I started slow about a year ago, rebuilding some games I sold/traded off.
I recently picked up Sunshine, Wind Waker, F-Zero GX, & Luigi’s Mansion. I have played Wind Waker via my jail broken Wii and I thought it looked good but I wasn’t ready for how good it would look via my official GameCube component cables on my PVM 20L5 in progressive. I bought the cables direct from Nintendo back int he day and when I traded in my Cube, they offered me 25 cents for the cables and I just decided to hold onto them for some reason.
Anyway, now I am so excited to start GC collecting.
So far I have the following
Billy Hatcher
Super Monkey Balls 1 & 2
Eternal Darkness
Metroid Prime 1 (with demo for 2)
Regular Metroid Prime
Viewtiful Joe
Battalion Wars
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2
Paper Mario & The Thousand Year-old Door.
The Zelda pre-order disc with OoT Master Quest
I am planning on (re)buying
Mario Kart DD
Metal Gear Twin Snakes
RE Zero, 1, 2 & 4
Metroid Prime 2 (i keep holding off in case of a HD Remaster on Switch)
Pikmin 1 & 2
Melee
Want but won’t buy Fire Emblem & Ikaruga
Anyone got some other recommendations, especially games with good progressive output.
I was thinking about picking up some of the cross platform games as I have no plans to re-buy an OG xbox.
I’ve been going down this road the last couple years. If you’re like me you’ll end up with Path of Radiance eventually.
I can’t remember if you like RPGs but Baten Kaitos, BK: Origins and Tales of Symphonia are great.
If you’re up for some link cable multiplayer action, Zelda Four Swords Adventures is surprisingly great. Really fun game to play through with a friend.
Also don’t forget Luigi’s Mansion and Soul Calibur 2. Some good cross platform games would be Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and Timesplitters 2.
I do like RPGs but I think Tales is getting a remaster on swtich/ps4/xbox so I think I am going to go that route if I get the game. Its hard to go back to JRPGs on older hardware. Quality of Life improvements like putting a console in stand by is a life saver.
I would but I have no one locally that would be interested in playing old games.
I bought Luigi’s with Sunshine, WW & F-Zero so that is covered. SC2 is great. I think I have it for PS2 but I will have to double check. I think Link is the Special Character so it might be worth it (I am trying to buy all Zelda games for my collection and I guess this might count) Timesplitters 2 is something that I’ve been meaning to get. I keep hoping for XBOX BC. Speaking of, I think thats how I will play Sands of Time.
Killer 7
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Custom Robo
Sega Soccer Slam
Beyond Good & Evil
Chibi Robo
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Mega Man Network Transmission
Twin Snakes
Puyo Pop Fever
Sonic Heroes
Star Fox Adventures
Star Fox Assault
Wario World
Wave Race Blue Storm (480i only)
Oh yeah. I forgot about some of those. Wave race looks so fantastic. I remember gamesack mocking that one. The N64 the announcer was always pumped for you but on the cube he seemed to talk smack.
Same, I used my Wii for all things Wii and GCN. Also, since I letter bombed it, it was in effect, my GameCube everdrive. (which reminds me, I need to get a case for my action replay disc now that its going to get swapped out for actual game cube games.
I did get the WiiDual for my Wii and it will probably look as good as my GC but I wanted the WiiDual more for capture and ease of use if ever there was a chance to play some coop GC games I could hook it to my 4K in a pinch.
Timesplitters: Future Perfect has one of the best single player playthroughs of any first person shooter. Highly recommended if you don’t have it on Xbox. Also, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System is another awesome playthrough.
Maybe I missed it above, but Kirby Air Ride is superb and completely uniqur as a Kirby game, a racing game, and just a game in general! Probably best with mulitplayer, but as a curiousity of the series, I think that’s totally worth getting.
I know Metroid Prime, FF Chronicles, & 4 swords have some level of connectivity. I didn’t know about Splinter Cell… Are there any others I should know about?
This is true, the controls can feel very abstracted, but to be fair, in a recent interview Suda51 it did still sound like they were designed for the GC controller first and foremost:
“Honestly (the controls) really came from the design of the GameCube controller. Searching with the left trigger and aiming with the right trigger. Just holding that controller, the kind of game it should be all came together.”
I miss cool control schemes like this. 3rd party devs used to really challenge themselves and the player to wrap their minds around unique control schemes all the time.
Now, I don’t know any other developer besides Nintendo who is willing to veer off the beaten path.
Me too. It’s somewhat saddening seeing how games which have idiosyncratic mechanics or controls can be received these days. WIth the battle for attention being fiercer than ever these days I guess developers can no longer expect players to want to put in the time to master new control schemes - probably why Mario Odyssey contains almost a thousand moons to ‘gamify’ learning what are complex controls and physics where Mario 64 did not need them.
You may be right. I wish we had an Iwata Asks (may he RIP) about Super Mario Odyssey more than any other game. The design decisions behind that game are interesting and I’d love to know more about the philosophy behind the moon placement and level design.
