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Super Mario Galaxy

Hobofuzz said:
Well, she WAS his girlfriend in Donkey Kong.

Mario's one hell of a committed guy, jumping over barrels, being chased by flames, and fighting giant filthy brown gorillas for his woman.

That's why WE'RE MR GAY, not Mario.
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Actually, it was Princess Daisy in Donkey Kong.

Mario's got multiple women :D

Definitely not gay. Maybe a pimp.
 
Wonder if the ol' Yoshi and Luigi will be appearing in this. They weren't in Mario 64 (sorta) after all.

Anyone else signed up to the Wii Gametrailers podcast? I went through all the Galaxy vids last night. Them water/manta ray levels look fantastic! And the Monkey Ball bit too. 'sall looking very diverse (lawl) and fun.
 
I hope they do a better job of it than in Sunshine. Yoshi dies in water? That's no good!
 
I saw some kids playing the demo at my local EB Games store. The older brother was complaining to his Mom that his younger sibling was not letting him play. I had to resist the urge to shove all whiny family members out of the way to get at that game.

Holy cr*p--that game looks awesome!
 
pcypert said:
I wasn't refering to the plot of Mario...we know that's not going to be all that gripping (at least Paper Mario was funny though)....but the games that are "supposed" to have good stories...they're still lame. And this is supposed to have great music...it's nicer music for sure...but not something I'll ever play when friends are over or hear at a club you know?

Paul
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I'm pretty sure a Mario game with thumping bass club music would be pretty terrible. The music is absolutely brilliant, and fits the atmosphere of the game perfectly.

Maybe you'd be more at home with DDR if you're looking for games based on clubbing music...
 
Not what I was saying at all. Just saying that the music no matter how good or appropriate or not is still game music. Still a far cry from real composing and song writing. I hate DDR and games like that...actually hate clubbing music. Just saying there's a reason why there's the disclaimer "video game music" and why people don't just release it as music.

Paul
 
Music is just a collection of sounds.
That's it.

Often videogame music is not the same "quality" as regular music, but nowadays it is very close.

Listen to the FF soundtracks. That's as real as music as anything you'll ever hear.
 
I've played some songs from Turrican on the piano and my gran thought they were old classical stuff, heh. Notably the Great Bath.

In the post that was magically cut up, I posted that my friend was making a list of driving music for his iPod using my library and his CDs. I left him to it and the chap filled up a good hours worth of music, most of it was game music including Megadeths Duke Nukem theme and some orchestrated Mario and Zelda tunes. This guy doesn't even play games he just liked the sound of them :)
 
pcypert said:
Not what I was saying at all. Just saying that the music no matter how good or appropriate or not is still game music. Still a far cry from real composing and song writing.
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Videogame music often rivals film music. They're on even footing when it comes to quality and scope. Nowadays, they're often indistinguishable. Film, television and game music cannot be immediately compared to stand-alone music. What differentiates those types of music from stand-alone music is that they are tied to another piece of work and are designed to complement that other work. Stand-alone music is free from any confines.

By your definition of game music, you are also saying that film scores are not "real composing and song writing." Right? Because creating a film soundtrack is pretty much the same thing as creating a game soundtrack...

Heck, by your definition, Opera and Broadway compositions are also not "real composing and song writing." Because they also fit your view of videogame music.

pcypert said:
Just saying there's a reason why there's the disclaimer "video game music" and why people don't just release it as music.
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No music is just released just "as music." Do you know what chaos there would be in a music store (online or traditional) if there were no categories? If everything was just lumped together? Music needs to be categorized for a reason. If it wasn't, you would never find anything...or find anything new in the same style. "Videogame" is just another category: Country, Hard Rock, Metal, Death Metal, Classic Rock, Alternative, Punk Rock, Soul, Bluegrass, Film, Videogame, Techno, House, Chamber, Classical, Period, Celtic, Latin, Classical Chinese, J-Pop, J-Rock, Visual-Kei, Jazz, Blues, etc...etc.. By categorizing music you make everything easier to find. Now, the album to the movie "Garden State" is not categorized as rock or alternative...even though there's only bands on the album and no "film score"...it's stocked under film music because the music was in a film. There are countless of other examples.
 
No most times you find this music on a cd it's in a video game store or somewhere else. I've said there are some good versions coming out and it's getting there...but not quite there yet. The VAST majority of video game music is crap. Not everything is FF or others....a lot are horrible copies of film music...very unoriginal, unispired drivel. Even some of the ones that are supposed to be good are pretty lame copies of other scores.

There's crap in all genres though...just right now there's a much higher ratio of crap to gems in the video game music category. I have faith that it'll continue to get better as budgets grow, more people playing, etc...

Paul
 
HIGHLIGHT BELOW TO SEE WHAT YOU GET AFTER YOU BEAT THE GAME WITH 120 STARS!
You get to play as Luigi! And it is not just like Mario, he has a completely different feel and it is basically a harder difficulty level!

Please no one quote this so people who do not want to see it dont accidently.
 
I almost bought the Japanese version the other day because I was so excited to see it out and available but decided to wait. Man it looks really good. Nothing revolutionary...but it seemed intentional and polished. Like there were real reasons for making things look a certain way....some next gen games seem to want good graphics for the sake of good graphics.

Also there was a PS3 being demod across the hallway, but everyone kept getting drawn to the Wii and Galaxy. People are interested for sure.

Paul
 
I don't view that kind of thing as a spoiler personally. Plus it was on about 50 different gaming sites with no warnings at all. Plot twists like characters dying in FF7 are spoilers...unlockable characters aren't really spoilers to me...I mean people talked about the monster truck in Excite Truck...that's almost the exact same thing as getting that character as far as what you have to do in the game, etc.

Paul
 
I worry if it's better than Mario 64. That just shouldn't be possible.
 
mkrishnan said:
Is it a lot more fluid and less cumbersome than Mario64? Does it do anything clever like the Zelda games to simplify the 3D navigation?
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Absolutely more fluid/less cumbersome! no clipping issues either! warp pipes are used to get from one side of planet to another...

QUOTE=raggedjimmi;4444279]I worry if it's better than Mario 64. That just shouldn't be possible.[/QUOTE]

I was thinkin the same thing... they managed to pull it off though! :)
 
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