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1. xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:14:06 JST xianc78

   Who even gave a shit about this franchise? Worst crossover ever.

   https://youchu.be/watch?v=56hUqZ9jGEo

   • arc :blobcatevil: (arc@gameliberty.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 07:13:48 JST arc :blobcatevil:

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     @xianc78 They were actually pretty fun games ;_;

     But I think it's better that the series isn't sullied with the garbage-ness of this year's Olympics.

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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 12:16:19 JST xianc78

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     • New World Indigo

     @Indigo I never played any of the games outside of a demo for one of the winter games on DS back when you can download DS demos through the Wii. I never saw it as a big deal. I was only three years old when the Dreamcast was discontinued and we never owned any Sega consoles, so seeing Mario and Sonic together like this didn't make a big impact for me.

   • New World Indigo (indigo@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 12:16:20 JST New World Indigo

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     @xianc78 I remember when the very first one for Beijing 2008 came out and the novelty was still fresh (this was before Smash Bros. Brawl for context), and even then everyone acknowledged it sucked.
   • New World Indigo (indigo@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 12:53:20 JST New World Indigo

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     @xianc78 That's fair, the whole "Sonic vs. Mario," conversation was already well past its stage of relevancy by the time 2007 rolled around, Sonic games had already been multiplatform for a long time at that point.
     Hell, I'm going to be 30 in two months and I'm barely old enough to remember the Sega/Nintendo rivalry.
     It was mostly for the Gen Xers who grew up in the 80's that the novelty worked for. Console wars in general just weren't really much of a thing past gen 6, so I can't really see the appeal in a modern context.
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 12:53:20 JST xianc78

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     • New World Indigo

     @Indigo I'm surprised that there has never been a Mario and Mickey Mouse crossover given that Miyamoto is a huge Disney fan and Nintendo is big enough to make a deal with them, but maybe Disney thinks that Kingdom Hearts is enough when it comes to video game crossovers.

   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 13:02:56 JST xianc78

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     • Pawlicker
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     @PurpCat @Indigo
     >Nintendo famously likes if you use their characters in their games if you're a third party dev and they approve of it.

     Which is why I always argued that the Mother 4 team should've gotten official approval from Nintendo/Itoi instead of rebranding it into an original game. Itoi said that he would play a Mother 4 if someone else made it.

   • Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 13:02:57 JST Pawlicker

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     • New World Indigo
     @Indigo @xianc78 Nintendo famously likes if you use their characters in their games if you're a third party dev and they approve of it. So of course Nintendo was going to love having an exclusive.
     
     Plus Sega had the Olympics license at the time (they also made more "sim" olympics games) and well, everyone doesn't even talk about the boring "sim" Olympics games they made but people still bring up Mario and Sonic years later for a damn good reason.
     
     (I had a friend who had Nintendo dev access telling me this, but also he's played many "fun" Nintendo Crossovers like Starlink (the Switch version has a Star Fox tie in.))