Only in a very basic, conceptual way

Mario has like 20 years old
LBP less than 2 years

NSMB appeared 3 years ago
LBP less than 2

....can't find the logic in your argument, sorry. Is too dumb to take seriously.

About as much as ModNation Racers remind me of Mario Kart:)

well i played loads of co op sidescrollers before LBP , so when i played that game i certainly wasnt like, oh this is original because of the co op in platformers.If you never played games like Joe and Mac before or Brawl co op mode that came months before LBP i "guess" i can almost understand you. LBP was good btw.The reason you alone"noticed" is because of your lack of gaming experience.If i only played Half life and then Halo i guess i would also believe halo was inspired by Half life since its a first person shooter(and i was ignorant that there were dozens of FPS before HL).

That's strange. I always figured every platformer out there including LBP copied mario & not vice versa.

No, New Super Mario Bros. Wii reminds me of Super Mario Bros...I guess that's why it's called NEW Super Mario Bros.

This thread is reminding me of the absurdities from late 2007 where a bunch of Sony fanboys tried to compare Galaxy to Ratchet & Clank. It didn't work then and it won't work now.

maybe a little bit

but i couldnt get into lbp, might be because of the fact i got into mario very young, so i can still be into it, but lbp at my age was unappealing

mario is way faster tho, and a better design that flows better (to me)

also sales wise there wont be much reminding done, as it will steamroll lbp

but yeh this thread is kinda like saying how the new metallica cd reminds you of disturbed or something. yeh maybe . . . but without metallica there is no disturbed

see what im saying?

They are both great game seriesl. I can compare those things.

To be fair Mario was not the first platformer... Space Panic holds that title (a few others dispute it but its safe to say its not a mario title).

Donkey Kong (the arcade game that introduced Jumpman (mario)) is arguably to first platformer to introduce jumping, and later mario bros had side scrolling (didn't introduce this but was the first to make it popular).

So to sum up, not every platformer is inspired from Mario - just any platformer with jumping and/or side scrolling leves :)

The only thing that reminded me of LBP in the E3 showing of NSMBWii was the camera angles/view.

But then again, Super Smash Bros. did it in 1999.

LBP copied Smash Bros Confirmed?