Gamecube Impressions

[gekko]

I never said his opinion was worthless. But the things he was describing seemed to be characteristics of the Metroid series itself. The hype for Metroid Prime came in large part from Metroid fans. He wasn't impressed with Metroid Prime, I was just wondering if he's a fan of the series or not.

[Perfect Stu]

Originally posted by gekko
I never said his opinion was worthless. But the things he was describing seemed to be characteristics of the Metroid series itself. The hype for Metroid Prime came in large part from Metroid fans. He wasn't impressed with Metroid Prime, I was just wondering if he's a fan of the series or not.

oh ok

[BreakABone]

Originally posted by The Strangler
.
Metroid - I don't see what the big stink is. It looks great, plays pretty good but has virtually no story. The level design is artfully made but with little innovation or originality in layout. Don't get me wrong, it is a fun game, but I wouldn't give it anywhere near the score that IGN did. I'd give it a 8.6.

Metroid is a cool game, and I agree on the story issue, while the story is there, you basically got to find it yourself, but I enjoyed scanning...

Wrestlemania X8 - I payed $9 for this game used, and I want my F**KING MONEY BACK and $20 bucks more for tthe time I wasted playing it. THQ needs to take that s**t to the PS2. Awful graphics, awful animations and awful controls. Awful. 0.0

I'm in like this very very small minority of folks who actually enjoyed this game, it sucks as a single player affiar, but it's pretty cool for multi, still think it has the best HIAC yet.

Def Jam - Decent wrestling game with good graphics and animations. Needs improvement but its a solid grappler, even if it falls far short of AKI's previous greatness. 7.9

I really do need to get this game...

Eternal Darkness - SWEEEEEEEEET. Great game with a great story. You feel like your playing a H.P. Lovecraft story, and trust me the whole story is a straight rip of Lovecraft, but done so well its more of a homage. Very original with the flashbacks mixed with puzzle solving and detective work. Excellent game and genuinely freaky. 9.2

The story is cool and all, but the combat system is kind of..

Overall I'm happy with my purchase. Can anyone recommend a role playing game for the Gamecube besides Skies of Arcadia? I'm jonesing for some turned based tactical goodness.

haha I think you picked up the wrong system if you are looking for RPG games, some of the ones coming out look cool, but Skies of the best RPG on the system which doesn't say a lot...

Well I already played and beat Skies of Arcadia on the Dreamcast, so unless there is a lot of improvements or add ons I don't think I'll get it.

Well, I don't know if there is much new material to warrant a purchase as much of the new stuff is actually just sidequests and stuff.

Get Super Monkey Ball 1 or (AND) 2. Trust me. You might not think it'll be that great, but it is. Gekko could tell you about it as well.

Now that's a gaming series, I mean who would have ever thought the concept of Monkeys in a ball could go so far.

what the hell does that mean?

I think he equates PSX with some crappy wrestling games, I mean there was In Your House, WrestleMania: The Arcade Game, Attitude, Warzone, Hardcore Revolution, BackStage Assulat, theSmackDown series, Thunder, Nitro, Mayhem and the list goes on...

I dunno about the 0.0, but I too bought this game and I still think it stinks. However, reversals and specials are cool; nothing like an over-exaggerated Rock Bottom or Stunner to give you a good laugh, lol...

Well, some of the animations are based on real life selling, I believe the Stunner is from the Rock's sell job.

Anyhow, I personally recommend Mystic Heroes, it's not a mainstream game and nothing you should pay full price for, but it's a fun little game all on it's own, even better if you got some friends. If you want to know, it's similar in fashion to Dynasty Warriors.
Also, don't know if you enjoy boxing or not, but Rocky is also a cool game, even though you can also get that on the Box.

Originally posted by nWoCHRISnWo
You know you can wait about 15 seconds and the goal will be straight across from you, right? I can beat that level every time, it's not really based off luck at all...

You know that even with that tactic it's still more a matter of luck than skill right?

And that's just ONE stage out of many many more. That entire game is a blueprint in bad level design.

How bout the level where theres like 100 different switches, and if you pick the wrong one, you die, the true definition of trial and error gameplay.

Oh, and then theres that one with the goal on top of the giant column and the 4 little sliders on the bottom that rocket you foreward and up, how many times did it take you to beat that POS level?

Or the ones where there's a switch at the beginning that slows the level down? They're impossible without that switch but way too easy with the switch. Once you "find" it the first time (because the developers are clever see, they "hide" the switch behind the camera at the start) you look for it on every level.

OH! what about that other level, the one set on the level with the washing machine background where you have to go to the top of that one platform and fling yourself off towards the goal?

Believe it or not there are even MORE moronic stages that are more "challenging" than that, and I only made it though about 65 of them before I gave up, that's 35 pieces of **** still to go.

