The Top 10 GameCube RPGs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2024
- The GameCube seems to be a system that didn't get the attention it deserved when it initially came out and was fairly overshadowed in the west to a certain degree. Only in recent years has this been realized as most of the gaming community is starting to recognize its greatness that stands the test of time (ironically partly due to its brighter/more cartoon-like 'kiddy' visuals which was criticized back then but is what helped the games age much better than most). The console had many amazing games and RPGs were no exception here. It may not have had as many RPGs as the PlayStation 2, but that's not to say the library it did have wasn't pretty incredible in its own right. In this video we took a look back at some of the best the console had to offer as we count down our personal favorite 'Top 10 GameCube RPGs'
Also keep in mind this is just my opinion! I'm sure many of you will disagree with where some games are at here which is completely fine and the beauty of subjectivity in mediums such as video games. If you do disagree, let us know with comments below where you would rank your Top 10 GameCube RPGs and why.
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Edited by: Evan Pierson
Narrated by: Corbin Pierson
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▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Mega Man X: Command Mission
2:37 - Lost Kingdoms
4:29 - Custom Robo
5:37 - Evolution Worlds
8:03 - Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2
9:44 - Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
11:09 - Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door
12:34 - Baten Kaitos 1 & 2
14:19 - Skies of Arcadia Legends
16:09 - Honorable Mentions
16:38 - Tales of Symphonia
18:36 - Outro
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I also played FFX and Tales of Symphonia back to back. Their stories being similar made me enjoy them and had tremendous impact on my development as a teen. They are also each my favorite entry into their respective series...
Outside possibly preferring abyss to Symphonia I 100% agree
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Another great list, honestly just working my way through this list will keep me busy for awhile. So many great hits.
Thx for videos, I love channels about JRPGs. Unique channel!
I have fond memories as a teen playing Baten Kaitos with my cousin one summer. We couldn't beat the final boss lol. Anyhow great video once again.
All those Zelda scenes at beginning had me worried you were gonna classify them as RPGs. Nice fakeout 😆
Facts!!! I was about to say I better not see a damn Zelda game on this list. The Zelda series is my favorite video game series of all time, but they aren't JRPGs...
Agreed. Whenever I see Zelda games appear on a list of RPGs, I tend to take them with a grain of salt, as it puts that person’s definition of “role-playing” into question.
Tales of Symphonia is the absolute greatest game I’ve ever experienced.
It is an incredible game and story... Hands down.
I played through it so many times as a kid. I don’t think I have ever played through another game that was that long that many times. What a masterpiece it is.
Your comment at the end about games that you connect to a special period in your life that elevate them really struck a nerve. I have one such period where i spent like 3-4 nights a week at my best friend's basement over the course of a couple of years staying up all night playing games, drinking smoking etc. I was around 21-22 and we blew through a few PSX games hard. it being 2006-07. Megaman X4-X6 started our run and we 100% those games swapping controller between us. Then we hit Gran Turismo 2 and played that for like 6 months. he's since moved cross country and it is really great memory.
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Skies of Arcadia Legends getting the love it deserves. My dream is to have it playable in a portable format.
Great presentation, but one suggestion is to make a list below for viewers quick reference of the games shown in the videos.
The Gamecube still stands as my favorite console of all time, and it's probably the reason I got into RPGs in the first place. Anyways, here's my top 10:
10. *Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II*
9. *Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life*
8. *Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness*
7. *Pokémon Colosseum*
6. *Baten Kaitos Origins*
5. *Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance*
4. *Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean*
3. *Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door*
2. *Skies of Arcadia Legends*
1. *Tales of Symphonia*
Like you said, there is a pretty substantial gap in quality between some of these games, obviously I don't consider all of these games to be nearly on par with each other. The top 5 are in my opinion all masterpieces though, and should definitely be in the collection of any RPG fan.
Well the GameCube did not introduced me to J-RPGs but it was really a great console. Mine was black and my first game was Wave Race Blue storm
Sounds like we have similar thoughts as usual and cool to see our top 5 is nearly the exact same. Of course everything is subjective at the end of the day, but with the gap in quality there is I feel like you would be hard pressed to find many JRPG fans that don’t have some form of those games in their top 5 for their GameCube, just with the order being switched around due to their own personal preferences. All are definite classics in the genre for sure.
Skies of Arcadia was awesome, I remember my disc got scratched, and I didn’t get to complete it. Enjoyed it haha
I think evolution world is the game I’ve been searching for that I played for HOURS! Back in the day on my GameCube!
