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vsp · 06-24-2003, 09:59 AM

...so I bought a GameCube last night. I am weak.

I'm consistent with my usual principles, however, in that I didn't buy it for the typical games that others bought it for. When the PSX was relatively new and selling like hotcakes, I held back for quite a while because the first wave of games didn't impress me; it wasn't until some appealing oddballs (Motor Toon Grand Prix, Bust-A-Move 2, Jumping Flash! 2, Felony 11-79, assorted arcade collections) started coming out stateside that I took the plunge.

Likewise, I now own a Cube, but skipped the free-game deal by getting a preowned one. The big Nintendo franchises don't impress me all that much. For the ~$160 (with tax) that a new system would've cost me, I got a Cube, _two_ controllers, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Bloody Roar: Primal Fury (which I played over the weekend and liked, plus it was cheap), a memory card and a controller extension cable... and if I want Zelda or Metroid Prime down the line, there'll be lots of used copies out there for me to choose from.

Instead, I looked at the Cube's second-string titles and saw enough interesting-looking non-PS2 oddballs to make it worth the $89.99 gamble:

* Eternal Darkness
* Hunter: The Reckoning (wife played it over the weekend and loved it, sequel's coming out in two months)
* Bloody Roar: Primal Fury
* Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2
* Pikmin
* Skies of Arcadia Legends
* Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters
* Cubivore
* Ikaruga
* Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero (for my wife)

and a boot-disc import solution exists, so I can track down Japanese oddities as I see fit.

Of course, within 24 hours of my purchase, Acclaim <a href="http://cube.ign.com/articles/425/425457p1.html">announced that they were dropping GameCube support</a>. That in and of itself doesn't bother me -- I can count on one hand the number of non-Bust-a-Move games they've put out over the years that were worth a shit on ANY system -- but third-party developers tend to fall like dominoes once the big names start pulling out. First Sega (dropping sports support), now Acclaim...

06-24-2003, 09:59 AM	#345
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	Awright, awright... ...so I bought a GameCube last night. I am weak. I'm consistent with my usual principles, however, in that I didn't buy it for the typical games that others bought it for. When the PSX was relatively new and selling like hotcakes, I held back for quite a while because the first wave of games didn't impress me; it wasn't until some appealing oddballs (Motor Toon Grand Prix, Bust-A-Move 2, Jumping Flash! 2, Felony 11-79, assorted arcade collections) started coming out stateside that I took the plunge. Likewise, I now own a Cube, but skipped the free-game deal by getting a preowned one. The big Nintendo franchises don't impress me all that much. For the ~$160 (with tax) that a new system would've cost me, I got a Cube, _two_ controllers, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Bloody Roar: Primal Fury (which I played over the weekend and liked, plus it was cheap), a memory card and a controller extension cable... and if I want Zelda or Metroid Prime down the line, there'll be lots of used copies out there for me to choose from. Instead, I looked at the Cube's second-string titles and saw enough interesting-looking non-PS2 oddballs to make it worth the $89.99 gamble: * Eternal Darkness * Hunter: The Reckoning (wife played it over the weekend and loved it, sequel's coming out in two months) * Bloody Roar: Primal Fury * Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2 * Pikmin * Skies of Arcadia Legends * Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters * Cubivore * Ikaruga * Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero (for my wife) and a boot-disc import solution exists, so I can track down Japanese oddities as I see fit. Of course, within 24 hours of my purchase, Acclaim <a href="http://cube.ign.com/articles/425/425457p1.html">announced that they were dropping GameCube support</a>. That in and of itself doesn't bother me -- I can count on one hand the number of non-Bust-a-Move games they've put out over the years that were worth a shit on ANY system -- but third-party developers tend to fall like dominoes once the big names start pulling out. First Sega (dropping sports support), now Acclaim...