IGN Editorial: Blinded by MARIO

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fazz said:
What a fun fun thread. Massive quote trees, hate, caps lock, Wii hate. Good stuff.

More than a editorial, I see this guy as bitter because Splosion Man didn't sell more, and he used NSMB as the perfect scapegoat. Too bad he gives thinks opinions as facts.

He doesn't gets that there's people like me who have NEVER played NSMB on the DS? He doesn't gets that there are some people out there that don't own an Xbox 360, and thus would not play Splosion Man? He doesn't gets that there's people that actually enjoy local multiplayer more than online? And what about games needing different level of technical prowess ?

Seriously, Splosion Man looks like a great game, and while I agree that it should probably sell more (even when the developers are happy with current sales, even saying that they don't need to release it on other platforms), that doesn't means NSMBW deserves any less sales. For the people who bought it and liked it, the game is fresh, the game looks good, the game is worth the price and the game is fun. He just can't accept that? For me NSMB looks great as it is, it doesn't needs better visuals on the technical level. That would be like saying that Jimmi Hendrix would be much better if he had better pickups, an advanced multieffects and a more expensive guitar... but that's not the case. And I feel NSMBW to be really fresh on it's gameplay mechanics. I never played NSMB DS, and I'm having a blast playing this one with my girlfriend, both being huge fans of SMB1 (to the point of knowing where is EVERY SINGLE hidden block), we feel it as a totally new and different game to the past iterations... recognizing the flaws it has (the zooming camera being the main).

Also how is that this Daemon person had Mega Man 9 as one of his favorite games of 2008, and still complain about NSMB Wii? As I'm seeing it, Capcom did the same move that Nintendo did (according to this man), that is, using nostalgia as a medium to get attention, and strap it to a really solid game, which uses graphics just in the right level. And yet he still had MM9 as one of his top 2008 games...

In his mind, people like that don't exsist since everyone should think like him.

I actually don't get what's wrong with having only local multiplayer. I remember going to my friend's place to hang out and we can't find any split screen 4 player FPS games to play since most of the new games are online multiplayer games now. It makes me miss the good old 4 player Goldeneye days and how much fun we had without having online multiplayer.