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Journal Some Woman's Journal: What happened to my little plumber? 32

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More explicitly, what gives a game replay value? What is it that gives me the urge every few months or so to break out the Nintendo and play Super Mario Bros. 3? I'll tell you this much: it isn't the graphics. No matter how fancy they make the ghosts in Luigi's Mansion, I will never play that game again. Boring.

We bought a Game Cube for ourselves for Christmas, and have yet to buy any games. We're renting them until we can find something worth plopping down $40 for. So far, Zelda is the only game that has the remote possibility of being purchased.

And what's with the utter lack of two player games? So they give you more controllers, and fewer multiplayer games? Mmkay... (Sadly, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles is the best we've found so far. I bow my head in shame.)

Those of you with Game Cubes, what are you playing? Mario Party 67?

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  • Get yourself some Mario Cart and play with multiple players.
    • I'll have to try that- it's always checked out at the rental place.
    • I'll have to agree. If its anything like the Super Nintendo version, it rocks. Especially battle mode. I think I beat my best friend only two or three times in the past decade at battle mode.

      Super Mario Sunshine is also a fun game. or Animal Crossing, if you have a lobotomy. :P
    • It is Super Mario Kart, and yes- go get you some. This is the third incarnation of the original "Kart" series for Nintendo and it had been duplicated much by many with no avail( http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchre v iew.asp?reviewid=315466 ). Along with a GBA little brother, SMK:DD is a wonderfully exciting new way to make use of your GC Network adapters. Connectivity is key to Nintendo and they want to make all their products work seamlessly together, and when they do it is slick as geese
  • I would have been playing the various games on the 4-in-1 Zelda release, but one of my nephews picked up (and dropped) the Gamecube. The thing boots up, but can't read any discs now.
    • They do that. Mine will read the disc for some time but if it needs to load data fast it usually craps out on me.

      Funny thing is, I only dropped the stupid unit an inch (It was sitting on a text book and I pulled the controller a bit too hard). Given the problems with the GC and the XBox, I'm really thinking about picking up a PS2.
      • Eek. I dropped mine a little over a foot last week, but it seems to be fine so far.
        • You'll know when it happens. The thing starts clicking. Sounds like tapping the side of a tin can with a spoon and then a black screen with a message about an internal failure.

          I got mine the night it was released so maybe they addressed the problems with the durability. Good luck.
  • I'll be right over.

    anything for my lil freak ;)

    Ah, it's good to be the King.

    I hear super-donkey-mario-zelda-fantasy-cart is fun.

    Seriously, who's naming these games?

    Sheesh.
  • Graphics allowed marketers to take over. It allowed them to "sell the sizzle" instead of the taste. With the exception of Goldeneye and Mario Kart (and their offspring games, like Halo) I haven't found much in games to play. GTA is ok, but gets real old real fast. There's only so much fun you can get out of running cars off the road and picking up hookers. The Zelda series is decent. The newer ones tried to avoid a lot of repitition and mindless collecting of items. (See the spider thingies in "Mask o
    • I think GTA is the whizzbang bizzomb. It's more than drive,crash,hooker,police chase,die,repeat.

      There are TONS of mini games within it. I just picked it up again last weekend, am up to the one of the last missions where I have to gank Maria, and the stat page still shows me just around the 50% completed mark!! Never mind Vice City.

      Euchre, eh? I used to play that in college- I wasn't all that, but I stumbled into a few mini tournaments with 8-16 friends. That was Cool.
    • I play mostly [...] NetHack

      The roguelike genre is the ultimate proof (were any needed) that it's gameplay that counts, and not presentation. My personal preference is for angband, rather than nethack, but the principle's the same. I still play with the original ASCII display, BTW, rather than any of the newfangled graphic tiles. It's been around 15 years since I first started playing rogue, larn, hack (as it was then called), omega and moria (which later became angband), and angband is still showing no si

  • There are two major people in the video game industry:
    Myamoto (or however its spelled... the Pres of Nintendo, creator of the mario games): He is the god of "fun". His game plots are retarded, graphics are standard, concepts are rediculous, but its so damn fun to play every game he came out with.
    Sid Meiers: The god of 'addiction'. When you play one of his games, you can't pull yourself away until you are completely finished (requiring aorund 40-80 hours of gameplay). Doing so causes withdrawl, simple e
    • Just got a Game Cube for christmas (the PS2 was last christmas) and I borrowed Metroid:Prime from a neighbor. After getting used to all the different controls (key combinations) needed to be effective I find my game play goes like this.

      Just barely enter the room.
      Scan (visor) room very slowly (make note of scan points that are out of range, shoot anything that is identified as a bad thing)
      Creep in slowly
      Scan (visor) room very slowly (make note of scan points that are out of range, shoot anything that is ide
    • no mention of the carmack? he's not the same kind of figure, but deserves a mention. especially as the FPS genre is so popular.

      hey some woman, i hear double dash is big fun, especially if you plug a GBA into the GC for co-op play. can't say for myself, as i don't have a GC. i like soul calibur 2 on the PS. if you like fighting games i'd say it's worth getting. plus link is the bonus character for the gamecube.
    • Got Metroid for Xmas, but haven't had a chance to play. Why?

