Export thread

Now that I have a Wii, I can actually go back and play the Gamecube titles I never played. Any good ones I should get?

Metroid Prime 1 and 2 for sure. They're awesome.

If you don't have any old Megaman games, snag the Anniversary collection, it's 1-8 and the arcade fighting games, too.

Mario Golf

I played that forever it seemed when I had my Game cube setup.

A couple of these I havent gotten around to playing yet but they have gotten good reviews.


Animal Crossing
LoZ: WW
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
SSBM
Mario Kart: DD
Pikmin
Pikmin 2
The Legend of Zelda Collector's Edition

Mario Kart Double Dash
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (if you like RPGs -- you can also get the original Paper Mario on the Virtual Console)
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (if you like strategy games or the Fire Emblem series in general)
Super Smash Bros Melee (although it would be kind of redundant if you get/have Super Smash Bros Brawl)

Skies of Arcadia Legends
Eternal Darkness

CynicismKills said:

Metroid Prime 1 and 2 for sure. They're awesome.

Click to expand...

Nintendo is releasing a collector's edition of Metroid Prime 1, 2, and 3 for the Wii in August, I think. Might as well wait for that since it'll have Wii Remote controls for 1 and 2, and it's $50 for all three games. Also New Play Control Pikmin was released a few months ago; same game but with Wii Remote controls. They don't have NPC Pikmin 2 out yet, though.

Few other games off the top of my head:

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Baten Kaitos (and the prequel, Baten Kaitos Origins)
Tales of Symphonia
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Zelda: Wind Waker
Super Mario Sunshine
Eternal Darkness
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Mario Kart: Double Dash

Eternal Darkness

The Res Evil re-releases and remake and 0.

Um...

Bah, how did I forget Tales of Symphonia. I love that game.

Also yeah, Zelda and Paper Mario are great, too.

zoids: battle legends - it was the xbox mech assault game but with zoids. :toocool:

hylian said:

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Mario Kart: DD

Click to expand...

My son really likes these. And they work well on the wii (we've had a couple GC titles not work so well)

Resident Evil Zero, 1, 2 and 3

Definitley agree with Eternal Darkness. Also, surprised to not see Twilight princess - the cube version is said to be the correct version, because the map is laid out the same way the ocarina of time map was so you could see it was a sequel/sequelish. The Wii version mirrored the entire game so link could be right handed.

I'm gonna throw in a little game called MYSTIC HEROES. It's a hack and slash game like Dynasty Warriors, but not as serious. I played the hell out of it about 2 years ago. I just recently picked it up from ebay for about $10, and it's still tons of fun.

Thanks for the tips. I do have SSB Brawl, so from what I've seen, Melee would be, like one of you said, redundant. Definitely will be getting the RE games, since survival horror is my favorite genre.

If survival horror is your favorite genre, I'd absolutely recommend Eternal Darkness and RE:4 above all others.

viewtiful joe is a must have, though you can get it on the ps2 i think.

metal arms: glitch in the system is a fun game, third person adventure with a stupid amount of firepower.

also if you can find it? ikaruga. ikaruga a thousand times over. i fucking LOVE that game. despite being unable to beat the third stage

rogue leader is awesome too.

Piotyr said:

If survival horror is your favorite genre, I'd absolutely recommend Eternal Darkness and RE:4 above all others.

Click to expand...

Get the Wii version of RE4 instead of the GC version.

Chummer said:

Piotyr said:

If survival horror is your favorite genre, I'd absolutely recommend Eternal Darkness and RE:4 above all others.

Click to expand...

Get the Wii version of RE4 instead of the GC version.

Click to expand...

Yes.. RE4 for the Wii is awesome.

Now of course if you want to wait, rumor suppose to release Resident evil 1 for the Wii (or could be the set I am not sure) it is rumor since I don't have any hard release date just fan sites

Whatever you do, do NOT get Super Mario Sunshine.

God, that game was terrible.

twitchmoss said:

also if you can find it? ikaruga. ikaruga a thousand times over. i smurfing LOVE that game. despite being unable to beat the third stage

Click to expand...

oooooooo, i forgot ikaruga had a gamecube port. i'll second this one, it is an awesome game indeed(and yes, very difficult)

Super Mario Sunshine might not be as good as Galaxy, but it's still a great game. Fludd is nice to mess around with, sliding on water is awesome and there are quite a few deliciously hard old-school platforming levels.

