Mario Galaxy is going to be bro awesome!

[Dark Jaguar]

http://kotaku.com/gaming/what-happened-t...288223.php

I haven't seen Mario with this many powerups since Super Mario Bros. 3! I love it! Bee suit forever!

[Great Rumbler]

Bee suit and boo suit!

[lazyfatbum]

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Somewhere, Banjo and Kazooie are laughing and taking bets on when they announce the Washing Machine suit.

[Great Rumbler]

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what...

[Dark Jaguar]

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Somewhere, Banjo and Kazooie are laughing and taking bets on when they announce the Washing Machine suit.

Huh? This isn't ripping off Banjo. This is RETRO! Mario's going back to his roots here!

Mario used to wear a frog suit, a hammer bros suit, and a "tanooki" suit. This is what I've been waiting for, a huge number of powerups once again.

Heck Mario's had bunny ears, racoon tail, a cape, a wing hat, fire flowers, and all manner of other stuff. Banjo ripped off Mario.

[lazyfatbum]

True, but in B~K you actually turn in to animals or 'things' including but not limited to a bee. It seems very B~K in how it's designed too. In SMB3 you use the suits just to enhance stuff, become invincible, swim faster, etc. Same for Yoshi in SMW or the fireflowers, et al, Now its 'use the suit to progress' which is very B~K.

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[Great Rumbler]

The 2D Mario games were all about speed runs though. See how fast you can beat the levels. The suits in those games were designed for that purpose.

Ever since Mario 64, powerups have been about level progression. Finding all the secret stars, getting through the waterfall, or flying to the floating platform. The powerups in SMG are designed with that purpose in mind.

[Dark Jaguar]

So again, Mario did it first. Also you don't turn into a bee, it's still a bee suit. He does seem to actually turn into a ghost though.

Also Yoshi's Island had Yoshi actually BECOME things like a helicopter or a mole tank which were needed to progress in certain levels.

But Mario ripped off Little Nemo the Dream Master. I loved that game.

[Paco]

Bee suit for the muther effin' win!

When is this due out?

[Great Rumbler]

November 12th.

[Dark Jaguar]

For the win? What manner of expression is that?

Oh yeah, I never bothered with "speed runs" in the old Mario games, outside getting to the end before the timer expired.

[EdenMaster]

For the win? What manner of expression is that?

Well, we know DJ doesn't play online much.

[Great Rumbler]

Or watch Hollywood Squares...

[lazyfatbum]

he does get laid often though.

*makes another comment about SMG using B~K inspired gameplay*

[Great Rumbler]

It's all Mario-inspired gameplay, though...

[EdenMaster]

Or watch Hollywood Squares...

True, but then again, who <i>does?</i>

[Great Rumbler]

I used to watch it a lot.

[EdenMaster]

And look how you turned out.

[A Black Falcon]

I watched that show some a few years back, but haven't seen it in a long time now. Gameshows are mostly stupid... Jeopardy was the one I liked best.

[Dark Jaguar]

Actually I never watched hollywood squares much. I think I saw like one episode and that was enough. From what I can remember, they ask some predetermined question to a bunch of people I don't recognize and they make jokes and the guys have to decide if it was the right answer or not (a convoluted way of basically just testing them for an answer, but of course it can't be boring so instead they make it retarded) and they play a game of tic tac toe with the answers. Mind you, tic tac toe is a "broken" game as anyone who's ever played more than a few games becomes good enough to always tie with pretty much everyone else. You have to TRY to lose that game.

No, don't watch it. Jeopardy I watched sometimes, but even that gets boring. Wheel of Fortune is for those who don't know enough to guess the answers in Jeopardy, and I'm not exactly a fan of that either.

Actually, I just don't like game shows I guess. Well, that's not really true. I liked Double Dare, but I think we can all agree that we basically just sat through the quizes until they finally got to the "physical challenges". It is entertaining to find new ways to cover people in that green oatmeal stuff they called "slime".

However, ALL of those are actually games that someone using strategy and knowledge or some sort of ability can win. Seen this "Deal or No Deal" nonsense? Anyone with even a basic working knowledge of probability should be able to see that there's only ONE valid strategy to playing that game, ever, and the "choices" they offer that get so much camera time about "tension" (I am so sick of this focus on "tension" on these sorts of shows these days) are ones that are basically irrelevent.

Seriously, just play until the odds get stacked against you and walk away. That's it. Anyway, if I ever got put on that show I think I would answer quickly and without any trace of emotion, in such a way as to totally betray the stupid "drama music" they play. However, that sort of reaction would likely be why they would never put me on such a show. People like watching idiots do stupid things.

Japan has been doing crazy stunts for years, and Nickelodeon as well, but there is one major difference. When kids on "What Would You Do?" drink a bug milkshake at least they laugh about it and don't go into the details on their inner thoughts and "facing their demons" and a life philosophy derived from bug drinking. They drink and everyone laughs at how stilly it is and moves ON with their lives!

[Dark Jaguar]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/21/classi...io-galaxy/

Fire flowers! Super stars! This is good news everyone!

If they add in smashing the floor beneath an enemy to flip it over so you can kick it to death, and maybe even jumping over barrels, well we've got it all!

[A Black Falcon]

The fire flower returns? Awesome! I really missed it in Mario 64 and Sunshine...

[DMiller]

Mario Galaxy is definitely looking good. I hope I will have finished Prime by the time Galaxy is released.