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happydolphin on 23 April 2012
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d21lewis said:
happydolphin said:

^The question was, should I want it. I needed to discuss it with you guys, I was hoping that was okay.

Am I the only one in this dilemma, not sure if they want to buy certain Nintendo games anymore, not certain if I want my hopes strung up anymore?

Or am I the only one? Is this a boring topic?


No.  You should not want it.  There's a certain aspect of the game that doesn't live up to your standards.  Money is not to be wasted on things that don't please you.  You don't like the graphics.  Don't buy it.  Simple.

If you want a Mario game, Super Mario 3D Land is probably more of what you want.  If that game has levels that are too short or mechanics that are too dated, go for Rayman or Sonic Generations.  Hell, go for Cave Story.  The reason they made NSMB for the DS was that the main games had gotten too complicated for the older 2D audience.  Before NSMB, we hadn't had a 2D Mario platformer since 1995"s Yoshi's Island (If you want to count that one).  As soon as Mario went 3D, a lot of gamers said, "See ya later!" and never looked back.  It was an entirely new beast.  Mario was the franchise that Nintendo used to show what their console was capable of--the real Mario games, that is.  NSMB is the franchise to appease the older gamer that wants a new game.  It's supposed to be old school in graphics and gameplay!

You see games that are going for that retro feel like Cave Story, Super Meat Boy, Fancy Pants, etc.  Many of them go out of their way to feature 8-bit graphics.  NSMB could have gone that route, too.  Instead, it gives us a graphical updat to the classic gameplay style.  It's still not pushing the envelope and if it did, it would turn a lot of people off.  That's why the Wii U version isn't going to blow anybody away.  That's not the purpose of the series.  You can wish that it did things differently but you're looking for NSMB to give you something that it never will.

It would be like asking Halo to let you "aim down the sites"  like Call of Duty, asking Street Fighter to give you "Fatalities" like Mortal Kombat, or Tetris to have more shapes.  The graphics of NSMB are purposely that way.  Unfortunately, that graphcis style isn't for you.  Sorry.

It's different, when the roots you're trying to go back to are, in fact, "Matte graphics, enchanted worlds, secret invisible boxes, detailed sprites (Mario 1, Mario 3)"

That's where your analogy doesn't work D21!

As for Mario going 3D and all, I don't disagree with any of what you said. When 2D Mario came back to life, with NSMB, I welcomed it. I actually knew the game would sell like crazy. Too bad I was still new back then, but maybe I can trace back an old old post I made as padib where I called it. I was fine with NSMB, but that was 1 game. From there, the series needs to move ahead, progress, deepen, widen. When I see spiders like that, I... I litterally get the shrieks.

It's not because 2D Mario has its place in the world of gaming today that suddenly it needs to be kiddy. 2D games were never kiddy to me back then, never.

Hell, I still play the classics, more than ever.