There is a great quote... by some famous author.

It goes something like

"When I was a teeneager I secretly read fairytales without people seeing me to pretend I was more mature, and when I was older, I read them in the open because I was mature enough to not care what people think."

C. S. Lewis, I believe. And you're thinkning of two quotes.

One is "One day you will be old enough to read fairy tales again."

The other is:

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

Good quotes.

Vehement disagreements with an opinion, which thanks to the thoughtless statements of a few might be applied in a negative way to some people who partook in mockery not at all!?

How terrible.

Edit: Also the fuller C. S. Lewis quote disparages your position, so nyah.

We shouldn't care what some chick on G4 said anyway. G4 has absoloutely no credibility with video games, they are like the MTV of video games. And my guess is MTV probably wouldn't like 90% of the bands I like, if they've even heard of them at all that is..

The above quotes encompass every reason why I get irritated at comments like hers.

Problem being she did these rants before with SMG just replace cartoony with too kiddy and she went on and ON about it.

Fact is the whole switching from "too kiddy" to "too cartoony" hurts her argument when her favorite game series is Ratchet and Clank all of which are very cartoony and take pride in that fact, you even have segments of cartoon style slapstick in the cutscenes, the only time they tried to take it serious was that whole "dark and brooding" phase that happened last gen where we got things like Jak 2, PoP Warrior Within, and Ratchet Deadlocked, even the reviews on the back of Tools of Destruction called it a Pixar Film and they specialize in CG cartoons...

I thought her favorite game series was Ratchet & Clank. Hypocrisy confirmed.

Except she said the story should be gone (from Mario), so I'm guessing you didn't even watch the video, just came in here to "defend her opinion" without even knowing it... amazing.

No she said "cartoony graphics" specifically, Adam "they did get rid of most of the story" Morgan "They should have got rid all of it" and then went on to say "everyone knows to go on to the next level"

So again I ask you to actually watch the video before you come into a thread trying to start a big fuss and not even know what you're talking about, it seems to me you're trying to use her to project your own agenda, cause what you're saying and what she's saying isn't matching up at all, period.

When someone makes a statement like that it seems it's always a welcome opportunities for unsatisfied people to complain and agree with what she said. She barely made good points, she has no good arguments, while she is saying it's too cartoony, she's playin Ratchet and Clank and presenting Crack in Time as the best platformer.

The thing about being done with the Mario nostalgia is also pointless. Do we really play Mario because of its nostalgia? Why don't we play Sonic for nostalgia? We play Mario games because they are so much entertaining and give you an incredible amount of fun. I don't play his games because I played the original Mario Bros. I play his games because they are the pinnacle of platforming and feels always fresh, what she, obviously, doesn't understand.

Poor blonde.

Haha

Halo 2 --> Halo 3 two generations

Gears 1 --> Gears 3 SAME generation

Mario 64 --> SMG 2 three generations.

What a shocker that the graphical improvement for Mario is bigger than for Halo. Try to compare Gran Tutismo on PSOne with GT5p or GT5 for that matter. You might want to rethink your point.

And why are you sensitive about this? I just said that Mario really is a game aimed at a younger audience and I did not like it, because it is the same over and over again. True the core gameplay stays the same for other franchises as well, but you have the story and the multiplayer that keeps you entertained. Mario has neither a story nor a multiplayer and therefore it is not MY TYPE of game. You can have fun with it, nothing wrong here. I just don't like it.