SUPER MARIO GALAXY, BRO! Can you believe it? I can't! And I've been playing it for the past hour and a half! I mean, seriously, Penguin Paradise, man! It's a river of water. In the sky!! What holding it up?! Magic? Dreams? Unicorn tears? I honestly don't know!
Woah! It's like the magic kingdom in space!
Yeah, THAT is the game I want most of alls. I may wait out the holiday season first though. So I will probably go without for a while, so you PLAY that game and you NEVER let go!
I want Fire Emblem more (and Mario second most), but to get either I'd need a Wii...
Damn, I forgot to pick it up today. I'll have to stop by GameStop after work tomorrow, but I'm surprised they didn't call me about it today since I preordered it.
I want the Fire Emblem game too, eventually, but it isn't as high on my list. Mario Galaxy just looks like the classic fun that I've always loved. Fire Emblem is great but the new one doesn't seem to do much "new" and in the case of Mario, that matters to me. I want this game a lot, but I am willing to wait.
It's a direct sequel to Path of Radiance, just with more missions, more cutscenes, and more characters. On the bad side they did mostly remove support conversations, but with that many characters you can see why... the good far more than outweighs the bad, and PoR was my second-favorite GC game after Eternal Darkness.
Quote:Damn, I forgot to pick it up today.
WHAT.
You liked Eternal Darkness that much eh?
For me my favorites are Super Smash Bros Melee, Wind Waker, Thousand Year Door, SC2, both Metroid Prime games... well actually I love a LOT of games on that system so this could go on a while. I have Eternal Darkness but I guess I wouldn't rate it so high near the top. Good game though, so's Mario Sunshine. Really my GCN collection is full of quality titles. Sure there's only a sliver that are 3rd party, but Nintendo managed to make so many of their own that I still end up having a bigger stack of it than... actually no near the end my PS2 games outnumbered my GCN games but it's still a nice collection. My XBox stack was of course the smallest. The problem is MS gets a lot of exclusives that are only sort of exclusives that later get ported to PC will a lot of extra features. They do end up getting a lot of PC ports on the 360 these days but I end up getting the PC version if they were made primarily with that system in mind because that tends to be the better one (Oblivion, Orange Box).
That said, Halo 2 is downright silly on the PC. An original Xbox game with no graphical improvements over the original version save for boosted resolution (that it gets anyway, EMULATED on the 360) has no business being Vista and DX10 exclusive, and it really has no business sporting those system requirements. Really it seems like it's about as wasteful a port job as FF7's PC version was.
I want this game so terribly... my room mate told me he was thinking of picking it up. THINKING?! Don't tease like that... either do it, or never mention it or give me hope.
I'd get it myself, but I can't afford it... yet. I think this might be a rare case where theft is justifiable.
Man, Super Mario Galaxy is such an awesome game. I can't wait to play it some more!!
Okay, so, I'm the ONLY one here who has Nintendo's greatest acheivement in amazing possibly EVER? What's wrong with you peoplse?! Have you all gone mad?!
97.4% on gamerankings. If you look at their
20 highest-ranking games, it should be at the #2 slot, right below OoT (they didn't put it up there yet, though).
God damn, I want this game.
Jesus once gave me a single dollar bill with strict instructions not to wipe my ass with it. He said to do so would invite mormons. So instead I wiped my ass with the fifty I had been saving, and a hindu knocked on my door and asked me what that horrible smell was.
I don't even know what that means.
No, GR, I have Galaxy. It is wondrous beyond imaginings.
You have not failed me this day, faithful squire. So I shall spare your life...for now.
If that guy's a squire what am I, a knight errant?
Eh, well at least I've got job security.
Not if you fail to amuse us. Then, it's off to the coliseum to face the lions!
We have one? We have lions?
We will if you don't shape up!
You will? I mean how does one even go about getting a lion, or a coliseum?
Coliseums 'R' Us.
The lions come free.
i'd be all up on this game if i had a wii.
my boss got it and he taunts me with that knowledge everytime i work.
Man, what has TC come to? Nintendo's biggest games in years, and the first true Mario game in over five years, and only two people here have it? I'm literally disgusted...
That is literally so great.
Look I'm going to get it but I mean seriously I don't need to pick up every single game I want the day it comes out. I'll get it when I get it.
I'm pretty sure that's what everyone else thinks too. Look just read the posts here. EVERYONE wants this game, a LOT. But, well, patience. Some of us are waiting a few weeks to see if we might be getting it as a gift. Others might not have the money, and still more may just not have the time.
Since when did we all always get every single game at the very first possible moment and consider it "bad" not to?
I didn't buy Mario 64 until three years after it came out... of course, I didn't have an N64 until then either.
This isn't just ANY game, it's THE game!!
Yes yes, I'll get it when I get it, most likely a few weeks from now. The anticipation will make it better, or something.
I picked it up Wednesday but have only played about an hour so far. I have to say it is a lot of fun. I spent a lot of time on the first planet just running around and trying to jump off only to have the gravitational pull bring me back in. My friend and I played a little bit of co-op today, if you can even call it co-op. I let my friend play as Mario so I just sucked up star bits. The game is really good, though, and if you have a Wii and don't own it you are a horrible person.
HOLY SHIT THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLE. My room mate picked it up, and though I only played it for 5 minutes, I fucking loved every second of it.
On the down side, the graphics aren't as good as I expected, and there's no way to dive/slide like before.
On the up side, they re-introduced the long jump, the physics are top-notch as always, and for anyone who's played it, it goes without saying that the controls are incredible.
Quote:On the down side, the graphics aren't as good as I expected
Perhaps not, be they are incredibly polished and accompany an amazing art style, both of which go a very long way in making up for any technical deficiencies.
