When will the 4th REAL Mario game release? UPDATED!!!!

[lestatdark]

RolStoppable said:

lestatdark said:

Actually, SMB3 doesn't take place in the Mushroom kingdom. It takes place on a spin-off called Mushroom World with seven different kingdoms of it's own. Of course, that doesn't matter at all since it's just a play, it's not like you're actually rescuing the princess or the kings or that the action is actually happening, thus rendering the entire of SMB3 much more of a spin-off from the "real" SMB games than the 3D or Handheld versions. 

Semantics. It's still the same world though. The Mushroom Kingdom is a part of the Mushroom World or whatever you want to call it. It's basically Peach asking Mario and Luigi for help to bring peace to the other kingdoms of her world which is why you get letters from her on a regular basis.

It's not a spinoff, it's natural progression.

That would be all fine and dandy if not for the fact that it's all fictional and Peach didn't asked anyone for help. It's a play remember, not a game, no one's in danger, no heroics are performed and the player was always deceived. For that fact alone is a spin-off, since Mario doesn't do anything other than being an actor, and we all know the true Mario isn't an actor. 

And going from a kingdom to a world is only natural progression if you consider that in order for that to happen, the mushroom kingdom had to go on a conquering rampage, since in that frame of mind, all other kingdoms are subjugated to the will of Princess Peach. Since the peaceful Mushroom Kingdom of the first games isn't likely to go on conquering rampages, it makes no sense to go from kingdom to world. Thus that argument is invalid in the spectrum of Mario lore. 

Again, there's just no more reason to call SMB3 a "true" Mario game as SMW in the "rules" that Pyro as Bill created, that oh-so-supreme knowledge lord.