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Mario & Sonic at the Olympics E3 thread

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:14 pm
by Rlan
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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [Wii]

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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:27 pm
by Ngangbius
Wow! Mario & Sonic at the Olympics looks dumb and bizzare!

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:00 pm
by Segaholic2
Preemptively nominating Mario & Sonic for GOTY 2k7.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:03 pm
by Yami CJMErl
Holy crap, they already started it?!

*was caught COMPLETELY off-guard*

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:06 pm
by FlashTHD
Aaaaahahahaha holy christ. That's all I need to see of Mario & Sonic for the rest of my life.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:07 pm
by James McGeachie
Nights and SRA both look utterly embarassingly shit and like neither development team has a fucking clue what they're doing.

Mario and Sonic on the other hand...well so far it's looking fairly decent, visually at least. The style is nice and it feels like there's some effort going into the presentation. Really can't say a lot yet though until we have any idea how it plays.

As a whole though, so far Sega's Nintendo showings are spectacularly shit/mediocre, wooh!

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:50 am
by Opa-Opa
It doesn't look very different from the other olympics games...

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:56 am
by Esrever
Sigh! Sonic and Mario finally cross over... by being pasted into a bunch of bland real-world Olympic facilities to play lame-ass mini-games.

What makes this a Mario or Sonic game exactly, outside of the character models? Five bucks says this title was originally being developed as a regular Olympics game without using either license.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:09 am
by One Classy Bloke
Oh god there are jaggies everywhere! They could at least make it look good.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:57 am
by Frieza2000
This is the first time I've seen this year's Olympic mascots. Their ubiquitous Carebear/Teletubby facades make this already jarring concept seem like a bad trip.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:25 am
by Ngangbius
I don't know man. The Beijing mascots are not nearly as ill-concieved as Izzy.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:52 pm
by M.C.Dillinger
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^Sam The Eagle

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:39 pm
by Ngangbius
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Heh, you can tell he was created by a Disney animator as he would fit in with The Three Caballeros. I don't see anything really bad about his design except for the concept was a bit cliche.

The Beijing mascots are called the Fuwa, and I think they are the best looking Olympic mascots so far.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:23 pm
by Yami CJMErl
They vaguely remind me of some sort of elemental panda bears...I guess it's cool (one for each Olympic Ring and all), but it also screams "CAPTAIN PLANET!" to me. -__-;;

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:06 pm
by Esrever
M.C.Dillinger wrote:Image
^Sam The Eagle
So, what country were the Olympics being held in that year?

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:07 pm
by G.Silver
What was the mascot when it was in Canada? A bottle of maple syrup?

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:49 pm
by Segaholic2
It was a beaver, obviously.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:05 pm
by Shadow Hog
Ngangbius wrote:The Beijing mascots are called the Fuwa, and I think they are the best looking Olympic mascots so far.
Although, to be frank, they all look freakishly like the Blue Badger from <i>Phoenix Wright</i>.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:27 pm
by Hybrid
The first two screenshots did exactly what I hoped this game wouldn't do: Pit Mario and Sonic against each other in contests only one of them should win. There's just no fucking way Mario should be competing against Sonic in a race.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:46 pm
by Dasher
Hell, Bowser and Eggman are in it too, so theyre going to stand a chance aswell heh.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:16 pm
by cjmcray
That stadium is generic as butt.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:18 pm
by Locit
I'm sure it's real-world accurate.

Re: Mario & Sonic at the Olympics E3 thread

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:59 pm
by Opa-Opa
Rlan wrote: Image
Somewhat ironic.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:39 pm
by Yami CJMErl
*hits himself for not noticing it earlier*

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:20 am
by Radrappy
I was hoping so hard that the stadiums would at least be located in the mushroom kingdom or GHZ. color me severely disappointed

EDIT: Has anyone else noticed that the audience is made up entirely of Chao and Toads? Now that's totally cool.