So do people actually still think NSMB Wii isn't pushing hardware?

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Akvod said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Akvod said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

psrock said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
^If it was purely nostalgia Akvod, then the 3D Marios would be selling at similar rates, but its not, people know 2D Mario is quality.

@psrock, its easy to see quality, I knew NSMB Wii would be amazing when I saw the gameplay videos, and I was not disappointed when i played it

So, Akvod's mom was surfing the internet looking for gameplay of NSMB so she can make up her mind on the quality of a Mario game.

 

 

He already said she saw it being played in the store, so she didn't need to surf the net, she saw it being played live.

 

 @Akvod, no originally you said nostalgia and local mulitplayer, and if it was just nostalgia, then 3D mario would have sold as well, but its not nostalgia, its the gameplay and the quality of it that attracted your mother, like you said she saw it being played

 

 

Dude my mom has not played any games for at least a decade. She was attracted to this game specificly because of nostalgia and Mario being the only game she played regularly in the past. If she was attracted to quality she would have been buying other games as well for the last decade.

You're assuming she found other games to be of quality, a lot of people haven't gamed in decades, because the games of recent years haven't appealed to them.  Sorry its not nostalgia, its finding a game that she considered quality and that appealed to her.  Just because Mario is the game that appealed to her in the past doesn't mean its nostalgia, but that she found mario gameplay to be quality, to appeal to her, and now she found more Mario that appealed and was quality.

Then why did she not play any other Mario games SNES and onwards? Why did she not play Mario 64 or Galaxy?

Obviously she thought that the game would be fun and so you can somewhat argue that she bought it for quality. But that's a very weak and unsatisfying because she didn't check the reviews at all, and would have probably bought it if it got bad reviews anyway.

She was appealed by the fact that she hasn't played Mario in a while, and that modern games are simply so fucking complex and confusing (She hated analog sticks for LBP and the realistic physics). She just wanted to relive the times in her twenties when she would stay up until AM and play Mario.

Exactly my point, lol, if it was nostalgia, she would have played those other Marios, the fact was, they didn't have the gameplay that appealed to her, 3D mario is very different than 2D mario