The Gamecube, what was it like?

Saltour Sossiez

The only thing I remember about it were those bloody bongos.
Played them a few times in Smyths when they were first out. :P

What was it like as a console though? Good selection of games?

Overall opinions on it? One to avoid or is it worth getting cheap?


Edit - Move this to the Nintendo forum if you like.

cherryghost

It spawned the Metroid Prime series.

It brought us Resi 4

It spawned the Super Monkey Ball franchise.

It had some massive JRPGs on it that were nothing short of fantastic


If you can get one cheap, pick it up. Or better yet, if you have a Wii, grab some Gamecube controllers and some Gamebcube games on the cheap. Well worth it.

super_furry

There's one for sale (at least there was yesterday) in Xtra-Vision's new shop in the Square, Tallaght with Wind Waker for €30.

Gummy Panda

The gamecube was a great console. A friend bought one at release and brought it over to another friends house one night. Super smash bros melee made me go out and buy a cube the next day.

Jako8

Wind Waker was an awesome game for it. And pikmin iirc.

GLUEY

Super Smash Bros Melee FTW!

phasers

I loved playing my gameboy games on the big screen :cool:

Lands Leaving

Gamecube had a few classics, and little else imo. Zelda, Resi 4, smash bros. eternal darkness, can't even think of any more right now. But they were great to be fair.

The controller on the other hand remains my least favourite ever. Symmetry, or something close, just works. The wii classic controller is so much better.

Jazzy

rocked socks. eternal darkness :cool:

jaykhunter

The GC was the console that got me back into gaming, with Resi 4 and Wind Waker (I then retrospectively played Zelda OoT) ....also Mario Kart Wii; Resi REmake was lots of fun...Didn't like Zero too much, Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion wasn't my cup of tea...

Any idea where I could pick up Eternal Darkness? Dying to play that one Just got Four Swords Adventures

I was never a big fan of Brawl or Metroid. Anyone play Viewtiful Joe?

All in all it was a decent console but nothing compared to the broad and depth of games available for the juggernaut known as the PS2, the best-selling console of all time (138 million)

cherryghost

Lands Leaving wrote: »

Gamecube had a few classics, and little else imo. Zelda, Resi 4, smash bros. eternal darkness, can't even think of any more right now. But they were great to be fair.

The controller on the other hand remains my least favourite ever. Symmetry, or something close, just owrks. The wii classic controller is so much better.

yewot.

the GC controller was easily one of my fave controllers in recent time :pac:

Sephiroth_dude

3 words for you.....tales of symphonia best game on it.

Vyse

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

3 words for you.....tales of symphonia best game on it.

Agreed, cracking title. Loved Resi 4 as well but aside from that there wasn't much on the GC for me. Not a big fan of Zelda although the Wind Waker was good (Twilight Princess not so good). I also thought Metroid Prime was massively over hyped.

It did have one of the best controllers of all time though!

Sephiroth_dude

Vyse wrote: »

Agreed, cracking title. Loved Resi 4 as well but aside from that there wasn't much on the GC for me. Not a big fan of Zelda although the Wind Waker was good (Twilight Princess not so good). I also thought Metroid Prime was massively over hyped.

It did have one of the best controllers of all time though!

I agree,other than tales of symphonia,zelda,mario kart and skies of arcadia I did'nt buy bother buying much else.

Atavan-Halen

Ah it's a nice little console and worthy of anyones collection. They're cheap enough these days so definitely pick one up. Lots of great games mentioned here already, can't believe no one mentioned Pikmin yet! Definitely go for Smash Bros. Melee, great fun with 4 players, the Resi Evil series are great, Metroid Prime, Viewtiful Joe is good on it and apparently better than the PS2 version. F-Zero GX is great as is Super Mario Sunshine.

cherryghost

Four Swords made me skip 4 days of college to hook up my GBA with some mates, and have some of the best multiplayer fun i've ever had

CCCP^

Resident Evil Remake. Brilliant game.

