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

[Pyro as Bill]

Khuutra said:

RolStoppable said:

Khuutra said:
Rol I can't accept the point about Mario Bros. at face value, because it implies that if they made sequels then that would become the main series.

Not quite. It would only truly become the main series if the lore established in Mario Bros. then would go on to be the feeding ground for all or at least the majority of spinoffs. 

Pyro doesn't make a bad point. All that Mario Bros. ever was got later on absorbed by Super Mario Bros. as nothing more than a minigame or different game mode.

....The... lore. I have to admit that part of your argument is the one I assumed you were joking about, but all right.

So let's suppose that Mario Bros.'s setting and characters and elements were propagated throughout the rest of the series, becoming a feeding ground for all or at least the majority of spinoffs (though, uh, this is actually already the case). This would make it the main series?

Fuck the lore. You're trying to say that any game that uses elements of the Mario Universe are Mario games. NO! Hotel Mario isn't a real Mario game. Dr Mario isn't a real Mario game. 3D Mario is NOT, i repeat IS NOT, REAL Mario in the 3rd dimension. Just as checkers/draughts with a 3rd dimension wouldn't be real checkers. 2D checkers would be closer to chess (another 2d game) than 3d checkers.

When you go 3d, you break the game. Space football will break football when players are flying around with jetpacks, it'll be Quidditch. Quidditch and football aren't the same game. Quidditch isn't REAL football. The 2D version of 64 or Galaxy would resemble something more like a mix of Limbo (not a platformer) and Little Big Planet. It isn't checkers anymore even if the pieces are black and white.

I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise for any derailing or trollish or offensive remarks that may have been made in this thread. I take full responsibility and in future I'll ask Khuutra not to contribute to my threads.