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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: spyrofanx on August 16, 2020, 04:35:18 am
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Mine is Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced, because it’s an amazing 2D Platformer with great music and good level design. (For the most part.)
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While you're free to post whatever you want, maybe let some of the other "Let's Name" threads wrap up before spamming us with more? :P
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While you're free to post whatever you want, maybe let some of the other "Let's Name" threads wrap up before spamming us with more? :P
Yeah ok, I’ll delete this one for now. But it’s coming back at a later date.
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While you're free to post whatever you want, maybe let some of the other "Let's Name" threads wrap up before spamming us with more? :P
Actually nvm, I changed it to something else.
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2. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
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Despite a big change in the combat system it was very atmospheric and looked great on the GBA - Prefer this version over the PS2 remake for certain!
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Actually nvm, I changed it to something else.
Much better! ;)
To show I'm not a cranky-arse, I'll even participate. ;D
This is the first one that came to mind for me...
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Though this game I lost I dunno how many hours if not days worth of time to...
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I didn't much time to game during my GBA days, but a couple of my favorites that are less likely to be popular on here....
Tomb Raider The Prophecy
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A surprisingly fun rendition of the series in handheld form. There was more of a focus on puzzles which was good but they still had the running and gunning in there as well.
Super Dodge Ball
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This series has been a favorite since the NES days. Having it on the go with better graphics was fantastic. I really wish they would make a new game for Switch or PS4/5. It would be incredibly fun.
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Best remake, ever.
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9. Golden Sun
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Great JRPG for the system!
10. Golden Sun: The Lost Age
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Tough call. I've played some great games on the GBA.
I think I'll go with Yggdra Union, even if the PSP version is superior.
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9. Golden Sun
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Great JRPG for the system!
10. Golden Sun: The Lost Age
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Love these, so much!
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Gotta go with Advance Wars 2. A solid turn-based strategy game with tons of challenges and replayability that applies itself well to the handheld format.
Runners up would probably be Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.
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I always had a blast with it's multiplayer.
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best campaign in the entire advance war series.
honorable mentions to castlevania aria of sorrow, FE binding blade, medabots rokusho/metabee an rpg adventure and pokemon emerald.
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I really don’t think the GBA gets its due. It really has one of the most extensive and varied libraries of any gaming machine, not just home consoles.
I don’t know if I could choose just one. My top would probably be CV Aria of Sorrow, Metroid Zero Mission, and Double Dragon Advance. Seriously, those 3 games are among the best in their genres.
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I really don’t think the GBA gets its due. It really has one of the most extensive and varied libraries of any gaming machine, not just home consoles.
I don’t know if I could choose just one. My top would probably be CV Aria of Sorrow, Metroid Zero Mission, and Double Dragon Advance. Seriously, those 3 games are among the best in their genres.
GBA is one of my favorite consoles. It's like the SNES-2, especially if you have a Game Boy Player for the TV. Great library of classics and new games. Plus backwards compatible going back 2 generations.
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GBA has a great library. imo it does lack a bit in the action game department and if where talking those genre of games, the cropping to fit a smaller screen and the sound quality doesn't help.
It mainly shines in the less action based strategy rpg department in terms of especially content minus the visuals and sound.
Inferior snes with the lack of action games compared to other 2d systems, but for a handheld top 2 library only rivaled by the nintendo ds.
One of my favourite consoles in the past but thanks to mainly the sound and cropping thanks to it being a handheld it did dropp off a couple of spots for me in favor of actual 2d home consoles wich have better visuals, sound and more quantity and quality games in the action department.
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Fire Red/Leaf Green is my favorite. The Konami TMNT beat em up is a close second.
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It really has one of the most extensive and varied libraries
That library includes five different games based on Bratz dolls. I would be hesitant to call the size of the library one of its positive traits when that size is due to the amount of filler in it.
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The GBA is one of my favorite systems along with the DS and 3DS, so picking just one or a few games is hard. Until the gen 5 Pokemon games came out, Pokemon Emerald was my favorite Pokemon game. I also enjoyed the GBA remakes/ports of the DKC games, especially Donkey Kong Country 3 since they added an entire new world to explore. The Wario Ware games and Wario Land 4 were also super fun. Even though their is a bit of a language barrier for both games, Slime Morimori: Dragon Quest was a fun little adventure game and Kuru Kuru Kururin was a simple but fun puzzle game. My favorite GBA game though would have to be Mother 3. It was and still is the only game in the Earthbound trilogy I beat and enjoyed; thought the story was really good and the archaic limited inventory didn't seem as noticeable here unlike the other two games.
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Mine are metroid Fusion and Zero Mission
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Shrek 2
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I really don’t think the GBA gets its due. It really has one of the most extensive and varied libraries of any gaming machine, not just home consoles.
Agreed. The GBA has one of the most robust libraries of all time. And not just in sheer number of titles - the scope of genres is insane. Platformers, tactics, RPG, action... It's all here. And that's before you even start talking about all the SNES ports.
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If we're including ports then Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island. But there are a lot of ports/remakes for GBA.
If we're talking original games I'll go with Golden Sun.
I never played much handheld before the GBA. I had a Game Boy but all I had were Tetris, Kirby and Pokemon. When the GBA came out I just started college and started driving so I was able to go out and get my own games for the first time and I bought a LOT of GBA games. Golden Sun was the first game on the system that blew me away because finally I could have an epic SNES-tier RPG on a handheld. Until that moment I was always under the impression handheld gaming was far inferior to console games. Golden Sun proved me wrong.
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The Gameboy Advance was a great disappoint for me when I had one but now I miss having one. but I if was to pick 2 it would be.
