| RolStoppable said:
I am sorry, but people who demand an elaborate story in a Mario platformer deserve to be made fun of. Remember, there's a difference between story and world building. Only the former was the target of the thread and the posts within it. It has been a theme for years that Nintendo gets (mostly) ignored on all kinds of Game of the Year events. You can either be upset about it or laugh, because the video game industry has created an alternative reality for themselves where Nintendo is nothing more than a footnote. Always remind yourself that people will remember games, not prizes. |
It doesn't need to be elaborate, Rol, it just needst to be different. It seems like the japanese like holding to their tradition, and that's not a really good thing honestly, it makes the experience quite stale. Also, you get the sense that due to its commercial success, NSMB has become some kind of sacred cow. But that goes against the very nature of the artform, to limit creativity for the love of money.
Another thing is that, if it were all about prizes that were given in some kind of snobbist isolated community that just snuffs at Nintendo, I'd understand your point. But the problem in this case is that the games that are getting the prizes actually deserve it, and Nintendo is doing little to compete, bar very rare exceptions.
