NR -- You hate the Prime games? I can't imagine you played any of them for more thna a few minutes if you really think that. The first one is absolutely brilliant, and again, the Metroid series is my favorite game series of all time, yet I'm still pretty hard on them (didn't like the ds game prime hunters, didn't really like parts of Echoes, metroid pinball was kinda silly, and OTHER M is
horrible)
. And I hate first person shooters, but i dug the first prime. They've got so many mindblowing moments, actually. But I mean, the 2D ones are the best. Even Metroid II, where everything looks exactly the same (toilet water color).
Man, I don't like the Super Monkey Ball games at all, pretty boring unless you're playin with a friend for 15 minutes. Girls seem to dig em since they're easy to pick up and play, though, so that's a bonus. With my girlfriend, we usually play Tetris Attack, Lumines, Puzzle fighter, Mean Bean Machine, Bomberman, Panzer Bandits, Ikaruga, Streets of Rage 3. I think that's why we'll always be together... she likes puzzle games as much as me!
PANZER BANDITS is absolutely incredible, if you all haven't playd it, it's a ps1 game from japan only, it's a LOT like Guardian Heroes, and kinda like Strets of Rage 3 with weapons and shit. It's actuall similiar to Odin Sphere too now that I think about it. Highly reccomended. JUST LOOK at these screens, and keep in mind this game was released about a month after the psx came out..
You get to ride in vehicles/robots and all kinds of awesome shit. Awesome, throbbing, dark music and all kinds of classic beat em stages (elevators and shit)... bombs, explosions, trains, so fun.
I played through Farenheit/Indigo Prophecy a few years ago and thought it was pretty fun, certainly not bad for a cinematic-type game, a genre I typically hate. If you want some good American released gamecube games, joe, my favorites that aren't on other systems (Ikaruga, Chaos Field, and so on) are probably Tales of Symphonia (my other favorite game on the system -- I put 80 hours into this gam... best battle system in an RPG ever.. maybe Valkyrie Profile 2, Rogue Galaxy, and Star Ocean come close), Pikmin 2 (goddamn this game rules), Neighbors from Hell, Fire Emblem (my OTHER favorite game on the system, though the GBA/DS ones are great too), Paper Mario (probably my favorite game on the system, though it doesn't hold a candle to Mario RPG), Wario's World (by genius developers TREASURE -- by far my favorite game company of all time), Chibi-Robo, Odama (by the team who made SeaMan), Animal Crossing is fun though it gets a bit boring quickly. As far as cross system games go, Alien Hominid on the GC is probably the definitive version, Viewtiful Joe is better on the GC, RE4 is better on the GC, Soul CAlibur II is better on the GC, Skies of Arcadia is better on the GC,KILLER7 is better on the GC... pretty crappy system but way better than the xbox. What's interesting about the Gamecube is that it was the most powerful system of the last-gen (which meant absolutely nothing to anyone at the time), and the Wii is the least powerful system of this generation (which is apparently a big deal to everyone, since the games aren't "shiney"). I was really upset the Gamecube lost Super Paper Mario, I wish more 2D games had come out for the GC.