AFC_1903

It had the coolest ever controller - The Resident Evil Chainsaw controller!
Limited edition, and hand painted, so each one had different blood splatters! :cool:

evad_lhorg

still got my chainsaw sealed in its box. :cool:

Spunge

I remember playing the resident evil remake on the gamecube, was amazed by the graphics. And it scared the crap out of me, one of my favourite resi games. Also resident evil 4 came out on that first and thats where it played it. Resident evil Zero too.
Those are the only games i really played on it. Wanted to play eternal darkness but i could never find it.

it really didnt have a great selection at all compared to the ps2 or the xbox
.

mayordenis

Loved the Gamecube very very much,

Eternal Darkness
Resi 1,0 and 4
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Mario Sunshine

Metroid coming back, Zelda's first foray into cell shading, killer 7, Viewtiful Joe so much trying to think of what I really loved is hard.

PIKMIN, so good.

tman

Spunge wrote: »

it really didnt have a great selection at all compared to the ps2 or the xbox
.

It didn't have as many games as them, but it had the same amount of utterly essential releases (if not more)
Metroid Prime
Viewtiful Joe
Resi 4 (It was easily the definitive version before the Wii version came out)
Wind Waker
REmake
Resi 0
Pikmin
Eternal Darkness
Smash Bros (had some of the best drunked fun ever with that one!)

Fnz

cherryghost wrote: »

yewot.

the GC controller was easily one of my fave controllers in recent time :pac:

I found it was the most comfortable to hold but didn't care for the face-button configuration.

Spunge wrote: »

it really didnt have a great selection at all compared to the ps2 or the xbox

Agreed. It did have a small number of exclusive titles that appealed to a subset of the market.

Super Monkey Ball was great and took a while to come to other platforms.

Viewtiful Joe and Resi 4 were available on PS2 within a year of their GC release.

cherryghost

Fnz wrote: »

I found it was the most comfortable to hold but didn't care for the face-button configuration.



Agreed. It did have a small number of exclusive titles that appealed to a subset of the market.

Super Monkey Ball was great and took a while to come to other platforms.

Viewtiful Joe and Resi 4 were available on PS2 within a year of their GC release.

both sound and texture-wise, VJ, SMB and Resi 4 were vastly superior on the GC. i had both consoles, the GC always got more play.

The GC had F-Zero GX, awesome awesome game....

Kinetic^

Recently picked one up with 2 controllers and 2 memory cards for €25. Not got any games as of yet though. Still undecided as to whether to mod it, keep it as is or just sell it.

Maguined

The gamecube controller was the pinnacle of design as far as i am concerned, extremely comfortable in your hands even after hours of play and good button configuration it was sublime.

For me i will always think of the amount of time I spent playing Soul Calibur 2 on my gamecube, I got it for Christmas a few years ago and it made me feel like a child again, there i was a twenty something year old grown man spending all of christmas day in my dressing gown glued to the console all day with the same pure joy as when you were twelve playing the SNES/Megadrive.

animaX

Maguined wrote: »

The gamecube controller was the pinnacle of design as far as i am concerned, extremely comfortable in your hands even after hours of play and good button configuration it was sublime.

Gotta agree with this. The gamecube is a gem, highly underrated. The pad is amazing. The highlights for me were the Metroid Prime series, Resident Evil 4 and Viewtiful Joe.

jaykhunter

I got really into the gamecube controller although I don't really like the "roughness" of the left analogue stick...I suppose it was to maintain non-slippage. The buttons surrounding the A-button is a tad weird, but I really got proficient using it in Resi and Wind Waker. The trigger buttons are a bit huge and weird shaped to me for some reason. I prefer the layout and handling of the 360 controller but I'm quite comfortable with this one and prefer it to the N64 and maybe the PS controllers (I might just be too rusty at them)

I always found that the "A button" is most important and all the other buttons are it's bit**es to be quite funny.

Fnz

cherryghost wrote: »

both sound and texture-wise, VJ, SMB and Resi 4 were vastly superior on the GC. i had both consoles, the GC always got more play.

Tsk, Nintendo owners... it's always about the graphics with you lot.

Retr0gamer

Still he is right. The graphical difference between the gamecube and PS2 versions of Resi 4 is huge with tonnes of detail, texture quality, geometry, shadow and atmospheric effects missing from the PS2 version.It kind of takes away from the game a lot. The Gamecube was a remarkably powerful machine and still on other console other than the Wii can do volumetrically lit fur effects as well.

