i liked mario through super mario world but ill agree that SMB 3 was the best. Hands down.

My favorite game of all time its SMB3.. im playing it right now, again... i dont think SMW, SMG, SMS are bad.. i liked them too...

So he's pretty much saying that pretty much every game since, say, 1996 is worse than pretty much every game before 1996?

I guess tutorials are the new devil.

That's impossiable mario galxy was the last great mario game what he said i wrong.FACT

I remember thinking the tutorial in Ocarina of Time was really, really awesome.

Ditto Galaxy, actually.

Super Mario 64, too.

On Tutorials : OFC there were no tutorials in the past. The NES pad had 2 fucking buttons. What kind of stupid tutorial would this be?

I agree that tutorials nowadays shouldn't feel like tutorials.

These guys are to analytical. But you cannot analyze a game. You have to analyze your experience. They basicly fail to have the corrent intended experience by trying to find every flaw in the game and ruining their experience. It's their own fault if they cannot enjoy these games.

I personaly enjoyed SMS more than any other mario before and after. And I enjoyed Banjo-Kazooie more than SM64 and I enjoed FF8 more than any other FF before and after(FF6 comes so close >_> but FF is more a story than a game :>). Wanna know why? B/C i had no fucking clue what these games would be, B/C i was expecting nothing from these games and i couldn't be dissapointed.

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OH on sins: So ja it'S kind of a basic. Taking controll away from player is bad. Lenghty cutscenes or FMV(these break immersion by alternating graphics) is a sin too b/c they are received passively and games are an active medium and b/c they take away the controlls) are a sin too. .... WAIT?

Why is MGS and FF then so succsessful?

I can see why you might think that. But actually I keep posting these because he's one of the few people in the internet gaming scene that feals the same way about these games as I do. Whenever anyone says that Mario games aren't as good as they used to be it's quickly dissmissed as unimportant.

Very easily.

^So you don't even like it a bit?

I liked it. Just not as much as the NES ones.

On the Kotaku article: the only time that sort of thing really bugs me is when i'm consciously doing something different than what the game recommends, like if i'm going out of my way to get a pickup in Metroid Prime, and that damn alert keeps coming up, pointing me in the direction of the item i'm supposed to be getting. Or whenever i chose to take time out to get the Biggoron's Sword in OoT, and Navi would yell at me persistently to tackle whichever temple i should be going to.