Super Mario Galaxy

[URL="http://uk.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?event=e32006&sid=6149676&pid=915692"]Also really excited about this[/URL]

There weren't many hints to how it played at the Nintendo Press Conference, but it sure looks a lot of fun. Is this Mario 128?

i shure hope so looks great

Remember how that "Mario 128" tech demo shown at E3 2001 (I think) had all those Marios on a floating disc? This looks familiar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4wnkLKgfgQ

Gameplay footage OH THIS LOOKS AMAAAAAAAZING

i like how you walk right around the little planet things.

my *** this game looks amazing. The possabilities seem endless with the new space gameplay. And the graphics are fantastic, especially at the bossfight. Man, this game looks so fun. I wish I had it. Yup.

Well, from what I read from the IGN hands-on article. It seems pretty interesting. From what they said, you basically hop from planet to planet via a launching technique. Also, while on said planets/satellites you can go all around them. So it should make for some interesting puzzles and platforming. Another interesting thing was that it seems that you will have to use a spin move quite a bit, to deflect items and such thrown at you.

So, I'm going to assume that each planet has something special about it and they each have their own physics and whatnot, and I'll be correct to assume that, right?

Because I'll be disappointed if I'm not.

Though I'm glad to see they're doing something different with Mario. Different in the sense that they seem to be continuing with a Sunshine feel, but in a different setting with different abilities.

For some reason, the idea of a space-themed Mario game makes me hope for the return of Tatanga.

I mean, they brought back Daisy, why not the guy that kidnapped her?

An unusual theme for Mario, but just moving around and whatnot in that new style is going to be huge fun.

I hope the final version will have some bigger worlds. Pretty interesting theme nonetheless. Just as I loved M64, I'm sure I'll love this. However, I'm going to have to make my first Wii Gameplay experience Twilight Princess.

I am very comforted though, reading the IGN hands-on.

Hah, the boss fights look really fun.

Yeah, while watching a video of them playing it. It shows Mario land on a big planet with wildlife and everything. So the smaller planets will be like the castle(in 64), and the big planets will be like the painting. And of course, you'll probably have to earn so many stars(or whatever) to get to the next big planets. I have very high hopes already for this one. Probably going to be one of the first games I get.

OMG DOUBLE POST!

[quote=IGN]E3 2006: Mario to Miss Launch
Miyamoto says Galaxy should arrive within the first six months of Wii's debut.
by Matt Casamassina

May 10, 2006 - In an after hours press event on Wednesday night, Nintendo designer and manager Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that Super Mario Galaxy would probably not launch with Wii later this year.

"[Galaxy] is progressing along quite well, but it's often said that when I get involved in a project I upend the tea table. I don't want to promise anything yet. But if it's not a launch title it will definitely be there within the first six months," Miyamoto said.

A short demo of Super Mario Galaxy was playable at E3 and it is a contender for IGN's Game of the Show.

It's unfortunate, I suppose, but if it's for the good of the game then they should delay it by all means.

It's possible that some of these games coming out just after Wii's release (this and SSBB, at least) were originally supposed to be in the beginning line-up, but Nintendo was pressured to get the console out there with X-Box 360 and PS3 already on the shelves. Just speculation.

EDIT -

[quote=Miyamoto]but it's often said that when I get involved in a project I upend the tea table.

What?

The meaning behind that statement... maybe he says that he likes to delay things (sort of take a break when stuff needs to be done... maybe?)

But it looks like pointing the Wii-mote on the screen had quite a bit of function too. I think it was being used to pick up those stars. They used it to ring that bell too. This is going to get very interesting.

This game looks F'ing impressive. I really liked the robo boss fight on IGN. Ofcourse it was dumbed down but I can just imagine a ton of good fights.

It looks like they can mold this game into a billion different challenges too. They tryed to do that In Sun Shine with the Water but ultimately didnt achive what they wanted too. Now it looks like anythings ok.


By the way, Is it me or are these Demo player F-u-c-k-i-n-g IDIOTS! Half the time the couldnt manage a triple jump.

"A DURRRR, HOW DO I JUMP? This technology is too advanced for me. What the a button? NO WAI!!!11"

I know this new technology but COME ON. Its still mostly pressing buttons and moving a controll stick. I would hope they would get the learning curve in the first THREE minutes.

oh my crap, this game looks amazing! The graphics are SO amazing! And the second video on http://media.revolution.ign.com/media/748/748588/vids_1.html is like Shadow of the Colossus: Mario Style!

my ***, i cant believe people say Wii's graphics aren't good enough. This game looks so ****ing amazing! The controls look really fun too.

It'd be cool if the galaxy was the overworld, and certain planets, some larger than others, were the levels. It probably is like that. In fact, it definately is.

Guys. Guys. C'mon. Tatanga. You know you want him in this.

Also, a lot of the people seem to be taking their time, rather than doing what needs to be done to beat the demo. Maybe it's fumbling with the controllers, or maybe they're spacing their time out. But I wouldn't doubt much of it is the latter. They want good footage, they want to experience every bit of it. And you can do either if you just blast through the levels.

If anyone has G4tv,they showed at E3 06' confrence the game play using the wii,but when they said what platform it was for(which was obvious) they said it was for the gamecube, I'm some what confuzed.

Space Bowser.

This cos look fantastic. The graphics are very well polished too. Although I'd really need to play this. i can't help but feel the controls described so far are too confusing.

