That DK pic makes me wish it was a full 3D adventure game to explore it.Galaxy still looks very good.

Sorry, but EAD Tokyo is working on a new 3D Mario since wrapping up 3D World, but they weren't working on one before it was finished. The new Mario might be on Wii U, but it might also get moved to another system, I'm guessing if Wii U sales don't pick up and they launch a replacement early. 3D World is considered a true 3D Mario - they changed the style from Galaxy when they made Land to provide tighter gameplay and more accessibility. Nintendo viewed this as an improvement in the formula. I agree with them, but I would like a little more flair in the style and theme of the game. I wouldn't be surprised if they go back to a more exploration-oriented gameplay with the next title to make fans happy, but don't expect the game soon.

Exactly. That's why when people say they want a "real/true 3D Mario game" next, they aren't at all dissing the 3D Land/World series. They're just saying that they want another game with 3D exclusive game design.

This just... Literally makes no sense.  I genuinely want to rebuttle, but I can't even figure out how to go about some of it.

1. Displayed in 3D? Like rendered in 3D or 3D glasses 3D. Either way, that doesn't matter. That's an inherrent problem with isometric platformers. It plays with depth more that 3D platformers do. That's why people curiously claim that 3D land is better controlled than 3D World. You loose that depth of feild.

2. Uh, what? It would play fine in 2D. I don't mean like 2D side scrolling. I mean 2D isometric. Sprite and diamond tile-based level design. There are some things that couldn't be done, like the Plessie stages, in the same way that some Tropical Freeze stages couldn't be redone in 2D, but 95% of the game absolutely could. You wouldn't get stuck on anything.

3. I never said it was 2D game design. It's isometric game design. And yeah, some of the levels in Galaxy do have isometric game design, the same way some of them have 2D game design.

Don't get me wrong! I do love 3D World and Mario Galaxy ( Galaxy being my favorite game of all time), but I simply miss the feeling of exploring the open levels and finding secrets and such!

Oh, absolutely! I loved 3D World and Galaxy 1. But I know exactly what you mean about less linearity and more open exploration. We're on the same page! :D

I think we'll never get a mario 3D with adventure and exploration, it was like mario kart, a different kind of mario, since galaxy, they gave up more and more the exploration and adventure to focus on platform, galaxy was the mario 3D mix between the real mario 3D like before and what was coming next, until they finally make a whole different kind of mario with 3D land and World ( you'll say " great, since mario is a platformer", i'll say no, the original mario 3D 64 and Sunshine were more adventure and exploration with mechanic of platformer, it was an other kind of mario, like mario kart is not a platformer, it's a kart game)

It's sad they dont want to make mario 3D adventure anymore.

Super Mario 64 was a great game.
It would be very nice to get an upgraded version of Super Mario 64 with HD graphics.