Poll of the Day > What are the best GBA games?

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Stuff that don't require very accurate button presses with precise timing. I'm not going into detail on why, but it should be obvious at this point.
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lihlih posted...

, but it should be obvious at this point.

Oh, I'm not sure why - but sure. I'd recommend most the basic RPGS like FF4, 5, 6, Golden Sun, Minish Cap and such, Pokemon of course

Megaman Battle Network 1 and 2 are good, but they are rather twitchy so might not be a good fit.

Demikids might be ok, I have them but haven't played them

And you really can't go wrong with Advance Wars


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Fire emblem advance wars

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Golden Sun + Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Mega Man Battle Network 3

Two JRPGs you can't play on any other platform and were made for the era they came out in.

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Judgmenl posted...

Golden Sun + Golden Sun: The Lost Age

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Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 1&2 (theres a better version for ps2 but it's not in eng and never will be. the sequel after this (2nd OG) isnt in eng, but the next game after that was released in southeast asia with an english version)

super robot wars games are similar to fire emblem games, but they focus more on ammo, energy conservation, and each mech having multiple moves with different properties (whereas the only in-battle choice you have with FE characters is usually what weapon to use). the mainline games center on famous mecha series, but the Original Generation line combines the meta-plots of all of the originals they made up for other games into a couple fully-original games

its completely turn based and most of your time will be spent watching very cool flashy attacks (gba isn't super flashy but what can you do)

pls play them

and then eventually the newer games on other systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=256&v=9K2lxNahQ_c

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Golden sun and advance wars

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Banjo-Kazooie Grunty's Revenge and Banjo Pilot.

I like Banjo-Kazooie games, ok?
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Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak, along with the previous game on GBC, Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story

Drill Dozer is worth a look. Action game from GameFreak, but no split second stuff, so could be fine.
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I like the medabot ones, not the fighting ones, but the RPG ones. pretty good.


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pokemons
final fantasys
fire emblems
swordcraft story 1 and 2
riviera the promised land, though the psp version is superior
demikids
megaman battle networks
golden suns
yggdra union


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Judgmenl posted...

Golden Sun + Golden Sun: The Lost Age
Mega Man Battle Network 3

Two JRPGs you can't play on any other platform and were made for the era they came out in.

mmbn3 is on the wii u virtual console

golden sun 1 and 2 are on the ds.

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Nice on the Swordcraft games, probably one of the most underrated series on the GBA.

i love the regular summon night games too

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advance wars
fire emblem
shining force
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Pokemon

Yugioh

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Harvest moon friends of mineral town

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Yugioh

Yes! I daresay Tournament 2k4 is probably the best Yugioh video game

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Astro boy and shaman king

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Dont worry Arv wont treat you like you are worthless and recommend only point and click and turn base rpgs!

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For non-actiony stuff for sure Advance Wars 2 and the first Fire Emblem game are worth getting.

Also Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 is lots of fun. Gotta stress this is the second game though, the first one was ass.

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helIy posted...

pokemons
final fantasys
fire emblems
swordcraft story 1 and 2
riviera the promised land, though the psp version is superior
demikids
megaman battle networks
golden suns
yggdra union

lmao this chump didn't even mention advance wars

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Black_Crusher posted...

Also Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 is lots of fun. Gotta stress this is the second game though, the first one was ass.

FFTA2 was a DS game.

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adjl posted...

FFTA2 was a DS game.

Ah nuts sorry you are right!

Hmmmm

Runner up would be Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis

Very fun sRPG but the gameplay is reeeeally slow. You get used to it though.

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Thanks for the suggestions, dudes.

BTW, how playable do you think Circle of the Moon is with hampered controls? That was the only GBA CV I never beat back in the day.

I do know that they're making a CV GBA collection, but I don't really feel like buying a whole collection to play 1 game.
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lihlih posted...

Thanks for the suggestions, dudes.

BTW, how playable do you think Circle of the Moon is with hampered controls? That was the only GBA CV I never beat back in the day.

I do know that they're making a CV GBA collection, but I don't really feel like buying a whole collection to play 1 game.

Circle of the Moon is very playable, it's among the slowest of the castlevanias even when using speed boosts

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Black_Crusher posted...

Runner up would be Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis

Very fun sRPG but the gameplay is reeeeally slow. You get used to it though.

There's no chance he's going to play them legitimately so slow gameplay is fixed with the space bar.
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Mother 3 is the best
Pokemon and Fire Emblem are all good
Also don't listen to that guy who said FFTA was bad, that game is actually awesome

Lokarin posted...

Circle of the Moon is very playable, it's among the slowest of the castlevanias even when using speed boosts

Cool, I'll give it a try.

Revelation34 posted...

There's no chance he's going to play them legitimately so slow gameplay is fixed with the space bar.

There's no physical spacebar on a Note 20 Ultra.
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Revelation34 posted...

There's no chance he's going to play them legitimately so slow gameplay is fixed with the space bar.

I figured he was going to play them on his phone.

acesxhigh posted...

I figured he was going to play them on his phone.

Well some of the games listed here are stupid expensive in cart form anyways.

FFTA is a great game, but FFTA2 is awful.

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I thought it was joint problems. -_-
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DeltaBladeX posted...

I thought it was joint problems. -_-

Damn, I have 2 kids, but I'm not THAT old, lol.
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acesxhigh posted...

I figured he was going to play them on his phone.

Well I haven't used that thing in years but I assume there's a version of it that works mobile.
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lihlih posted...

Damn, I have 2 kids, but I'm not THAT old, lol.

Just that it is my problem playing some games. GBA is tiny and I get painful cramps. -_-

See if you can get a cheap 2DS and hack it. That can then play GBA games by making custom VC stuff.
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A custom firmware PSP is one of the best emulation devices in portable form to this day. A wide variety of emulators and it's nowhere near as cramped to use the device like a GBA.

The Astro Boy game is incredibly good and has no real reason to be as good as it is

PSP is nice as well, but easier to find a SD card locally, while PSP needs an adaptor. So between that and a 2DS (or 3DS), I'd say it would depend on the native games if you are going into those.
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dancing sword

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