I'd like to go back to the Mario 64 format and give a little bit of free roam and be able to pick your path. Ive been waiting for that to return for awhile :(
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What do you want to see as the next 3D Mario? | |||
| Super Mario 3D Universe | 20 | 12.42% | |
| Super Mario Galaxy 3 | 42 | 26.09% | |
| Super Mario Sunshine 2 | 30 | 18.63% | |
| New take on the series | 64 | 39.75% | |
| Not about that 3D Mario life | 4 | 2.48% | |
| Total: | 160 | ||
I'd like to go back to the Mario 64 format and give a little bit of free roam and be able to pick your path. Ive been waiting for that to return for awhile :(
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| DevilRising said: Hopefully NOT another Sunshine or Galaxy experience. Let's get back to basics. Give us a full 3D Mario (3D World is nice, good game, fun, but enough with floating micro-levels thing). Give us a full, unadulterated romp in the Mushroom Kingdom, in 3D, in HD, for once. We've never gotten it. We've gotten magic paintings, an island, and space/tiny planetoids. Let's get a full blown massive Mushroom Kingdom, in all of it's magical wackiness, going on. THAT is the 3D Mario I want to play next. No gimmicks, no new "theme", just Mario, Mushroom Kingdom, Bowser, cool powers (old and new), and a LOT of classic Mario gameplay. |
Heh, I actually agree with you for once! 3D Mario in the Mushroom Kingdom, that should of been done already!
If Nintendo has any sense, the sequel to 64 that gamers have been waiting for since 1996.
| curl-6 said: If Nintendo has any sense, the sequel to 64 that gamers have been waiting for since 1996. |
Nintendo fans want even more a sequel to 3D World too, right? RIGHT????? D:
My bet with The_Liquid_Laser: I think the Switch won't surpass the PS2 as the best selling system of all time. If it does, I'll play a game of a list that The_Liquid_Laser will provide, I will have to play it for 50 hours or complete it, whatever comes first.
Metallox said:
Nintendo fans want even more a sequel to 3D World too, right? RIGHT????? D: |
As much as I like 3D World, it wasn't what most gamers wanted from the first HD 3D Mario.
I think they are going to reveal Super Mario Galaxy 3 at E3 2015, and I am totally hyped for it!
They have already teased it to us enough

| ExplodingBlock said: I think they are going to reveal Super Mario Galaxy 3 at E3 2015, and I am totally hyped for it! They have already teased it to us enough |
Galaxy 3 on the 3D World/Captain Toad engine would be orgasmic, but I have a feeling the next 3D Mario won't be on Wii U.
curl-6 said:
Galaxy 3 on the 3D World/Captain Toad engine would be orgasmic, but I have a feeling the next 3D Mario won't be on Wii U. |
So you're basically saying that Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-UP Studio are making a 3D Mario game for the 3DS? Because a new Super Mario game is already announced to be in the works. And I doubt they're creating another 2D Mario when Mario Maker is about to release.
A studio this big (+ 1-UP Studio) working on just a 3DS game for the rest of the generation? Over 125 people working on just a 3DS game?
From 2011-2013 Nintendo EAD Tokyo software development group #2 has nearly doubled in size. When Super Mario Land was released there were around 50 developers active at the studio. When Super Mario 3D World released there were around 100 developers active at the studio. Miyamoto confirmed in 2013 that he was working to increase the size of the staff. So the team could even be bigger now for all we know.
Super Mario Galaxy was made with 60 people while Super Mario Galaxy 2 only had 40 people working on it.
This studio is big enough to work on a Wii U and 3DS project at the same time.
To compare this with other studios:
Retro Studios has around 100 people working for them as of July 2014. They made Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze while developing most of the retro stages in Mario Kart 7. And from the looks of it, Nintendo EAD Tokyo software development group #2 is vastly more efficient than Retro Studios. Strangely enough the credit list for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was rather short. Something fishy is definitely going on there! For better or worse.
Samus Aran said:
So you're basically saying that Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-UP Studio are making a 3D Mario game for the 3DS? Because a new Super Mario game is already announced to be in the works. And I doubt they're creating another 2D Mario when Mario Maker is about to release. A studio this big (+ 1-UP Studio) working on just a 3DS game for the rest of the generation? Over 125 people working on just a 3DS game? From 2011-2013 Nintendo EAD Tokyo software development group #2 has nearly doubled in size. When Super Mario Land was released there were around 50 developers active at the studio. When Super Mario 3D World released there were around 100 developers active at the studio. Miyamoto confirmed in 2013 that he was working to increase the size of the staff. So the team could even be bigger now for all we know. Super Mario Galaxy was made with 60 people while Super Mario Galaxy 2 only had 40 people working on it. This studio is big enough to work on a Wii U and 3DS project at the same time. To compare this with other studios: Retro Studios has around 100 people working for them as of July 2014. They made Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze while developing most of the retro stages in Mario Kart 7. And from the looks of it, Nintendo EAD Tokyo software development group #2 is vastly more efficient than Retro Studios. |
More likely it'll be for their next gen Fusion platform.
Wii was the only Nintendo console to get two 3D Marios, I think Wii U will return to the N64/GCN pattern of getting just the one.