Why I can't get into New Super Mario Bros.

[vivster]

zelmusario said:

vivster said:
So what you really hate are sequels?

I will never understand how people always love the 2nd and 3rd expansions of a franchise(sequels) but hate the 15th and 20th even though they're all just "exploitations" of the very first game.

It doesn't sound like that's what he's saying, though. Just the NSMB and Super Mario 3D Land/World games because they lack an identity of their own, contrary to the original SMB series which, even though they were sequels, all played and looked different from each other. 

I don't see a problem here. People hate change. Why do the NSMB games need each their own identity? Just because the first games were different, doesn't mean we need a completely new world with every new game. NSMB games have their own identity that they share between all of the games under the "New" banner. And it's not like you can expand a simple concept with a confined world and lore indefinitely. There was a reason why they had to take Mario to the Galaxy.

This is nothing more than nostalgia and Franchise fatigue, which certainly is not a fault of the games. OP is also not at fault here, since it's only natural to grow out of things. Hell even I am growing a bit tired of AC games even though I still love them and Unity is as much as a valid entry to the Franchise as AC2 was. If you are tiored of something it's very easy to find faults, even though the same faults might be present in previous games.