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Super Mario Odyssey Announced (Holiday 2017)
- Thread starter FireBeaver
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My mistake.I love the look of the City part.
It's weird. Really weird. But that's the reason, surely? I don't think the sort of robotic, vague blandness of the human characters is accidental by any means. If anything they should look completley faceless and plastic like the Wii trainers, just to up the weird some more.
This screenshot is great and for me perfectly captures all the weird disconnect between Mario and this world they need to. This is such an "oh I get it!" screen grab.
It's weird. Really weird. But that's the reason, surely? I don't think the sort of robotic, vague blandness of the human characters is accidental by any means. If anything they should look completley faceless and plastic like the Wii trainers, just to up the weird some more.
This screenshot is great and for me perfectly captures all the weird disconnect between Mario and this world they need to. This is such an "oh I get it!" screen grab.
Milly Osworth
Member
I don't mind New Donk City like some do but I think they should have made all the people "Mario-ish" rather than relatively realistic looking.
Otherwise I loved what I saw. I loved the hat ability, the rolling, the environments. The game looks like a joy to explore.
I think the POINT is that it looks off and surreal. It's a New York world you visit, probably the only city type level.
Conkerkid11
Member
I like how you think that my disappointment with the art style of the city portion of this game is a joke.
That's a convenient way for you to disregard opinions opposing yours.
Milly Osworth
Member
Could someone please, PLEASE make a gif of Mario dancing from the trailer?
Why hasn't it been done yet >_>
Why hasn't it been done yet >_>
ShockingAlberto
Member
I was talking about the Sonic 2006 joke.
But you sorta just kept running off a cliff there.
Newsflash: MARIO isn't a human , he's a cartoon video game character. The idea here is that bowser has some how crossed into the human world, basically across dimensions, and Mario has to stop him.
I think it looks great, and a nice departure from previous games in the series. I'm even more excited that it's not another "new" super mario title.
This looks like a proper follow up to galaxy
I think it looks great, and a nice departure from previous games in the series. I'm even more excited that it's not another "new" super mario title.
This looks like a proper follow up to galaxy
Simbabbad
Member
It nearly all looks off, it looks like those horrendous "Mario in Unreal engine" videos. Not only the game doesn't attract me at all, but I'll probably pass on the whole console, and I loved the Wii and liked the GameCube and Wii U a lot.
It's a perfectly relevant comparison, it nails what's wrong with this game.
A human world called "New Donk City" with Mario world objects everywhere. Brilliant work, Detective. I'd say no. NDC is probably still part of his universe.
On topic:
I gotta say, the NDC part of the game looks like really, really bad fanfiction. Mario looks like an actual midget next to people, and I'd say the parcour part of the game in the city will get extremely repetitive after a while, so I don't see any added benefit. Just my two cents :-/
Loved all games since the first NES Mario, but I think I'm gonna skip this one.
ErrorMacro
Member
Ehh, I must be one of the few people who really loved the city area. And I totally see what they were going for with the "normal humans". It's like each individual area is defined by their different race of inhabitants, to show the different universes Mario travels through in his Odyssey. Thus the idea is to make it all seem varied and clashing with Mario, like the robots, the Mexican skulls, or the weird glass vegetables are. That's the point of having normal humans: what if one of the universes that Mario visits is our own?
I loved everything I saw about the trailer. A lot of it are wishes I've had for a long time for Mario games, and the sheer variety and weirdness in a small trailer beats anything 3D world has shown in the entire game. The only thing I didn't like much was their music choice. I'd rather have a more 'epic' sounding music.
I loved everything I saw about the trailer. A lot of it are wishes I've had for a long time for Mario games, and the sheer variety and weirdness in a small trailer beats anything 3D world has shown in the entire game. The only thing I didn't like much was their music choice. I'd rather have a more 'epic' sounding music.
I always thought he was human in the sense that he's not a furry animal (like Donkey Kong or Sonic for instance), but not human in the sense that Lara Croft or Duke Nukem, etc are.
I don't see how people could look at him and imagine him as a real life plumber, jumping and going wahoo everywhere. He is impossibly cutesy to be a regular human.
Maybe they named the city after the hugely popular "Donkey Kong" series of video games
Maybe they named the city after the hugely popular "Donkey Kong" series of video games
It literally is, you can see Diddy's Mast as a pub or something as well as road called Dixie Street
Haha what the fuck kind of nonsense argument is this? Yes Mario is a human. He is also a cartoon. They are not mutually exclusive.
whalleywhat
Member
Weird. A few nice looking areas and some jarringly bad ones. Mario 2006 seems entirely apropos. Actually, dude brought up Sunshine himself, but there are weirdos on here who like that game.
NippleViking
Banned
I think it's cool.
