| The Ghost of RubangB said: I numbered your 4 sentences and spread them apart a bit to make this easier. 1) Mario Galaxy was nothing like Sunshine or Mario 64 and is considered by many to be the most innovative 3-D platformer. Metroid: Other M is completely new, with new gameplay, new point of view, new pacing and action, new characters, and new story. You're right about Twilight Princess, but Miyamoto has said that was the last traditional Zelda and he's doing something crazy different next. That game was all fanservice for Ocarina fans (it's Ocarina's only true sequel taking place in the same exact Hyrule), a sweet farewell to that era of Zelda games. But it's the only Zelda where you TURN INTO A WOLF. More people say that Twilight Princess was ripping off Okami than say it's a stale repeat of Wind Waker. 2) Mario IS a spin-off, and always has been. He came from Donkey Kong. Then he was the villain in Donkey Kong Jr. Then suddenly he was a plumber and he had a brother and he fought monsters in your plumbing. Then he was part of a Wrecking Crew. Then he and his bro were "super" and ate mushrooms that made them bigger as they battled through dungeons to save a princess. Those games were all spin-offs, and that was all on the NES. Mario tried everything before he found his true calling in life. But he kept trying other things. Even back on the SNES you had Super Mario Kart and Super Mario RPG. This is nothing new and has nothing to do with User Generated Content or Nintendo failing or Miyamoto retiring. 3) Prove it. This is the big logical jump I'm not seeing any evidence for anywhere. Name me any Nintendo games you can think of where you can actually say "User Generated Content is the primary focus." 4) Here is some new content from Nintendo: Nintendogs, Brain Age, Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Music, Rhythm Heaven, Excitebots. And outside of America there's Disaster and Captain Rainbow. They're working on new franchises, creating entirely new genres, and even with their old franchises they're trying many new things. Maybe User Generated Content will be one of their several directions. Why would it be the only one, or even a major one? |
By ideas I wasn't talking about gameplay I was talking about levels, enemy's, item's, story etc. They keep fishing stuff from old Mario games. I think they do the same things with Zelda and Metroid.
Everything including Donkey Kong is considered part of the Mario Universe. Paper Mario, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Tennis, Mario Super Sluggers, Mario Strikers, Mario and Luigi (the RPG series), Wario Land, Yoshi's Island. From what I hear Wii Sports was originally gonna use Mario characters, also.
When thinking of games where UGC is the primary focus Flipnote Studio, Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again and Wii Music come to mind.
Yes they are making new content still but they still seem to be putting more focus in either using existing content and now it seems like they have this idea of their users creating all the content.
