Topic: Super Mario Odyssey

As much as I'll love the game, yeah, not looking forward to the witch hunts on people who don't call it a masterpiece of gaming.

On a more positive note, I feel like this game is going to be what Galaxy was for the Wii and Mario 64 was for the N64. I wish I could say 3D World was -the- Mario game for the Wii U, but it felt more like a stop gap in retrospect. Super fun and well crafted, but it didn't have this feeling that Odyssey and Galaxy had. Anyway, couple more days!

@Operative2-0
I was in Best Buy the other day and noticed they had a demo for the game. I'm not ready to say it's a masterpiece and certainly won't put it up there with 64 or Galaxy before I get to complete the full game. But what I did get a chance to experience was pretty damn awesome. A few changes I'm not totally sold on yet, but I'm pretty convinced it will be one of the top 5 releases of 2017 across all platforms.

@Operative2-0 You forgot to mention the best 3D Mario!

seeing some of the settings screens it shows using the two joycons separate to execute many of the motions or movements

I hope you can do everything with the Pro controller I am not a gamer that likes the hand motion stuff

Shall we just preemptively have a massive rant at each other and everyone else about the absurd opinions on this game that people (may eventually) hold? Y'know, to get the ranting out of the way early? That way, we might to too tired to be very angry or affronted when the actual opinions emerge.

Anyway, let me say this; all you people who are saying it's overrated are wrong and missing out on the game of the century. Also, anyone who thinks this is the game of the century is just a dumb sheep who can't think for themselves and is too blinded by nostalgia and fanboyism to critically look at the game's flaws. Anyone who holds an opinion between these extremes is just a whishy-washy noncommittal cabbage who is wrong for thinking the game is both better and worse than it actually is.

Jim Sterling is the only guy brave to speak the truth about this game, and he is also massively wrong about everything because too busy self-indulgently nitpicking to create anything of scope or value in his review. That's why only he can be trusted. The major publications are all being paid off my Shigeru Miyamoto to give it good scores, and the ones who give it less good scores are all being paid off by Bill Gates because he hates Nintendo and loves Halo (and Microsoft Word).

Everyone's opinion on this game is wrong, especially the people who don't have an opinion, and you should all feel ashamed of yourselves.

Phew... glad to have got that out of my system.

@Octane Haha I actually need to play Sunshine one day! I'm sure I'd put it up there too

@Operative2-0 ...what? Cancel that Odyssey pre-order and get yourself a copy of Mario Sunshine!

@QwertyQwerty Try to use spoiler tags from now on, even if it isn't officially confirmed yet. I had no idea...

Yeah, I had heard there were this many moons. But really, as long as tasks aren‘t repeated as often as with BotW‘s Koroks, which I‘m pretty sure won‘t be the case considering collecting them Moons is the vocal point of the game while the Koroks were just side stuff, this number doesn‘t seem so bad. I feel moreso challenged by that huge number to collect 'em all, which admittedly has always been in my blood.

@Octane I was actually asking because I was confused as to what you were trying to say...

Anyway, Twilight Princess was 'the Mario 64 of the Wii' because it launched with it.

Have you already pre purchased Mario Odyssey with all the amiibos?

Was close to cancelling my preorder due to a already high credit card bill, but then my refund for a cancelled B&B night came through.

Phew! Close one!

Although the Raiden IV pre-order will have to go; though considering I don't own a PS4 its not too much of an issue. Actually, why did I order it in the first place?

We're so close! I can't wait for speed runs of this game, a 100% run would be incredible.

We've all done something like that before. A few years ago I ordered a copy of Pier Solar for the Megadrive/Genesis. I didn't own the console back then and I still don't own the console now...

So obviously the camera is "free-range". But is there an option to invert the X and Y-axes from the default, like we can in BotW and Splatoon 2?

@Dj64Mk7 Probably.

I don't think I can play a Mario game any other way.

@Octane For me, with my impairments, it makes the difference between whether I can somewhat play it or can't play it at all.

@Dj64Mk7 I certainly hope so. The demo at the Gamestop kiosk's have the option menu locked. So I couldn't check if its an option. But I certainly hope they don't over look that. I need my camera to be horizontal inverted. Its the only way to feel natural to me (you're moving the camera around your character, left orbits left, right orbits right. I don't know how people can stand the other way)

I... just paid for this game and its downloading. Is this a pre-download feature?

@Nicolai Yeah, that was added in the latest firmware update. Now I have no idea why it‘s available to predownload in the Americas but not Europe but I‘d certainly love to have that option the one time I actually go digital on a major release.

On that note, bit more than 41 hours left till the midnight launch in the CEST timezone!