Okay, so in a vaguely Tom Sawyerish bit of trading, I got my hands on a 'Cube, controller, memory card, and SSX Tricky (pronounced in this apartment as “Sex Tricky”).
So what other games do I need to get?
A local GameSpot has a used copy of Eternal Darkness for $15, and I heard some stuff about this game that makes me want to try it out.
AudreyK (aka, “The Roomie”) has a strange obsession with wanting to play Pikmin.
I know I’m going to get Super Smash Brothers Melee sooner or later, so we don’t need anyone to sell me on that.
Opinions on these games, or any others, will be much appreciated. (Esp. opinions on Metroid, Zelda, and Splinter Cell.)
Metroid and Zelda are must haves, especially if you’ve enjoyed their predecessors. Wind Waker is probably one of the top three games I’ve ever played. The Resident Evil remake is top notch too. Super Monkey Ball II is great for multiplayer.
I haven’t played Splinter Cell yet, but have heard good things about it.
Second the suggestions of Zelda and Metroid. Awesome, nearly flawless games. Splinter Cell is definetly a winner, although the repetitious save point system is especially annoying in this game, to the point where I didn’t finish the game.
Eternal Darkness is great, too. Much better than Resident Evil, IMO. Very Lovecraftian story that takes place in a dozen different eras (WWI being my personal favorite).
Rogue Leader is fun for a little while, but I wouldn’t pay full price for it. If you can find it used, or rent it, it’s good for an afternoon or two.
Don’t forget to rent games before you buy them. That was my mistake after I got the Xbox; I wanted to quickly build a Game Library so I was buying all kinds of things and quickly getting tired of them.
Pikmin is neat, but I felt that I got everything I wanted out of it after a three-day rental.
Eternal Darkness is also pretty good; it’s one of the genuinely “mature” games (as opposed to just throwing in lots of sex and gore for a higher ESRB rating) out there. I lost interest in it quickly, though, and never got past the second level.
I’ve never heard a bad thing about Metroid Prime. In fact, it’s the main reason I regret getting rid of my Gamecube. I tried it for a little while and it’s a very solid game, emphasizing the puzzle-solving over FPS type stuff. I’ve heard it’s very much a 3D Metroid game, that is, it depends on your liking the earlier games to like the new one.
Metroid Prime is excellent. Taking away the Zelda games, which are the top games ever, IMO, Metroid is easily in the top5. Fantastic graphics and sound, very playable, with an attention to details that are awesome. ne thing to illustrate this - When there is an explosion or bright light nearby, Samus’ face get’s lit through the visor and then reflected on the inside of the visor, so you see ‘yourself’.
YMMV, though, since the emphasism of the game is exploring and puzzles. There is action and some gore (very mild), to get the adrenaline pumping, but most of the time, you’re walking around in erie and creepy settings, trying to figure out how to get the next treassure.
Going from the older Metroid in 2d, to this 3d, is done very well. The game is certainly true to the Metroid Franschise.
Zelda WindWaker is not released in Europe yet (I think), but comes out on Friday, here is Sweden. I will buy it. Not one of the earlier games in the franchise has let me down.
I bought a gamecube on thursday and immediately got Zelda and Metroid, because those were the two reasons for getting the cube in the first place.
I also bought Super Smash Brothers Melee. Now Metroid blew me away (the graphics are awesome. If I had a better computer, I probably wouldn’t be as excited about Metroid, but the way things are, this just totally overwhelmed me. The tutorial space station seemed to be easy in the beginning, but even that had a nice surprise in it and so I think the difficulty level is all right too.) and Zelda was as expected: Great game, if you’re into non-violent all ages suited fun. I love it
However, Super Smash Brothers Melee fell a bit short: If you expect a traditional fight game where two opponents beat the crap out of each other (like Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Street Fighter, One Must Fall, etc.), you’ll be disappointed. I know I was. The game is nice in the sense that you’re pitting all the famous Nintendo characters from other games (Mario, Zelda, Metroid and probably a bunch of others I don’t know) against each other, but it also has the - at least to me - annoying jump and run physics: You can jump and do another jump in mid air to go even higher. Furthermore you’re fighting on several platforms, just like in a jump and run, which is a bit tricky at first.
