So...I guess no Paper Mario then?

[Arlo]

Goodnightmoon said:

Arlo said:
I don't care how "reliable" any source is. I never, ever, EVER believe it. It takes too much mental energy to care that much at get my hopes up when they're wrong 99% of the time. A rumor is a rumor.

Also the very "glass half empty" part of me knows that whenever the next Paper Mario game gets revealed it's just going to disappoint me again, so even if I knew an announcement was coming I couldn't get hyped for it--only deeply, deeply sad.

Seriously, just because one paper mario was weak doesnt meant every fucking Paper Mario ever is gonna be bad, that is a very irrational pessimism.

TWO Paper Marios have been weak, which is half of the series and how it's been for over a decade.  I don't think they'll all neccessarily be bad, but I am betting that they won't be Paper Mario in the style of the first two, which is what I want.  Miyamoto has proven that he doesn't want to make another "real" Paper Mario, and that he wants to differentiate the series from Mario and Luigi.  Add in the fact that one of the problems with Sticker Star was the watered-down story and how now even Mario and Luigi is suffering the same fate, it shows that Nintendo is just moving further and further in the opposite direction of what I'm looking for.

It's not irrational pessimism.  It's looking at trends and drawing a likely conclusion.  A Paper Mario game can still be really good, but still be disappointing if it's missing a lot of what we all liked about it before.