Mario and Zelda must go.

[Millennium]

BMaker11 said:

Millennium said:

SaviorX said:

"Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Pokemon, all those games are rehashes"

That is the sentiment of some gamers which I have absolutely no idea of understanding. Can somebody please explain to me why someone would say this sober?

Because clever marketers have convinced them that ZOMGNEWCHARACTERZZZZ is all it takes to make a completely new gaming experience, and that conversely, you cannot have a new experience without a new cast.

It's complete BS to anyone who hasn't bought into that hype, of course. But it's the sentiment behind the statement.

No, not ZOMGNEWCHARACTERZZZZ...try ZOMGNEWGAMEZZZ or ZOMGNEWIP.

No; it's exactly as I said. Nintendo has had plenty of genuinely new gaming experiences within its already large and diverse collection of IPs, whereas its competitors' IPs are often little more than glorified reskins of each other, even among the sequels. Yet still their fanboys demand "new IP" because they've been convinced that the rehashes they eat up by the gross are actually new experiences. They swap Kratos' Y-chromosome for an X and take him to a dermatologist and think they've somehow got a new game experience, yet they rag on the new Nintendo games for no other reason that Mario is still an Italian plumber.