My most recommended GameCube games:
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Still looks beautiful today and the story and characters are a bit more interesting then most Zelda's. Gameplay is absolutely solid as usual.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance if you like strategic games. Pretty good story with characters you'll care about. I love the strategy gameplay and the rpg elements that let you build a strong team of your own favorite characters.

Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door Some of the best writing in a game ever. It's stylish, exciting, funny and I was actually a bit teary-eyed at the end. The battle system is also really great (turn-based, but spiced up with action commands)

The Gamecube version of Resident Evil 1 is getting a Wii release, but I don't know what will be different about it.

Bowielee said:

Whatever you do, do NOT get Super Mario Sunshine.

God, that game was terrible.

Click to expand...

Sunshine was good. It wasn't quite as good as Galaxy or Mario 64, but it was still a very solid 3D platformer.

Besides the ones others already suggested:

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Lego Star Wars (I and II)

EsteBeatDown said:

I'm gonna throw in a little game called MYSTIC HEROES. It's a hack and slash game like Dynasty Warriors, but not as serious. I played the hell out of it about 2 years ago. I just recently picked it up from ebay for about $10, and it's still tons of fun.

Click to expand...

Wow.

Somebody else who has played it.

Only play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes if you have a Super Mario Sunshine and an Eternal Darkness save on your memory card.

Battalion Wars is fun too.

OK, let's see here...

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Beyond Good and Evil (if you can find it)
Eternal Darkness
F-Zero GX
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
LoZ: Wind Waker
LoZ: Master Quest (if you can find it at a good price, it's a great remix of OOT)
LoZ: Twilight Princess (although the Wii version is better, get that instead if you can)
Luigi's Mansion
MGS: Twin Snakes
Metroid Prime 1&2 (alternatively, wait for the New Play Control versions that are coming out later this year)
Mortal Kombat: Deception
NFL Blitz 20-03
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Pikmin 1&2 (alternatively, wait for the new play control versions, although I found that the GCN controller is better for these games)
P.N. 03
Prince of Persia Trilogy
Resident Evil (remake of 1, 0, 2, 3, 4, and Veronica X)
Sonic Adventure 1 and 2
Soul Calibur II
Spider-Man 2
Star Fox: Assault
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II and III
Super Mario Sunshine
Tales of Symphonia
Splinter Cell 1, 2, and 3 (ignore Double Agent)
Viewtiful Joe 1 and 2

Eliwood said:

CynicismKills said:

Metroid Prime 1 and 2 for sure. They're awesome.

Click to expand...

Nintendo is releasing a collector's edition of Metroid Prime 1, 2, and 3 for the Wii in August, I think. Might as well wait for that since it'll have Wii Remote controls for 1 and 2, and it's $50 for all three games. Also New Play Control Pikmin was released a few months ago; same game but with Wii Remote controls.

Click to expand...

Along these lines, I agree with other posters that Animal Crossing for the Gamecube was great, but from what I hear Animal Crossing: City Folk is mostly the same game, with more content. Plus, there are more likely to be people playing the new one to trade items with and such.

I'll second these games as well:
Beyond Good and Evil
Wind Waker

I'll add to the list:
- Pac-Man Vs. (Seriously, this is one of my favorite multi-player games for real life get togethers. If you have a Gameboy Advance and a link cable, GET THIS GAME!)
- X-men Legends 1 & 2 (the second game had some odd crashes when your inventory got too full, but I loved them so much I worked my way around it.)
- Mario Party #? (If you've never played a Mario Party game, pick one up. 5 is much better than 4, but I've never played 6 or 7, which both use the Gamecube microphone peripheral.)

Surprised nobody mentioned this one:

Probably because half the game sucked. The action portion was lame, but the Mummy Puzzle sections were awesome!

The mummy parts were definitely the more memorable, but I don't recall the sphinx parts being bad by any means.

AshburnerX said:

Only play Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes if you have a Super Mario Sunshine and an Eternal Darkness save on your memory card.

Battalion Wars is fun too.

Click to expand...

[spoiler:1z7uzayj]Oh God yes, Psycho Mantis was hilarious.

