I'm pretty shocked, this wasn't shown at the conference at all but it actually looks like it probably has the most potential out of everything I've seen from E3 so far. A new sidescrolling Mario (the game doesn't look to be an RPG) which actually has a unique art style and none of this horrible low poly 3d model rubbish of NSMB.
Colour me extremely surprised, this has shocked me even more than Yoshi's Island 2 and Mario Galaxy being shown.
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Can we keep all this Nintendo stuff in one thread? This forum isn't that big and we don't need a new thread for each individual game Nintendo's showing. That goes the same for the other major companies.
This... this is... this is the kind of game I have been looking for for oh-so-long! A fully sophisicated 2D platformer on a current or next generation console using high resolution 2D sprites and loads of polygonal elements. I am truly in love! That is the kind of game I plan on making when/if I get into the industry. Unbelievable! Now for Sonic to get a game like that. Forget 3D sprites ala Sonic Rush, I want 2D sprites in polygonal worlds!
James McGeachie wrote:A new sidescrolling Mario (the game doesn't look to be an RPG)
Are you being optimistic, or have you just never heard of Paper Mario/Super Mario RPG before?
Anyways, it looks really promising.
I own Paper Mario on Gamecube and have played through SMRPG, yes. Did you watch the video? This looks nothing like those at all. Every piece of footage is pure sidescrolling, or at least mainly focused on classic platforming action.
Can we keep all this Nintendo stuff in one thread? This forum isn't that big and we don't need a new thread for each individual game Nintendo's showing. That goes the same for the other major companies.
This is a Gamecube game, it's the kind of thing that's going to be skipped over easily with all the Wii hype but it looks more interesting than any of the Wii titles to me.
Wow. That's probably the biggest surpise so far. That actually looks a lot more interesting to me than most of the next-gen titles at the moment. The visual style is really imaginative and unique. And there I was thinking the GameCube was dead!
Nintendo is making a Sudoku videogame?? I mean, yeah, Sudoku is fun and all, but I don't think I'd pay 30 bucks to play it on the Nintendo DS (if I ever get one).
Is it just me, or do the graphics in Yoshi's Island 2 look flat-fuck boring? Where's the pretty colors and oddball backgrounds from the first game? The art design is one of the only things I really like about the original game.
Tsuyoshi-kun wrote:Nintendo is making a Sudoku videogame?? I mean, yeah, Sudoku is fun and all, but I don't think I'd pay 30 bucks to play it on the Nintendo DS (if I ever get one).
There's some considerable distance between finding Sudokus fun and being flat out addicted to them. This is "your fix... to go!" It'd be like looking over your car window and seeing someone smoking a joint behind the wheel of a 4×4.
I do love a good gridfest, but it'd better be able to automatically generate new ones and be super-bargain priced (I wouldn't shell out the thirty, either.) Otherwise people would be better off with Brain Age, which had hundreds of puzzles included.
If I had to venture a guess, a bizarre power-up or a mini-game.
Part of me wonders if the "new" gaming generation reacts to Mario's frequent delvings into nostalgia and self-reference as obnoxious as we all found... let's say, to pick an example, Shadow's gun. I do love the fact that they bring back old characters just as frequently as they invent new ones. And the addition of classic tracks in Mario Kart was more useful than showy, but stuff like this is starting to feel a little pompous.
I'm more tempted to call this "Mario's Acid Trip", given the math skies and geometric everything and Bowser/Peach hooking up and Mario's dry expression on his face while running around. Who in Nintendo was smoking what when they came up with this?
Super Paper Mario, New Super Mario Brothers, Super Mario Galaxy, and Yoshi Island 2.
WHAT
The Wii game, essentially the "Mario 128" people were waiting on for years. It was shown at the Nintendo conference yesterday, you can find videos on Gamespot and what not, just do a search for" Super Mario Galaxy".
You know, I miss the times where we shoot Mario fanboys...of course that was before Sega crashed and burned and the dead copse was sold to a Pachinko company.
Mario has nothing special; he just does everything, from killing bugs, to 3D, to being a doctor, to rescuing a princess a lot of times...and even using a stupid water device instead of jumping over enemies.
Mario has a Kart game and is the best, Sonic has a Kart game and its sucks cause Sonic has speed. Sonic is cool, Mario is just a parody, is a fat plunder with a big moustache who is addict to hallucinogens mushrooms. Being born with a more defined personally and things he can do and he can’t really end killing Sonic.
for Sega long run, Sonic should have been a generic, like Mario..
