[POLL] Your opinion on GBA-to-Cube connectivity?

[stevedperkins]

I personally own a Cube and a Gameboy SP, but I haven't yet played any games that involve connecting the two. Wondering if that's just me, or if others love this functionality...

[slade]

IT's not a bad idea but thus far, only a handful of games utilize it in any meaningful way. IMO, Nintendo shouldn't make it such a big focus because people aren't going to buy into it.

[Sauron]

I think the feature is nice. There are some good things out there available with the connectivity feature, but nothing outstanding. We have several games that you can use that option with, but use it rarely.

Our Gameboy Player for the GC is getting a lot of PT though.

I would say overall, it's a positive option, with lots of potential. However, it's no substitute for Online play (of course, it's not intended to be by Nintendo anyway) and shouldn't be compared to that sort of connectivity.

I'll go out on a limb and say that the gameboy is the best gaming system on the market. It does what it's supposed to do better than anything else. It sells. It has an extensive library with AAA games. It makes money.

It's not beyond reproach, but pound for pound it's a more effective system than any other.

[Tappy_Tibbons]

Nintendo is stuck in the past. I mean, this idea would have been great on the N64 or something but now, WHO CARES? Not I! I'd much rather be playing online Mario Kart or something of the sort!

[Fragmastar]

I voted for "The dumbest thing I ever heard"

Anything that has to do with Nintendo is always dumb.

[Renzatic Gear]

It's a good idea badly implemented, so far the only game I've seen that uses it in any meaningful way is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Every other game for it requires that you use it just so you can beat the game. Like take GBA Rayman 3 for instance, to get the true ending and unlock the last 10 levels of the game you have to have the GC version and the GBA player. That's a damn ripoff! Stupid ideas like that will only chase people away from it and make for lost sales..I wouldn't get Rayman 3 cuz of that.

[Wheat, Bob]

I think it's a bad idea for certain games, such as Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. The Nintendo console finally gets a FF game after all these years, and they screw it up by making it a requirement to have up to 4 GBAs just to play multiplayer. I just don't know how many people will actually go out and buy a GBA just to play this game multiplayer-style, but I'm not one of them.

[Gadfly2317]

I used the GBA connectivity to get to the island in Animal Crossing. Frankly, it seems like extortion to need an extra device to unlike something that's in the game.

I also downloaded DK Jr. out of Animal Crossing onto the GBA; again, I did it mostly as a novelty, and never did it again.

Seems like the connectivity could be used as on offscreen playbook in football games. It was pretty well used as a Radar to detect enemies in Splinter Cell.

All in all, its nice that GC/GBA can connect, but its hardly essential. The true killer piece of hardware is the GC GBA Player. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the look and sound of Metroid Fusion blown up big is totally freaking sweet. If you haven't played Fusion this way, then you haven't played it.

[trebor]

<div class=\"smallfont\">I used the GBA connectivity to get to the island in Animal Crossing. Frankly, it seems like extortion to need an extra device to unlike something that's in the game.

I also downloaded DK Jr. out of Animal Crossing onto the GBA; again, I did it mostly as a novelty, and never did it again.

Seems like the connectivity could be used as on offscreen playbook in football games. It was pretty well used as a Radar to detect enemies in Splinter Cell.

All in all, its nice that GC/GBA can connect, but its hardly essential. The true killer piece of hardware is the GC GBA Player. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the look and sound of Metroid Fusion blown up big is totally freaking sweet. If you haven't played Fusion this way, then you haven't played it.</div>

I guess I haven't played Fusion yet, in that case. LOL!

As far as the whole GBA/GC connectivity deal, here's my opinion - there is more incentive to buy a GC if you already have a GBA then there is to buy a GBA if you already have a GC. Does that make sense?

I already owned a GBA when I got my Cube, and the whole connectivity deal was a factor in the decision. Of course, now that I have used the connectivity I would say that it isn't being fully utilized. The best use of it, IMO, is in Wind Waker - and even that gets annoying juggling around two different controllers.

It's a cool little novelty, but Nintendo should quit focusing ALL of their attention on it.

[Cuddly Knife]

<div class=\"smallfont\">Like take GBA Rayman 3 for instance, to get the true ending and unlock the last 10 levels of the game you have to have the GC version and the GBA player. That's a damn ripoff! Stupid ideas like that will only chase people away from it and make for lost sales..I wouldn't get Rayman 3 cuz of that.</div>
That's why I hate the bloody idea of connectivity. I don't play games on the go, and when I'm out of town for a while, I just take my whole system(s) and play it like that, so It bothers me when you need that thing to gain extras that should be allowed in the game already.

I'll probably score me a PSP though.