Happy Birthday Gamecube!

[spinpug666]

I sold my supergun with mvs1 board to fund my Import USA cube at launch. Got a purple one which I still have to this day.

[danholo]

Tonight i shall be firing up Ohenro san hosshin no dojo in celebration, been a while since i did the pilgrimage it's nice & relaxing to do.

Any more info on this? Pics etc.?

[importaku]

There used to be pics online as i took loads at one point when i did my mini write up of this game but i don't think that thread is still on here anymore or the pics.

Basically the game existed so people could do the Ohenro pilgrimage even if they couldn't do it in person as travelling across Japan on foot is not only time consuming but very expensive to do in real life. In the game you can either use a regular joypad to control the game or the 3 button controller where you walk on the spot to move in the game, there also a pedometer to clip on that counts your real life steps & you can then plug that into your cube & update your setep count.

The game consists of literally hundreds & hundreds of photographs that slowly fade into the next one when travelling so it's like you walk down a road then you see a photo a bit further down the road then a bit further like you were walking & taking a pic every so often. When you get to a temple you can explore everything, the guide lady tells you the history of the temple & you can visit all the areas, theres lots of 360 pics where you can look right around in huge detail. you can also do the candle lighting/chanting & incense burning as well as getting a stamp from the priest in your album which is a beautiful calligraphy stamp. Not easy to play though if you can't do kanji as this game is very kanji filled & the temples are hard to navigate as you'll most likely end up goin around in circles. The game wont let you goto the next temple till you have gotten the souvineer stamp.

Continuing the GC birthday celibrations i plugged in my lan cable into my cube & had an online game on Homeland i was happy to see that even after the matching servers went down theres still peer to peer games going on. Tonight it will be a bit of donkey konga

[kryss]

I've still never played Homeland online.

[nakamura]

I found the machine to be woefully disappointing on launch and the love never really grew for a long time.

I found almost every Major franchise to be lacking, it didn't have great racers, football games or J-Rpgs. I prefered Jak and Daxter to Mario Sunshine, Wipeout Fusion to F-Zero GX(though I new Fusion wasn't perhaps as good, I just loved it).

All of my fav franchises I just didn't enjoy. I prefered older F-Zero games, 1080 and Wave Racer were both better on N64. Zelda WW is my least fav Zelda game. Starfox on SNES and N64 are both better than any GC version. Metroid Prime didn't grab me.

All of these points stopped me from buying one and frankly I didn't regret it. I know everyone was going on about the amazing graphics and all that but to me Rogue Leader seemed like a one off, very little looked as good as that. Plus I was enjoyed GT3 on PS2 and Halo on Xbox and many others so I had no need for a machine. I did really enjoy playing Monkey Ball with Sonic the Hedgehog from here though.


Looking back I have no fond memories and no expectations like back then. I now own 10 games for the machine and love them! I will pick up more too.
Mario Kart DD is now amazing, not sure why, I just love it! Metroid Prime is magnificent, wonderfully absorbing and beautiful to look at. Wave Race is a lot of fun. Starfox is also great fun to play. I have Resi Remake which is a standard setter and why they didn't do no 2 in the same way is beyond me.
I still don't like Zelda WW that much though and I do enjoy F-Zero but it is the weakest one for me.

For me the GC represents huge disappointment in most areas. However all these years on when the disappointments are long behind me, it represents high quality gaming.

[Nisa]

Tonight i shall be firing up Ohenro san hosshin no dojo in celebration, been a while since i did the pilgrimage it's nice & relaxing to do.

I can't believe they made a game out of this. Although there's more chance of me doing the pilgrimage through the game than in real life despite the fact I'm living in Shikoku at the moment.

[importaku]

Yeah it's probably the weirdst game ever to hit the gc, the company that made it only released this one game then went bust. Still least they got one fan even if that person is right around the other side of the world

[MarioMark]

For me the best console of that generation.

Starting with Luigi's Mansion, although it wasn't a trade-off to a Mario Launch title is was a great game and graphically has aged well today.

It had decent updated version of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, a 3D Mario Game in Super Mario Sunshine that although wasn't a Mario 64 beater it's still a decent game in its own right that doesn't get the credit it deserves.

I remember seeing Pikmin running and thought it looked rubbish but bought it on hype which it definitely lived upto and was beaten by the sequel Pikmin 2.

I put ALOT of hous into Phantasy Star Online Eps 1 & 2 where most of the Dreamcast players made the transfer to which I still boot up from time to time.

Zelda Wind Waker nuff said and still looks lush today.

Technically it didn't get the credit it derserved as all eyes were on what the Xbox could do. Just look at the graphics in F-Zero GX with 30 cars on screen running at 60FPS at 480P!

I think the only let down with the cube was a lack of 3rd party support when it comes to developers like EA dropping online play in their multiformat games forcing me to buy the Xbox versions.

But it had the best 1st party games and was the import gamers choice.

[Kit]

Metroid Prime is magnificent, wonderfully absorbing and beautiful to look at.

I really need to go back and pick up both this and the sequel. I remember being blown away by the graphics at the time.