It's definitely a GC game. I loved it but wanted only one Zelda in there and 4 Swords takes it, although I never finished it.

Liked TP but I played it on Wii.

Skondo wrote:

Great thread elf, just wish I could contribute. I had PS2, XBox and GameCube. Didn't complete one game on any of these consoles.

Not even Ico?

Diluted Dante wrote:

Stop posting awesome games I'd not yet thought about.

Adkm just killed me.

Mashed, Flatout, a couple of others. Chaos Theory from Dubs is a great shout. 

Funny thing about this "era" is how broad it is. Late gen stuff my mind is tempted to think it was 360 era, early stuff I have to remind myself its not ps1.

I'm so shit at that!

Bob wrote:

Skondo wrote:

Great thread elf, just wish I could contribute. I had PS2, XBox and GameCube. Didn't complete one game on any of these consoles.

Not even Ico?

Not until the PS3 version.

GooberTheHat wrote:

Some ideas of mine, no order yet, but:

MSR
Crazy Taxi
Jet Set Radio
Powerstone 2
Civ III
GTA III
KOTOR
Half Life 2
Total Annihilation
Battlefield 2
Dungeon Keeper
Mech Commander
Deus Ex

I'm not sure if all of those qualify.

Need to add virtua tennis, shenmue and shogun total war to that list.

Add counter strike source to the short list to.

GTA 3 was really something else when it came out.

I thought Sunshine was lauded as one of the few shit Mario games.

Not shit but flawed. Crappy camera being the main culprit.

Diluted Dante wrote:

Bollockoff wrote:

I thought Sunshine was lauded as one of the few shit Mario games.

By people who are wrong.

The platforming is bobbins.

I've changed things round a bit, and put Warioware in for Stranger's Wrath:

1. Fire Emblem (GBA)
2. Astro Boy (GBA)
3. Ninja Gaiden (XB)
4. Okami (PS2)
5. Disgaea (PS2)
6. Super Monkey Ball (GC)
7. PES (XB)
8. Advance Wars (GBA)
9. Halo CE (XB)
10. Warioware (GBA)

Not quites: 
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Ikaruga (would probably be higher if I was better at it)
Resi Remake
Resi 4
Prince of Persia
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Tactics Ogre
Worms World Party
And about the first two thirds of Metroid Prime

1. Fire Emblem (GBA): The best turn-based strategy game ever, and still the finest version I've played. Each map offers so many layers of challenge, and it's up to you how ambitious you want to be - simply complete the objective or do it without losing anyone, get all the treasure chests, steal everything stealable, recruit new units, visit all the villages, kill all enemies, use the arena, rescue the NPCs, and maximise the amount of XP you get while you're at it. All while dealing with fog, darkness, rain, snow and long range weapons attacks. I love it when a plan comes together.

2. Astro Boy (GBA): Not especially remarkable at first, but it's full of Treasure magic in the later stages. Then you finish it, but you haven't really finished it, and things take a very clever turn...

3. Ninja Gaiden (XB): It's no Bayonetta but at the time the combat system was second to none, and the variety of levels, and stuff to beat up, and stuff to beat it up with was great. Then there's the bosses of course - proper bosses that will kick the shit out of you until you really want to see them die, thus bringing immense satisfaction when they finally do. 

4. Okami (PS2): I didn't play this until the Wii version, but it doesn't really matter. Real slow starter of a game that I could easily have given up on in the first hours. But when it finally opens out it's breathtakingly lovely. There was a point where I realised what I was doing was restoring this world to life, one bit at a time. You can appreciate the difference between when you enter a new area and when you leave it, and it's just rather beautiful.

5. Disgaea (PS2): The second best turn-based strategy game ever. Drew me in with its silly characters and story, as the actual gameplay seems quite ordinary at first. But the depth. There's so much to do outside the main story, including the infamous item world and its mind-fucking gems and coloured tiles. Hundreds of hours and still finding new stuff.

6. Super Monkey Ball (GC): The first GC game and still the best. Brilliant maze designs that were pure skill tests (meaning some were too hard for me), and great multiplayer shenanigans in the likes of monkey bowling and monkey target. And, you know, monkeys.

7. PES (XB): Master League. I think it was PES 4 I had, but I guess they're all about the same. Totally addicted to ML for a good long time, and it just played a superb game of footy. 

8. Advance Wars (GBA): The third best turn-based strategy game ever (and Tactics Ogre and FF Tactics Advance were around then too - truly a golden age for the genre). It's the pure gameplay that comes from pitting all the different units and their particular qualities against each other, without the clutter that later entries in the series brought.

9. Halo CE (XB): Played it on Normal, finished it, thought it was good, moved on to other things. Came back to it some months later and put it on Heroic and found it was a completely different proposition. A lot of little changes in enemy types and positions, and an obvious increase in AI, and suddenly there's a whole new tactical element involved. One of the few FPSs I really like.

10. Warioware (GBA): It's just fucking nuts, really. Totally unexpected and often hilarious.

optimark_prime wrote:

Five distinct consoles Probably the only gen that won't have a Mario or Zelda game universally acclaimed though.

Yep. They are still great, but the previous versions were very hard acts to follow. At least Metroid was amazing.

Crap forgot about Advance Wars and people keep adding games I forgot that were amazing. Gonna be rewriting my list a lot I think!