Topic: Mario Golf: World Tour Announced for 3DS

[JusDBerube]

Mario Golf is finally back.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/33301

Mario Golf: World Tour, a new entry in the series, has been announced for the 3DS. 

Camelot, the company behind previous Mario Golf games, will once again be the developer. Mario Golf: World Tour is set to hit store shelves sometime this summer.

This news comes from today's Nintendo Direct.

[Caterkiller]

Looking forward to this very much. Looking forward to potential online play with people.

[Razorkid]

Indeed, especially since it's being made by Camelot. I would love a good mario golf game on the go.

[Do_What]

I wonder if this is going to be like Mario Tennis and just a bare bones console game or this will end up being more in line with previous handheld mario sports games. I much prefer the rpg lite stuff, it gives me more of a reason to actually spend $40 on it.

[xcwarrior]

Probably my favorite announcement of a new game today. Hope it has RPG elements. I want a deep game Camelot.

And the Yoshi "Par" hop to hop dance. That might be the 2nd most vital thing behind RPG elements.

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm going to assume it's Mario Tennis Open, but with golf, and if it has the RPG stuff that's a bonus. Either way, I'll be picking it up.

[Mop it up]

If this is as stripped-down as Mario Tennis Open, then I'll be passing once again.

[Ian Sane]

I remember when Mario Golf and Tennis were fairly current games and I thought that "Mario Sports" was the series and that, aside from handheld variations, each sequel would be a new sport with a Mario twist and we would get baseball and soccer and such, which we did end up getting.  I did not expect for EACH Mario sports game to effectively be the first entry in its own series.  It's all based on some real sport.  How much new stuff can you do in a sequel when you're somewhat limited by the real world format of the sport?

But I was naive at the time and assumed that "there is really nowhere to go from a creative perspective" was the sort of thing Nintendo took into account when making sequels.  I'm not sure if it's a coincedence that things appeared that way to me since all Nintendo IP was naturally newer at the time or if it was some fundamental change in the company's philosophy.  Camelot's second N64 game was Mario Tennis, not Mario Golf 2 as another publisher would have certainly insisted on.  Why wouldn't I assume that Mario Sports was the series?

I am so utterly bored of Mario spinoffs that this game could cost $1 and I wouldn't really feel like buying it.  This sort of stuff comes across as just videogame product to put on the shelves.