Top five ways Nintendo ruined Mario

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:32 am

http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/galle ... L3_image-a

bee mario WTF?

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:46 am

Mario in a boot.

Mario in a raccoon suit.

Mario with a cape.

Mario riding a dinosaur.

If Bee Mario is a WTF to you then you've a been living in cave since you where born.

Which explains a lot.

These top x lists that have sprouted up excessively from these "gaming journalism" of sites pretty much proves that there is no such thing as "gaming journalism".

They've already scrapped into the barrel for the sake of changing the site daily.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:51 am

Don't forget Frog Mario.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:59 am

Post by **grinvader** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:09 am

They cannot ruin Mario by making him do random stuff since his very purpose is bringing a famous face to new (and old) activities.

When they have a new game concept, they look at their list of main characters and just take some. The public is familiar with the characters already, just have to get used to the new game itself.
Would Super Mario Kart have been that successful with brand-new characters ? And so on.

From time to time they do add new characters to their list, see Wario... from time to time. Too much would also be bad.

Luigi GREW into the desperate-to-do-like-his-bro comic relief. He's not getting out of there anytime soon (and even when he does, it's in a sort of pathetic way - see the various RPGs and Luigi's Mansion for that).

funkyass wrote:Mario in a boot.

fuck &"¹~[` yeah !

Mario with a cape.

A feather-granted cape that honestly looks closer to a hazmat garbage bag. It flies !

Dullaron · Post by **Dullaron** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:22 pm

Only Mario you won't see is a porno Mario.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:37 pm

Dammit, Mario should be beating up monkeys and torturing their children! All this newfangled mushroom abuse is just craziness!

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:24 pm

Nintendo ruined mario by trying to continue using it.

Francis64 · Post by **Francis64** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:57 pm

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 2:56 pm

Dullaron wrote:Only Mario you won't see is a porno Mario.

There's already a sex ed. Mario... (linky)

Post by **badinsults** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 4:23 pm

Ok, that list is incredibly bad. There have been Mario spinnoffs since the dawn of the NES. The princess getting captured all of the time has always been the premise of the Mario games. What do they suggest should be the plotline? If you make fun of bee Mario, why not make fun of Mario 3? You can't deny that Super Mario Galaxy is one of the great games released this decade, and I thought it was rather cute. Luigi... who cares. And a voice, again who cares? Nintendo has not ruined Mario, and the majority of games that Mario is in are excellent (something that can't be said for Sonic the Hedgehog).

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:29 pm

adventure_of_link wrote:http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/galle ... L3_image-a

bee mario WTF?

how do you NOT know about bee mario? do you NEVER read gaming sites? bee and ghost mario were huge features when nintendo was hyping galaxy, which by the way, is an amazing game

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:41 pm

Super Mario Galaxy was freaking awesome and Bee Mario doesn't ruin the game. I find Galaxy to be much better than Super Mario Sunshine.

Post by **grinvader** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:55 pm

Sunshine was far from bad, but I read a lot of players sucked at it.

Never had any trouble with it, and the hardest thing of all (the secret 8 red coins mission with the throwing piantas that you had to angle and time properly) took me like 5 tries.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:52 pm

sweener2001 wrote:
adventure_of_link wrote:http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/galle ... L3_image-a

bee mario WTF?
how do you NOT know about bee mario? do you NEVER read gaming sites? bee and ghost mario were huge features when nintendo was hyping galaxy, which by the way, is an amazing game

oh I'm so sorry I've never really played any mario games made after 2002

excuuuse me if the only thing I had last gen was a PS2, not to mention I don't read gaming/computer sites as much as I used to

(but good news, it's confirmed I'm getting a wii soon and I may get super mario galaxy next month)

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:51 am

adventure_of_link wrote:
sweener2001 wrote:
adventure_of_link wrote:http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/galle ... L3_image-a

bee mario WTF?
how do you NOT know about bee mario? do you NEVER read gaming sites? bee and ghost mario were huge features when nintendo was hyping galaxy, which by the way, is an amazing game
oh I'm so sorry I've never really played any mario games made after 2002

excuuuse me if the only thing I had last gen was a PS2, not to mention I don't read gaming/computer sites as much as I used to

(but good news, it's confirmed I'm getting a wii soon and I may get super mario galaxy next month)

That doesn't excuse you from kuribo shoe mario, racoon mario, tanuki mario, etc.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:03 am

or stupidity

you would have to have been under a rock to have not seen bee mario before this.

or deep in 2 sum buttar

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:58 am

man, these people obviously never understood the spirit of mario, and have turned away from it's goodness, how sad. Also congrats AoL on the soon to be Wii, there are a few keepers on there. Next year seems to be looking better for 3rd party titles (which was rather slim this year)

anywho, basically the people who wrote that list are insecure adults unable or unwilling to embrace something whimsical or that would appear "silly"

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:44 am

it's been slim

but it is looking up, mad world for one

the conduit for another. some day i'll go back to my wii and finish no more heroes.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:04 am

grinvader wrote:Sunshine was far from bad, but I read a lot of players sucked at it.

Never had any trouble with it, and the hardest thing of all (the secret 8 red coins mission with the throwing piantas that you had to angle and time properly) took me like 5 tries.

You, sir, are extremely good at video games. o.o

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:34 am

Joe Camacho wrote:That doesn't excuse you from kuribo shoe mario, racoon mario, tanuki mario, etc.

Who HASN'T played ANY incarnation of SMB3?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:38 am

that doesn't help your case, and the fact that mario galaxy has been out for well over a year doesn't help you, either

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:28 am

Aaron wrote:
grinvader wrote:Sunshine was far from bad, but I read a lot of players sucked at it.

Never had any trouble with it, and the hardest thing of all (the secret 8 red coins mission with the throwing piantas that you had to angle and time properly) took me like 5 tries.
You, sir, are extremely good at video games. o.o

That's what they say.
At least for those kinds of game where I'm extremely good at.

The secret is a lot of willpower, an unhealthy diet and robot circuits in your brain.

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:58 am

grinvader wrote:The secret is a lot of willpower, an unhealthy diet and robot circuits in your brain.

This is given, considering your utter devotion to getting everything out of games like Disgaea. Sure, it's not just Disgaea, but the game is just such a fine example of that devotion of yours.

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:10 pm

I haven't even explained what's the best way to work up equipment for disgaea 1 (and 2 is even better with the double kills + item assembly), dood.
Makai kingdom is also delicious numbercrunching despite the lack of item levelling. And levelling in Soul cradle is quite fun if repetitive.
Probably the biggest advantage right there: if you can't cope with repetitiveness, you can't really do anything with those.

But that sort of stuff doesn't force one to rock at platform games. That's a different set of skills altogether.
*hugs his 215K score in sonic adventure 2 cosmic wall hard mode*

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