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Which one do you perfer

Mario and Luigi 60 44.78%
 
Paper Mario 74 55.22%
 
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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 26 July 2014
HylianSwordsman said:
MohammadBadir said:
HylianSwordsman said:
Mario and Luigi hands down. Mario and Luigi had two spectacular entries (1&3), a great entry (4), and a decent entry (2). Paper Mario had one spectacular (TTYD), one great entry (PM64), one decent entry (SPM), and one entry I actually REGRET playing (Sticker Star).

I actually think SPM is spectacular as well, it has the best story out of not just the Mario RPGs, but of the entire Mario series.

Disagree. SPM had an okay story, but it was NOTHING on PM:TTYD story. Just because you're saving the multiverse instead of the world doesn't make it automatically better. TTYD has better characters, better humor, and better writing in general. SPM isn't terrible, but to me the writing was the second worst of the Mario RPGs. Still not terrible, but a poor excuse for an RPG story. Nowhere near as bad as Sticker Star. Sticker Star was so horrendous I've seen Mario platformers with better story. Of course, Sticker Star was barely an RPG at all, but whatever.

Absofriggenlutely, TTYD was as near perfection as Paper Mario could be. I agree with everything you said, since I haven't played SPM or SS I simply speak from what I've gathered from friends and the internet but I still emulate PM and TTYD frequently. I just wish Shadow Queen was more integral or at the very least they explore Evil Peach and Luigi again.

One of my fondest memories of gaming was getting lost in the desert of Paper Mario, although I recognize how finite it is now, back then it was like GTA V to me lol.



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sundin13 on 26 July 2014

Super Mario RPG: TLotSS>both

:P



drake_tolu on 26 July 2014

Mario And Luigi>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Paper Mario



HylianSwordsman on 26 July 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Absofriggenlutely, TTYD was as near perfection as Paper Mario could be. I agree with everything you said, since I haven't played SPM or SS I simply speak from what I've gathered from friends and the internet but I still emulate PM and TTYD frequently. I just wish Shadow Queen was more integral or at the very least they explore Evil Peach and Luigi again.

One of my fondest memories of gaming was getting lost in the desert of Paper Mario, although I recognize how finite it is now, back then it was like GTA V to me lol.


SPM wasn't too bad, but there was too much...empty space. Not literally empty, but so devoid of anything going on that it felt that way. There's literally a part where a level gets sucked into a black hole and you walk on a straight line of empty space where the level used to be, and that part had a bigger impact on me than some sections of the game. Imagine if you took the grinding of certain RPGs and tried to emulate that in a platformer. You'd have Super Paper Mario. The levels mostly feel like grindy obstacles to get to the next sliver of story. But the story is decent, and touching at the end. The gameplay wasn't the worst, it just felt really, really diluted, like they had to stretch out the game to hide what little content was there.

 

Sticker Star on the other hand...ugh...like I said before, not really an RPG. The gameplay in Super Paper Mario felt more RPG-like than Sticker Star, it was that simple. The only sidequest was to collect all the stickers into a museum. When I said the story was so simple that some Mario platformers were better, I meant it literally, without the slightest bit of hyperbole. I could summarize the story in a few sentences. The Sticker Star comes down, Bowser breaks it apart, you go across the land fighting Kamek and Bowser Jr. now and then, and fight random nameless bosses with no backstory. Getting to the bosses involves little to no story. Once you have all the "Royal Stickers" from the nameless bosses, you fight Bowser Jr. on his battleship, then go to Bowser's Castle, which is literally two rooms, one where you kill Kamek, the other where you fight Bowser, who has no lines of dialogue. That's right, absolutely zero lines. You free Peach and the credits roll. The end. Waste of my fucking time.



NightDragon83 on 26 July 2014

Mario RPG tops both PM and M&L :)



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 26 July 2014
NightDragon83 said:
Mario RPG tops both PM and M&L :)

Mario RPG is the easy way out.

Its like saying Half-Life when comparing COD and Halo.



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leedlelee on 26 July 2014

I've played three of the four M&L games and all of the Paper Mario games...
I think the best games from among the two series are Paper Mario and TTYD...
Having said that, the M&L series is more consistent in quality (in my opinion)...



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AZWification on 27 July 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
NightDragon83 said:
Mario RPG tops both PM and M&L :)

Mario RPG is the easy way out.

Its like saying Half-Life when comparing COD and Halo.

How's Mario RPG the easy way out when TTYD is better than SMRPG in every way possible? :-/



                
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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 27 July 2014
AZWification said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
NightDragon83 said:
Mario RPG tops both PM and M&L :)

Mario RPG is the easy way out.

Its like saying Half-Life when comparing COD and Halo.

How's Mario RPG the easy way out when TTYD is better than SMRPG in every way possible? :-/

Except in the only thing that matters:



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Words Of Wisdom on 27 July 2014
AZWification said:

How's Mario RPG the easy way out when TTYD is better than SMRPG in every way possible? :-/


I'm not aware of being able to fight battles with Mario, Princess, and Bowser all on the same team in TTYD.

The Paper Mario series, outside of the abomination they made for the Wii, is amazing.  I enjoyed it more than the M&L series, but that's like saying I enjoyed Six Flags more than Disney Land.  Both are still better than most things.