What's the most technically impressive Gamecube game? (Day 11) + GBA Final

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04/15/2024
03:50 PM
#1
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Asterix and Obelix 3D XXL, Iridion 3D, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Golden Sun: The Lost Age
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Previous Results:
Day 2 (SNES): Yoshi's Island
Day 3 (Genesis): Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Day 4 (Gameboy): Pokemon Gold/Silver
Day 5 (Gameboy Color): Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Day 6 (Game Gear): Ristar
Day 7 (N64): Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, F-Zero X (TIE)
Day 8 (PS1): Metal Gear Solid, Vagrant Story (TIE)
Day 9 (Saturn): Panzer Dragoon Saga
Day 10 (PS1): TBD

My Vote: Gotta go with the classic, Resident Evil 1 Remake. Soon we'll also hit the Dreamcast, and Sega will be out. Imagine the world where we still had four major consoles instead of Xbox edging Sega out of the game.
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Underleveled
04/15/2024
03:51 PM
#2
Star Fox Adventures
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Jakyl25
04/15/2024
04:56 PM
#3
Is it weird that my first thought is The Wind Waker? I know its probably demonstrably not
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LightningStrikes
04/15/2024
05:00 PM
#4
My early thought is Resident Evil 4 but Im open to being convinced otherwise. Twilight Princess is also in the mix.
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Snake5555555555
04/15/2024
05:01 PM
#5
Resident Evil 4
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04/15/2024
05:45 PM
#6
Metroid Prime

Is the correct answer. The only other contender is Metroid Prime 2...and I may still change my vote.
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Kenri
04/15/2024
05:55 PM
#7
My hot take here is that it's Pikmin 2

Third party devs repeatedly struggled to get 100+ moving objects on screen at once on the Wii. Pikmin 2 did it on the GCN while looking gorgeous and, as I recall, having basically no slow down. It also had large levels, the ability to swap between two playable characters in different parts of the world with no loading or lag, and a day/night cycle with dynamic lighting.
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Dedf1sh
04/15/2024
05:58 PM
#8
Tentatively seconding Pikmin 2 until someone provides more convincing arguments for anything else.

(Also Pikmin 2 had e-Reader connectivity in the JP version)
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RyoCaliente
04/15/2024
06:43 PM
#9
Rogue Squadron II
How paralyzingly dull, boring and tedious!
Sheep007
04/15/2024
06:53 PM
#10
Jakyl25 posted...
Is it weird that my first thought is The Wind Waker? I know its probably demonstrably not
Wind Waker particle effects are phenomenal but yeah I'm not sure this is it. Metroid Prime is close but gonna go with Pikmin 2 also.
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plasmabeam
04/15/2024
07:27 PM
#11
Metroid Prime still looks stunning.

REmake and RE4 also come to mind.
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Kenri
04/15/2024
08:19 PM
#12
I wanna give a shout out to Luigi's Mansion as well. The particle effects and lighting in that game are something else. Probably not the winner here but very impressive for a launch game.
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swirIdude
04/15/2024
08:28 PM
#13
Starfox Adventures
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Grand_Kirby
04/15/2024
08:36 PM
#14
Gonna vote Wind Waker

Like it's enough that the game still looks amazing to this day, with amazing effects, but there's some real neat things under the hood too. Most people think the game is entirely cel-shaded, but the really impressive thing is that it isn't . It uses different shaders for different objects to make the graphical style work, which is pretty amazing considering the Gamecube doesn't have programmable shaders .
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Dedf1sh
04/15/2024
08:53 PM
#15
Kenri posted...
I wanna give a shout out to Luigi's Mansion as well. The particle effects and lighting in that game are something else. Probably not the winner here but very impressive for a launch game.
The fun thing about LM is that everything in the game was specifically designed to show off the console's new features.
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MZero
04/15/2024
09:03 PM
#16
Twilight Princess

I admit this is a fanboy pick
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ZeroSignal
04/15/2024
09:05 PM
#17
Resident Evil 4
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MrSmartGuy
04/15/2024
09:09 PM
#18
I'll go with RE4 , while admitting that the argument presented for Pikmin 2 is compelling.
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Dedf1sh
04/15/2024
09:11 PM
#19
Don't forget about the randomly generated level layouts and music as well.
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04/15/2024
10:52 PM
#20
Bump
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HaRRicH
04/15/2024
10:54 PM
#21
Metroid Prime

