The Ten GameCube Games You shouldn't be without

[EvilBoris]

Pikmin 2
F-Zero GX
Wind Waker
Smash Brothers Melee
Star Fox Adventures
Viewtiful Joe
Monkey Ball 2
Tales of Symphonia
Skies of Arcadia
Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes


ALSO

FAMILY FRY.......... GEIST?! WTF that was a shonky piece of crap~!

[Grapple Convoy]

[*]Paper Mario (How has this not been mentioned yet?? easily within the top 5 cube games for me)[/LIST]

Yes, dammit! Superb game, full of unique Nintendo magic and plenty of self-aware humour. It's also arguably the best Mario RPG game.

3). Rogue Leader II - not an essential unless you're a Star Wars fan.

I wouldn't say it's essential at all. It's a glorified tech-demo with nerd appeal due to the Star Wars branding. Extremely mediocre as an actual game these days, and dated graphically. Don't be dazzled by the license, it's not worth going back to.

[punio75]

I've kept the Gamecube games I think one day I'll go back and play again (will I ever though?)

1. Zelda: Wind waker
2. Paper Mario: TTYD
3. Pikmin 2
4. Beyond Good and Evil
5. Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
6. Animal Crossing
7. Zelda: Four Swords
8. Starfox adventures
9. Mario Sunshine

and my fave

10. Chibi Robo.

[Family Fry]

ALSO

FAMILY FRY.......... GEIST?! WTF that was a shonky piece of crap~!

HEY I actually enjoyed Geist for trying something different with an FPS.
Also I was trying to pick 10 games that didn't have Wii/PS2 conversions, so I left a lotta the good stuff out.

[Mayhem]

Hmmm... haven't posted in this thread yet. Given my somewhat rabid dedication to the Cube, then I've got a lot to base my thoughts upon. And I figured, partly because on the time I dedicated to them, you can't go wrong with these:

F-Zero GX
Paper Mario
Zelda: Four Swords
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Chibi Robo
Baten Kaitos
Beyond Good and Evil
Burnout
Metal Gear Solid
Metroid Prime
Pikmin 2
Rogue Squadron 2
Skies of Arcadia Legends
Viewtiful Joe
Lost Kingdom

[Kaladron]

Chibi-Robo will cry if you don't play with him.

[speedlolita]

No love for Gotcha Force then?

[fallenangle]

Re: Grapple Convoy ^^^^^^

SW: RSII was on my initial essential to buy list due to various recommendations about it being a good space flight sim and one of the most authentic Star Wars licence games.

I agree with what much of what you say, I also disliked the sensitivity and the control system in general. But it is competently made and does have a genuine Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back look and feel to it. Fighting those walkers on the ice planet is as good a conversion of an action scene from a film into gameplay as I've come across.

If you're a Star Wars fan (I'm not BTW) or not I still think it's good enough to consider including. There's certainly nothing else like it on the GC except the sequel SW: RSIII and nothing similar of comparable quality on other last gen consoles that I have come across.

[kryss]

No love for Gotcha Force then?

Gotcha Force
If you have a GC and have not played this you need to look into it.

I think it's one that people have never heard of, or bought on a whim and love to death. I'm the latter. Now I have 3 versions of it! THE best 'Cube game. It was RElay a few months back as well, but very few bothered it seemed

[davesol]

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat has to be top of my list - it's just so different to a "standard" platform and really great fun to play - until your hands get too sore from all the clapping that is.

Other than that, I thought Luigi's Mansion was fantastic, along with Mario Kart DD and Resi 4. I also enjoyed Mario Tennis for multiplayer.

[charlesr]

I tried Gotcha Force for the Replay. It's pretty cool, but not essential for me - just too repetitive.

[Geoff D]

I'm sure the order of these could change, but for the mo -

1. Killer 7
2. Viewtiful Joe
3. PN03
4. Paper Mario
5. Zelda's Windy Wand
6. Super Mario Sunshine
7. REmake
8. F-Zero GX
9. Pikmin
10. Mario Kart Double Dash

I haven't included Prime or RE4 because they're both better on the Wii - discounting that, they'd certainly be in there & very near to the top (well, Prime probably would be top).