Super Monkey Ball 1 is brilliance personified on a disc, SMB2 is lazy, ****ty developers cashing in on a hot product.

Again, the mini games are brilliant and if you can find the game for 20$ or less it's worth picking up for that alone, just don't expect much from one player in SMB2

[Shadow_Link]

I have to agree with Stonecutter to a certain extent. There are far more levels in SMB2 that require pure luck than in SMB1. That's not to say though that skill isn't required to complete SMB2.

But anyway...

I still reckon that Metroid Prime deserves every single bit of praise it gets. And most definately deserves that 2nd spot at GameRankings.com out of all the games I've played throughout my gaming 'career'.

[Blix]

Originally posted by Jason1
Ive said it once, and I'll say it again: Just buy the interact mega memory card 16x. Over 1000 blocks of data, I use mine all the time, and I havent had any problems. Any seirous Cube owner that dosent have one must be on crack. And its only 30$, possibly less.

If anyone's planning to buy one, they must do it fast as I've heard that the company went out of business. Anyways, better yet, they could get one of those USB memorycards from Lik-Sang.com. They let you make a back up of your saves on your pc's hard drive. So, if you don't have more space (which I don't think will happend because it has 1,019 blocks of memory) you can just upload the file to your pc and then delete that file on the memory card. Even better for games like PSO, since the Sega servers seem to be waiting for you to be able to play Ultimat (get to level 80 that is) to then send all of your files straight to hell. On that case you just download the files back to your Memorycard and problem solved.

[Professor S]

Guys, I happen to b a big fan of the original Metroid. Just making Metroid 3D doesn't make it original, it makes it a 3D version of a 10 year old game (probably older). My opinion is my opinion. Don't make silly assumptions about what I like or don't like simply because I disagree with you.

As for FPS Platformers, please see Turok.

[TheGame]

Little to no story was acceptable when I played the origanal Metriod on NES... but times have changed, story and presentation have to drive gameplay (for me at least). That's why I couldn't get attached to it.

Great gameplay just isn't enough anymore, especially in a game with no human vs human competition, and in a very unrealistic environment.

But that's enough of my mindless metriod bashing... let's not change the subject of the thread at hand

[nWoCHRISnWo]

Well I'd hate to turn Strangler's thread into a Monkey Ball discussion but...

Originally posted by Stonecutter
You know that even with that tactic it's still more a matter of luck than skill right?

Um not it isn't... If it was more luck, than I must be REALLY lucky to be able to beat it 95% of the time.

How bout the level where theres like 100 different switches, and if you pick the wrong one, you die, the true definition of trial and error gameplay.

I think there is a way to find out what switch to hit by watching for the one that doesn't light up or something, but once you find it out you never need to worry about that level. It's the one on the last row on the right, the third going down.

Oh, and then theres that one with the goal on top of the giant column and the 4 little sliders on the bottom that rocket you foreward and up, how many times did it take you to beat that POS level?

About three tries. You have to hold back when you're getting shot up, then you use the little mini camera to see where you're landing. Land on top of the big cylinder and use the camera again to see when to fall into the goal. There's an even easier method if you want to get the warp goal.

Or the ones where there's a switch at the beginning that slows the level down? They're impossible without that switch but way too easy with the switch. Once you "find" it the first time (because the developers are clever see, they "hide" the switch behind the camera at the start) you look for it on every level.

Yeah I don't like this either.

OH! what about that other level, the one set on the level with the washing machine background where you have to go to the top of that one platform and fling yourself off towards the goal?

Yeah, what ABOUT that level? I find it okay, and I don't know if you're trying to say it's hard or something, but you just hold back when you drop and then you'll bounce off the bottom of that platform, then roll forward up the platform where the goal is and you go straight through. Unless you're talking about another level...

Believe it or not there are even MORE moronic stages that are more "challenging" than that, and I only made it though about 65 of them before I gave up, that's 35 pieces of **** still to go.

So you suck at the game, what's the point? You missed out on some awesome levels in the Master Mode.

Super Monkey Ball 1 is brilliance personified on a disc, SMB2 is lazy, ****ty developers cashing in on a hot product.

SMB 1 may have a better one player mode, but that doesn't mean SMB 2's isn't good. If you never played SMB 2 then you couldn't make the comparison between the two and you'd probably have enjoyed the SMB 2 levels.

Again, the mini games are brilliant and if you can find the game for 20$ or less it's worth picking up for that alone, just don't expect much from one player in SMB2

It seems to me that you just can't beat a lot of the levels. How can most of the levels be based off luck when I beat beat almost every level on my first try? And a lot of other people can too. Must be a lot of lucky people.

[JamesDark]

I agree about Wrestlemania. I rented it and wanted my money back.