Topic: Super Mario Odyssey

@Haru17 Haha that's how I felt when they revealed Hyrule Warriors 3DS.

Yayyyy the same game, but uglier and with no multiplayer? Sign me right the heck up!

@Dezzy I know...

...but I still think we'd both be surprised and disappointed if we knew just how many people were playing BoTW with an online guide on their phone next to them or referring to YouTubers to tell them where to go next once they've finished a shrine.

@Operative2-0 The same game, but portable. Which is why that's the only version of the game I've ever considered buying.

@Ralizah Don't get me wrong, it's a good game to have on the go, but it just felt like a silly decision to make the ugly, weaker version after the much prettier/impressive one. According to me, at least. Others would say the portability makes it definitive in its own way and that's fine too.

@Operative2-0 Well, the game has other enhancements on 3DS that make it the definitive version in other ways, but as long as the dip in visuals/performance isn't too much, portability will be more important to me. I have my limits, though. HW isn't worth playing on the original 3DS, for example, due to the gimped level of performance. I also got games like Gal Gun and Senran Kagura: Estival Versus on PS4 versus Vita because the Vita versions performed horribly.

I understand some people don't care about portability that much, though. And if they don't, it makes sense to get the best performing version of the game.

This comes out the day I leave for vacation to Orlando, it's going to be a very magical day come the 27th!

I suppose we should discuss, what are your launch day plans for October 27th?

For me its wake up, obsess over the mail coming, play Mario Odyssey, pass out when I'm done 100%.

I think we'll see another 2D mario, and probably as the next Mario game (just like I'm sure we'll see a top-down Zelda game next, and like how we got a side-scrolling Metroid game before another 3D one) BUT it won't be on 3DS. It will be on Switch. Metroid was most likely the 3DS's swan-song and support for that system will start winding down. One of the benefits for Nintendo of making the Switch the way they did was that they could focus all their development resources on 1 platform.

Read the 95%+ review average on metacritic and then wait til christmas to get a Switch.

Wake up (knowing me hours before any Best Buy is open), anxiously and excitedly read reviews as well as probably spoil myself with hype by watching videos, rush over earlier than I need to the store, and hopefully play while on the 4 hour road trip to Orlando.

No doubt in my mind the game will be great. The question is just how great

@Dezzy @StuTwo There's also a weird thing that I just did with Mario + Rabbids and have definitely done in the past. You have the game, you're playing the game, and then when you take a break you feel a weird inclination to google things about the game despite you owning it. It stems from the thought that you don't want to beat the game in less than a week, and yet you are curious to something that will happen, or just want more game despite already playing it for 8 hours today.

With Odyssey I already know I'm going to not care and play the game all day if I have nothing to do. If it lasts a week, who cares, but I'm sure it'll last longer. I have one video reviewer that I'm confident will not spoil the game; so I'll watch that, but otherwise I'm (trying to stay) out of the internet loop.

EDIT: OH FLIP YOU GUYS GOT TO AN ENTIRE NEW PAGE

For some reason I thought it was Wed., but it looks to be Fri. So I guess that means for me, pick it up whenever I can during the day, play it as soon as I get home until I inevitably get sucked in to some weekend thing. Should be a good break, anyway.

I'm going to go to work, totally forget about the game with the hecticness, get home, grab the mail, open up the package in confusion, then spend all weekend playing.

I'm going to be anxiously waiting for my brother to (probably) get it for his birthday two days later, and then just go off the grid until then to avoid spoilers.

Gonna be a lot of spoilers in the week before it launches. That's usually what happens.

I have been actively avoiding spoilers (which hasn't always been working), but I pray that the pre order from amazon comes on the 27th and I will spend the entire weekend playing with a few hours of midterm studying in between and maybe see friends if they can get me to emerge from my room

@BLP_Software Go to school for early morning work, contemplate on going home early just to play Odyssey just to realize that I still have to work again later in the day, go home immediately I get off work, run over to the mailbox and get my copy of the game, play the game beyond the dark of night, and continue to play all weekend, forget about schoolwork and such, and progress in the game during my ride back home each school day.

Of course, that's if Amazon stays true to my pre-order. But even if they mess it up one way or another I guess I'll be needing the delay since... well, schoolwork's my priority (or is it?)!

Go to work. Receive mail. Check the game out on the tablet during my break. Go home. Play for a few hours on the TV.

Go to work, come home and hopefully have the package to open, then...

not play, but instead watch the Mary Tyler Moore show with my wife. Yeah, don't ask why, but we've actually been having a blast watching retro shows for a while now. Anyway, back to topic.

Go to bed, wake up, aaand... Fix coffee before sitting down to the new Mario!

Yeah, call me crazy, but I'm actually able to wait & play new games. That's not to say I'm not looking forward to this one though, it's at the top of my list. On top of that, I will also allow it to break my "no new games until I finish some of my backlog of games" rule. Of course, that rule is currently driving me nuts with the amount of great games (on a variety of platforms) that are being released. Unfortunately I just don't have a lot of time to play all of them so I have to be picky.

Getting mine delivered to work. Then lunch break I am all over this game. Then play on my train ride home