Here's a question for Gaf -What other countries/locations from our world should they borrow from?
Tokyo or China (particularly New Year) at night would be incredible.
oooooooh, them's good vibes
sammyCYBORG
Member
Very different in a lot of ways but I like the look of it. I've been itching for another open world-ish Mario game for a while since 64/Sunshine.
I think it's cool, too. It's just an awkward aspect of the whole scene, haha.
V excited for the game, don't get me wrong. Sounds like a really interesting direction to take the series/franchise in.
Conkerkid11
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Kssio_Aug
Member
And this also seems not to be what I was expecting.
I didn't like to see Mario running and jumping in an "real-word" grey scenario, mixing him and "real people" designs, which makes him looks like a cartoon plumber dwarf.
Was expecting something more in the lines with Mario 64... Oh wel...
I didn't like to see Mario running and jumping in an "real-word" grey scenario, mixing him and "real people" designs, which makes him looks like a cartoon plumber dwarf.
Was expecting something more in the lines with Mario 64... Oh wel...
I'll be honest, when I first saw that realistic world with those awkward looking people walking around and then the manhole cover started rumbling... I thought Sonic was going to jump out and the camera would pan up to reveal Sonic Adventure 3. When it turned out to be Mario, I was dumbstruck, and not in a positive way. I'm glad there are multiple worlds, but man, if that doesn't look like a disjointed mess of gameplay and artistic styles.
GurgleBot20
Member
Mario's movement looks incredibly solid.
NippleViking
Banned
I understand it's a bit abrasive, but I like how the art's actually a bit inconsistent here. I really like how the direction seems to be different between worlds (classic style Desert, Forest with more realistic shaders, uber uncanny City-scape, bonkers 3d gamey realm). Hopefully Nintendo both has fun with it, and goes truly wild.
This was just straight up crazy. At first it seemed like maybe Mario was going to real world places, but then he went to vegetable land and rode a sphinx. The variety of moves at Mario's disposal is impressive, and the hat mechanic could lead into some interesting gameplay mechanics. I'm excited, Mario always delivers (except for NSMB 2).
There's definitely a surrealist link between Magritte and that Mario level, or (3D) Mario in general.
The Netherlands. Would love some awesome windmill levels a la Tropical Freeze but in 3D.
HappyBivouac
Member
The more I watch the trailer, this really looks like the pseudo open world heavy exploration Mario game I've dreamed of since 64. It's like with sunshine they expanded on the exploration driven platformer concept of 64 , and then after that they just forgot about it (and still released some fantastic games of course; just not in this vein). This looks to be bringing that back and expanding on it in a really big way, and it's glorious.
The jarring art styles are intentional. I'd bet money that there'll be a much more positive reaction to the visuals overall once people are actually sitting down and playing the game.
The jarring art styles are intentional. I'd bet money that there'll be a much more positive reaction to the visuals overall once people are actually sitting down and playing the game.
PdotMichael
Banned
Well. This is awkward.
Looks like a bad case of franchise X done with the Unreal engine demo.
whalleywhat
Member
lol "It's supposed to be like Francis Bacon. That's why you find it unpleasant."
theAntagonist
Member
As someone who has preferred the direction 3D Mario went in after Super Mario Sunshine, where the games went to a greater focus on tight platforming/jumping sequences rather than a focus on roaming wide areas, I thought this was pretty disappointing.
It's too early to pass too much judgement on it, but I have to say, it feels like the people who'd rather have 3D Mario be more about walking/roaming than obstacle clearing are getting their wish.
It's too early to pass too much judgement on it, but I have to say, it feels like the people who'd rather have 3D Mario be more about walking/roaming than obstacle clearing are getting their wish.
He's a plumber...
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Game looks fantastic. I was expecting to see Toads and a bunch of Yoshi in New Donk City, but real humans will do. lol
badcrumble
Member
I hope there's a tribute to the original Mario Bros. game in this.
But also I hope for a deadly serious cutscene in which it turns out Pauline thought Mario was dead and she remarried and has two kids now
But also I hope for a deadly serious cutscene in which it turns out Pauline thought Mario was dead and she remarried and has two kids now
Diddy Kong
Banned
In New Donk City there is an ad with this building and "KOGWALD"
Dixie Street!
Graphics Horse
Member
The ship being the shape of a top hat has got to lead to a visual gag somewhere, like landing on the statue of liberty's head or something
Could this be the Dark Forest backdrop from Super Mario Bros. 3 (All-Stars Version)?Are there gonna be raptors in this game? at 1:33 in this video i see a tail move behind a tree just left of center on the screen, anyone else see this?
And if New Kong City is a 3D version of the world of the original DK game, and there's a SMB2-inspired level...
...could this game be a 3D odyssey through strange worlds from Mario's 2D past?