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Super Mario Odyssey Announced (Holiday 2017)
- Thread starter FireBeaver
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Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Man this doesn't look very good. Was really hoping for a proper 64 type game
Oh. Yeah. That does look like a turd sandwich. Gives me hope for Odyssey.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Looks really weird. In a good way. Well, I think the city part is the weirdest. The rest looks fitting for a Mario game.
Isn't the title enough of an explanation? Mario will travel to strange worlds outside the Mushroom Kingdom using that hat-shaped spaceship, and one of the worlds he travels to on this odyssey is a realistic city.
FloweryMarston
Member
That's literally what it is. A new sandbox mario like sunshine and 64
Crayon
Member
Word.
Incitemaybe
Member
I love how weird this looks,. Also Mario's animations while moving look pretty awesome.
My Take :
An odyssey is an epic journey. In Homers Odyssey we read about Odysseus great 10 year journey from Troy to his home. While Odysseus is gone it is presumed that he has died. His wife must deal with unwanted suitors vying for her hand in marriage.
In nintendos epic tale Mario is the one wandering far from home. He is cast in surreal realities fighting constantly to overcome and push onward toward the mushroom kingdom.
Every incarnation, regardless of setting is inseparable from his overarching quest to get home and save Peach. The worlds are varied and secretly designed to be disorienting to the point of dissociation and total loss of bearing both physical and mental. The path is laid down by Bowser to mislead, overwhelm and drown Mario in challenges and environments so diverse no mind or body could traverse them.
Not unlike Super Mario 2, this may all be a dream. Like Galaxy it may be an adventure through the cosmos. Even beyond - to dimensions outside the traditional domain of understanding.
But Mario is a hero. And as such his journey will be a heroes journey. However daunting and unfamiliar the territory he will press forward and reach his home.
An odyssey is an epic journey. In Homers Odyssey we read about Odysseus great 10 year journey from Troy to his home. While Odysseus is gone it is presumed that he has died. His wife must deal with unwanted suitors vying for her hand in marriage.
In nintendos epic tale Mario is the one wandering far from home. He is cast in surreal realities fighting constantly to overcome and push onward toward the mushroom kingdom.
Every incarnation, regardless of setting is inseparable from his overarching quest to get home and save Peach. The worlds are varied and secretly designed to be disorienting to the point of dissociation and total loss of bearing both physical and mental. The path is laid down by Bowser to mislead, overwhelm and drown Mario in challenges and environments so diverse no mind or body could traverse them.
Not unlike Super Mario 2, this may all be a dream. Like Galaxy it may be an adventure through the cosmos. Even beyond - to dimensions outside the traditional domain of understanding.
But Mario is a hero. And as such his journey will be a heroes journey. However daunting and unfamiliar the territory he will press forward and reach his home.
Skeletos311
Junior Member
Always-honest
Banned
That level looks amazing.
This more or less
Spinosaurus
Member
I'm feeling really mixed about the art direction overall but I guess that's to be expected when every world has a different art style. Really don't know what to think, though I'd have preferred a unified, consistent art style.
Possibly. If it was on the Wii U, it would likely be at 720p, 30fps with some minor tweaks to the LOD and textures.
RareFantasy64
Member
Thinking about it more, maybe they had a lot of great but varying ideas for locations to take Mario so they came up with a concept where the could include them all?
DaytonaMario USA 2.
That comparison is very nice tbh, I love the look of SEGA's arcade days
Dark Cloud
Member
Lmao what??
Jonneh3003
Banned
Wasn't expecting a negative reaction, I thought it looked amazing.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Something tells me we will see Iwata and Miyamoto as NPCs walking around the city.
RareFantasy64
Member
Yeah, this IS that Mario 64-2/Sunshine 2 people wanted
Opticability
Banned
Looks interesting, but why does every pedestrian look like a mobster? lol
Hopefully they won't let Mario try to fuck a real human like they did with Sonic.
Hopefully they won't let Mario try to fuck a real human like they did with Sonic.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
This is obviously in the Mario Bros Super Show timeline
RampagingSoul
Member
Probably, some effects and textures would be toned down and it might have to be 720p30fps instead of 720p60fps with a rare drop like 3D World. Mainly because the levels look like they are more detailed, bigger/open and have more going on based on the trailer.
Would explain that random guy's reaction.
Edit: Wait a minute, that art style of the humans' faces reminds me of this:
Always-honest
Banned
It's mostly the inconsistent art-style. Mario has always been stylized. Now there are these realistic elements that look really boring, flat and out of place.
Gameplay is probably really good.
That city and the jungle specifically looked really bad imo. I hope to god that i don't have to spend much time in that city and that it's not an open world type of city. But we'll see.
It's not like i'm not going to buy it or anything.
That is exactly what this game is though?
Deft Beck
Member
I think it's goofy enough of a juxtaposition that it works.
AusRoachman
Member
Would take an entire game with that style . Looks amazing .
Magic Mushroom
Member
Same here. This is my most wanted game of the year now.
I like the city as well. Rope skipping, bouncing of caps and swinging on traffic lights, cap hopping from skyscraper to skyscraper: looks like a lovely gameplay sandbox,
Happy to hear it's 60 fps. It looks like the developers are having a ton of fun making this game, everything looks wildly creative and interesting. Yeah, the city part looks drab and boring, but they have a lot of time to jazz it up and stylize the graphics to a more mario-esque aesthetic. I have a feeling this game is gonna be delayed to 2018, but here's hoping its gonna make it in time for Christmas.
It was probably initially planned for Wii U and then pushed back and reworked when it tanked to be released on the Switch. I think that probably a few early Switch titles were developed in the same way. Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart Switch have this feel to them, though the latter's additional content would have probably just been DLC for MK8.
MarkMclovin
Member
Those colours holy shit.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Yeah, that's what I was hoping it to be when they showed 5 second reveal previously. This is great artstyle and fits Mario. The city look like as if they looked at Lego City Undercover and wanted their own version of it.
ShockingAlberto
Member
All throughout the first level of Bayonetta 2, I was angry with grief
Why, Platinum
Why did you copy Sonic 2006 by having a city
Why, Platinum
Why did you copy Sonic 2006 by having a city
Franz Brötchen
Banned
Now, that honestly surprises me. Isn't it clear that because the console is 50$ more than 'expected' that now also this game must suck? This is NeoGAF!
OrbitalBeard
Member
I think this and Zelda are gong to be the two best games of 2017. And this has now taken Zelda's place as my most anticipated game. Watching the trailer again and I couldn't be more thrilled with the direction they're taking 3D Mario.