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[Grildon Tundy]

It's been said from others with this video going around, but one part I appreciate about it is that it feels like Spider-man, Uncharted, Watch Dogs, Cyberpunk, and others, but it's not roasting one game in particular. It's literally what it says on the tin: Western AAA.

 

[xanaum]

I liked that, it would be a day one buy for me.

 

[Hohenheim]

But yes with Astro-bot you don't really need any Nintendo Mario on PS5. It's so good.

I'm glad that many people enjoyed Astro Bot a lot, but personally I didn't get close to getting a "Mario fix" with that game, sadly.

 

[StueyDuck]

Its a funny vid but people really do think all sony games are the last of us huh...

While I feel their output lately has been rather lackluster, most are open world games with filler

 

[BlackTron]

Serious talk: I really wonder why some third party developer couldn't just pick up the movie licensed for Super Mario Galaxy: The Movie and just make a multi-platform game out of it. I have a feeling that Nintendo might have first dibs on a licensed movie game. But I get the impression that they have no interested in making a tie-in game based on any of the new Mario movie's.

What's stopping Sony Computer Entertainment, UBI Soft or some other publisher from just picking up the movie license from the upcoming Mario Movie? release it multi-platform, and based everything directly on the movie cannon. What if Activision picked up the movie license rights? Or Rare under Microsoft? It would technically be base don the movie IP and not the game IP.

Yeah I know Nintendo owns the game character but what if we made a game, based on the movie character, based on the game?

 

[midnightAI]

There's youtube videos out there showing how Astro Bot copies entire levels, sections, game mechanics from different Mario games. But the devs got away with it calling it an homage, or inspiration.

Surprised Nintendo didn't do anything.

Pissed that Sony made a better Mario game than Nintendo?

 

[RickMasters]

When writers aren't good enough for TV/Movies/Anime/cartoon/(insert anything i missed) they go to Sony and makes games

……just the ones with colourful hair and face peircing that feel oppressed in a 'white male dominated patriarchy' whatever that is

 

[peish]

The actual video instead of the parody video, if anyone is interested:

Not interested. The "parody" is the real one imo. This is the parody.

 

[EN250]

Missing the part were Mario gets beaten to death with a green pipe and 90% of the game you play as strong independent Peach with a giga-chin to assert her dominance

 

[polybius80]

There's youtube videos out there showing how Astro Bot copies entire levels, sections, game mechanics from different Mario games. But the devs got away with it calling it an homage, or inspiration.

Surprised Nintendo didn't do anything.

nintendo also take "inspiration" from other games too like the small planet levels like ratchet and clank games, ballon fight is basically joust, and lets not forget the whole pokemon design and even art that comes from dragon quest, there is nothing wrong with that, even the nes cpu comes from a gimped down 6502 to avoid IP infringement, it is very common to take inspiration/copy from others, japan companies were known to take "inspiration" from others in the past

but that's why is so hypocritical of them to go against palworld

 

[mckmas8808]

It's been said from others with this video going around, but one part I appreciate about it is that it feels like Spider-man, Uncharted, Watch Dogs, Cyberpunk, and others, but it's not roasting one game in particular. It's literally what it says on the tin: Western AAA.

And every one of those IPs (outside of WatchDogs) COOKED!!! Some are too ignorant to understand the game.

 

[Sand Dan Glokta]

Focus M

 

[Grildon Tundy]

And every one of those IPs (outside of WatchDogs) COOKED!!! Some are too ignorant to understand the game.

There's a reason facetious bants are a thing. But with this video going around and everyone immediately grokking it, it may be played out.

 

[saintjules]

The inconsistency in the audio mix is laughable. Not sure what they were thinking.

 

[Queso de Grande]

 

[mckmas8808]

There's a reason facetious bants are a thing. But with this video going around and everyone immediately grokking it, it may be played out.

But a game like Spiderman 2 does it and it sold like hot cakes. Maybe some of those people that say it's played out, are part of a vocal internet minority. But isn't shared by the mainstream audience.

 

[nial]

this is literally metroid prime 4 lmao

 

[pulicat]

There's youtube videos out there showing how Astro Bot copies entire levels, sections, game mechanics from different Mario games. But the devs got away with it calling it an homage, or inspiration.

Surprised Nintendo didn't do anything.

Sony paid Geoff for that TGA goty Award but AstroBot sales are still pitifully low compared to Mario games.

AstroBot sales - 1.5m(Mostly bundles)
Super Mario Odyssey - 30m(mostly sold at full price)
Mario 3D World - 20m

 

[midnightAI]

Sony paid Geoff for that TGA goty Award but AstroBot sales are still pitifully low compared to Mario games.

AstroBot sales - 1.5m(Mostly bundles)
Super Mario Odyssey - 30m(mostly sold at full price)
Mario 3D World - 20m

Yes, quality should always be judged by sales numbers on completely different consoles

(And paid for TGA? Come on man, how about the game is just really fucking good and deserves it)

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

LOL that people are getting all butthurt and defensive about this. It's OK guys. You can spoof, satirize, and laugh at something even if you like that thing.

 

[RayBoy]

 

[Hemingwayoffbase]

Holy shit. I've never realized how many times in games things are "just up ahead" until this very moment.

 

[nial]

Sony paid Geoff for that TGA goty Award but AstroBot sales are still pitifully low compared to Mario games.

AstroBot sales - 1.5m(Mostly bundles)
Super Mario Odyssey - 30m(mostly sold at full price)
Mario 3D World - 20m

those astro bot numbers were way before the bundles

 

[cireza]

Decompilation port of Mario 64 running on a PS1

Textures getting so warped you think the walls are alive. Yup, that's PS1 for sure