GR, remember, he hasn't actually bought it. He's just bumming off his roomate. Are you not DISGUSTED?
No, because he's ACTUALLY PLAYING IT.
Um, are you joking about this or being serious? I can't tell any more....
This, hands-down, is the most imaginative, enjoyable, engrossing games I've played in years. I got a chance to start a new game and am about 6 stars in. I could have played for hours more if I didn't have to go to the grocery store before it closes. This is the kind of game I've been looking for to help renew my interest in games in general. I could easily see this up there with the best platformers ever made, such as Banjo-Kazooie and Mario 64, and see myself returning to it for years to come. Truly incredible game.
The suspense is killing me! Fortunatly, I'm not very good at paying attention for long periods of time. Some people can apparently think of one thing alone for like 5 hours straight! Can you imagine? I mean how do you not get distracted after the 15 minute mark?
...Upon further reflection I realized the time it took me to type that was sufficient for me to forget that we were talking about Mario... Is that a bad sign?
Galaxy is incredible. I dare say it is the best Wii game out there. Yes, that means I am saying it's better than Twilight Princess. If I was back in high school I probably would have played this game for hours straight, but I find myself having to stop playing because I have something else to do. Every time I have to pull myself away from Galaxy it hurts because I keep wanting to get that next star. The space theme for Mario fit perfectly and it was a refreshing change for the series without totally reinventing the wheel.
When they went from "Bros" to "Land" to "World" in the series' name I had started to think the next would be "Galaxy" or "Universe", until it didn't happen for over a decade, but now it did! Next up, Mario Universe!
Quote:I dare say it is the best Wii game out there. Yes, that means I am saying it's better than Twilight Princess.
TP was great, but it was still just OoT 2. Not a bad thing, but Super Mario Galaxy goes so far beyond what's come before that it's incredible.
there will be a day, someday, and i will finally play MP3, SMG and BWii and all the other games i'm missing out on. Oh yes that day, refered to as G-Day, it will be happy yummy good and all mine.
This started out as an even longer digression in GR's thread, so I'll just type it out here.
I really love how you're only given 3 bars of health in this game. To me, it shows that Nintendo understands that they've been too easy on the players in the past, and are willing to be more sadistic. Then there's the fact that instead of collecting coins for the purpose of extra lives or a means of showing the player where to go, you're set to collect comets instead, which in addition, open new worlds. It ensures that coins, which (obviously) give health, are a rarer commodity. You have to work for them by stomping on enemies, which can be trickier than simply tornado punching them. You know, I just realized how appropriate that move is, what with it being a special move in Smash Bros. I is smart. It's also in Sunshine, but you don't use it all that much.
The fact that platformed planes are now three-dimensional lends for so much inventive gameplay. I didn't really appreciate that until I played the game. It allows for a lot of new cool and tricky puzzles / general platforming. Instead of tossing around "innovative" like a gaming buzzword, it's actually very applicable here.
Also, I completely rescind my earlier statement about the graphics being dissatisfying. They work completely for what they set out to do, without much necessity for improvement.
Another thing I noticed is that instead of being able to break sequence and collect stars that aren't "designated" (at least, according to what mission you choose on the splash screen), things are made to be more organized. At times, you can't even get to the other parts of the planets where the other stars reside. Rather than wandering around and exploring a large playing field, they're broken up into smaller ones and don't overlap as much. It seems more goal-oriented than "hmm, I'll ramble around this level for a while and see if there's any way to get a star". It feels like an interesting hybrid of older two-dimensional platforms and the types of 3D platforms that were spawned by Mario 64. I'm not sure which model of gameplay I prefer, if any, but Mario Galaxy works incredibly well either way. Easily the game of the year in my book (though I'm pretty sure the only other new game I played was Metroid Prime 3)
It took me a while to get in to it but now it's addicting as all hell. The physics are amazing but oddly enough... you cant dive... wth I love that move, specially from high places, specially in to water, but no, REMOVED, Shigeru WTH??
lazyfatbum Wrote:It took me a while to get in to it but now it's addicting as all hell. The physics are amazing but oddly enough... you cant dive... wth I love that move, specially from high places, specially in to water, but no, REMOVED, Shigeru WTH??
I know, one of the things I couldn't get enough of when I first started playing this game is doing a long jump off the edge of a planet or object and seeing myself begin to orbit it. There are so many mind-blowing moments in this game.
And yeah, agreed about the dive. I mentioned that earlier in this thread. That was one of my favorite things to do in Mario Sunshine, and to a lesser extent, Mario 64. Oh well, at least the long jump is back. The removal of that from Sunshine really bugged me.
I'm glad i'm not the only one that wants the dive back. Why would they remove that? It's just a second tap of A after a jump with enough speed behind you. He wont even 'auto dive' like in SMS/TP when you jump off a high place in to water.
I think it all comes down to how much of platforming's fun comes from mobility. The more you are able to bounce around walls and across things, and the faster, and the more you can chain together more acrobatics, the more fun the game becomes. So take away something like Mario's dive, an ability that adds an amount of speed and some need flips to come out of it, and the absense is felt. I think the lack of a number of flexible acrobatics in Mario Sunshine play a large part in why people don't really enjoy it's "feel". The long jump just seems so very right so when it's gone you suddenly feel like Mario is a burdened lumox, even though he clearly has some extra mobility from that water pump in certain situations. Heck, the majority of the fun from Prince of Persia happened with no enemies to speak of, just plain acrobatics. I even remember purposefully playing the battles in a wreckless manner, by which I mean trying to do all the cool tricks I could squeeze into the battle. I was always trying to do some neat thing like fly off a wall into someone's head transformed into a roll up someone's back. I knew it was wreckless but it was a lot more fun than if I played with the only objective being to win (in which case repetitious standing guarding and rolling tactics would be sufficient).