Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: gamecuber07 on December 12, 2004, 06:45:50 AM
Title: Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: gamecuber07 on December 12, 2004, 06:45:50 AM
Before I got a gamecube I ask my friend a couple of question and stuff about it. One of the things he told me was that the games for gamecube did not have the same features as the ps2 games (like they wouldnt include multiplayer). He also told me in some cases that the games were shortened. I already got the gamecube for Christmas, so i was just curius to find out if my friend knows what he is talking about.
Title: RE: Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: Hostile Creation on December 12, 2004, 08:36:22 AM
What.
Your friend is a moron. Gamecube has four controller ports, twice the number of the PS2, and is famous for having awesome party games, unlike the PS2, which is for people who like watching. Games are not any shorter, either. I don't know if you're talking about games that have been ported to Gamecube, which I have little experience with, but many of them actually add something, I think. I wouldn't go with ported games anyway. Nintendo originals and other exclusives are usually better. If not, then your friend is just completely and totally wrong.
Title: RE: Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: TMW on December 12, 2004, 08:58:46 AM
Yeah...your friend has no idea what he's talking about.
Now, the GC has a noticable lack of online play, and maybe thats what he meant by multiplayer...but the games are not shorter, nor is there a lack of multiplayer as HC said. The GC disc size in no way represents what it can hold, which is where I think he may have gotten that idiotic idea of "shorter games".
Title: RE: Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: Bloodworth on December 12, 2004, 09:36:24 AM
Yeah, games certainly aren't shorter, but in this port happy 21st century, there are quite a few minor differences between different builds. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 has to be one of the most extreme examples, EA gave an unfinished PS2 build to a different team to port it to GameCube. The result was that the GameCube version had some improvements that the port team implemented, and the PS2 team continued to add features and made some significant changes to the track designs. So what you ended up with were two significantly different games with the same name. Pretty bizarre.
So you just have to look closely at multiplatform games and the features that are important to you. I tend to play my GameCube far more than my Xbox so I'll often get the GC version even if it doesn't support digital audio or something. On the other hand, if there's a game that I think might have decent online play, I'll get the Xbox version. Most of the time though, the single player aspects aren't different enough to matter.
In any case, as the guys above expressed, I tend to play more exclusive games than multiplatform games on either system. I've got Crimson Skies, Halo, and Burnout 3 on Xbox and piles of games on GameCube. Looking at the release lists for both systems, I find plenty more GC games that I want to pick up.
Title: RE: Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: Bartman3010 on December 12, 2004, 10:16:15 AM
Probably since other X Box games cant compete with HAWOH
Title: RE:Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: gamecuber07 on December 12, 2004, 02:18:08 PM
I think he was getting the idea that the games were shorter due to the size of the discs.
Title: RE: Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on December 12, 2004, 03:25:37 PM
He's a goofy goober, yeah.
Title: RE: Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: Mario on December 12, 2004, 04:47:52 PM
Holy crap.. what an idiot. I knew there were idiots out there but.. damn.
Title: RE:Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: Morien on December 13, 2004, 02:50:47 AM
Haha. Biggest hate thread to an unknown person I've ever seen!
Title: RE:Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on December 13, 2004, 12:33:32 PM
This is nothing in comparison...
Title: RE:Gamecube games Vs. ps2
Post by: Rob91883 on December 13, 2004, 11:03:06 PM
That guy needs to suck on a lemon and be forced to play Gameday.
