New Super Mario Bros. (latest pics)

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:15 pm 0

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piku · Post by **piku** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:55 pm 0

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Gah, stupid Nintendo.

So it's another Mario game. And we take the piss out of EA for rebadging Fifa every year. Super Mario Land was good, it consumed a month of the lives of people I work with, and we had good fun completing it, but I doubt we'd want to sit through another version.

Mind you, Tetris DS could be fun, but that's simply because it's one of the simplest games on the planet, and so long as you keep the original gameplay in there it can't go wrong (so I fully expect the gameplay to be "different" and strange and not as good as the original).

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:01 pm 0

You honestly think it's reasonable to compare Fifa series to Super Mario series?

Lol.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:06 pm 0

To be fair, all FIFA games center arounf eith international soccer, or international and club soccer. Mario games sapn several sub-genres of platformer, RPGs, Racing games, party games, sports games and more. So comparing a Local/Internaitonal soccer game to an allout franchise is not a fair comparison.

Mario occasionally innovates and generally has a slightly different art style for each branch of the franchise whilst Fifa has only two visual styles; 'Realistic' and the old-skool isometric views.

Also, God says you're wrong and should beg forgiveness.

anon76235 · Post by **anon76235** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:16 pm 0

mario innit

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:16 pm 0

The last Super Mario platformer was released way back in 1995.

I think! The SNES Yoshi's Island one was the last one wasn't it?

If so that's 10 years ago! Hardly FIFA.

piku · Post by **piku** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:17 pm 0

I wasn't trying to compare Mario to football, that'd be nonsense.

I'm trying to compare Nintendo's continual rehashing of Mario to EA's continual rehashing of football games. They're both stuck in a money-making groove and need someone to give the floor a good whack to make the needle jump.

It's the same damn jump and run game as the one I have for my SNES and goes against the image of being an innovative company that everyone wants them to be.

We moan when someone churns out yet another Robotron clone, but cheer wildly when another Mario flavoured game comes out. I don't get that. Are Nintendo's art department unable to draw anything apart from Mario?

Asking God for forgiveness would first involve accepting the notion it exists...

So there

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:18 pm 0

Looks like a James Pond rip-off.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:27 pm 0

Looks like a Great Giana sisters rip off.

piku · Post by **piku** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:29 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:Looks like a James Pond rip-off.

I have the mind of a coder, so what I see is yet another platform game. Replace the graphics with cheap quality ones, release it in our forum and a few people might go "well it's not bad, looks like a bit of a Mario ripoff to me. I got to level 26 before getting bored."

There's not a lot you can do to a platform game to make it new and interesting, its rules are pretty rigid and well defined.

It'd be earth shattering if Mario went right - to - left though

That'd freak a lot of people out.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:33 pm 0

piku wrote:
Rod_S wrote:Looks like a James Pond rip-off.
I have the mind of a coder, so what I see is yet another platform game. Replace the graphics with cheap quality ones, release it in our forum and a few people might go "well it's not bad, looks like a bit of a Mario ripoff to me. I got to level 26 before getting bored."

There's not a lot you can do to a platform game to make it new and interesting, its rules are pretty rigid and well defined.

It'd be earth shattering if Mario went right - to - left though That'd freak a lot of people out.

Or a top-down view like B-B-B-Bounder...

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:36 pm 0

piku wrote:I wasn't trying to compare Mario to football, that'd be nonsense.

I'm trying to compare Nintendo's continual rehashing of Mario to EA's continual rehashing of football games. They're both stuck in a money-making groove and need someone to give the floor a good whack to make the needle jump.

Marios's just a character that's used in many different genres of games.

As I said up there a bit, this is the first Mario platformer since 1995, hardly repeated rehashes. It's a 2D platformer FFS, old school retro fun. You won't find this on a PSP.

piku wrote:There's not a lot you can do to a platform game to make it new and interesting, its rules are pretty rigid and well defined.

You can do simultaneous multiplayer platforming over the DS's wireless link with it.

Besides, I personally have never owned a SNES and have never played a Mario platformer except mucking around at a mates house. It doesn't have to do something new to be fun does it? It's not as though we had one of these last year... and the year before that etc..

piku · Post by **piku** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:45 pm 0

disciple wrote:
piku wrote:There's not a lot you can do to a platform game to make it new and interesting, its rules are pretty rigid and well defined.
You can do simultaneous multiplayer platforming over the DS's wireless link with it.

Why? This is like two-payer Tetris... it doesn't fit in with the point of the game.

Besides, I personally have never owned a SNES and have never played a Mario platformer except mucking around at a mates house.

Ah, then you actually haven't lived. I recon you should get down to your local second hand computer store, buy a SNES and Mario. Don't download an emulator and the ROM. You need to be sat in front of your telly with the real controller in your hands.

I understand Mario is just a method for Nintendo to produce games, but surely there's only so many times bloody Princess Peach can get kidnapped! Nintendo should just rename themselves "Mario" and be done with it.

toxibunny · Post by **toxibunny** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:46 pm 0

disciple wrote: Besides, I personally have never owned a SNES and have never played a Mario platformer except mucking around at a mates house.

get yoshi's island. now.

Samus · Post by **Samus** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:58 pm 0

piku wrote: I understand Mario is just a method for Nintendo to produce games, but surely there's only so many times bloody Princess Peach can get kidnapped! Nintendo should just rename themselves "Mario" and be done with it.

Who cares abt the princess, or the plot?

piku wrote:I wasn't trying to compare Mario to football, that'd be nonsense.

That's not what I meant...thought it was obvious...to make it clear: find any differences between SMB, SMB3, SMW, M64 and SMS? Now compare this to what EA does with FIFA.

Thought so.