Inafune:‘If a Creator Hasn’t Played Mario, They’re Probably not a good Creator’

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Seece said:

osed125 said:

Seece said:
Yeah because a developer making an FPS could learn a lot from Mario .....

You are looking at it at the wrong angle, in his opinion, Mario is the equivalent of Beethoven (first musician that came to mind, could be any other), but that doesn't stop death metal bands or rappers for taking inspiration in his music and what it represents. 

Nope, analogy doesn't work at all.

Fact of the matter is it could be considered Mario is the bible for Platformers, nothing else.

You can always use aspects of Mario in an FPS. But to do that you'd have to study what makes Mario great.

There are more to games than their genres. For example, we know that even Zelda takes from Mario and vice versa. It's certain that what Miyamoto used to help develop Metroid Prime stemmed from his work on Mario as well.

In the end, you can take inspiration from the graphics, music, ingenuity (gameplay innovations) and many other things when developing any genre.

Did Borderlands take inspiration from Diablo? Most probably. Are they the same genre? Nope.