Have you played a Mario RPG?  They're all amazing.

Your problem is with the character, not the gameplay or objectives.  Gameplay and objectives are different in different Mario games.  You'd know that if you played them.

No; it's exactly as I said. Nintendo has had plenty of genuinely new gaming experiences within its already large and diverse collection of IPs, whereas its competitors' IPs are often little more than glorified reskins of each other, even among the sequels. Yet still their fanboys demand "new IP" because they've been convinced that the rehashes they eat up by the gross are actually new experiences. They swap Kratos' Y-chromosome for an X and take him to a dermatologist and think they've somehow got a new game experience, yet they rag on the new Nintendo games for no other reason that Mario is still an Italian plumber.

Any game would seem terrible if they were generalized to the point seen in this thread.

Fortunately, the generalizations just don't cut it. You can all keep having fun playing video games.

People say that because they know if they take out thise franchises, they would go out of buisness, and there would be a gaming crash.

Because the point was being made as much about the play mechanics as anything else.

And to be perfectly honest, how many players play Mario games or FPS games for the plot?

Mike from Morgantgown

I'm fine with that idea, I think that the story in most Mario as well as FPS games are complete crap and doubt people are playing for them. There are notable exceptions of course, but that's just what I've seen.

On the mechanics thing though, I commented because your post was totally about stories, and I find it hard to believe that the Mario games have more variation in story than the entire FPS genre. As far as mechanics though, I can agree that both vary to similar degrees, and I'd have a tough time picking which one has more variation, though since I believe the3re are more FPS games in general and I assume that we are sticking to Mario's role solely in platforming games than I think the nod would probably go to FPS games simply because there are more of them and more opportunity for variation.

Yea ... leave it to me to contridict myself.

But then again, I am not sure how different it is fighting the enemies in Halo 1/2/3 vs. Resistance 1/2 (I could add Gears 1/2 here -- but while the plot of alien invasion of the earth is the same, it is a TTPS not an FPS). Or how the enemies difffer in COD 1/2/4/W vs. any other WW II FPS.

Sort of like how is it different fighting Bowser vs. Bowser vs. Bowser vs. Bowser Jr 8*>

Mike from Morgantown

Mike from Morgantown

Every battle against Bowser, while it's the same enemy, is vastly different. In Mario 64, you had to throw him into bombs. In Mario Galaxy, you had to get him to explode himself on spots on the planet, then spin-attack his tail.

Sure, he's the same character, but the entire premise behind fighting him is entirely different.

Just like FPS games. Each boss you fight with a different type of gun. Completely different strategy involved every time. Some bosses you need to shoot in the brain, and others you need to shoot in a heart or central computer. It changes the entire experience. Not to mention that some are Nazis and some are aliens.

This is no excuse for such blasphemy.