Mario Basketball 3on3

[Razor Ramon]

Playing basketball in real life will always be better than playing it in video game form.

[Yoshi]

That goes for every sport.

[StriderKyo]

You might have a point if this were trying to be a remotely realistic simulation of the sport, but it isn't so you don't.

That said, I can't bring myself to care about this. I've yet to see a game based on basketball that I enjoy, arcadey or sim-oriented.

2k has an excellent streetball rpg mode in which Flava Flav is a boss and the ball explodes. That >>>>> this.

But it doesn't matter, because you and I both know that if this was Mario's Super Basketball eFG% Calculator the usual suspects would be all over it for its innovation and fun shading.

[sethsez]

I don't recall anyone giving two shits about the Mario soccer and baseball games (I mean, a few did, but SpoDaddy doesn't really count here), and I haven't seen many people claiming this is innovative either. The gist seems to be that it looks nice a simple, fun, arcade-ish sports game on a system that has been lacking them up to this point (when the best sports game a system has shown after almost two years is a fucking Fifa title, there's a problem), and the license being used shouldn't factor into that as a positive or a negative. My main concern is that Square is a really, really bizarre choice for this.

[StriderKyo]

I don't recall anyone giving two shits about the Mario soccer and baseball games (I mean, a few did, but SpoDaddy doesn't really count here), and I haven't seen many people claiming this is innovative either.

Give it time, it hasn't appeared at any Walmart kiosks yet.

The gist seems to be that it looks nice a simple, fun, arcade-ish sports game on a system that has been lacking them up to this point (when the best sports game a system has shown after almost two years is a fucking Fifa title, there's a problem),

The fact that DS has absolutely no sports games outside FIFA and N64 Madden is awful, but I wouldn't say this addresses that.

[sethsez]

Well, there's also Fifa Street 2 (haw), some golf games (do those even count?), and a shitty version of Top Spin, but yeah. Still, there's a place for arcade-ish sports titles, and basketball has shown itself to be a perfect fit. And whether it winds up playing well, at the very least the engine looks quite nice which is always a good sign since it's about all we've seen at this point.

Still, we're arguing back and forth about... what, exactly? Nobody here has played it, and the general buzz from those who have has been positive. I don't really care either way as I have no intention of buying it, but I don't really see a reason for the hate beyond the fact that it has Mario in it.

[Brisco Bold]

I'd rather just play Street V2 again. That game was fly.

I can still hear the Pete Rock beat.

[avatar]

This is TNL. That's more than enough reason.

Strider, the arcade mode in the 2k sereis was just a sidething. I could see your point if that was heavily advertised but it's wasn't. I give the game points for atleast trying something different besides just being the same old game we have been playing for almost a decade. Except now with sweat.

[StriderKyo]

Still, we're arguing back and forth about... what, exactly? Nobody here has played it, and the general buzz from those who have has been positive. I don't really care either way as I have no intention of buying it, but I don't really see a reason for the hate beyond the fact that it has Mario in it.

Hey, I never said anything bad about the game.

[Geo]

Obviously, the first thing we all think about when we see short, mushroom-tripping Italian plumbers is how good can they ball.