Agreed. The city and realistic forest just look so bland. Completely out of place.
Also, Mario with actual hairs in his moustache.. idk. Why does he need to be realistic? Doesn't make sense to me. Would fit Zelda better.
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Super Mario Odyssey Announced (Holiday 2017)
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Also, Mario with actual hairs in his moustache.. idk. Why does he need to be realistic? Doesn't make sense to me. Would fit Zelda better.
RampagingSoul
Member
I think the city is jarring like the Sonic Adventure games' cities were. It looks like a nice level to explore and jump around in though. The human models are mainly what stick out. I really like the variety of levels from what we've got so far. Can't wait to see this at Treehouse if it's there (which it probably will!).
Dark Cloud
Member
Yeah it's not hard to understand. It looks like a masterpiece.
Burning Justice
the superior princess
Mario Odyssey looks really good. May very well be the best-looking game they showed, tough call between it and Zelda. Definitely excited to play a SM64-styled Mario game again.
Too bad the rumors of it being a launch title didn't pan out... This may have even been enough to get me to buy a Switch at launch.
Too bad the rumors of it being a launch title didn't pan out... This may have even been enough to get me to buy a Switch at launch.
1981-ND
Diddys Mart.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
I feel so torn regarding the real world City aesthetics. On one hand, it's giving me a bit of nostalgic excitement (the same way I felt when I first saw footage of Sonic Adventure for DC.) On the other, it really feels outta place right now.
When the city first appeared, and mario's flying hub thing didn't go across the sky, I legit thought it was gonna be a new Crazy Taxi or something.
When the city first appeared, and mario's flying hub thing didn't go across the sky, I legit thought it was gonna be a new Crazy Taxi or something.
Ignoring the fact that people would have complained nonstop about his mustache being ambiguously-textured because it would draw even more attention to how low-tech this is compared to upcoming PS4 and Xbone titles, I mean, why not give his mustache some hairs? How is it ultimately any different from basically every CGI animated film out right now that has cartoony-looking characters but realistic textures and locations?
Spinosaurus
Member
Not too thrilled on what they showed. Barely any platforming.
I hope later trailers show more platforming focus. The hat move has so much potential.
I hope later trailers show more platforming focus. The hat move has so much potential.
eyeball_kid
Member
The critiques are not about hub worlds. It's because the general art direction is bad -- garish colors, simplistic models, a certain lifelessness to everything -- and because there's no single aesthetic tying together the environments, such as a PS1-era textured CG city with glowy Galaxy-era elements in another area.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
ive got far more of an issue with Mario's shiny ass shoes than I do with his hair being... hair instead of an bulbous brown polyblob
That shit looks great. Not just not bad, it genuinely improves Mario's design as far as I'm concerned.
Good to know, still, I wish environments of that style didn't exist at all, the levels shown didn't have a common artistic theme and it made the art feel unfocused.
Still early days I guess.
Yeah but did you see him throw the hat in the air and then jump on it? That's going to feel sooooo satisfying
Spinosaurus
Member
Yeah, hence why I said the hat has so much potential.
Really hope they show it off eventually.It's a game. There are different worlds and dimensions and shit. Don't take it too seriously.
Oh wow, they're shiny as fuck.
Aldric
Member
It's not a "realistic forest" at all. lt's a mechanized world with a forest element and a background made of giant tv screens showing cloudy skies, like the Octoling stages in Splatoon's single player campaign.
l don't get the kneejerk reactions. lt looks pretty damn creative and stylized.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
Compare this to 3d worlds first trailer. This is a godsend when you compare it to that
TheXfactor
Member
i dont take gafs opinions seriously to mario titles anymore after 3d world, any remember that thread reveal?
Spinosaurus
Member
Which was justified, considering what they showed back then.
I don't think anyone is calling the game is bad, everyone is just reacting to what was shown. Nothing wrong with that.
encephalon
Member
It's not just that it looks like Sonic Adventure at a conceptual level; the city and its residents look really weird. Almost like amateurish, early rendering attempts.
The art direction doesn't really seem to work either. What is going on here? I thought World looked great.
The art direction doesn't really seem to work either. What is going on here? I thought World looked great.
Is it this trailer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLOKVABfrzw Because this trailer looks amazing, and Mario Odyssey looks like pure jank.
Oh wow.
I'm pretty sure they're referring to 3D World's debut trailer at E3 2013.
Spinosaurus
Member
This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwwjcfgTksU
The trailer you posted got a lot of positive reactions.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Considering how right off the bat after the city world they showed a very simple cel-shaded "food" world and a rather textured/oddly lightened forest world, no - they really are aiming for the different "styles" per world.
serenewarfare
Banned
Looks like a Sonic Adventure feel. Except probably not trash to play.
Aldric
Member
Nothing about 3D World ever looked "amazing". Good thing it's dead and we finally get an ambitious 3D Mario again.
superpickleman
Member
An Italian living in the sewers of NYC.
That's some damn fine stereotyping right there.
That's some damn fine stereotyping right there.
Always-honest
Banned
Well, art-direction lost this battle. I think they listened to people without imagination a bit too much. Hopefully the gameplay will be great. I've never seen a Mario game look so inconsistent in art-direction. There were also some interesting sections. So there will be enough variation i guess.
But that's my only gripe thus far. I don't like these realistic elements like the city being a human city and the jungle being realistic instead of a mushroom trip.
But that's my only gripe thus far. I don't like these realistic elements like the city being a human city and the jungle being realistic instead of a mushroom trip.
Heh... The only way to go beyond galaxies would be alternate dimensions.
DonMigs85
Member
I'm hoping there's an in-game explanation. Maybe completely different dimensions/realities?
Real_Madrid
Member
It looks weird, that's for sure.
