My wife professes to not like games. She says this, but I can easily recall not too long ago she spent night after night playing Luigi’s Mansion… and I didn’t even consider that a particularly strong title.
I want to pick something up with a good chance of her liking it… understanding that there are no guarantees. Anyone have a particular favorite they’d recommend right now?
My favorite gamecube titles so far have been Eternal Darkness and Wind Waker.
Super Smash Brothers Melee,which is one of the best titles on any console.Unless she absolutely hates goofy fighting games.
Windwaker, monkeyball 2 or metroid.
Monkeyball 2 will get you some enjoyable multiplayer too.
Oh… you may even want to see if she’d like Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. It seems like it would be a pretty good game for a casual gamer… I enjoyed it quite a bit.
Burnout 2 is a very strong racer
But if she like the Mansion she may like Pikmin both have the slower pace.
Super Smash Brothers Melee, Super Monkey Ball 1 or 2, Pikmin, Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, maybe Metroid Prime depending on her gaming tastes…though if she digs Luigi, I’d go with Pikmin, one of the SMB games or SSBM.
Mario Party 4 is great fun with two to four players too.
–Dave
You wife might like Animal Crossing, quite a unique title. Mario Party 4 and Monkey Ball 1&2 are very accessible games, worth a look for the purpose of multiplayer gaming. Same for Beach Spikers.
He said “title,” Dave. That’s singular.
;)
My pick would have to be Wind Waker.
Definitely go with Animal Crossing.
My wife liked it and she professes to hate video games too. Usually it’s because she actually hates them though.
:(
I have quite a few Gamecube games, and I think I’ve spent the most time with Wave Race. It’s not a pick up and play game, which annoys some people, but it’s a lot of fun and the controls are great. Plus, pretty water.
She’ll love Animal Crossing.
Burnout 2 if she likes to make things go smashy. Like Desslock. The GameCube and he were playing smashy all night long according to Tom.
Metroid Prime Of course it’s the only GCN game that’s held my attention all the way through.
Hmm… if she’s good at Luigi’s mansion, she’s mastered the controller.
So Wind Waker. Can’t miss with that one.
Chicks dig Animal Crossing, tho.
[Ducks severed head of Mario thrown by Sparky]
Monkey Ball 2 gets too hard too quickly, but some of the party games are fantastic (I would still slightly lean towards the first one I think though).
Animal Crossing had my wife hooked until I conked her in the head with a shovel and buried her under Tom Nook’s shop.
Mario Party is a lot of fun with a decent size of mini-games (though they could really stand to either make the board games less wanky or allow you to skip a lot of the ‘cutscene’ stuff when you land on certain boardspaces).
Super Smash Bros. is a fantastic fighting game that has very easy to learn moves and that even my wife will play.
Not all of them… ;)
“Monkey Ball 2 gets too hard too quickly”
I was really happy it had way less throwaway ‘baby’ puzzles, unlike smb1.
Oh hey: ‘Timesplitters 2’ for FPS and ‘Skies of Arcadia Legends’ if she likes RPGs.
Thanks alot for the suggestions :)
I may end up getting a couple of different games just to be safe. I see that there was a bonus disk for Wind Walker that included a port of Ocarina of Time… is that still available? It would be handy not to have to drag the N64 back out and still be able to load that up sometime (gads does a tivo ever complicate video connections).
Animal crossing looks neat. SMB too. Decisions…
You’d have to get the Ocarina of Time Bonus Disc used. The promotion was for pre-orders.
–Dave