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Super Mario Odyssey Announced (Holiday 2017)
- Thread starter FireBeaver
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Not sure why I glossed over this earlier. Thank god it will be a return to sunshine & 64 style gameplay.
Anyone have a translation on that text?
Huge Succeeded
Banned
lol, Nintendo is grouping them here based on their differing approach to world design in particular, because it's a useful differentiator and because it's an easy way to establish the kind of game they're going for here. I feel like labeling both Galaxy and 3D World as 'course clear' games is meant to signify the kind of game Odyssey will be by contrast, especially considering the elements that define the games Odyssey was grouped with under 'open world'. Nintendo isn't saying "The games on the top are all the exact same as one another"
You know, that's a pretty perfect way to describe it. It feels great to be getting a big budget 3D Mario game again.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
If you want to talk logic then considering the launch window lineup and their online plans readiness, the entire system should have launched as their game holiday offering.
Supermanisdead
Member
everything looks good except that hideous sonic 06 city
matrix-cat
Member
"Course Clear" style 3D and sandbox exploration 3D, basically.
Icyflamez96
Member
Oh hell yeah. The majority of Galaxy's levels are just as linear as 3D World. I was really surprised at that when I first played it last year considering how people talk about it compared to 3D World.
Everything about this looks amazing except for the realistic humans straight out of that Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episode. That shit looks like trash, the contrast between everything else is kind of insane, so maybe there's some in-game reason for it that will make sense when it comes up.
That makes sense, thank you.
If they keep a 2d Mario, that would be 3 concurrent Mario platform series? That's a lot.
I mean, I'm not complaining, but that's a lot. Maybe 1 of each series per generation?
The purpose of this is to show that MO is a return to open world style gaming, similar to sunshine or 64, as opposed to start at point a, end at point b (course clear style).
EDIT: I am really thrilled to see this return, fwiw, it has been too long. Sunshine was great.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
All I want fixed is the humans to fit more with Mario's look. Everything else is fine. They look too Sonic-y right now and that's a terrible thing.
ChosenPredator
Banned
so is something wrong with mario? he's suppose to be human right but everyone else in the world looks different then him lol
^^^^ thinking the same thing as me lol
^^^^ thinking the same thing as me lol
Mario is a cartoon human and he goes in a more realistic world, that's it.
ChosenPredator
Banned
ah okay, makes sense. Sort of like Roger Rabbit.
Exactly !
Or Cool World, that I watched yesterday for the first time. Weird, weird movie.
WouldYouKindly
Banned
Lol we cant be seriously thinking this is what it will actually look like....
If so deff be a reason to get a switch down the line
If so deff be a reason to get a switch down the line
How is jumping through paintings in a hub world to choose a level "sandbox exploration"?
stenbumling
Unconfirmed Member
The moment I realized the city was just a level among others (instead of being a hub) my opinion completely changed from "oh man, this is strange, don't know what to feel" to "December!? I need this NOW". I think beginning the trailer with the city was a bad choice. It set a very weird tone for everything following it.
Dark Cloud
Member
No it didn't. I've watch plenty of videos. It made it mysterious because nobody really knew what the game was and it gave people a good shock like "holy crap it's Mario in a real world?!?", then people saw he got in the ship and was flying to other locations.
I dunno, it's just one level out of several others. The fact that you interpreted it as being the hub world just because it was early in the trailer doesn't mean it was a bad idea to have it early in the trailer, lol. I do agree that it isn't the most attractive level shown, and that it would have been better off later on in the trailer, but oh well.
I am not even kidding when i say this seems like on of the best decisions Nintendo has made in the past ten years. So happy to see 64/Sunshine style back. I always thought that the first Galaxy is kind of a bridge game between these two styles though.
lensoftruth
Member
What do you mean? That is what the game looks like
forknknife
Banned
Good post. I'm actually very happy that they are going to try something new, i just wished the art direction was different but, seeing how they want to follow the steps of sunshine, is not that surprising since i would say that is the 3d mario i liked the least aesthetically.
In any case, maybe add you say they can still improve on it quite a bit. I'm just worried about those rumors saying the game was basically finished and just delayed so that they can release it during the holidays.
grim-tales
Member
I agree, superb game. Wish it could be on the VC.
I meant to post in this thread.
Short gameplay footage for those who haven't see it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvAQcQo3iE
The environmental interactivity is going to be insane.
Short gameplay footage for those who haven't see it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvAQcQo3iE
The environmental interactivity is going to be insane.
Ryo Hazuki
Member
The way I interpreted it was that Mario and the humans shown here are from different worlds. The humans from our world and Mario from whichever cartoon alternate universe he's from. Somehow Mario travels to our world (and maybe others) hence the title Super Mario Odyssey. So doesn't it make sense they look different and not like Mario?
ScientificPizza
Banned
forknknife
Banned
OK, gameplay wise it's going to be awesome, that's for sure!
Looks amazing.
Much like the event in general, it's Nintendo's presentation that let's them down. The trailer was...meh. But this instantly looks far more enticing and somehow much better graphically.
The levels themselves were little sandboxes.
System Seller Killer App right there.
sixteen-bit
Member
love this.
InsaneFandom
Member
Not a fan of those people in the city but overall this looks like fantastic fun
I'm liking the hat mechanic
I'm liking the hat mechanic
I've been thinking the same thing.
Nocturnowl
Member
I'm so unreasonably excited for the potential of the hat lob bop.
Chill Penguin
Member
Same as me. 3d land and world just weren't for me I guess. The excitement for Odyssey is making me feel like a kid again.
Well I guess all those peeps who told me I was wrong for lumping the Galaxy games with 3D Land and World can go shag horses or something cos the facts have been laid bare and, as always, I was right and were wrong all along.
Luckily I enjoy both styles, though I'd say my preferences lays with the linear games, but that's also because it consists of four extremely good games that had the benefit of refinement to the Mario formula over the year. Open world Mario consists of Mario 64, which was their first time with Mario in a 3D space and Sunshine, which is, well, Sunshine.
I expect Odyssey to be a fine result of what they've learnt over the years from both styles of games.
MrSaturn99
Member
Preach. I haven't been this excited for a 3D Mario since Galaxy 2.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
will be shocked if this isnt GOTY tbh