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vsp · 01-13-2003, 11:31 AM

I'm toying with the notion of a GameCube... eventually... but for very different reasons.

I am very resistant to the Mario Family of games, i.e. Brightly Colored Objects Running Around And Collecting Other Brightly Colored Objects While Jumping On Top Of And Squashing Evil Brightly Colored Objects. On the NES, I had no problems with the genre, but it's gotten out of hand since. I respect Miyamoto as a creative mind, but I don't play many of his games. Likewise, the other classic Nintendo franchises (Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, Mario Kart, StarFox, etc.) don't fill me with tingly glee like they do to the 'Cube's early adopters.

The 'Cube has a fair amount of those, plus a LOT of crap (but what console doesn't?) Animal Crossing scares me as a _concept_. However, it is starting to accumulate a few games that break out of the Nintendo=kiddy fare equation. Eternal Darkness:Sanity's Requiem, the Resident Evil games and such appeal to my wife's love of the survival-horror genre, while Metroid Prime and the Godzilla game are ones I could see myself playing. Not a huge lineup, granted, but I've bought consoles for less, and I can find oddballs like Cubivore to hold me over. Skies of Arcadia Legends is coming, which will fill one of its biggest gaps (no traditional RPGs of any note).

A game in the Fire Pro Wrestling series is reportedly coming to the 'Cube. If it does, all bets are off -- one will be coming to my house.

(BAM! Entertainment has backed off of bringing it to the States, but the 'Cube is reasonably modification-friendly.)

I already own and overuse a PlayStation 2, so the games that are ported to both systems are out. I'm not a sports-game guy, so those are out.

01-13-2003, 11:31 AM	#217
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	I'm toying with the notion of a GameCube... eventually... but for very different reasons. I am very resistant to the Mario Family of games, i.e. Brightly Colored Objects Running Around And Collecting Other Brightly Colored Objects While Jumping On Top Of And Squashing Evil Brightly Colored Objects. On the NES, I had no problems with the genre, but it's gotten out of hand since. I respect Miyamoto as a creative mind, but I don't play many of his games. Likewise, the other classic Nintendo franchises (Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, Mario Kart, StarFox, etc.) don't fill me with tingly glee like they do to the 'Cube's early adopters. The 'Cube has a fair amount of those, plus a LOT of crap (but what console doesn't?) Animal Crossing scares me as a _concept_. However, it is starting to accumulate a few games that break out of the Nintendo=kiddy fare equation. Eternal Darkness:Sanity's Requiem, the Resident Evil games and such appeal to my wife's love of the survival-horror genre, while Metroid Prime and the Godzilla game are ones I could see myself playing. Not a huge lineup, granted, but I've bought consoles for less, and I can find oddballs like Cubivore to hold me over. Skies of Arcadia Legends is coming, which will fill one of its biggest gaps (no traditional RPGs of any note). A game in the Fire Pro Wrestling series is reportedly coming to the 'Cube. If it does, all bets are off -- one will be coming to my house. (BAM! Entertainment has backed off of bringing it to the States, but the 'Cube is reasonably modification-friendly.) I already own and overuse a PlayStation 2, so the games that are ported to both systems are out. I'm not a sports-game guy, so those are out.