There are different types of combats, so you don’t always just fight one on one.
All the above things are meant as a warning - I appreciate that they wanted to do something different with it, but I would prefer a more “traditional” fight game and already regret buying it.
Yep. As a platform, it doesn’t have a huge game library, but the ones listed above are good. We’ve got Metroid, and I like it alot. Resident Evil was expensive, but my brother and I played that for a long time; freaky fun, do not play alone at night.
K, just went to check the game library, and I see it’s snowing outside. :eek:
Right, anyways. Luigi’s Mansion is a good one. Not high on re-playability, but I recommend you rent it for a week.
My brother was obscessed with SuperMario Sunshine for the longest time. It’s like Super Mario 64; if you liked that you’ll like it.
Finally, Mario Smash: Optihut dude! I think this game is awesome. You have to have 4 controllers ($$$!), but if you have that many friends come by, it’s a great game to play. Lets the unskilled in with a chance against the experienced player. It’s basically a party game.
Metroid was fun, but it just seemed to go on forever & eventually I just had to sell it in order to get some work done. The way you save in that game sucks. You have to fight a boss then get to a save point & fighting the boss might make your energy pretty low so you have to stay alive to get to the save point-which is often quite a walk. Zelda lets you save as soon as you do a boss.
In fairness, this is an extremely common device in console games, and is precisely the sort of crap that made me a PC gaming elitist for years and years. The version used in Metroid is about the best implementation of the “save point” system you can get: once you find a save point, you can use it as often as you want, and saving completely regenerates your health. Also, there was usually a savepoint immediately after each boss (I can only remember one exception, although it was a doozy.)
Compare to the check point system in, say, Splinter Cell, where the game automatically saves when you reach certain parts of the game, wether you want to save or not (like, if you have almost no hitpoints and are out of ammo), and doesn’t let you return to save again after clearing a particularly difficult room, so you have to play the same segments over and over and over… Grrr. I get frustrated just thinking about it.
While I generally despise games that don’t let you save whenever you want, Metroid is easily the least painful implementation of this sort of thing I’ve ever played.
Okay, I’ll be off later to get Eternal Darkness. (Now there’s a sentence you don’t see every day!)
I’ll probably pick up the others as they pop up on the bargain/used game shelves.
And Optihut, don’t worry about me and SSBM - I owned (and kicked ass at) the original and loved it. Probably the only game for the N64 that I could see myself going back and playing. And now I need to get the sequel to see just how much I have to handicap myself for AudreyK to beat me.
Mmmmm, i’ll be in the minority here but I just did not see what the hype was over Eternal Darkness. I bought it at full price after many a recomondations but got bored with it after getting half way through. It just moved too slow and the characters walked too slow. I like to move around a lot quicker like mario, link, or Samus. I sold the game.
Mario, Zelda, Metroid are the musthaves. Waverace is a great racing game if your sick of avoiding walls in car racers.
He’s on the phone now, so what with that comment about handicapping himself to beat me, I’ll steal some of his thunder and mention that we picked up Eternal Darkness today for about $15.
Eeeek! I got Eternal Darkness yesterday, hadn’t gotten too much into it, then tonight, after Mr. Naz had gone to bed and left me to myself, I just had to start wandering the Roivas mansion after Anthony’s chapter…
The bathtub scene. Oh. My. God.
What was I thinking? I know how easily I get spooked. Now I’m too scared to go to bed.
That part freaked me out too. But the creepiest parts of the game are the more subtle effects. Just wait till you get into later chapters where your character goes really insane. The game really screws with your mind and makes you uneasy.
Yup wait until you start going nuts on screen and you start hearing someone pounding on the door. Somehow it sounded like it was at my real door and it scared the crap out of me!
Definitely a game to play in the dark with the sound turned up.
I also loved Resident Evil even though I never got into it on Playstation. But RE on 'Cube literally made me yell out loud in fear a couple of times. That’s what I get for playing in in the dark with surround sound, though.
