Topic: I've been playing a lot of Gamecube lately

[EasyCure]

you gonna listen to that monkey!?!

[AV]

Vega, YOU DID get far in JFG if you don't like collecting things because the only thing you ever have to collect is at the end you have to collect Tribals. THATS IT. Other than that it's an action game.

SFA isn't un-enjoyable. It's just okay.

maybe but it just rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't want to collect the tribbles at all, I just enjoyed killing them.

speaking of killing.

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes is tons of fun. It might not be balanced but still is fun

and Soul Calibur 2 still holds up. I played 4 and its not a massive upgrade (heard online is buggy, and I don't care about creating fighters and destroying shields is the only new concept, the fatality system i heard is really hard to do so anyway 2 still holds up nicely)

Resident Evil: Remake is great if you can get over the controls and 0 is neat too.

[Dasmos]

Soul Calibur 2 was rubbish. It's one of only two games I have ever returned, the other was Guitar Hero.

Buy Jungle Beat or Pikmin 2 instead.

[BeautifulShy]

Well today I got I-Ninja, Metroid Prime 2 and Wind Waker. I had Wind waker before but some one stole it. I like I-Ninja alot. Haven't played MP2 yet I still have to beat 1. I probably won't be on much till I beat these games. Castle of Shikigami 3 is going to be a pain.

[AV]

Soul Calibur 2 was rubbish. It's one of only two games I have ever returned, the other was Guitar Hero.

Buy Jungle Beat or Pikmin 2 instead.

why didn't you like SC2. It's just as good as all the other Soul Calibur games. Link is fun to attack with. 

[Dasmos]

Didn't particuarly like the other iterations either, I am more of a Tekken man.

[EasyCure]

i always thought tekken was too slow. Back when i had a Saturn i thought the same about Virtua Fighter but liked it better for some reason

[KDR_11k]

I don't know about fast or slow but I think of Tekken as terribly counterintuitive and clunky. With Soul Calibur there's at least some sense to which button does what since they correspond to movements, not limbs. I don't care whether the character uses his hand or foot, I want a fast attack! Playing Soul Calibur in multiplayer was fun and people got some understanding of the moves quickly, playing Tekken in multiplayer resulted in a complete spasmfest as noone could figure the moves out and once they found 1-2 moves that were somewhat good they just used those over and over.

The big breakthrough of Soul Calibur was that anyone could learn it enough to get some interesting fights going, to some degree it might have been a blue ocean game for 3d fighting games by greatly reducing the need to memorize input sequences and letting the player feel like he's kicking ass without much introduction.

[EasyCure]

I got bored of SC(2) pretty fast, granted thats because i never had anyone to play it with, but i'l give it credit; it really does have a good control scheme. It allows for a button-masher to pull of some combos and look like they know what they're doing but it also as depth for the more experienced players.

Pulling off cool moves simply by pressing 2 attack buttons at once is awesome lol.

I completely forgot how Tekken controlled so thanks for reminding me KDR. I guess that with the slow speed on top of it turned me off to the series. I remember hating one of the characters because it felt like forever for his foot to get off the ground and kick the other guy in the face! so frustrating.

[KDR_11k]

Well, few fighting games work well in singleplayer.

[EasyCure]

Well, few fighting games work well in singleplayer.

something about SFII:Turbo always had me coming back for more..

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Guile's stage music.

[AV]

i could never get into Tekken. Something about it just didn't click with me. Few fighters do.

I surprised my friend by actually being good in Soul Calibur 4 and never playing. I told him "you do remember that I owned SC2 on cube."

he was damn surprised when I was countering his moves and blocking his attacks..

Anyway I got to go back and play that game. Something so fun about owning somebody with Links net or the cool fairy sword from majoras mask.

[Hostile Creation]

Gamecube is still one of my favorite consoles ever.  I'm pretty sure I beat all of the 20 some-odd games I own, and a few I don't, many of them 100% (I can be a bit of a completionist).  I'm terribly far behind on games for the Wii right now (and will continue to be, since I'm lending my Wii to someone; shall be catching up on DS though), having gone on a year long film binge, but I've enjoyed its offerings as well.  Probably not as much yet, but I've got a lot to catch up on and a lot more still yet to come.

