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Toaster went, now have DS...and I love it. Came with Mario DS & Zoo Keeper (Mrs M loves it) and will be ordering Meteos today. But... With the limited library on the DS I want you to let me know what GBA games I can't live without and why! Cheers .gif) Murbal |
GBA recommendations now! (I mean Please!)
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Murbs 25,152 posts
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agoWhat type of games do you like?
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Registered 17 years agoVirtua Tennis
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Singularity 3,282 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIMO you can't go wrong with:
Fire Emblem,
Golden Sun,
Zelda: Minish Cap,
Mario Kart,
Metroid Zero Mission and
Advance Wars.
Edited by Singularity at 11:21:48 28-07-2005 -
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is the best game on the GBA by about fifty billion light-years. -
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Registered 17 years agoLutz wrote:
What type of games do you like?
Ooh, I'm willing to give anything a try. Like platformers, puzzlers, things to make me think. -
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Registered 19 years agoAny of the Warioware games (just picked up the first one and it's perfect)
Yoshi's Island is the perfect 2D platformer -
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Registered 17 years agowhat about the DS?? -
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Registered 20 years agoLost Vikings - its a platform puzzler.
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Murbs 25,152 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBlerk wrote:
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is the best game on the GBA by about fifty billion light-years.
Is it that good or are the rest that bad!?!?!
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Kay 21,321 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTher are absoluletely loads of brilliant games on the GBA.
My pick of the best:
Astro Boy - Omega Factor
Advance Wars 1+"
Mario & Luigi
Pokemon
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Zelda: Minish Cap
Metroid Fusion + Zero Mission
I'm sure that Lutz will also recommend Fire Emblem and Golden Sun.gif)
Edit: Oh yeah, if you're also after SNES ports then Zelda: A Link to the Past and Yoshi's Island are absolutely essential.
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Registered 18 years agoKay wrote:
Indeed.
I'm sure that Lutz will also recommend Fire Emblem and Golden Sun
And Shining Force. -
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Registered 17 years agoIs Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced any good? I guess people round 'ere call it 'FFTA' or 'fufutaa' -
Blerk wrote:
Yep!
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is the best game on the GBA by about fifty billion light-years.
Add to that
Zoo, Meteos, Nintendogs (USA release in 4 weeks), Wario twisted (harder than Touched and IMO better).
And from the back catalogue, get Dungeon master (Like the old Amiga game if you can remember far back enough). -
Check out my last post in the swapsies thread... 2 absolute gems in there. -
Is it that good or are the rest that bad!?!?!
A bit of both - most of the GBA library is utter arse.
I'll recommend Fire Emblem over Advance Wars (although they're both very good), both Metroids, all the Castlevanias, and Wario Ware because it's mental.
But I won't recommend Golden Sun because it's teh b0r1ng!.gif)
Edit:
FFT is excellent if you like that kind of thing (which I do), but might seem dreadfully dull if you don't. It's not half as good as the PSOne version, either.
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Registered 17 years agoMinish Cap, Minish Cap, Minish Cap. In fact, is it Mine-ish or Minn-ish? -
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Registered 18 years agoMario Kart Super Circuit. Nuff sed. -
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Registered 20 years agoI quite liked Golden Sun, but it was the first 16-bit style RPG I'd really played. Seriously. Excellent summon animations. I have the 2nd one here, but I can't get through it. It's just.....more of the same. Which is OK, but I'd already PLAYED 30 hours of the same. I doubt I'll ever finish it.
Yoshi's Island which is just sublime in it's graphics and animation.
Zelda : TMC - as everyone said, superb.
Zelda : LTTP - classic. I missed the original so glad to see this come out.
Do a review browse on Gamespot and get reading; you'll get some ideas from there also. -
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Registered 16 years agoMurbal wrote:
Is Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced any good? I guess people round 'ere call it 'FFTA' or 'fufutaa'
Yeah. I went to Wales this weekand and it was this game that kept me sane. It really is good although in my opinion it becomes quite tedious after a while. I was a little disapointed with the GBA and I think this is one of the only really good games for it along with the Warioware games. -
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Registered 18 years agocardboardMonster wrote:
Minish Cap, Minish Cap, Minish Cap. In fact, is it Mine-ish or Minn-ish?
