I love Mario games a ton, but they need to think of some new ideas, and maybe take a chance for once. Also, what's with all the Mario sports.
WTD, this sounds like a contradiction here. New ideas and taking chances? Uh...I think all these sports games are doing just that. I'd classifly DDR into that category, too, like how the Karts are. Besides, if anything, the Mario games are very innovative. I mean, look at the ideas behind M&L:PoT and Super Princess Peach. Innovative, I tells ya! Besides, the Mario Party concept was very much a "new idea," very innovated, and very creative. Now they've just over-used it, so it doesn't seem as original anymore, since there are now 8 of them.
While, sure, I'd like to see more "mainstream" Mario games, as opposed to spinoffs, they ARE being made, usually at least a couple a year. There's nothing to complain about. People should be less demanding, and think of all the hard work that goes into these games to make them so great. SMB1, 2, and 3 were all released about a year apart, if I recall. We're getting more Mario games now (excluding the volumes of spinoffs) then we did in the past. It's just most of us were too young to have played them as soon as they came out, and now that we're older, there are masses of games to go back and play. How can you expect all the innovative games that have added up over the past two decades to be "made up for" today in, say, even just a couple of years?
Be happy for how much is already there; 10 years ago, we didn't have all the great games we do now. 20 years ago, we had even less. It's cumulative. Be glad you didn't have to "wait" those two decades for all those games to come out; you already had a mass already available to you when you first started gaming. (This goes for most of us; it depends on one's age. I'm talking about the "average" age, which seems to be around 15. Yikes, I'm getting old.)
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