Is NSMB Wii worthy of the title Game Of The Year?

[Kantor]

routsounmanman said:

Kantor said:

RolStoppable said:

Kantor said:

morenoingrato said:
I'm tired of this Uncharted 2 fight, 3 will come, people will still be playing Mario Wii, U2 will hide behind 3, A classic massive Nintendo game will arrive, and this debate will start over, Nintendo fans, get over it, this longlasting masterpiece won't have a chance with U2, but let's see who will be remembered more, ask Famitsu, what was their U2 review... 37?... Mario 40?

If Nintendo made a new 2D Mario on Wii, you can be sure that people would stop playing NSMBWii.

You tend to stop playing the original if a good sequel releases... if you would rather play the original than the sequel, it's a bad sequel.

Okay, then go ahead and explain the SMB3 vs. SMW situation. Many gamers kept playing both for years and some still do, because why wouldn't they?

Alright, I'll rephrase.

When given the choice between playing a game, and a highly improved version of said game, with the same formula, you'll want to play the sequel. When a new entry in the franchise launches, with a few exceptions, the majority of the attention will turn to this new iteration. People will still play the old game, of course, but not as often as they used to. And then, in later generations, people will play both. Perhaps equally.

In that sense, people will be playing both Uncharted 2 and NSMBWii in the years to come. And you could claim to the contrary, but you have no evidence to back it up, because you can't see the future. You have no idea how much lasting appeal a game will have until a few years after it launches, so unless you want to give out the 2009 GoTY awards in 2012, the current system of judging a game based on how good it is now works.

There are many games like Uncharted 2 (not of the same quality, of course, but in the same genre, style, appeal)? If you're close minded, you can put in all shooters in. Now, how many games there are like NSMBWii? Right, being one of a kind, or fresh and new actually matters in staying power.

That's why Mario stayed while other platformers faded, while Final Fantasy light up the charts and Tales do not, etc, etc

And there aren't many games like NSMBWii?

NSMB DS for one, and SMB 1, 2 and 3, all the Super Mario Worlds, LBP...

When you look that broadly, no game is unique, except perhaps Flower. 

Uncharted 2 is pretty much as different from other games in its genre as NSMBWii is.