It's pronounced Minn-ish Cap (from what I know).
And it is very good, although I don't agree with Blerk's statement that it's much better than anything else on the GBA. There is so much variety in the GBA library that everyone's personal favourite is bound to be different.
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The GBA library is mostly dross. The good games are so few and far between that they stand out like beacons. Minish Cap is the only game to keep me glued to the GBA from beginning to end without once getting bored or irritated. Ergo - it is the best. -
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Registered 19 years agoBlerk wrote:
Amen to that.
The GBA library is mostly dross. The good games are so few and far between that they stand out like beacons.
Minish Cap is the only game to keep me glued to the GBA from beginning to end without once getting bored or irritated. Ergo - it is the best.
Interesting, I was bored and/or irritated most of the time. But then again I've never been a huge Zelda fan. Link's Awakening and Wind Waker are the only ones I've ever finished.
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow on the other hand is handheld perfection and nearly as good as Symphony of the Night. And I have high hopes in Sigma Star Saga. I'll let you know how good it really is once my US copy arrives.
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While I enjoyed the Castlevania games a lot, the boss battles pissed me off. I've only finished one of them. And I can't remember which one it was. -
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Registered 18 years agoBlerk wrote:
The GBA library is mostly dross. The good games are so few and far between that they stand out like beacons. Minish Cap is the only game to keep me glued to the GBA from beginning to end without once getting bored or irritated. Ergo - it is the best.
How many games do you play?
Anyway, even if you've played all the 'big' titles, there's plenty of hidden gems that you should try. -
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Registered 17 years agoCrispyXUK wrote:
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
The Zelda Games
The Castlevania Games
Wario Ware Twisted
F-Zero
Have to say that Astro Boy looks incredibly camp but it's one of the games of the year on Gamecentral (C4 teletext) and it's only a tenner in the GAME sale... -
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Registered 18 years agoMurbal wrote:
CrispyXUK wrote:
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
The Zelda Games
The Castlevania Games
Wario Ware Twisted
F-Zero
Have to say that Astro Boy looks incredibly camp but it's one of the games of the year on Gamecentral (C4 teletext) and it's only a tenner in the GAME sale...
Camp it may be, but Astro Boy is most definitely worth the tenner that it's going for at the moment.
And if the sales assisitant laughs at you for buying it, just punch them in the face. -
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Registered 17 years agoKay wrote:
Murbal wrote:
CrispyXUK wrote:
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
The Zelda Games
The Castlevania Games
Wario Ware Twisted
F-Zero
Have to say that Astro Boy looks incredibly camp but it's one of the games of the year on Gamecentral (C4 teletext) and it's only a tenner in the GAME sale...
Camp it may be, but Astro Boy is most definitely worth the tenner that it's going for at the moment.
And if the sales assisitant laughs at you for buying it, just punch them in the face.
One of the benefits of not buying online... -
Blerk's always saying that most of the stuff on the GBA is pants. He's both right, and misleading at the same time (from my perspective anyway).
There's a lot of crap on the GBA. Companies seem to shovel out a lot of crap onto it. I don't know why... someone must be buying 'em. Lord knows who though.
There is however a decent amount of good stuff available. I've got probably in the region of 20-30 gba games (I'd have to count, and I can't be arsed), and I can't think of anything in there that's 'crap'. The problem is shifting out the good stuff from all the crap. Most of the gems you won't find sitting on the shelf in Game any more though, 'cause they're crammed to the gills with the latest Pixar tie-in.
Don't lost faith, there's a lot of good stuff out there (the stuff listed so far for example!).
Oh, and I'd say that a benefit of buying in a shop is that you get to punch sales assistants in the face if they laugh at you for buying Astro Boy. Any excuse to punch someone in the face. Don't forget to shove a copy of Fifa Street up their arse too
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