Looks like the next 12 months will be very good for the Cube

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-05-14 09:03pm

http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action ... 27510.html

So so much good news that makes my owning of a Gamecube(and GBA emulator) slightly cheer me up in my currently depressed mood.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-05-14 09:04pm

I must buy a Cube.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-05-14 09:32pm

i can't wait for F-Zero that is going to rock

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-05-14 09:42pm

*drools* Ooooh, looks like a good year to have a GC and a GBA. That Pac-Man sounds really cool!

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-05-14 09:44pm

I want a Perfect Dark sequel damnnit!

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-14 09:53pm

*drool*

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-14 09:53pm

Metroid Prime 2!! Even though it probably won't be released for a while. But still.

And then F-Zero, and Custom Robo, and Rogue Squadron 3, and...ARGH! So many games, so little cash!

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-05-15 07:34am

Lord of the Farce wrote:I want a Perfect Dark sequel damnnit!

Then you'll probably need an x-box to play it, from what I've heard.

Otherwise, this is great news! But I wonder why Metroid Prime and SMS didn't perform that well, they're both well-designed games.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-05-15 08:30am

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Lord of the Farce wrote:I want a Perfect Dark sequel damnnit!
Then you'll probably need an x-box to play it, from what I've heard.

Otherwise, this is great news! But I wonder why Metroid Prime and SMS didn't perform that well, they're both well-designed games.

Well Micro$oft has brought the rights the Rare, true... Hopefully, like Starfox, Nintendo would still have the rights to it... But as much as I want to believe that, I'm pretty sure Perfect Dark is Rare's (and now, Micro$oft's) property...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-15 11:55am

Lord of the Farce wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:
Lord of the Farce wrote:I want a Perfect Dark sequel damnnit!
Then you'll probably need an x-box to play it, from what I've heard.

Otherwise, this is great news! But I wonder why Metroid Prime and SMS didn't perform that well, they're both well-designed games.
Well Micro$oft has brought the rights the Rare, true... Hopefully, like Starfox, Nintendo would still have the rights to it... But as much as I want to believe that, I'm pretty sure Perfect Dark is Rare's (and now, Micro$oft's) property...

Didn't Ninty have a 51% stake in Rare though?

It is a shame M$ bought their games like that, bastards.

I can't wait for the MGS remake, Twin Snakes.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-05-15 04:23pm

Okay I have a PS2 and X-Box guess I might as well buy a cube also...

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-05-18 12:43am

Sell your X-box and use the money to get the Cube.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-18 01:48am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Didn't Ninty have a 51% stake in Rare though?

It is a shame M$ bought their games like that, bastards.

I can't wait for the MGS remake, Twin Snakes.

You're behind the times. Nintendo sold all of its shares back to Rare, who then sold it to Microsoft.

Metroid Zero Mission looks like it'll be a tad too easy compared to the original Metroid, with the map, wall jump and ledge grab and all.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2003-05-19 08:58am

Lord of the Farce wrote:
StarshipTitanic wrote:
Lord of the Farce wrote:I want a Perfect Dark sequel damnnit!
Then you'll probably need an x-box to play it, from what I've heard.

Otherwise, this is great news! But I wonder why Metroid Prime and SMS didn't perform that well, they're both well-designed games.
Well Micro$oft has brought the rights the Rare, true... Hopefully, like Starfox, Nintendo would still have the rights to it... But as much as I want to believe that, I'm pretty sure Perfect Dark is Rare's (and now, Micro$oft's) property...

oh if only Nintendo had thought about it. They should have released a Perfect Dark game as a launch Title while Rare was still indipendent.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-05-19 10:29am

Hades wrote:oh if only Nintendo had thought about it. They should have released a Perfect Dark game as a launch Title while Rare was still indipendent.

Well apparently (though I'm not sure of the accuracy of what I've heard/read about this), most of the team behind Goldeneye and Perfect Dark had left Rare before the company went to Microsoft, so it wouldn't have been the same anyway...

BTW, a little bit of research on the official Rareware website (Link) yielded this quote:

X02 Press Release wrote:Rare's first creation for Xbox, Kameo, is expected to reach store shelves next spring. Also under development is the highly anticipated sequel to Perfect Dark.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-05-19 03:46pm

Hmm. That's funny. I heard that after the next "season," they weren't going to make any more games for Gamecube and concentrate on their next system.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-05-20 05:21am

neoolong wrote:Hmm. That's funny. I heard that after the next "season," they weren't going to make any more games for Gamecube and concentrate on their next system.

Maybe Nintendo itself won't make any more games for the GC, but they can still have second and third party developers working on them.

Sothis · Post by **Sothis** » 2003-05-22 01:06pm

Starfox, Mario Kart, and that Pac-man game all intrigue me... gotta get me a GBA.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2003-05-23 04:56am

neoolong wrote:Hmm. That's funny. I heard that after the next "season," they weren't going to make any more games for Gamecube and concentrate on their next system.

Bloody idiots. They bring out these consols way to fast. I havent even brought a Gamecube yet (or any of the big 3 new consols) and they are already condidering stopping developing games for it.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2003-05-23 05:08am

BTW, I got Enter the Matrix for the GC yesterday (from Kmart, for $89 Australian), and finished it on Easy with Ghost today. Much fun to be had. Strangely enough, when I tried it out on the Xbox version at the EB store, it seemed to have a longer loading time than the GC version... *shrug*

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-05-23 07:46am

Hades wrote:
neoolong wrote:Hmm. That's funny. I heard that after the next "season," they weren't going to make any more games for Gamecube and concentrate on their next system.
Bloody idiots. They bring out these consols way to fast. I havent even brought a Gamecube yet (or any of the big 3 new consols) and they are already condidering stopping developing games for it.

1) Nintendomight not be making new games, but other companies definitely will. How many different ways do you want to play Mario?

2) If Nintendo wants to survive, they need to release their next console sooner than they did last time.

Hades · Post by **Hades** » 2003-05-23 05:44pm

StarshipTitanic wrote:
Hades wrote:
neoolong wrote:Hmm. That's funny. I heard that after the next "season," they weren't going to make any more games for Gamecube and concentrate on their next system.
2) If Nintendo wants to survive, they need to release their next console sooner than they did last time.

The only reason they are relaseing a new consol is becuse they are being forced to compete wit theforth coming PS3.
It would be much better if all companys decided to only release a consol every 6 or 7 years.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-23 10:16pm

I know. Didn't the NES last a good portion of a decade?

Lord of the Farce wrote:BTW, I got Enter the Matrix for the GC yesterday (from Kmart, for $89 Australian), and finished it on Easy with Ghost today. Much fun to be had. Strangely enough, when I tried it out on the Xbox version at the EB store, it seemed to have a longer loading time than the GC version... *shrug*

The GCN is supposed to have near-cartridge speed loading times. Although that doesn't all work with ported games.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-05-23 11:03pm

Darth Yoshi wrote: Metroid Zero Mission looks like it'll be a tad too easy compared to the original Metroid, with the map, wall jump and ledge grab and all.

Well, that's good news for people like me, who are bad at video games.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-05-24 04:29pm

Oh come on. Half the fun of Metroid was trying to figure out exactly where you were on the planet. Especially since them 8-bit rooms all looked the same...