      Well, I picked up a Gamebird (wireless controller) and strained the hell out of my wrist ligaments (weird stretching of thumb that pulled on the wrist) because the controller is so dinky. Oh, did that playing Rogue Squardron III or whatever it is.

      So, I've been trying to rest/heal the wrist.

      I've got a copy of Pikmin that has been a blast so far. Can't believe nobody else has played it.

      Zelda 4-in-1 could keep me playing for months most likely.
    • Pikmin is pretty damn cool and lots of fun, but there's not a great deal of replay value. Maybe Pikmin II will address that, but once you've finished Pikmin a couple of times, there's not much else to do with it...

      I quite enjoyed Starfox Adventures (even though it isn't really a Starfox game) except for the impossible shoot-em-up bit near the end. I still have to get past that bit and finish the game - maybe I can rope one of the neighbors kids into killing all those freaking birds for me?

      Burnout was a ne
  • The mario Party games are incredibly fun. I get friends and my room mate together about once a week and play one of those games. We have 4 & 5. There are so many mini games that it takes about 4-5 full board games to play them all, and that was for part 4. 5 looks like it will take longer because there are duals (mano a mano mujera a mujera).

    Mario cart is another one that is just a blast to play alone, but even more so with someone. My brother and I played battle mode for at least 2 hours on chris
    • Now if I could just get a DDR game for the cube...

      Oh, indeed.
      • So my friend that lives a few doors down bought a dance pad for our annual New Years Eve Bash. Usually "the bash" typically involves card games, board games, some beer / wine / hard stuff, and then some mad Dance Dance Revolution (using the PS2 controller) action when most of the non-nerds leave.

        This year, however, we had the dance pad so even some of the not so nerdy amoungst us tried it out. We rented DDR2 Max and had a blast. I went nuts on that thing in vs mode while one of the guys used the control
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  • Mario Party (Miscellaneous)
    Mario Kart: Double Dash (1 - 4 player coop/versus)
    Soul Calibur 2 (2 player versus)
    Metroid Prime
    Ikaruga (2 player coop)
    Viewtiful Joe
    Zelda Collector's Pack
    Zelda: Windwaker
    F-Zero GX (1-4 Player versus)
    Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters (1-4 player coop/versus)
    Super Smash Bros Melee
    Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
    And:
    Animal Crossing (Do not play this game... I repeat do NOT play this game. It can suck you in... bad.)

    I'm just waiting on Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles to come out now. (Got
  • Sorry, couldn't help myself... when I saw the title of your je the Far Side comic strip of the Shaolin School of Plumbing came to mind;

    Little flusher, when you can snatch the crescent wrench from my hand it will be time for you to go...
    • Little flusher, when you can snatch the crescent wrench from my hand it will be time for you to go...

      Zen and the art of pipe maintenance?
      • I wish I could find it(well a link to it on the web) but the Far Side folks went to extremes to hunt down and force websites to remove any far side comics they had posted. This one was a the interior of a monastary with a fat old monk looking down to a lil monk. In his hand a wrench. Under the panel of the illustration it said 'Shaolin School of Plumbing' and the little flusher quote was bubbled out above the big monks head. It was a play on the original Kung Fu with David Carridine the scene 'When you can
  • (I haven't played many 2-player games on the 'Cube, I mostly play it by myself, single-player.)

    In no particular order...

    Super Mario Sunshine
    Super Smash Bros Melee
    Pikmin (although not great replay value after the first 3-4 times to be honest)
    Burnout - good mindless racing and damage
    Metroid Prime
    Super Monkey Ball
    Zelda: The Wind Waker
    Starfox Adventures
    Rogue Squadron III

  • Graphics are easier to manage during game development than gameplay. Gameplay either works or don't, and is complete, or not. With graphics you can allways add some or loose some, no one is going to know.

    Same goes for sound vs gameplay, though nobody usually cares too much about it. Funny as sound is just as important as graphics are to get a completely immersive experience.

    As long as game companies are being run by crappy managers, you're gonna be stuck with sucky games. The ones that aren't usually
  • Best GameCube games:

    Multi-player:
    Mario Kart:Double Dash
    Super Monkey Ball
    Super Smash Bros. Melee
    Bomberman: Generations (this game is a favorite at my work. Yes, the multi-player game is identical to the original NES version, but it still rocks.)

    The GameCube has a lot of weird and interesting stuff that is unique to it for single player. Check out this stuff:
    Animal Crossing: kinda like a console Sims, but with furry critters instead of people. Interior decorating is a big part of this ga

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