'traditional'. This is the Chrono Trigger of the last generation but improved over even that one. It's an RPG with no random encounters, no grinding, no passive gameplay.
It's like a fractal game. You've got this big game that's made of smaller games. Those smaller games are made up of even smaller games. Those small games are made of even smaller small games. It keeps surprising you, it keeps you engaged, it makes a game of doing anything in the game.
Eternal Darkness. Old school survival horror without all the usual control frustrations. Old graphics but still very effective and some very neat attention to detail. Very inventive in it's effect but it is by far most noteworthy for two things. It's the best western developed survival horror game yet. The way it integrates it, admittedly average, story into the gameplay structure really elevates the experience and provides for a new way to experience a story in a gmae I haven't seen anywhere before or since.
Zelda, either WW or Twilight Princess, though Twilight Princess is a far better game, WW is diffirent from the rest of the series. But the biggest reason to list these as must haves from the GC library is because you won't get a similar gaming experience anywhere else. There is no game series like the Zelda series.
Ikaruga. It only clicked with me last week that this is an old school shooter where the instinct to shoot everything that moves won't get you far. Choosing what to shoot, when to shoot and where to position yourself will get you further then mere reflexes. I can't say much more about this game because I've only recently managed to scratch beyond it's surface, but what I can see makes for a very, very interesting game.
Smash Brothers Melee. Obviously. There have been a few similar efforts to make platform fighting games and there have been the likes of Kung Fu Chaos and Powerstone. But those are long gone whereas Super Smash Brothers remained, and iterated.