This video deserves a million views
My top 3 are Baten Kaitos Origins, Tales of Symphonia and Skies of Arcadia.
You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.
Alright! Getting in some gamecube love! :D
11:10-11:14 I see what you did there! Lol very clever.
I've still got my copies of Skies of Arcadia,Baten Kaitos,Thousand Year Door and Path of Radiance. Not that I'm ever going to let them go.
great video
Thank you!
Are we getting that Skies of Arcadia remaster?
my brother had a gamecube and every chance i got to play custom robo i would play it. i loved that game more than any other gamecube game including melee but it’s a really close call.
Oh, how I wish these games would get HD remasters on the Switch.
Same. It's been nice to get ToS on Steam but titles like SoA, Paper Mario TTYD and Path of Radiance have been left to the wayside unfortunately
I'll agree with most of this list for sure, all amazing games. Personally PSO 1&2 is definitely #1 to me and Skies of Arcadia is #2 on the gamecube. But I can agree with everything else easily.
Evolution was great on the dreamcast. One of my favorites.
I would only add 1 game to this list and that's Pokémon coliseum (not to be confused with pokemon stadium), great list tho
Games such as Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, 7th Saga, Earthbound, FF4, FF6, FF7, Legend of Mana, and many others come to mind! Some of the games you mentioned in your video also spring to mind for me as well, such as Tales of Symphonia, Evolution Worlds, Lost Kingdoms, and Skies of Arcadia! Great video with amazing production values and editing!
What a wonderful era it was to grow up in and play these games! Thank you for allowing me to live vicariously through you and your video, so that I could once again relive those memories! :)
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I missed out on the Gamecube alot back in the day, it was my little brother's console, while I played more on PS2. If it wasnt for the insane prices of Gamecube game, I may try hunting these down for the collection.....piracy it is.
Gladius is a hidden gem. Very good rpg
11:25 How can this game be so beautiful?
If only these games could be rereleased or remastered in HD.
Nintendo coming in hot with all these remasters. Only a matter of time before other classics follow suit.
Guess you are Happy Witherspoon the remakes for the switch for some of these games :) 13:3 13:42
I will play my GameCube tales of symphony and skies of Arcadia one day 😅 and my dragon 8, major mask on my 3ds
You won't be disappointed! Man how I envy you getting to play those games for the first time
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Damn, I regret not grabbing a use copy Of Tales of Symphonia for only 15 dollars. I thought the the game look out- dated when compared to Tales of Xilia at the time which was new.
I 100% Custom Robo twice Ray Warrior was a awesome Robo
The plastic gloves were deeply upsetting and confusing
Who else got emudeck running on steam deck and need ideas. ( I'm a gamecube collector and have all my games I grew up with as a kid with my console but now wanna play games I never owned.)
Tales of Symphonia was my favorite... Until I played Vesperia lol
@Rage Kage nah I feel you. I guess I was getting tired of the hero of justice main character storyline
Respect for liking Paper Mario 64 more
What other games? Phantasy Star Online was the only game I needed on the GC. I have literally thousands of hours on that game....like 4-5 thousand. My main character had over 2,400 hours and I also played it on Dreamcast. I bought the GameCube and it's accessories just to play PSO. As a single player game, yeah it wasn't the greatest....but who the @#$% buy Phantasy Star ONLINE to play it offline.
It was the first MMORPG for a console, and one of the best ever. The people that played made it so much better. Unlike most of the people on today's games. The game rewarded co-op play. Even mandating it for some things. LOVE that game.
I regret that I never played the Fire Emblem series sooner. The perma death turned me off and I had heard most people reset everytime someone died anyways.
Anyhow, I installed Fire Emblem 4 onto my SNES Mini one night just cause and had a blast and then immediately went out and bought 3H (this is all literally like a year and a half ago I think?)
And I now regret not playing the series sooner.
PS. Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door is one of my favorite games ever
but doesnt it suck to have to reset everytime someone dies?
@@Damyoro meh... It can be frustrating at times, but it makes me play safer and use better strategies...
I feel like custom robo is stretching the rpg definition but it is a very fun game
I like how this is just a list of Every JRPG on the GameCube lol
Wasn't the origami king out before this video came out???
