What does that even mean ? Wii Sports wasn´t disruptive ? How are they not humble ? Explain !

Nope, analogy doesn't work at all.

Fact of the matter is it could be considered Mario is the bible for Platformers, nothing else.

Super Mario games are the pure definition of a videogame...its just that simple

modern games are just crap pseudo sims
just look at PS4 XB1 games....errr racing, fighting and shooting...and thats all folks, theres nothing more, just a stupid clunky simulation of a potential real activity

mario games are designed to be fun, tricky and challenging to your hands and senses. not to make you drive a car...wanna drive a car? go to the real world a drive goddammitt

Maybe he thinks that the original Super Mario Bros. is a great example of how to teach the players game mechanics ?

Like when you study literature, you don´t just ignore the classics written before some random point in time ?

I can bet good money that many of what I consider good artists now were inspired by other comic books and not any of the art you posted. Does their art then automatically suck? Games are not about representing anything to the media. They are about entertaining people. You can do that without playing any of the games on your list.

I think they could. FPS games have powerups (What's the difference between a mushroom and a shield belt in Unreal Tournament?), level flow is crucial for both genres, and many shooters place at least some value on inertia.

You can always use aspects of Mario in an FPS. But to do that you'd have to study what makes Mario great.

There are more to games than their genres. For example, we know that even Zelda takes from Mario and vice versa. It's certain that what Miyamoto used to help develop Metroid Prime stemmed from his work on Mario as well.

In the end, you can take inspiration from the graphics, music, ingenuity (gameplay innovations) and many other things when developing any genre.

Did Borderlands take inspiration from Diablo? Most probably. Are they the same genre? Nope.

So in the end it's completely pointless to praise anyone since no one is appreciated by everyone. Everytime someone praises a game for what it is and/or for what it did we must come to the rescue and explain that everything is subjective and thus pointless. Fantastic. I propose that we add that to the forum rules.

And I believe you, and others, are completely missing the point here. It's not about whether or not you enjoy Mario games but understanding what those games did for game design. If you're serious about designing video games then understanding the history of gaming and how we got to this point is important. Liking the games or not is irrelevant because the point of going through the classics is to look at the mechanics and how they pushed the medium forward and/or into new directions. Merely knowing about modern games only takes you so far, and sooner or later you might end up in a situation where you need to go back to basics, which means you're screwed if you don't understand those basics.

Mario is one of those classics that greatly advanced video game design. You or others may not like those games but that doesn't take away from what those games did for the medium. As a mere player it's perfectly fine to not get what's so great about a certain classic. You don't like it and that's fine, we all have out preferences. But for a designer to say that he/she doesn't understand what a classic game did that was so great is just ignorant and speaks volumes about that person's ability to make games.

And why it doesn't work? Musicians dedicate their lives to music, and they know what Beethoven represents to the media. Sure they don't use it as a direct inspiration, a rapper will use idk..Snoop Dog I guess, and a metal band will look at Led Zeppelin. But if you look at the profiles of most artists, you will see Beethoven, Mozart and the likes as inspirations.

Mario was the series that started giving games a sense of purpose, a story mode, level continuity, difference amongst levels, different ways to kill enemies, I'm sure these are things used in EVERY GENRE.