Don't the Mario RPG games have an ok storyline? Not sure what the problem is. Does every GAME need a STORY? How about Tetris? We could do something like this:


As for Mario, how about sticking Mario in GTA world?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/82522

How about Pac Man:


Or Minesweeper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

It's a minimum. As I said in another thread (I think that was a Rol thread as well...) this isn't the Nes gen, with the technology of today we shouldn't have to play the game at all. Nintendo did a mistake with NSMBWii in that you have to die 8 times before you can watch the game play itself. If you could watch it from the beginning it would've been the game of the generation. A game of the future.

"In the past we played games. In the future we watch games." ~ Me.

Quote me.

done.

And here we are back to the confusion of INTERACTIVE FICTION with games.  Until videogames, and perhaps RPGs, games weren't things that had plots or stories.  Games were originally competitive environments with winning and losing conditions, where you tried to beat people.  But then along came videogames, and that apparently changed.  Now, due to the fact videogames is a HUGE industry, people now thing that games are something that MUST have stories behind them.  Well, that is NOT the case. 

Maybe the future of interactive fiction will mean the end of the interactive part, but games will be games.  People will still play board and cardgames, even if they are in a virtual format.

Awful.

It has no terrorism, no Communists, and only one gun.

I would so buy that.