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Super Mario Odyssey Announced (Holiday 2017)
- Thread starter FireBeaver
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DieNgamers
Member
NIIIICE! Just woke up to this.
Finally another main line Mario. 3D World is nice and all but this looks more like a serious project from the guys who made Galaxy, right?
What is this crazy concept? Multiple dimensions? Surreal worlds? The variety of old games like 6 golden coins and finally a depature of the standard Mario levels?
I'M SO READY!
Finally another main line Mario. 3D World is nice and all but this looks more like a serious project from the guys who made Galaxy, right?
What is this crazy concept? Multiple dimensions? Surreal worlds? The variety of old games like 6 golden coins and finally a depature of the standard Mario levels?
I'M SO READY!
It was the most powerful system when it launched. GameCube and Xbox were over a year later.
Its "superior" power was a huge factor in it killing the Dreamcast.
In 5 years when someone asks the question - "When did the most powerful console ever win the generation"
and someone says "PS4"
Your going to be that guy that says "PS4 Hahahaha..Scorpio"
and actually think your thought process wasn't completely bungled.
Captain Europe
Member
Yeah definitely, these screenshots look fantastic.
The design choices for the city and forest level are really puzzling.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Looks way better to me.
FloweryMarston
Member
It's gaf meltdown time, it's expected. This game looks like the masterpiece that i was expecting since mario galaxy. The next step of mario gameplay. They brought the dive back.
The sonic comparisons make my head hurt and look like more concern trolling because having a "realistic" city was not the problem with sonic. But okay, gaf can have its meltdown
Galactic Specter
Member
Being a single father is tough for Bowser.
OmegaSmash
Member
Odyssey was revealed a year after Watch for Rolling Rocks was uploaded
Captain Europe
Member
I don't think people seriously think that this game is going to be as bad as Sonic 06. It just has that cartoony character thrown in a real world vibe.
Surely if we retextured the game to something more brightly-colored it'll fix everything wrong with it.
Some people are seriously citing the city as an objective detriment to the game on the basis of Sonic 06 having a city. It's dumb AF.
snow in jamaica
Member
Any screenshots of when Koizumi got into costume and looked like a Lazy Town villain?
Nobody's saying that was the only thing wrong with Sonic 06. But it sure as hell didn't help.
I mean the city wasn't what was bad about sonic 06. What was bad about sonic 06 was the terrible loadtimes, glitching through everything, the fucked up physics, 'your too slow" and other quotes repeated a crapload, the story with the human girl and such. The city was the least of sonic 06 issues...
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Laurel_McFang
Member
They showed so many not so impressive open enviroments and so little impressive platforming. On the other hand Donkey Kong themed city is nice. I get the feeling this will work out, but Zelda seems to have the innovative open world. Nice spotting a super mario brothers 2 segment.
Also looks like the cap will be switchable hence you will probably get a power up for a longer period of time.
Also looks like the cap will be switchable hence you will probably get a power up for a longer period of time.
ProfessorLobo
Banned
Agreed. The one salvaging thing from tonights mess.
Conrad Link
Member
I don't understand why people freak out over the city stuff, its clearly just one stage Mario will visit, like City Zone or something isn't it?
People on Twitter etc are like meh @ Mario 2006/GTA, what have they done to my Mario games!! :\
Also I remember people not thinking much of 3D World when it was announced too, everyone needs to relax and trust EAD Tokyo.
People on Twitter etc are like meh @ Mario 2006/GTA, what have they done to my Mario games!! :\
Also I remember people not thinking much of 3D World when it was announced too, everyone needs to relax and trust EAD Tokyo.
I think it looks fantastic. Some of the worlds look freaking amazing. Not sure how I feel about the real-ass people/eyes on the hat
Honey Bunny
Member
1. I'm sure it will be great.
2. It's really ugly, and I'm talking about the art design.
2. It's really ugly, and I'm talking about the art design.
That's the point. The "city"- which doesn't even look like Odyssey's- is such an incidental facet of Sonic 06 that it ultimately has little to nothing to do with why the game failed, but some people are seriously getting "Sonic 06 vibes" from the trailer as a justification for not being excited or even calling Nintendo "out of touch." What's next? A new fun wolf power-up being reminiscent of the Werehog? It's just a really bone-headed, superficial observation to make.