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1: The Sims 2 Pets for GBA. this installment in the famous people life simulator. Was like an RPG with The Sims gameplay but leaning more toward being an RPG. You had a character, you had to take care of like Bladder Food and Hygiene I think. But That is all I remember. But it was nothing like any Sims game on the PC.
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2: Duke Nukem Advance a first person shooter with clunky controls and lots of lag but still playable, But it had early N64/PS1 style graphics and althouh the graphics were the exact same as Duke Nukem 64 or Duke Nukem 3D, so maybe that Duke Nukem game was too powerful to run properly :-\
I might pick one up again, if I can find an SP for under $200 USD
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It really has one of the most extensive and varied libraries
That library includes five different games based on Bratz dolls. I would be hesitant to call the size of the library one of its positive traits when that size is due to the amount of filler in it.
Well, if you look at any system’s library, there’s always going to be shovelware. IMO, the GBA has a much higher ratio of quality to crap, especially considering how diverse its quality titles are.
I really don’t think the GBA gets its due. It really has one of the most extensive and varied libraries of any gaming machine, not just home consoles.
Agreed. The GBA has one of the most robust libraries of all time. And not just in sheer number of titles - the scope of genres is insane. Platformers, tactics, RPG, action... It's all here. And that's before you even start talking about all the SNES ports.
Exactly. It was the ports of classic titles that really got me thinking of the wide variety of software available for it.
The GBA even tackled games that seem out of its capabilities, like Doom and Tekken. Granted, they weren’t great, but IMO they were passable, which is pretty impressive for the hardware.
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Shrek 2
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Is this really a good game? Or was this a joke post? Genuinely curious, never played it or heard anyone talk about it before.
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Shrek 2
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Is this really a good game? Or was this a joke post? Genuinely curious, never played it or heard anyone talk about it before.
I've owned it since I was a kid. It's a pretty average 2D puzzle/platformer
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Shrek 2
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Is this really a good game? Or was this a joke post? Genuinely curious, never played it or heard anyone talk about it before.
I've owned it since I was a kid. It's a pretty average 2D puzzle/platformer
That's what I'd assume with a licensed kids game like this. But you never know, there are some hidden gems like DuckTales, so I thought I'd ask.
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That's what I'd assume with a licensed kids game like this. But you never know, there are some hidden gems like DuckTales, so I thought I'd ask.
That'd be a good topic for a "Let's Name" thread instead of all these "Top 100 for [Insert System Name]". Like it'd be "Let's Name Genuine Gems Hidden Behind Licensed Property (and sometimes Cash-Grab) Releases" or something. :P
DuckTales was already mentioned and I'm sure Rescue Rangers would get a nod. The Genesis McDonald's game by Treasure would deserve a mention as well as the Astro Boy game on GBA. ;)
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I feel like a lot of licensed games on the GBA are at least... decent? They're not good by any means, but most developers went with a 2D platformer on the GBA, which makes them at least functional and usually better than their console counterparts.
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Shrek 2
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Is this really a good game? Or was this a joke post? Genuinely curious, never played it or heard anyone talk about it before.
I've owned it since I was a kid. It's a pretty average 2D puzzle/platformer
That's what I'd assume with a licensed kids game like this. But you never know, there are some hidden gems like DuckTales, so I thought I'd ask.
Ducktales was made by capcom I wouldn't call that a hidden gem. isn't this series top 10 material on nes with all time iconic tracks like the moon. It's literally considered a must have title for nes.
Disney clearly invested allot of money and hired competent devs (like capcom and sega) to make quality games, this isn't your standard licensing example.
Disney in 8 and 16 bit era was in the quality game department, it wasn't comparable to normal movie based games.
ducktales, world of illusion, castle of illusion, maui mallard quackshot alladin, by some even considered some of the best games on the system.
I feel like a lot of licensed games on the GBA are at least... decent? They're not good by any means, but most developers went with a 2D platformer on the GBA, which makes them at least functional and usually better than their console counterparts.
In my opinion allot of movie based gba games also got the isometric 3d look + gameplay. let alone the distored grapics for trying to use 3d in a 2d platformer wich the gba was pretty poor at when done badly.
Also unlike older 2d bit home consoles, allot of poorly made 2d platformers on gba felt like cheap flash games, they didn't look to hot mainly thanks to not fully sticking to 2d and 3d character models and enviroments in a them 2d sections.
Check jurrasik park and terminator for example. 2d platformers in 16 bit era, on gba ugly isometric 3d games.
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Just meant licensed kids games in general suck and DuckTales is one of the few that don't.
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This was a hard one 'cause the GBA has plenty of good games to choose from.
It really has one of the most extensive and varied libraries
That library includes five different games based on Bratz dolls. I would be hesitant to call the size of the library one of its positive traits when that size is due to the amount of filler in it.
That pretty much can be said about most, if not all other consoles/handhelds. But I get your point.
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Shrek 2
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Is this really a good game? Or was this a joke post? Genuinely curious, never played it or heard anyone talk about it before.
I've owned it since I was a kid. It's a pretty average 2D puzzle/platformer
This game appears to be published by Activision, in my opinion Activision is a Solid publisher known for quality games since October 1, 1979
I would assume this Shrek game would be good just because it's Activision, I never played a crappy game made by Activision, even in the Atari 2600 titles they were known for making or publishing
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But honestly, though, let's stay on topic.
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GBA is a fantastic handheld, probably one of my favs.
I got into the console a bit late but was surprised at the amount of quality titles, few of my picks:
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GBA is a fantastic handheld, probably one of my favs.
I got into the console a bit late but was surprised at the amount of quality titles, few of my picks:
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You sir, are a man of culture.