Does Mario Need A Break???

[Pyro as Bill]

Play4Fun said:

Pyro as Bill said:
Mario should have taken a break about 20 years ago. Mario shouldn't have been used for SMB2, Kart or the 3D games. All of them could have stood on their own as new IPs.

How exactly would this have made the games any different?

What makes a game a 'new' IP? The characters? Or the gameplay?

If someone makes a game that is similar to another IP and sticks a new character(s) in it, I don't think it really constitutes as a new IP.

It's just a reskin of another game.

Mario should only have been used for SMB1, 3, World and NSMBWii. Replace Mario with Bowser in SMB2, replace him with Luigi for 3D and I dunno about Kart, maybe keep him. They shouldn't have put him on the handhelds, it's degrading. I wouldn't have taken him in such a cartoony direction either. SMB1 wasn't a nice happy mushroom kingdom. It was menacing. Koopas looked evil, spinys were scary, nowadays they dance.

Nah, I don't really mind. It's just annoying when someone says 'oh another Mario game' when he actually spans and reigns over nearly every genre. It's like how people refer to the 'Wii Series' as though they're all the same because they have Wii in the title and use Miis. One's a sports game, one's fitness, one's classic arcade games, one's designed specifically as a party game, one's supposed to be a music game.