The GC couldn't match the PS2 for the sheer amount and variety of games that came to it but it was a brilliant second console due to the amount of essential games on it. You really were missing out if you didn't have one.

F-zero GX (best arcade racer ever)
Mario Kart Double Dash (underrated imo, the powersliding was better and it kept everyone up all night after my 21st party )
Fire Emblem ( excellent SRPG)
Mario Sunshine (flawed but no less brilliant mario game)
Resi 4
Resi remake and zero (remake in particular is fantastic)
Soul Calibur 2 (by far the best version)
Baten Kaitos and BK Origins (two excellent card based RPGs)
Tales of Symphonia (wonderful RPG, arguably the best in the series)
Paper Mario 2
Pikmin 1 and 2 (we really need a sequel nintendo!)
Donkey kong jungle beat (very underrated bongo controlled platformer)
Wind Waker
Zelda Four Swords Adventure (great singleplayer but if you can play it in multiplayer do so since it's even better)
Smash Bros. Melee
Metroid Prime 1 and 2
Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2 (again the best versions)
Eternal Darkness (thought it was a crap game with great story but some people love it)
Monkeyball
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Ikaruga
Chibi Robo (Brilliant heartwarming game full of charm and like nothing else)
Harvest Moon: It's a wonderful life (one of the best in the series)
Battalion Wars
1080 Avalanche (great but no SSX)

cherryghost

oh jesus yeah, i forgot about Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door..... that game blew my mind. The humour, the gameplay.... I've never had so much fun playing a console.

Cant remember how many times i played it through...


EDIT: Screw this, I'm getting my GC games out of the attic.

Mr. K

My Gamecube was played to death (not literally, it still works). Wind Waker, Metroid Prime 1 and 3, Resident Evil 0, Remake and 4 are amazing games. I would always buy the Gamecube versions of games over the PS2 versions too, they looked better and the controller was superior. And the Gamecube Soul Calibur II had Link!

sock puppet

I loved the two Rogue Squadron games. Two of my favourite titles for the gamecube.

Sub

i loved my gamecube. I played it more than my ps2 even though i only had 6 or so games for it. I loved harvest moon back in the day(dont ask me why but it was fun) and viewtiful joe remains one of my favourite games ever.

Retr0gamer

No need to be ashamed ofloving harvest moon. That game is a total time sink and so addictive.

I think the best thing about the GC was the 4 controller ports. It really was a great multiplayer machine and always got use when my mates were over.

sock puppet

Retr0gamer wrote: »

No need to be ashamed ofloving harvest moon. That game is a total time sink and so addictive.

I think the best thing about the GC was the 4 controller ports. It really was a great multiplayer machine and always got use when my mates were over.

Yeah Harvest Moon was one of those games I either didn't play at all or else played for hours on end.

Also my stupid Wii won't play Gamecube games anymore:mad:

Panda

Played wind waker, pikmin and metroid and loved em all.
didnt know you could play them on the wii though, will have to fish them out...

Fnz

Panda wrote: »

Played wind waker, pikmin and metroid and loved em all.
didnt know you could play them on the wii though, will have to fish them out...

Couldn't you just plug in a GC controller?

Leprachaun

It had a way better catalogue than the Wii, I'll tell you that.

Eternal Darkness, The Wind Waker (way way better than Twilight Princess imo), F-Zero GX, Super Smash Bros Melee, Super Mario Sunshine (better than Galaxy imo), Luigis Mansion, Rogue Squadron 2 : Rogue Leader, Rogue Squadron 3 : Rebel Strike, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil remake, Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 4, Viewtiful Joe, Metroid Prime 2 : Echoes, Metal Gear Solid : Twin Snakes, Star Fox Adventures, Mario Kart Double Dash, Pikmin, Super Monkey Ball. On top of that, it actually got it all the decent multi-platform game that the xbox and ps2 got.

I wish nintendo would make consoles up to the standard of the n64 and wii again or at least support the wii with more than 4 or 5 decent games - Super Smash Bros Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros, Twilight Princess(which was a bit meh) and Metroid Prime.