I do miss Gamecube though.  I fear it'll remain my favorite console, if only because it's the one I played in high school, while all my best friends were still around and we had plenty of time to dedicate to just hanging out and having fun.  We don't seem to find time for games anymore, those of us who still see each other regularly.

[EasyCure]

I do miss Gamecube though.  I fear it'll remain my favorite console, if only because it's the one I played in high school, while all my best friends were still around and we had plenty of time to dedicate to just hanging out and having fun.  We don't seem to find time for games anymore, those of us who still see each other regularly.

the N64 was that to me and my friends, but we were in middle school. High school was too hectic for us to hand out and really enjoy Nintendo as a group, i started looking for more single player experiences with GC.

[Chozo Ghost]

I never knew anyone besides myself who had a gamecube, so naturally most of my experience with it was with single-player games. It was a shame, though, because the GC was probably the best multiplayer console of the 3. The xbox was too massive to haul around, and the PS2 didn't have a convenient lunch-box style handle or 4 player controller slots, so really the GC was the best designed for that role. Unfortunately, it was apparently the least popular, and seems like no one wanted to be caught dead owning one, so it never fully realized its potential...

[EasyCure]

I never knew anyone besides myself who had a gamecube, so naturally most of my experience with it was with single-player games. It was a shame, though, because the GC was probably the best multiplayer console of the 3. The xbox was too massive to haul around, and the PS2 didn't have a convenient lunch-box style handle or 4 player controller slots, so really the GC was the best designed for that role. Unfortunately, it was apparently the least popular, and seems like no one wanted to be caught dead owning one, so it never fully realized its potential...

I know... i remember the day i realized "oh man this game is gonna be awesome to play with my friends, man i'm sure glad GC is shaping up to be an even better multiplayer-console than the N64 was.......




wait, no one wants to play with a  BLACK lunchbox... ****"

[Ian Sane]

Here's how the Gamecube's multiplayer breaks down for me.

N64: Perfect Dark,  WWF No Mercy

GC: Uh...

Sure there was still Mario Kart and F-Zero and SSB but for my friends and I the N64's multiplayer was all about shooting and wrestling.  Both of those were lost on the Cube.  Goldeneye and WCW vs. nWo: World Tour were N64 killer apps and Nintendo obviously failed to realize this as they made no effort to replace them.  Though to be fair the Aki wrestling series just died.

[Morari]

Shame on Nintendo for not realizing how great... er... wrestling games are.

[BeautifulShy]

I liked No Mercy Ian but there was a glitch that would delete my created character when I played Story mode.I personally liked revenge better than world tour.

[Bill Aurion]

You didn't get TimeSplitters 2, Ian?  For shame...The multiplayer is one of the best in FPSers, even today!

(And Geist was also a lot of fun...In what other game can you possess rockets and chase people around?  )

[EasyCure]

You didn't get TimeSplitters 2, Ian?  For shame...The multiplayer is one of the best in FPSers, even today!

(And Geist was also a lot of fun...In what other game can you possess rockets and chase people around?  )

i only played the multi in Giest once and my friend thought it was stupid (he's stupid!) but i loved that you could posess that stuff. it was freaking awesome the first time i killed him like that

[DAaaMan64]

You didn't get TimeSplitters 2, Ian?  For shame...The multiplayer is one of the best in FPSers, even today!

(And Geist was also a lot of fun...In what other game can you possess rockets and chase people around?  )

Ya Bill TS2 Multi was badass. SO much customizing lol.

[Chozo Ghost]

wait, no one wants to play with a  BLACK lunchbox... ****"

You mean a PURPLE lunchbox. Seriously, what was Nintendo thinking when they choose the default color of their console to be purple?!!!!?? A console must always be either white, black, or possibly grey. You can't use a fruity color from the rainbow and expect the market to embrace it or think of it as cool...

I know this is kinda stupid, but I seriously think the color of the console may have been a contributing factor to its unpopularity.  I mean, how many people out there love the color purple? I just don't see purple as a color that is popular with the heterosexual male population. The good thing about white, black, or grey is they are gender neutral and pretty much no one will have a problem with these three. You go with purple or yellow or pink, and then you start running into problems.

So having the Gamecube look like a purple children's lunchbox kinda gimped the system's popularity even before it launched. Meanwhile, the PS2 and Xbox were smooth and slick looking with their black colorings. Players could have these systems out in the open while company was over without feeling ashamed about it.

[DAaaMan64]

black sucked too