Pso is #1 given the context of the time if you were ever fortunate enough to experience online or local coop but symphonia and the baten kaitos games to this day blow every other rpg out of the water for me. I found tales of arise to be shockingly good after being fairly irritated by berseria but I still don't think it takes it as far as symphonia. Would love to see an ff7 style remake of symphonia using the arise engine but with a proper HD overworld. Tales of arise started so strong I thought it was going to be perfect but when I found out Rena was just a relatively short endgame sequence I was left feeling like they simply ran out of budget, which makes sense given the groundbreaking level of production value the game has. I would have given it the title and a 10/10 if Rena was treated like te'thealla
Pokemon colosseum is the prequel to gale of darkness. Also fun fact, evolution was ported to the neo Geo pocket color. So if you like gbc graphics, poor music and....yeah just play the Dreamcast. Best version imo. Not a big fan of GameCube since the N64 RPG disaster. PlayStation got many of the good franchises so I avoided it. I recently got my hand on it and GameCube is more misses than hits. Uh sunshine nightmares.
Custom Robo's a rpg? .....wait what????
Edit: Yea it's unfortunate, but I guess we're stuck with the "new" Paper Mario games which are..........um...........yea........
Wtf... powerpuff girls music on an rpg game... i wasnt focused on the video earlier but thought he was showing legends of dragoon
Ok so basically 5 decent RPGs on GameCube, not exactly picking up that much slack from N64.
Let's be honest, who's here to watch this so we could download the ROMs and play them on Dolphin Emulator? :>
I am.
Why the gloves?
So he can flex his collection.
As someone that did overall enjoy MMX command mission, putting it at #10 while simultaneously admitting its mediocre and not very good is a take.
Were there not other gamecube rpgs that could’ve filled that spot on the list? Lol
Gacha Force > Custo Robo
F yes. Lost kingdoms. F yes.
Am I the only one who found FF Crystal Chronicles unplayable?
Honestly, Gamecube has only 5 good RPGs 6 to 10 are only here for the sake of doing a top 10.
What games are you snubbing exactly because Baten Kaitos 1&2 are good,Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door is a classic and one of the best Mario games,Phantasy Star Online was a revolutionary game,Tales of Symphonia is one of the best games in that franchise, same goes with Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and Skies of Arcadia isn't fetching those high prices for no reason... and that's 7 games...
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Tales of Symphonia are my favorites.
Ps. I was born a day before the European release of Tales of Symphonia.
Ugh i hated lost kingdoms
Can't agree with the number 2. I tried playing it like 6 or 7 years ago and it was horrible. Slow and graphically horrible. I had to stop after 2 or 3 hours. Perhaps it was good when it came out but nowadays...not. Tales of Symphonia had the most amazing plot I ever had seen and will be my number 1 forever, but it's looks are also outdated. Baten Kaitos however is still gorgeous and I'm still hoping on HD remasters so I can play them again on switch
You've lost your damn marbles. How DARE you ignore and disrespect Star Fox Adventures.
As soon as I hear 'card deck' I'm out. Games I've played with card decks for battles have been absolutely terrible. Looking at you Kingdom Hearts
Unfortunately we can't play them on PS5
Those are mostly mediocre games...
Funny joke the gamecube only has 10 rpgs .
Video title says top 10 Gamecube RPGS
Intro says top 10 GameCube JRPGs
List includes multiple ARPGs and an SRPG
Big thonk
The video title says RPGs so it can account for both the term RPGs and JRPGs when people are searching, especially considering there are only a few WRPGs on the GameCube in the first place. And since when are action RPGs and strategy RPGs not considered JRPGs even if they were made in Japan? So you’re gonna say a series like Fire Emblem or Ys for example isn’t a JRPG? I don’t think many would agree with you there. There is no prerequisite for JRPGs strictly having to be turnbased, unless you were maybe to say the specific term ‘traditional JRPG’ but that was never the case here.
Fire Emblem has never been a JRPG. It's always been a SRPG. Genres are defined by gameplay. Not every RPG made in Japan is a JRPG.
@@Red_Ranger_Wien We can agree to disagree then. I’ve always considered Fire Emblem to be a JRPG, just one that is also a strategy RPG. In my opinion JRPGs don’t have to only be turn based to qualify as a JRPG, IMO it’s more of a blanket genre encompassing various similar takes on it rather than one very strict style of gameplay with no deviations. So what is Shining Force then? That one has SRPG combat but JRPG gameplay in between combat. By your own definition it wouldn’t be entirely accurate to classify it as solely either a JRPG or SRPG.
I would consider Shining Force to be a hybrid between a JRPG and an SRPG. I also wouldn't say every JRPG is turn based but a large percentage of them are.
@@Red_Ranger_Wien make your own list then..