Gamecube game recommendations?

[Hannah]

Hahahaha, it's like Goosebumps in kindergarten. Anyway, so I don't get in TROUBLE, AHHH, Animal Crossing, Pikmin 2, Sonic Gems, Mario Sunshine, Warioware, eh...yeah

[Deathknight]

Super Smash Bros Melee
Metroid Prime
Mario Kart Double Dash
MegaMan Network Transmission
Super Mario Strikers
Those are my favorites unless you wanna talk about Cube imports

[Ecto Jedi]

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes finally arrived in the mail today. For those of you who haven't seen it, the best way I can describe it is thusly:

It's like hooking up with an old girlfriend you really loved who's just gotten a great boob job.

I'm happy as a clam.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Ecto Jedi

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes finally arrived in the mail today. For those of you who haven't seen it, the best way I can describe it is thusly:

It's like hooking up with an old girlfriend who's just gotten a great boob job.

I'm happy as a clam.

What's changed from the original?


Also: "Thusly" isn't a word

[Ecto Jedi]

Originally Posted by The S

Also: "Thusly" isn't a word

Neither is "dipsh*t," but when it applies, it applies.

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by Ecto Jedi

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes finally arrived in the mail today. For those of you who haven't seen it, the best way I can describe it is thusly:

It's like hooking up with an old girlfriend you really loved who's just gotten a great boob job.

I'm happy as a clam.

When I played it I felt like that except the girlfriend hadn't learned enough new techniques to keep the relationship interesting so I found myself bored the entire time. But I played the hell out of the first version. I think I beat it the most times out of any game on the PS1. I also played the hell out of VR Missions even though it was a pile of crap.

Originally Posted by The S

What's changed from the original?

Re-do's of cut scenes depicting Snake as even more bad ass. The graphics are bumped of course. The cut off point in between disks is different I think it's before the torture scene in Twin Snakes in the first game is was when you entered the metal melting factory.

You can use the FPS shoot mode, there's a tranquilizer gun, and umm I think that's it really. Everything else is pretty much the same and by that I mean exactly the same. All the rooms, the guard places. I had serious "déjà vu" playing it.

I do remember one thing that's different when Grey Fox is getting his ass handed to him by Metal Gear you get to sit through a FPS sequence where your supposed to shoot Metal Gear but Snake keeps yelling "I can't do it!" every time you mash the A button and you can't skip this. I saw this as more of an annoyance then a cool add-on.

If you never played it then I recommend it, if you played it and loved it I recommend it, if you played it a lot like I did I wouldn't. It;s not different enough. Resident Evil added enough new content to make it different but that's a rare remake.

[Mecha Cow]

I do remember one thing that's different when Grey Fox is getting his ass handed to him by Metal Gear you get to sit through a FPS sequence where your supposed to shoot Metal Gear but Snake keeps yelling "I can't do it!" every time you mash the A button and you can't skip this. I saw this as more of an annoyance then a cool add-on.

This happens in the original version as well if I'm not mistaken.

Some of the new cutscenes are pretty awkward (even by MGS standards) and the game clearly wasn't designed for the updated mechanics, but Twin Snakes is my preferred version of the game if only because PSX 3D makes my eyes bleed. Wouldn't say it's objectively superior, but it's certainly not as horrible as a lot of people make it out to be.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

This happens in the original version as well if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, I remember that part being in the original.

Thanks for the rundown, Spit'. I'll look into it if I have a chance.

[cMac44111]

RE4
MGS:TTS
Pikmin 1 & 2
Soulcaliber 2
WWE Day of Reckoning 1 & 2
Star Fox Assault
Super Smash Bros Melee
Metroid Prime
Mario Kart Double Dash
Super Mario Strikers
F-Zero GX
Viewtiful Joe 1 & 2
Some of the Sonic Games
Outlaw Golf

Just some of my favorites. N64 has a way better catalog though, check those out.

[RAM BAM]

F-Zero and Crazy Taxi (Don't play these ones on a big screen without having some Gravol nearby.)

[ThirdMarioBro]

Don't buy the Cube version of Crazy Taxi. It's a horrible port, riddled with worse clipping than the Dreamcast original and ridden with slowdown. The Dreamcast version is the only one worth owning.


I can't recommend F-Zero GX enough though. I put that game on a pedestal of epic greatness reserved for few.

[RAM BAM]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Don't buy the Cube version of Crazy Taxi. It's a horrible port, riddled with worse clipping than the Dreamcast original and ridden with slowdown. The Dreamcast version is the only one worth owning.

Ah yes, the clipping is pretty crap, LOL...still, good times with the Crazy Taxi game. I agree the Dreamcast version is superior.

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

I can't recommend F-Zero GX enough though. I put that game on a pedestal of epic greatness reserved for few.

Yeah, it's definitely one of those games that deserves the love people have for it. F-Zero GX ROXXXXX!

[Ecto Jedi]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I dug Star Fox 64 back when it first came out and still consider it a great play, so I'll look into Assault. Also, thanks ThirdMarioBro for the F Zero GX nod -- I put hours and hours into Episode 1 Racer back in the day, so I'm sure I'll get a kick out of it. The news that it runs in Progressive Scan and in 16x9 widescreen sealed the deal.

Keep 'em coming!