Do you think the Super Mario Galaxy games will become outdated eventually?

I think so. They will eventually become retro classics like GameCube and Dreamcast games.
 
How would Super Mario Galaxy "age", really? The games have reactive and simple controls, run smooth and look great, and are from a genre that sequels can't be made "obsolete" like realistic sport games and racing simulator games are made redundant by their sequels (and considering I see people wax nostalgic over earlier iterations of Gran Turismo and Madden, or w/e, even that is arguable).

I mean, when traditional input and display methods become obsolete and we start playing video games through neural implants, or if they release a Super Mario Universethat has literally everything from SMG 1 and SMG 2 with better grafx and more features, that'll be when Super Mario Galaxy becomes "outdated", I guess.
 
At this point it's questionable considering that they still look hella good and the controls are pretty normal since the Wii U still uses 2008 controllers , yep that's trashy.

There's also the fact that Nintendo barely improves graphics , and Galaxy Games have very good ones for a Wii game , like at least it looks a bit more polished than Sunshine.

They still have more depth than the 3D games , especially Galaxy 1 , so unless Nintendo stops being stupid and tries to actually do something interesting again , i guess they are gonna stick around longer.
 
As outdated as any other major Mario platformer.
 
Pretty much.
 
Glowsquid said:
How would Super Mario Galaxy "age", really? The games have reactive and simple controls, run smooth and look great, and are from a genre that sequels can't be made "obsolete" like realistic sport games and racing simulator games are made redundant by their sequels (and considering I see people wax nostalgic over earlier iterations of Gran Turismo and Madden, or w/e, even that is arguable).

I mean, when traditional input and display methods become obsolete and we start playing video games through neural implants, or if they release a Super Mario Universethat has literally everything from SMG 1 and SMG 2 with better grafx and more features, that'll be when Super Mario Galaxy becomes "outdated", I guess.
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Tbh I feel like SMG2 was their attempt at trying to go the sports game model because the game feels so uninspired as a 'new' title. Same with the successive NSMB titles as well

I don't know what you mean 'genres' not becoming obsolete. Hell those sports titles aren't obsolete from their genre, it's from updated team lists and advances in technology

Like, I love SM64 to death but playing it now definitely makes it show its age with the crappy models and awful camera. If anything age will make SMG's problems stick out, like bad resolution and motion control gimmick challenges (that golf ball level oh man).

Let's be honest, Yooka-Laylee is gonna be the best thing since Banjo-Tooie and will be on equal footing and will obsolete the crap out of SMG. 100% true. For this and more game facts visit FantaFeed.com.
 
Asgore said:
Glowsquid said:
How would Super Mario Galaxy "age", really? The games have reactive and simple controls, run smooth and look great, and are from a genre that sequels can't be made "obsolete" like realistic sport games and racing simulator games are made redundant by their sequels (and considering I see people wax nostalgic over earlier iterations of Gran Turismo and Madden, or w/e, even that is arguable).

I mean, when traditional input and display methods become obsolete and we start playing video games through neural implants, or if they release a Super Mario Universethat has literally everything from SMG 1 and SMG 2 with better grafx and more features, that'll be when Super Mario Galaxy becomes "outdated", I guess.
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I don't know what you mean 'genres' not becoming obsolete.
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Re-reading what I wrote, it's kind of clunky and a grammatical catastrophe, but basically my point is that even if Nintendo made a new 3D Mario platformer that was Way Better than the super mario galaxy games, it wouldn't make Super Mario Galaxy "outdated" because they'd still be unique experiences due to their format.

Like, Super Mario World makes many improvements to Super Mario Bros. It has better controls, a complex and interesting world map, etc. I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say most people think SMW is a better game than SMB. But Super Mario World doesn't make Super Mario Bros. "obsolete", simply because SMB has entirely different levels and moving through levels is the main experience in a platforming games, so SMB is still a different experience worth playing to some degree. This is different from sims and sport games where it's a lot more common to make iterative sequels that add more cars/players/tracks, while keeping all (or the vast majority) of stuff that was in previous games intact, making replaying previous games in the series far less appealing.

Or I could put it this way: There are way more people getting back to Super Mario Bros. after playing New Super Mario Bros. U than there are people playing Forza Motorsport 2 after playing Forza Motorsport 6. Of course reality is a lot more complex that, hence the parenthese.
 
eh not really i think its still early to say anything, i mean it sounds great, looks great, and has smooth controls, sure i dont like the game, but i dont feel like its gonna be outdated anytime soon.
 
It'll be "dated" eventually. It looks nice today, but it's inevitable that it will show its age at some later point, considering that it's already dated in terms of polycount, texture resolution (and detail such as bumpmap and specmap), and lighting, and its camera controls is probably going to remain its biggest issue in the future. Hell, the model quality is still good (although Ultra Smash's model is much, much better since bones are added to Mario's tongue, hair, mustache, and it is overall higher-poly and has better textures thanks to bumpmapping). But in terms of controls and how it plays, it's still pretty solid.

Swiftie_Luma said:
There's also the fact that Nintendo barely improves graphics, and Galaxy Games have very good ones for a Wii game , like at least it looks a bit more polished than Sunshine.
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Eh?

Also, Sunshine is even more dated than Galaxy. It looks so yucky today.