(10-25-2012 01:59 PM)Artwark Wrote: (10-25-2012 08:41 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote: (10-25-2012 05:59 AM)Artwark Wrote: Why what's wrong with that?
Also Why are you guys wanting something new in Mario. There are lots of new things that mario showed us. And that he's the only one to have appeared in all the video game genre as far as I can tell. Isn't that new? Something that others aren't able to do?
Because we're not 5 anymore and understand what you can't live off the same formula for 25 years. Also, I haven't seen a Mario TPS, FPS, RTS, Rail Shooter, Sh'ump, Traditional fighter, Racing simulation, hack n slash, survival horror, sandbox RPGs, tower defence, graphic novel just to name a few genres.
Well for TPS there's Super Mario Sunshine except that you have a gadget named F.L.U.D.D which cleans stuff instead of shooting.
Also even franchises like Legend of Zelda don't fall under the most genres you've mentioned. And what about Donkey Kong? Mario actually helped these franchises to be made as well as several others like Castlevania.
Just because you're not 5 doesn't mean that mario isn't meant for you anymore. The series are more of casual and are mostly easy to play. Think about people who don't play a lot of hardcore games. They play Mario because of it being casual and that they don't need to play like 2 hrs just to complete one level.
Honestly I think Nintendo needs some appreciation here. And even though Nintendo never tries to change much of Mario, they manage to make the series awesome. I'll never forget Paper Mario: The thousand year door.
You missed my points. You made a claim about Mario appearing in all the video game genres, but I listed genres that he hasn't.
Also the point about being 5 is to do with maturity but how we grow up and become...smarter about we do. To expand and explain on what I said before.
Back when you were 5 you could play as much Mario as you want as long as Nintendo kept releasing them. You don't really care about reusing formulas then at that age, but when you get to your adult years you realise it hasn't really changed.
Not about being too old to play Mario.
Nintendo have a lot of appreciation but they are guilty of milking Mario and not really changing anything. We can bash other games outside of Nintendo for doing just that but Nintendo get a free pass?
@A Zombie Riot
Agreed about Mario Sunshine, but I would call Portal an FPS. It's a
First Person perspective in which you
shoot portals with a portal gun. It's not your conventional shooter but still falls into that genre. Also killing people wouldn't mean it's not an FPS since you do "kill" turrets.