Risky, not ugly.
WordAssassin
Member
A couple things people might be forgetting with Mario, is that he himself is a short person, and also he's young.
But yeah it still looks weird.
But yeah it still looks weird.
RareFantasy64
Member
I can't believe how open the forest looks in some of the shots. There's a few where Mario looks like he is just exploring a traditional, large forest. Can't wait to see more
No way?
Souldriver
Member
I have to say that the game looks pretty iffy when it comes to art style.
With the Galaxy games they sort of perfected the art style of the 3D mario games. It was colorful, cute and cohesive, and, even with inferior hardware, every surface seemed to have a texture (metal is rusty, grass is fuzzy, ...).
I always thought: with better hardware this artstyle is gonna be gorgeous. But in reality the HD mario games look a little generic and everything has that plasticky shine to them. The best way I can describe it, is that the game looks like what a cutscene from PS2 era games would look. The geometry is there, just not the textures. The mario model in particular is off putting. Just a plastic puppet.
And that is without talking about that atrocious human world level. Fucking yuck!
(just for clarity: I'm only talking about art style here, not the gameplay aspects)
With the Galaxy games they sort of perfected the art style of the 3D mario games. It was colorful, cute and cohesive, and, even with inferior hardware, every surface seemed to have a texture (metal is rusty, grass is fuzzy, ...).
I always thought: with better hardware this artstyle is gonna be gorgeous. But in reality the HD mario games look a little generic and everything has that plasticky shine to them. The best way I can describe it, is that the game looks like what a cutscene from PS2 era games would look. The geometry is there, just not the textures. The mario model in particular is off putting. Just a plastic puppet.
And that is without talking about that atrocious human world level. Fucking yuck!
(just for clarity: I'm only talking about art style here, not the gameplay aspects)
Art Vandilay
Member
I don't know about this. I picture him as a grown, chubby man like in the movie.
I mean, it is precisely these mixed reactions that show how risky the aesthetic choices are, at least when considering the series as a whole.
Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't. Either way, I appreciate the willingness to try - which again, is something I feel people have been asking for.
They have. For probably 80% of the rest of the game.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Or you know, people are being out of touch considering the whole motif the game is having.
xviper
Member
holy shit WOW, this is AMAZING
i hated "3D" world because it's a lazy version of NEW mario bros that turned into "3D" and it has almost nothing new
now THIS is the change i have been waiting nintendo to do in a Mario game since Mario Galaxy, THIS is a REAL 3D mario game that, not that 3Disgrace world, Thank you nintendo, hope they add local co-op and online co-op
i have never liked a trailer like this since MGS V's Nuclear Trailer, now i'm buying a Switch no doubt, hope they don't delay it
EDIT: i just found out that there is no launch games except for Zelda, and it's coming to Wii u Too, well, i guess i'll just delay my Switch purchase
i hated "3D" world because it's a lazy version of NEW mario bros that turned into "3D" and it has almost nothing new
now THIS is the change i have been waiting nintendo to do in a Mario game since Mario Galaxy, THIS is a REAL 3D mario game that, not that 3Disgrace world, Thank you nintendo, hope they add local co-op and online co-op
i have never liked a trailer like this since MGS V's Nuclear Trailer, now i'm buying a Switch no doubt, hope they don't delay it
EDIT: i just found out that there is no launch games except for Zelda, and it's coming to Wii u Too, well, i guess i'll just delay my Switch purchase
RareFantasy64
Member
I see where concerns on the varied looks of levels causing a jarring overall visual style for the game are coming form. But I'm gonna trust that in Nintendo's vision for the game. Isn't it the same team that did the Galaxy games that is doing this? I think they know what they're doing
it seems like a lot of people can't wrap around the intent of this game's art direction being done in multiple ways because Mario is traveling through different worlds.
I'll put my money on the other basket.