Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games

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What are your thoughts on this crossover series? You can talk about anything like: the games, events, characters or even rant on how it doesn't make sense.

Personally, i really like the games. I've never played the first one and don't plan to as I've heard complaints, and the second one was good (i have the ds version), but the London 2012 games is my favorite (i have the wii version). More events, London party mode and i just like it a Lot. overall, this series has good Gameplay and i honestly don't care that Mario can outrun Sonic.
 
Like most, if not EVERYONE, I want a decent platformer with the two. But that is wishful thinking. *laughs*

My fave would be Winter Olympics 2010 DS ver.. I played the Wii version but it was kinda meh. Both Summer Olympics 2008 were dull and did not interest me.

Never played London. Prolly never will. Don't plan to play Sochi either.
 
Unknown Entity said:
Like most, if not EVERYONE, I want a decent platformer with the two. But that is wishful thinking. *laughs*

My fave would be Winter Olympics 2010 DS ver.. I played the Wii version but it was kinda meh. Both Summer Olympics 2008 were dull and did not interest me.

Never played London. Prolly never will. Don't plan to play Sochi either.
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The adventure mode was cool.And yes a Platformer would suit a lot more fans. They probably can't come up with a story. Even though platformers don't need stories and Nintendo hasn't really been good at making stories anyway
 
New Super Mario said:
The first one was really cool.

Unique, original, overall pretty fun.
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Personally, I thought the first one was garbage. That alone ended up turning me off of the sequels completely.
 
Character and roster are the most controversial part, no doubt.

As a series, they should try to give each Olympics game different features. Fans get bored very easily to see a new game every two year, which is more frequent than any other Mario game.

The easiest way should be making things exotic. I can't really tell how different Sochi and Beijing are for now.
 
I wanted to play some of them games on the emulator to get them screenshots. All I really want to see is Mario doing synchronized swimming, ribbon twirling, and ice skating.

Here's my complaint about the 3DS London one.

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Baby Luigi said:
The 3DS version of the London games limited characters even further by putting them in stereotypical categories ie the girls who can participate only in stereotypical events ie only girls can do figure skating and whatnot

That's super dumb.
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you mean i can't play as waluigi in rhythmic ribbon?

BLASPHEMY!
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Yup. In the 3DS, characters are in certain categories.

Mario, Luigi, Sonic, and Tails.

Amy, Peach, Daisy, and Blaze.

Knuckles, Vector, Bowser, and Donkey Kong.

Wario, Waluigi, Dr. Eggman, and Metal Sonic.

Yoshi, Bowser Jr., Shadow, and Silver.

So, basically, if you want Wario to be graceful performer in figure skating, you're out of luck. You're stuck with Amy, Peach, Daisy, and Blaze. And if you want Luigi to wipe the floor with Silver in ANY event, you're out of luck too.

Which is *bleep*ing stupid.
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That's dumb. I have the Wii London games and you can have whoever do ribbon. But there is no ice skating
 
The 3DS London game is one of the worst Mario games of this generation.
 
I personally find the Summer ones boring, but I love the Winter one the most. I love Figure Skating so much (well I can't do it IRL lol) and Dream Ski Jumping. XD

Also, not to show off or anything, but I got into the Top 10 Regional Rankings and Top 20 for Worldwide Rankings for Dream Ski Jumping. Took these images on April 19th, 2013 (my capture card isn't really the best but whatever lol)

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Also, in terms of stat differences, do you guys feel any (speed/power/skill) difference at all when using different character for the same event? I never really notice it. All I know is that in (Dream) Figure Skating, the ending poses are different and in Dream Snowball fight, your quantity of Snowballs varies, but as for the other events, I've never noticed a difference. =P
 
I like the series solely for combining two of my favorite video game franchises in one game. Even if I wish they'd branch out more then just Olympics game.

I only own the first game, and while I think the sequels were probably better done (I rented both recently). I only got the first one for the novelty of being the first game released to have Mario and Sonic in the game. The series going into it's fourth game now (Plus Brawl, and most likely SSB4) is slowly making the novelty not as special anymore. But that doesn't mean the first game doesn't hold a special place.

I also think the Olympic games started because it was part of a deal to include Sonic in Smash Bros. Which is an even more momentous occasion. I think the fourth game coming out on the Wii U is history repeating itself for Sonic's entrance into SSB4 as well. (Though this time Olympic Games isn't the only thing on Sega's side of the deal)
 
Oh, they better add new characters next time and learn from their mistakes from the 3DS version. I don't know what Sega does, though.
 
The first game wasn't good, a lot of the events were boring and felt nothing like doing the actual sport. The only fun events were the Trampoline, Table Tennis and the Dream Events.