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Cavedweller2000
04/16/2024
02:05 AM
#22
I gotta go with REmake.
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ChichiriMuyo
04/16/2024
02:08 AM
#23
I feel like the votes for Resident Evil games is more about the fact that they made PS2 games look weak (which it was, relatively) rather than pushing the GC hardware.
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UF8
04/16/2024
02:42 AM
#24
the fact that gamecube was competitive in any multiplat releases given the smaller disc sizes is something worth considering to be fair, yeah
UF8
04/16/2024
02:53 AM
#25
actually in light of that, i was thinking about going re4 but considering it doesn't even have that argument to really flex given they put it on two discs, i've changed my mind

instead i'm going to go with a very off the wall pick and go with the longest game i can think of on the system that doesn't use two discs, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom
ChichiriMuyo
04/16/2024
03:25 AM
#26
UF8 posted...
the fact that gamecube was competitive in any multiplat releases given the smaller disc sizes is something worth considering to be fair, yeah
I know this is a different time, but the vast amount of data storage that is expected as the norm now gives devs a reason to just not care. There are games that are 5, possibly 10 times as big as they could be if anyone cared about not eating up storage space.

Going back to the N64, it had Resident Evil 2, and they did so mostly through creative uses of data compression. Two PlayStation CDs worth of game on an N64 cart. A Gamecube disc was closer to a DVD in storage than an N64 cart was to two PSX discs by a wide margin.

Edit: Also, RE4 is legit better on GC than PS2, disc space be damned.
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UF8
04/16/2024
03:27 AM
#27
ChichiriMuyo posted...
I know this is a different time, but the vast amount of data storage that is expected as the norm now gives devs a reason to just not care. There are games that are 5, possibly 10 times as big as they could be if anyone cared about not eating up storage space.

Going back to the N64, it had Resident Evil 2, and they did so mostly through creative uses of data compression. Two PlayStation CDs worth of game on an N64 cart. A Gamecube disc was closer to a DVD in storage than an N64 cart was to two PSX discs by a wide margin.
this is true, but it is also true that gamecube discs still only had a third the capacity of ps2/xbox, so managing to keep up with them specifically as often as they did was still notable at times

for wii and wii u i've already got some pretty impressive games that kept their filesizes mindbogglingly low in mind, and i've decided to try my best at keeping consistent with that (regardless of reception in this case) here. (admittedly this wasn't that straightforward, given what had to use multiple discs, and also how many of the other longer games happened to be ports from dc or even n64, thus making their feats a little less impressive)
ChichiriMuyo
04/16/2024
03:29 AM
#28
Edit: RE4 is is legit better on GC than PS2
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ChichiriMuyo
04/16/2024
04:20 AM
#29
Pikmin 2 was out there doing things that not just the GC but other systems couldn't do, according to some.
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snake_5036
04/16/2024
04:24 AM
#30
This is really difficult....

I think ultimately I have to go with Resident Evil 1 Remake, but RE0, RE4, Metroid Prime, and F-Zero GX (notable for impressing even Nintendo , if Nagoshi is to be believed) are all in the running too. That system had a lot of impressive games.
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HaRRicH
04/16/2024
08:38 AM
#31
I'm not sure that I understand the argument for REmake1. It looked good and was a great game for fans. What else am I missing there?
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04/16/2024
09:29 AM
#32
Don't read too far into it. I was just naming the first big technically impressive game I could think of.
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LightningStrikes
04/16/2024
09:43 AM
#33
I mean its 4 over Remake surely as Remake was using pre-rendered backgrounds pretty extensively, which is part of how it could get so much out of the Gamecube to begin with. It was a cool trick, but 4 is pushing the hardware more.
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WazzupGenius00
04/16/2024
11:05 AM
#34
Pikmin 2
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junglegirl
04/16/2024
12:30 PM
#35
Pikmin 2
linkhatesganon
04/16/2024
02:07 PM
#36
Resident Evil 4
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