I hope Toad also appears in this game. I wonder who his Sonic character rival would be?Hmm, maybe a Chao?
At some point yesterday, I was reminded of Scooby-Doo's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics because of this.Oh my god! I remember that show! I used to have a VHS of it. The Really Rottens were so funny!
Does anyone else have the feeling that this is an April Fool's day hoax? Upon further thought, it seems so. I mean, seriously, why would Nintendo and Sega bring together two of the greatest video game franchise characters, Mario and Sonic, and thus bring to life everyone's greatest dream... for a game based on the olympics? Olympics-based games haven't been known for being sleeper hits, so why would Nintendo and Sega bring together Sonic and Mario for the sole purpose of one? Mario and Sonic at the olympic games sounds like a game that would be in one of my dreams. Nintendo isn't really known for developing lisenced titles like these in the past, opting for their own franchise characters.
This interview at GameDaily (http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=15630&page=1) further makes me think this is a joke. Why would Shiguru Miyamoto be so heavily involved in a title like this? Isn't he busy directing Super Mario Galaxy? The olympics aren't the most watched event on American television, so why would Nintendo waste their time on it? And why aren't there any screenshots? Usually, when a game is announced, screenshots are released to back up it's existence (I think they'll show some April 1st)
This is a very clever joke. Even I was fooled. Plus, part of me still believes this game is real. If it is real, then Sonic in SSBB isn't too far off. Nintendo may not have done lisensed titles before, but they have done other weird things before, so perhaps it isn't too far-fetched. I hope this game is real. My logic says no, but my faith says yes. They probably announced it today so few would suspect it's a hoax.
All we can do now is wait...
Does anyone else have the feeling that this is an April fool's day joke? Here's an arguement I posted on another forum concerning the
How come people are so set on thinking it's false and then going and trying to prove to other people with their minimal reasoning that it isn't? "The one rebuttal..." Um no, MB already posted a much better one on the first page. Stop thinking you're unraveling some kind of mystery because you're not.
The corporations don't play jokes. News publications do. Why would they get a license as hard to get as the Olympics for a joke?
Nope. It's been on so many websites and all over the web that if it was an April Fool's joke, it would be the cruelest, most anger inducing joke that I doubt it would get one laugh. So many really want this to happen, like myself. You don't want to see this piece of paper mad.
Yeah, people have done some cruel jokes in the past. A couple years ago, LD did one where he posted as his brother and said that LD died. It's up to us to realize that most things announced on April first or near that day are more than likely hoaxes.
LD is not a member of a huge corporation like Nintendo. If a corporation lied, they'd have all kinds of crap from everyone.
Uh, Robert just said that Google has made April Fool's jokes in the past, and, as he said, Google is a big corporation. People still constantly use Google, regardless of something they did last year.
I think it should be shorted to "Mario & Sonic at the 2008 Olympics".Why? That name is only one character shorter than the current name.
They shoulda used Mighty in place of Shadow and Fang in place of Blaze. Daisy and Waluigi could've easily been replaced by Toad and a Koopa Troopa.
They shoulda used Mighty in place of Shadow and Fang in place of Blaze. Daisy and Waluigi could've easily been replaced by Toad and a Koopa Troopa.
As much as I hate to admit it, Mighty and Fang are no longer canonical and therefore won't be appearing any time soon. It would be a foolish decision not to put Shadow in, though, as he is the 2nd most popular character behind Sonic, and Blaze is probably not unpopular as well. Still, Daisy as a Speed type seems like a strange decision, as does Vector's appearance in the game at all.
Still, Vector's appearance shows that the Chaotix are growing in their roles as playables, which imo is good to see.
I'm disappointed by the lack of Donkey Kong. He's already snubbed in the Mario Party games, he shouldn't get left out of this one.
Hopefully, he's included as a secret character, but then again, that would mean we might end up getting Big as his counterpart.
I had known of the new characters for a while, Also, anyone notice the title? Mario comes before Sonic, wonder If Sega had any complaints.
I don't see how not being used much anymore makes a character "no longer canonical". The official Sonic Channel hosted this character poll last year and Mighty proved to be pretty popular. You never can tell with Sega. Heck, it was enough of a miracle that the Chaotix made it into Sonic Heroes.