That's not what I meant. I said I didn't like storylines in Nintendo games. My favorite genre is RPGs (JRPGs, actually). I loved Mass Effect and Bioshock and their plots.

 Mario is a totally different genre... Mario is about platforming, you're actually fighting the stage itself and not the enemies, the enemies are there to add extra obsticles to get in your way, an action game should be more about intelligent fighting, while platforming should be more about intelligent level design, so no you can't compare button mashing in an action game to jumping in a platformer, cause button mashing in a action game means the devs didn't care to put enough thought into the fighting so you wouldn't be able to button mash to win (on any difficulty).  Platforming is all about getting to the end of the stage or exploring to achieve an objective, and how the stage is built to keep you from doing so is how you judge that game, any way you can't button mash in Mario when you have to time jumps and attacks.

Edit: ^There is a fair amount of platforming and puzzles in the God of War games, but I guess you can just button mash your way through that.

As for the mythology being incorrect, I meant the mythology of the game.  Kratos is a ruthless warrior and is perceived to be monster by most people he meets in the game.  It wouldn't make sense for him not to be brutal.

 That's what I'm talking about. The plot in a metroid game means absolutely nothing. It just keeps you from the game and it's annoying. Some games don't need a story because they are all about the gameplay.

Yes, Nintendo creates excellent content that doesn't require violence and swearing. It's made for everyone, not just a select few, and the thing is, it's stuff is still mostly better to the target audience of the more adult games, than the more adult games are, with few exceptions.

Quality with responsibility.

You're never going to see a negative news story about Wii-Voice Chat, or the latest Zelda game being a murder simulator.

Definately good for the industry, from a legislative perspective.

Also, if governments ever do put sanctions on violent video games, Nintendo is unlikely to be affected.

 I wasn't meaning pressing the button itselfisn't fun I'm meaning the unintelligent system isn't fun, there's not a whole lot of strategy to the battle system, and not having that is not fun in an action game.

 button mashing will get you to the end of any game on easy mode, and sometimes normal mode, because they are designed to be easy, imagine that.  If you want to beat God of War on a tougher difficulty you can't button mash, period.  You HAVE to work combos between light attacks, power attacks, magic, evasion and blocking.  And like Yakuzaice said, there is a lot of puzzle solving and platforming in God of War.

I'm not talking about games like Metroid, Mario, etc. where they were bred out of the 8-bit era when stories could be entirely scratched onto a napkin. Obviously pasting a story onto Mario at this point would be futile. I mean Nintendo continues to make series that offer little in the way of story. In the N64 era, Rare made the story driven games for Nintendo. In the Gamecube era, Eternal Darkness was the heaviest story and was developed externally by Silicon Knights. Outside of Intelligent Systems, whom I feel do a fantastic job at times of merging great gameplay and enticing story-telling, where does Nintendo even make an effort? I cry every time I play another Zelda game with a painted on story to accompany it.

As far as Game Boy: you hate Microsoft thus I wouldn't expect you to like Bioshock or Mass Effect out of blind hatred. Your name alon shows me I shouldn't expect a fair shake of an opinion out of you regarding anything Nintendo. Leave it be.

Super Smash Bros Melee, F-Zero GX, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, and Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn have voice acting, although it might not be consistent (maybe besides Fire Emblem since FE: PoR is the first FE to be released on a console machine that can handle 3d, I think) Also Nintendo immediately created Wiiware after new games were able to be downloaded on other systems, so I'm not really sure about that last statement either.

Hi guys!

Nintendo does top-AAA+ stuff for everyone