richardhutnik said:
NightDragon83 said: Don't hate on him at all... I just hate the fact that for the better part of the 90s and '00s we had to wait an average of 5 years for a proper Mario game (while getting dozens of spinoffs in the process), and now we're getting flooded with copy and paste Mario titles PLUS the neverending barrage of spinoffs. If it's not one extreme with Nintendo, it's the other. |
Would the games they release be better if Mario wasn't in them? I say the spinoffs.
In regards to the regular Mario games, there is Mario in 2D and Mario in 3D. Nintendo also has been releasing new consoles and people want Mario for them. And then, you have success with some of the older franchises, like Mario RPG stuff, so those get new titles.
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Whether or not Mario is in the spinoffs isn't the point. The point is between 1991-2006 (that's 15 years) we got a whopping 4 legit Mario games (not counting any of the handheld ones). SMW, Yoshi's Island, Mario 64, and Sunshine. Then started the Mario renaissance with NSMB and Galaxy a year apart, OK great, we're getting new 2D and 3D Mario games simultaneously, nice!
But then... we get NSMB Wii, Galaxy 2, Super Mario Land 3D, NSMB2 (?) and NSMBU all within a span of 3 years. We've got more Mario games in 3 years than we did from the entire SNES-GameCube era, and all of them borrow and recycle from previous games instead of innovating and bringing new stuff to the table, especially the NSMB series... it's like the direct-to-video Disney flicks that just rehash the old classics with nothing new or original.
On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.