The second game was much better, there was only one event I hated (Curling) meaning that the rest of the events were fun and well designed. I had a lot of fun playing this alone. I'd be happy with more options.

I have played little of the London games but so far it seems to be much better than the first game.

Also I don't want to see any more after the 4th game or I will start thinking about boycotting the series.
 
nsymon said:
The first game wasn't good, a lot of the events were boring and felt nothing like doing the actual sport. The only fun events were the Trampoline, Table Tennis and the Dream Events.

The second game was much better, there was only one event I hated (Curling) meaning that the rest of the events were fun and well designed. I had a lot of fun playing this alone. I'd be happy with more options.

I have played little of the London games but so far it seems to be much better than the first game.

Also I don't want to see any more after the 4th game or I will start thinking about boycotting the series.
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Interesting, because I liked the first game and couldn't stand the others.

Also, you can't disregard the swimming events like that, sheesh man.
 
Xerneas said:
Honestly, they should just put an end to this after this game.

It's just becoming cheap rehashes, and I think 4 is enough.
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I don't see that happening as long as the series keeps getting good sales. Also for the most part Mario & Sonic have the only at least half-decent Olympic Games. So as much as they're just tie-ins for each Olympics. I see them really going on with this for a while

(Also pretty sure it helps with having Sonic stay in the SSB games. What sense does it make to have these games going on where Sonic does stuff with Nintendo's flagship character. But not have him in more then one game for SSB? It's not confirmed Sonic's in SSB4 yet. But this would be one of many reasons I would be disappointed if he wasn't)
 
Well I guess these games are not released as frequently as other games like Call of Duty and EA Sports.
 
nsymon said:
I don't want to see any more after the 4th game or I will start thinking about boycotting the series.
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The major problem should be that Nintendo/SEGA didn't devote themselves to differentiate and improve each game. The idea to stop Olympics series would mean that the recession of the series is inevitable. In similar cases, NSMB look like a better series to stop.

The only thing I can say is, they can actually consider to change the teams from other 3rd party company or make a game of three teams. It might work and appeal other gamers.

nsymon said:
Well I guess these games are not released as frequently as other games like Call of Duty and EA Sports.
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Conversely, I'm not happy to see Olympics games more frequent than Sonic spinoffs or other Mario recurring titles. Not to say that Olympics didn't do a perfect job.

Northern Verve said:
What sense does it make to have these games going on where Sonic does stuff with Nintendo's flagship character. But not have him in more then one game for SSB?
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I thought they just want to share the license, not because they're that cooperative.
 
nsymon said:
I will start thinking about boycotting the series.
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The resulting impact on game sales is unfathomable.
 
Dorayaki said:
Northern Verve said:
What sense does it make to have these games going on where Sonic does stuff with Nintendo's flagship character. But not have him in more then one game for SSB?
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I thought they just want to share the license, not because they're that cooperative.
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But that's exactly why Sonic should keep going in SSB. If they're sharing the licenses to use eachother's characters. Sonic may as well be an on-again, off-again Nintendo owned character when Nintendo really needs him. He may as well be a Nintendo character until after the 3rd game in that Exclusive deal with Sega is finished. There won't be any Sonic games on other platforms until after that 3rd game whatever it is. Is released. All I'm saying is, it's be stupid for them to throwaway Sonic like they might do for Snake (Who has more of a reason to not return) given Sonic's success and franchise support on Nintendo Systems ever since the Gamecube era.
 
Dora, I know that NSMB series is going to stop because they have released too many games recently.
 
NSY said:
Dora, I know that NSMB series is going to stop because they have released too many games recently.
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No. You have no idea how businesses work. If they shell out something that makes big bucks they'll continue doing it
 
Baby Luigi said:
NSY said:
Dora, I know that NSMB series is going to stop because they have released too many games recently.
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No. You have no idea how businesses work. If they shell out something that makes big bucks they'll continue doing it
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Same for Olympics, unfortunately. I just hope that Nintendo can do their best to convince us these titles need sequels more than other popular ones.

Northern Verve said:
But that's exactly why Sonic should keep going in SSB. If they're sharing the licenses to use eachother's characters. Sonic may as well be an on-again, off-again Nintendo owned character when Nintendo really needs him.
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Well, I'm curious to see a crossover platformer. I think 3rd party guest idea doesn't work all the time since most games actually don't do that (eg, Mario in SEGA AS Racing).

When it comes to spinoffs, the major concern is half of the roster seats are taken, and they have to take the risk that fans who only love one series are not happy about it. After all it's not something like Camcom v.s. Marvel which is a pure fighting game.
 
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