"It seems you've been playing a lot of Super Mario Sunshine..."[/spoiler:1z7uzayj]

Yeah... the list of saves you'll want for the Twin Snakes is:

- Eternal Darkness
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Super Smash Brothers Melee

I bought the Cube for Metroid Prime (a disturbing number of perfect 10 scores on LOTS of review sites), and after finishing the game, I thought to myself that if I didn't buy ANY other games for that console EVER, it was money well-spent to get the GC just for that game alone. It's THAT good. And then they came out with the 2nd one, which was awesome, and the 3rd is for the Wii, which was a really really good game (something was lacking, I dunno quite what, but something intangible IMO). Still, if August is a release of all 3 with Wii-controls, that's probably worth waiting for in terms of cheapness if nothing else.

Others have mentioned in passing, but I agree with F-Zero GX. Really fun, a GREAT sense of speed in it, looks beautiful with progressive scan output, and really REALLY hard on the upper difficulty levels. Definitely for the hardcore racer who needs PERFECTION to win, and not for the "blue shell -> win" gamer (way too much blue shell BS in Kart for the Wii IMO, though that's still a fun game).

Sunshine is good up until the point you need to get the severely BS and un-fun shine sprites. The whole blue coin mechanism was IMO the WORST idea they had there. Way too many of them required way too much BS to aquire, and ultimately I never did a "complete" finish of the game because I didn't want to do the massive run-around for little symbols that it would have required to get ALL of them. Just not worth it. Galaxy rocks, and the few "really really hard" parts of that are only a few, and you KNOW you can do them, not the "where the hell do I go now?" feeling that SunShine gives you. It's OK, but I'd definitely only pay bargain-bin prices for it. I'll admit it had some pretty unique things, and I did enjoy (and curse at times) the "classic" platforming levels.

Eriol said:

I'll admit it had some pretty unique things, and I did enjoy (and curse at times) the "classic" platforming levels.

Click to expand...

Those were the only parts of the game I actually liked.

escushion said:

The Gamecube version of Resident Evil 1 is getting a Wii release, but I don't know what will be different about it.

Click to expand...

It's out for the Wii now. It has different control schemes, but you can still use a GC controller - making it the exact same game. It's really designed for people who missed the first one on the GC. As one of those people, I highly recommend it.

Bowielee said:

Eriol said:

I'll admit it had some pretty unique things, and I did enjoy (and curse at times) the "classic" platforming levels.

Click to expand...

Those were the only parts of the game I actually liked.

Click to expand...

i liked them for the most part, but my GOD the camera was horrible for those sections. shitty camera angles + bottomless pit style levels + precision jumping = PAIN ON AN UNIMAGINABLE SCALE.

A Troll said:

escushion said:

The Gamecube version of Resident Evil 1 is getting a Wii release, but I don't know what will be different about it.

Click to expand...

It's out for the Wii now. It has different control schemes, but you can still use a GC controller - making it the exact same game. It's really designed for people who missed the first one on the GC. As one of those people, I highly recommend it.

Click to expand...

In that case, wouldn't it make more sense to get a copy of the GC version at a reduced price and just plug in the GC controller?

Bowielee said:

A Troll said:

escushion said:

The Gamecube version of Resident Evil 1 is getting a Wii release, but I don't know what will be different about it.

Click to expand...

It's out for the Wii now. It has different control schemes, but you can still use a GC controller - making it the exact same game. It's really designed for people who missed the first one on the GC. As one of those people, I highly recommend it.

Click to expand...

In that case, wouldn't it make more sense to get a copy of the GC version at a reduced price and just plug in the GC controller?

Click to expand...

If the Wii controls make it easy to control (like Diablo), instead of the awful tank controls, heck, I´d buy the entire series, Zero-3 again, because I love the games, but I hate the frigging tank movement.

Bowielee said:

A Troll said:

escushion said:

The Gamecube version of Resident Evil 1 is getting a Wii release, but I don't know what will be different about it.

Click to expand...

It's out for the Wii now. It has different control schemes, but you can still use a GC controller - making it the exact same game. It's really designed for people who missed the first one on the GC. As one of those people, I highly recommend it.

Click to expand...

In that case, wouldn't it make more sense to get a copy of the GC version at a reduced price and just plug in the GC controller?

Click to expand...

In that scenario I'm spending more to buy the game and GC controller. It's cheaper and easier to just buy the Wii game, which is only $30.

ooo. Thanks. That's going on the shopping list. Now all I need is 30 bucks.

fade said:

ooo. Thanks. That's going on the shopping list. Now all I need is 30 bucks.

Click to expand...

heh... me too!! I want one!