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The Top 10 GameCube Games (According to MetaCritic)
Ian Sane:
It's funny seeing those NFL games in the list. I do have NFL 2K5 on the Xbox because I heard it's the greatest football game ever made and it was like two bucks. I haven't properly played it yet thought, just confirmed that the game runs. Sports games is the genre where the people that love them move on to the latest release and the people that love videogame history don't give a damn about. If those were in your Gamecube top ten you probably haven't played or thought about the Gamecube in 15 years.
I've played all the rest aside from Resident Evil 4, which is a rather large omission on my part. Of the remaining list Metroid Prime is not a bad choice for number 1 but I have not played it since it was current. Nor I have I really gone back and played any of these games again. I haven't really played a lot of Gamecube since it was current. I bought most of the best games for it when they were new and it's a system where the retro prices got high very quickly. I felt Viewtiful Joe was overrated at the time and you don't really hear much about it anymore so I think history proved that assessment correct. The Zeldas are great games but both lacked the magic of the N64 games. Wind Waker's ocean was dull and I felt Twilight Princess was too conservative, like a Zelda fan game that followed the Ocarina of Time blueprint too closely. At the time I probably had the most fun with Zelda: Four Swords Adventure and Minish Cap on the Game Boy Player.
I actually preferred Metroid Prime 2 to the first game but they were both great. And some of my favourites that are not in the Metacritic top 10 are SSB Melee and the Pikmin games. And Animal Crossing dictated my real life so strictly that I made a conscious decision to stop playing it and I've never bought a game in the series since. So does that mean I liked it?
M.K.Ultra:
At first I could not get the site to sort by user score but I was just able to figure that out. Here are the top ten Gamecube games according to metacritic users:
* Resident Evil (2002) (9.6)
* Resident Evil 4 (9.2)
* Super Smash Bros. Melee (9.1)
* The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (9.0)
* Pikmin 2 (9.0)
* Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (9.0)
* Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (9.0)
* Metroid Prime (8.9)
* Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
* Tales of Symphonia
Luigi Dude:
I own 6 of the 10 games on this list.
Metroid Prime
Resident Evil 4
Twilight Princess
Wind Waker
Soul Calibur 2
Viewtiful Joe
All six games I bought at launch when they were released on the Gamecube and beat each one. Three of the games, Metroid Prime, Twilight Princess and Soul Calibur 2, I 100% completed them, and for Resident Evil 4, Wind Waker and Viewtiful Joe I came pretty close to doing it. Resident Evil 4 I just had to beat on Hard mode but stopped playing in the Castle. For Wind Waker I got most of the trophies but stopped because I got tired of how tedious the process was. For Viewtiful Joe I started Ultra V-Rated difficultly, but stopped playing shortly after since beating V-Rated was already a huge ordeal that pushed me too my limits and Ultra V-Rated was already crazy by the second level so I wanted to take a breather. Of course then I never came back to it.
So yeah I'd say this list is pretty accurate. Five of these games are in my own personal Top 10 Gamecube list, and I'd probably put Soul Calibur 2 in the Top 11-20 list. Of the games on this list, it's kind of a tie between Twilight Princess and Resident Evil 4 to which one is my favorite. Twilight Princess has the advantage of having the best amount of gameplay variety, but suffers from having a lower difficulty. Resident Evil 4 is a much more intense game and has a good challenge, but the Island at the end of the game has some rather questionable design choices that drag it down. I'd probably give Twilight Princess a slight edge because of the huge variety of gameplay it offers but it's very close.
My own personal Top Ten Gamecube list would look like this
1. Super Smash Bros Melee
2. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
3. Resident Evil 4
4. Metroid Prime 2
5. Metroid Prime 1
6. Viewtiful Joe
7. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
8. Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
9. F-Zero GX
10. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
--- Quote from: Ian Sane on October 12, 2022, 07:03:06 PM ---I felt Viewtiful Joe was overrated at the time and you don't really hear much about it anymore so I think history proved that assessment correct.
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The reason you don't hear much about Viewtiful Joe is because the original game came out almost 20 years ago and Capcom refuses to release his games on any modern systems. People were talking about him when he was revealed to be playable in Tatsunoko vs Capcom as well as Marvel vs Capcom 3, but both of those games were over a decade ago now as well. If Capcom would finally port his games to modern consoles that would spark some more interest, but for some reason they refuse to do so, even though they keep porting Okami and Devil May Cry over and over again, which are 2 game series that appeal heavily to the people who like Viewtiful Joe.
M.K.Ultra:
--- Quote from: Luigi Dude on October 13, 2022, 11:07:08 PM ---The reason you don't hear much about Viewtiful Joe is because the original game came out almost 20 years ago and Capcom refuses to release his games on any modern systems. People were talking about him when he was revealed to be playable in Tatsunoko vs Capcom as well as Marvel vs Capcom 3, but both of those games were over a decade ago now as well. If Capcom would finally port his games to modern consoles that would spark some more interest, but for some reason they refuse to do so, even though they keep porting Okami and Devil May Cry over and over again, which are 2 game series that appeal heavily to the people who like Viewtiful Joe.
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I found a petition for a Viewtiful Joe Remake on Switch. Only 15 signature so far, but with our numbers here in the forums, I'll bet we can make it happen. https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/viewtiful-joe-remakeremaster.html
Mop it up:
I've always thought of review sites being something only enthusiasts would read, so I wouldn't have expected sports games to be something that earns high scores. I guess this was one way sites were trying to expand their audience?
I was always curious about Viewtiful Joe, but for whatever reason I never got around to buying it. Here's hoping for a re-release I s'pose.
--- Quote from: Adrock on October 11, 2022, 07:54:49 PM ---
--- Quote ---Should I run a similar poll for another console? Which one?
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If you want. I'm not your mother. Or am I? (I'm not)
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Considering that you said this completely unprompted, I'm beginning to think that you are!
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