What's your favorite GBA game?

[weavile001]

golden sun,both of them

 

[FAST6191]

Either Medabots or Pokemon

Inquiring minds have to know- medabots RPG or medabots AX? Or are we going exotic with either Medarot Navi or Shingata Medarot? Apologies if you had not heard of them before and now have to sit knowing there are two (well one and a nice reskin of the game you probably played) medabot RPG franchises on the GBA.
For my money they were not necessarily pokemon games done right but one of the many examples of pokemon games done better than pokemon (of which the GBA had several examples).

Given the somewhat mixed reception of the DS games (I usually say the GBA and DS ones differ like Chess and Wargames differ- both nominally about the same thing but approached from a different mindset/requiring use of different tactics) I am half surprised nobody said advance wars yet.

 

[porkiewpyne]

[user]FAST6191[/user]
You guessed right. Was referring to the RPG one. Tried AX but just didn't like it. Navi is still in my backlog, partially due to the language barrier. Have heard of Shingata but not exactly too keen on playing it, again due to language and graphics being meh. Like you said, Shingata is pretty similar after all, concept wise. And since we are on this topic, how did you find Navi?

Did play the DS ones despite not having an Eng patch. Just too tempting LOL. Made it through with lots of luck. Hated (heck, what am I smoking? I still do!) Gigaphant to the core. Took him down after shitloads of attempts. As a whole, I did enjoy the game.

Really want the 3DS one but my financial position does not permit me to import a console just for the sake of playing a few games (though I have to say I really did consider it). At the risk of derailing the topic, I feel that the graphics used in Medarot 7 was what Pokemon X and Y's graphics should have been like.

 

[hiroakihsu]

My favorite GBA games of all time are the series of Lord of the Rings games EA did for the GBA (Two Towers, Return of the King and Third Age); those of you who love Diablo-clones should try them out.

 

[earlynovfan]

I've been working on Mother 3 and have really enjoyed it so far.

But as for completed favorites, probably between Emerald, Wario Ware (the tilting one), and Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls.

 

[FAST6191]

I did not really keep up with the DS or any subsequent releases of medabots though I do have to hunt down a copy of Medabots Infinity for the gamecube (GC twilight princess aside it is probably the last GC game I care to have) one of these days.

Yeah the lord of the rings games seemed to have got a fair few fans though I must admit I did enjoy the home console versions quite a bit.
I am mainly back to say one of our members, Farlight, released a nice save file with gamecube linkup content content unlocked for the Return of the King game-
http://gbatemp.net/threads/gba-return-of-the-king-sav-file-gamecube-content-unlocked.320305/
http://filetrip.net/gba-downloads/game-saves/download-lord-of-the-rings-10-f27187.html has a mirror.

 

[TyBlood13]

Mother 3, no question for me

 

[Yepi69]

Mother 3, no question for me

No doubt about it.
The only game that made me cry on the inside, and for me, the best GBA game.

 

[TripleSMoon]

This is a tough one, so I doubt I can choose just one... Excluding ports, it's definitely something between Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, and the Mega Man Zero series.

 

[felixsrg]

Golden Sun, M&L Superstar Saga and Mother 3, all three of them are just great!

 

[Count Duckula]

Mario vs DK. Wish it was harder/longer, but a great game IMO.

 

[slingblade1170]

Zelda A Link to the Past

 

[Chaos Rush]

Mother 3, hands down.

I choked up when a certain character died. (not saying cause I don't want to spoil anyone lolz)

 

[DroRox]

I'm gonna have to give it to Minish Cap. It was just a Zelda game for a handheld done marvelously, in my opinion. It had a really nice Zelda feel, great music, a rather creative and well-worked theme/plot and the works. May I also mention the awesome sidequests that Kinstone pieces provided. And the graphics were great. I love the sprites and the various scenery. It's a rather short game but it's well built and in a way were none of the main plot becomes too tedious. If you're trying to fuse all Kinstones or collect every figurine that's a different story.

An obvious second place would have to be Pokemon Ruby. Why not Sapphire or Emerald? 1. I don't like Wallace as Champion too much. 2. Team Magma always seemed cooler than Team Aqua.

 

[DaggerV]

I may come back to this thread and update it, but off of top of my head? Summon Night Swordcraft Story or whatever series, and LOTR series. Thinking about it, despite all the hours I put into the GBA, I don't remember many of the games.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

I <3 this thread xD Helps me discover some other GBA Games to play

 

[MrJmanzor]

I really liked pokemon emerald, i just spent so much time in that game.
Even if i still haven't been able to get anywhere near started in the adventure, Zelda: ALTTP looks promising.

 

[chavosaur]

I played the SHIZ out of Harry Potter quiditch world cup when i was younger. It was actually a really fun game.

 

[DinohScene]

Hello Kitty Happy b-day Pals.
Hamtaro Ham Ham Rescue.
Hamtaro Ham Ham Heartbreak.
Hamtaro Ham Ham Games.
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland
Prehistorik Man
Planet Monsters.

To name a few.

But my all time favorite is.
Sheep

 

[The Riolu]

I would say Yoshi's Island since it's a port of my favorite game of all time, but that would be unfair to the rest of them.

My favorite GBA game would be more like 3, but it would be Pokemon R/S/E. Out of all the Pokemon games I have played, I enjoyed them the most. I loved the gameplay, I felt it was fresh, but still kept to the basic style. I loved the features like the hidden forts and different bikes.
My only complain with the games was it couldn't trade with the older games and didn't have day to night, but those were really minor to me and didn't overshadow just how much fun I had playing them.

Being pokemon games, you really can't finish them unless you play all three, but unlike most pokemon games, Ruby and Sapphire had different stories from each other. They weren't totally different, just some minor changes and two different teams, but it finally made choosing one game over the other more interesting when you played them. Emerald really combined the stories into one story as well, which even made it worth a playthough.

Not to mention those games introduced my favorite Gamecube games of all time, Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD - Gale of Darkness. Which is the main reason I actually bought a Gamecube back in the day and the main reason I keep my Gamecube (I know I can play them on the Wii, but I prefer playing GC games on the GC.)

This.

By far, I am a Pokemon Enthusiast - R/S/E by far is my favorite.

But its a tie between Emerald and Colosseum, but this is about your favorite GBA game so Emerald it is :3