Author Topic: Mario Galaxy (Read 238037 times)

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #50 on:** May 11, 2006, 11:04:50 AM »

"Is it just me, or does this game remind you of Le Petit Prince??"

I didn't notice this in your post before, but I thought the exact same thing. Which is awesome, because I love that story

Possibly two of my favorite childhood things combined

Ah, I see what you mean Caterkiller. Because it's still quite fantastic, but not nearly as much.

Louieturkey · « **Reply #51 on:** May 11, 2006, 11:33:48 AM »

IGN has a couple online details. Thought you might want to know.

Artimus · « **Reply #52 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:30:09 PM »

Go watch the "HD" video at IGN...I wet myself. Repeatedly. Unbelieveable.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #53 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:53:36 PM »

Yeah, I saw that video a few hours ago.
All I have to say about Mario Galaxy, based on that video alone, is this:

Game of the Freakin' Show

That's got me more excited than anything else. It looked incredible. I love this game. I can't even put it into words.
I'll have to describe why I like it, in detail, later. Preferably when more details are available

IceCold · « **Reply #54 on:** May 11, 2006, 08:58:50 PM »

Wow, it just keeps getting better and better..

wandering · « **Reply #55 on:** May 11, 2006, 09:07:15 PM »

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Game of the Freakin' Show

Unfortunatley, a Nintendo game has about as much chance of winning a game of show award as a foreign language film has of winning the oscar for best picture....

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #56 on:** May 11, 2006, 09:19:45 PM »

I was speaking on personal terms.
Either way, I think things are beginning to turn around for Nintendo. Maybe not drastically, but dusty cogs are beginning to turn.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #57 on:** May 12, 2006, 08:15:21 AM »

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Originally posted by: Hostile Creation
Game of the Freakin' Show

I couldn't agree more ^^

oh, it says "You got a star!" now........well, if it said "Star get!" I would've laughed very hard XD

Artimus · « **Reply #58 on:** May 12, 2006, 10:36:06 AM »

Matt at IGN said it was an IGN contender for GoS.

wandering · « **Reply #59 on:** May 12, 2006, 07:54:34 PM »

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Matt at IGN said it was an IGN contender for GoS.

Yeah, just like Life is Beautiful was a contender for best picture. Nice gesture, but never happening.

IceCold · « **Reply #60 on:** May 12, 2006, 08:37:35 PM »

Metroid Prime won it in 2002, the small planet part did remind me of Le Petit Prince (needed a baobab tree), Life is Beautiful won the award for best foreign film (so maybe they should have a category for Nintendo games only) and I want Mario now.

IceCold · « **Reply #61 on:** May 18, 2006, 09:00:25 PM »

I just saw the new HD footage from IGN - tell me that would control well with the traditional setup..

Avinash_Tyagi · « **Reply #62 on:** May 18, 2006, 11:03:59 PM »

Tycho at Penny Arcade loves Mario Galaxy:

literally felt torn away from Super Mario Galaxy. I have told you before that I hate playing games at E3, that I believe a worse environment for the enjoyment of interactive entertainment could not be engineered on purpose. Something pure managed to survive that hostile environment and find purchase, and when this son of a bitch hits a kiosk walk directly up to the machine and play it. Visually bold and reminiscent of The Little Prince, you will find yourself sailing from world to world, with and controls that actively reinforce that your hands themselves are floating in space as well. Mario is controlled with the analog attachment, and the pointing device in your other hand essentially "helps" him in various ways by manipulating the environment. A platform game where tiny worlds are the platforms while boundless space fills in the cracks essentially feels amazing.

Artimus · « **Reply #63 on:** May 19, 2006, 04:48:38 AM »

Life is Beautiful also won Best Actor, one of the only foreign performances to win any acting award.

IceCold · « **Reply #64 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:18:13 PM »

Miyamoto on SMG..

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Our biggest focus with "Super Mario Galaxy" is having different spheres or planets Mario can visit, with the idea being if the planet gets very, very large the scenery will look more like he's running across a plane. But if the planet is very small it almost looks like he's running around a ball. You can essentially run over the spheres almost endlessly. But when you do that you're moving in a 3-D space but without the typical camera issues that we've had in 3-D games in the past. What that allows us to do is take a game like "Mario" that has been a very jump-based game in the past, and turn it into a game that is more [about] Mario running around a lot and going to different places and kind of enjoying that.

[The game will also] take advantage of the Wii remote's pointing capabilities to allow you to directly interact with things on the screen by pointing at them or clicking on something to get Mario to go exactly where you want to go. In that sense, I think it's going to allow for a much more intuitive camera system and much more intuitive control scheme that will allow people who have never played a 3-D "Mario" game before to feel comfortable enjoying "Super Mario Galaxy."

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #65 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:26:01 PM »

Tycho summed it up really well.
I can't wait to play this game. I'm going to have to abandon the internet until I get it. I dunno. This is torture already.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #66 on:** May 26, 2006, 08:54:22 PM »

I froth. Froth with me.

IceCold · « **Reply #67 on:** May 26, 2006, 09:20:39 PM »

Every day.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #68 on:** May 27, 2006, 01:52:21 PM »

I'm frothin'.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #69 on:** May 27, 2006, 04:54:37 PM »

Crimm · « **Reply #70 on:** May 27, 2006, 05:24:13 PM »

*froths everywhere*

ThePerm · « **Reply #71 on:** May 28, 2006, 09:52:22 PM »

on second look the character model doesnt look bad at all

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #72 on:** May 28, 2006, 10:41:17 PM »

Don't trust the screenshot. It's not in a pristine resolution, and it underwent some horrible pixel-resize. Nintendo should've used Lanczos-resize and not Photoshop's stupid dither.

Wackman · « **Reply #73 on:** May 28, 2006, 10:42:48 PM »

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on second look the character model doesnt look bad at all

No, it doesn't look bad at all. I wish that more Wii developers will put the same kind of effort in their graphics.
I can't understand how you thought the character graphics looked bad.. were you watching highly compresed clips?
Such an improvement over mario sunshine!

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #74 on:** May 29, 2006, 01:16:05 AM »

I was watching some more videos of the game, and I am even more impressed by the graphics. The spider boss along with the various planets look really next-generation (heck they look like CGI at times), all at a top notch framerate (which is my main concern when it comes to graphics).

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