I don't think this is Mario 128.

gtfo ian, fanboys only

You know, I was thinking it would be fun if there was a way at certain times you could use a jet pack to fly though pack.

Hell, you could use the Fludd from sunshine and use the same mechanics. I just think it would be fun the fly though sapce on you're own terms.

Maybe it's just because Sunshine was so criminally bad, but this game excites me the least of pretty much any of the launch titles. It also reminds me of the Knuckles in space levels of SA2:B and that ****es me off. I really just can't see these tiny, spherical planets playing well at all, as moving and jumping in general is very awkward and irritating on such curved surfaces.

Oh. Well, maybe people lie about their opinions so that they agree with mine because I'm really cool, but all my friends that played Sunshine thought it was as bad as I did. I spent the vast majority of my time playing it running around and throwing up on people with Yoshi.

I guess I prefer to not have to "get over" something that appears to be extremely common in a game. Supressing my urge to turn off a game is not my idea of a good time.

The game does look like it involves excessive jumping, which can be the most frustrating aspect of Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. I'm into the entire space theme though. I'm looking forward to and hoping for some classic 70s space sounds and musical scores. I wasn't able to hear the music at all from the videos I watched.

Banjo-Kazooie and Star Fox Adventures didn't have such maddening jumping tasks.

Of course, those mini stages in Sunshine where you had to make your way through all the trickering objects was my favorite part of the game. Still, there were definitely times when I got a bit frustrated. Probably helped me like the game and remember it more.

Star Fox Adventures was an Action RPG, wtf

If Star Fox Adventures was an RPG, then Zelda is an RPG.

ZELDA IS AN ACTION RPG.

Starfox Adventures and Zelda are both of the action-adventure genre. I do have to agree that jumping should definitely be expected in a platformer.

I expect it. I look forward to it. It's just that Mario Galaxy looks to have an excessive amount of it. It doesn't look like any land is really that large. It seems as though you'll always be traveling from one little planet to the next.

Oh, well that's just the demo. I'm sure they'll have some huge planets.

THis game looks amazing, like the part where Mario fights the giant Shadow of the Colossus-type robot. I hope they have more bosses like that, becuase it's like fighting a giant one of thsoe levels in sunshine where you loose your pack.

So that leaves Zelda and Starfox at Action Adventure with heavy RPG influence, right?

I see no reason to just to leave it as action adventure. As that really describes what an action RPG is, action and adventure. It just helps keep genres more specific. So one can easily identify what a game plays like.

Point is: Zelda has always been an action game with RPG elements. That's pretty much common knowledge. To argue otherwise is pointless, as you'd be wrong.

Actually, the point was that Zelda and Starfox are not platform games, which is true, either way you look at it.

Well I would definitely have to say a "platformer" does involves much jumping, due to its name. Im not actually sure about this, but it kind of stands out. Platformer meaning jumping from platform to platform. Although Im not sure where the name came from, Im guessing its that.

A platformer is a very difficult thing to describe now as is a RPG.

Most of these names were made back when video games were young and simple. Platformers were dealing with jumping on platforms and RPG's where games with roles you played.

Games Like Mario stereotyped platformers and games Like FinalFintasy stereotyped rpgs. So when games that have alot of role playing but isnt a stereotypical Final Fantasy esk system it causes confusion.

We just need to keep open to the fact that you have to be open to what a "Platformer" or a "RPG" can be.

I think platformer is probably one of the easiest to identify. It's a game that involves a lot of jumping. It's pretty simple.

I NEED This Game!

Sadly, this game doesn't really excite me yet. I will get it, and I will love it, but I have to know a bit more before I buy it. What I want to see is characters, and bigger worlds. Then I'll be excited.

It's a very interesting game, and I'm positive I'll love it to death. But for right now, I'm not thinking "OH MY GAWD I'VE GOTTA GET THIS GAME COME OUT NOW PLZ"

I need to see more. :X

Oh shi-

I thought this was the SSBB thread. >_>;

Ignore my previous post.

[quote=Zeta]Oh shi-

I thought this was the SSBB thread. >_>;

Ignore my previous post.

Heh, I was thinking- "Does Zeta really like this game that much?"

Im happy with the trailer but I can understand not being satifyed with the demo. We saw so little not everyone could get hooked. Im sure as the days go on you will get hooked. And im Ilso judging that the whole game wont be played on little islands.

Heh, I recently had some huge arguments defining the difference between RPG and Adventure. So some are a lot harder to define.

It's not so hard if you look at it form a basic standpoint. If they character grows and becomes stronger throughout the adventure, if the games uses stats or even if the character levels up, uses MP or HP, then you could easily stick it in the RPG genre. Even if it's just an "Adventure game with light RPG elements".

It's no different than sticking music into its correct genres.

Heh, but you see, I've always firmly classed Zelda in the Adventure genre, with only very very slight RPG elements. Come to that, then, look at PoP - definitely Adventure by any sense of the word. But doesn't he have health? Couldn't the sand tanks represent MP?

I mean, come on. Name me an adventure game where the characters don't have health and some sort of secondary meter. RPGs tend to have much more of a focus on thse things, but just because some games share some elements doesn't mean you can classify them as that genre.

Pretty much listed the main ones. It's not so hard to go back to one of your favourite RPGs, see what it has, then go play Zelda and notice a lot of similar things.

http://media.revolution.ign.com/media/748/748588/vids_1.html
New vid. Some of hte music seems very zelda-esque.

And why the hell is my avatar a ****ing gay bunny?