Best mini-game inside a game

[N-Sef]

Triple Triad from Final Fantasy VIII. It was a great game, it required strategy, it had it's own deep sidequest and had hundreds of cards to collect. I lost many hours trying to get that Seifer card.

 

[Unknower]

Pazaak. I downloaded a flash version of it to my old computer. I don't remember the flash version well, but I think ingame one was better.

 

[Fraught]

The "Ship Ho Ho Hoes" mini-game in God of War. Nah, I'm kidding. Actually, QUB3D was pretty cool. And yeah, I liked the art mini-game from Bully the most actually.

 

[Ixus Illwrath]

Playing the original Pitfall in Pitfall: The Mayan Adventures for SNES.

And everything in mario party.

 

[Splitter]

Blitzball easily. I managed to put together an awesome team and absolutely owned every team time and time again.
Then in X-2... *shudders*
Though that sphere break game wasn't bad.

Bowling in Tekken Tag Tournament was pretty sweet too.

I spent way too much time in Canis Canem Edit (Bully) seeing how many people I could beat without collapsing or how well I could evade the authorities.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Bully, classroom minigames, the art one was bullshit, but the rest were cool.

I sort of agree except my favorite was art and some of the arcade games in it kicked ass to.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

I'd have to say Geometry Wars in PGR2.

That is certainly the best. They made a sequel to it, and is on XBLA! No other minigame has that claim.

 

[Fenixius]

Was Assassin's Creed's combat shallow enough to count as a minigame? If so, then I suppose it would be on the list of "minigames I liked", but it's sure as hell not a mechanic for a full game.

 

[TerribleTerryTate]

Not really a Mini-game as such, but I normally run around FPS' shooting walls in the shapes of Schlongs/boobs. What can I say, I have the maturity of a ten year old. Infact, that's probably doing ten year olds an injustice.

Also, GW in PGR3 was pretty epic too.

 

[Hanji]

Gummi Ships in Kingdom Hearts and its sequel.

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Roulette in Dragon Quest VIII... I once played that for 10 hours straight, racked up a ridiculous amount of tokens.

 

[Flangle]

I'm actually going to go there.
Quiditch in Harry Potter And The Philophisors Stone (H)

 

[Saevus]

The schmup.exe in Penumbra: Black Plague.

 

[itsoutthere]

Gummi Ships in Kingdom Hearts and its sequel.

I'd have to agree with you partly
I liked the Kingdom Heart games and the gummy ship missions were fun the first time but I never went back to get all the parts or unlock anything
Also
The loading screens in the DBZ Tenkiachi (or however you spell it) where you could rotate the sticks or mash the buttons in order to get the characters on screen to eat more or spawn more saibamen.. HA! we would have to pause before the fight actually started because our hands hurt xD

 

[UnsocialEntity]

Arcomage from the might and magic series was always fun.

I liked pazzak too.

 

[Shadowtek]

Triple Triad on FF8 was pretty fun

 

[Swift Tactix]

Super Mario 64 for DS. All the minigames in there rock my socks! My favorite one is where there is 3 Mario's jumping from a building and you have to draw trampolines to save them.

 

[Lt. Sera]

Tekken Bowling and QUB3D were awesome. I think i even played Tekken bowling more then i did the actual game. QUB3D was a fun game in which i spent (unknowingly) quite a bit of time on.