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Video Games => Mario Chat => Topic started by: Corleone on November 17, 2007, 05:52:40 PM

Title: Mario's Running
Post by: Corleone on November 17, 2007, 05:52:40 PM: I've noticed this weird thing. In each Mario series (excluding the first Super Mario Bros. in the Super Mario Bros. series), he runs differently. In SMB 2 & 3, he runs with his arms bent on each side and they stay still, and he tilts his body. In the Smash Bros. series, he bends his back and runs rather normally. In the 3D series, his arms are straight out to the sides and he bends his forearms as he runs. What running style is your favorite?
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: ShadowBrain on November 17, 2007, 07:48:21 PM: Well, part of the reasons he runs various ways is mostly because of graphical limitations (or lack thereof), but I think the 3Ds take the cake, for obvious reasons.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: BP on November 17, 2007, 08:36:55 PM: I'm gonna go with Super Smash Bros. for realism. No one can move their legs as fast as Mario does in Super Mario 64.
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Post by: Chupperson Weird on November 18, 2007, 02:14:49 AM: How do you consider SMB2 and SMB3 to have the same running style? The animation is completely different.
SMB3 wins anyway.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Corleone on November 18, 2007, 05:38:46 AM: They are pretty much. Mario runs with his arms to the side, bent, and moves his legs in SMB2, so I consider it the same.
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Post by: PaperLuigi on November 18, 2007, 10:24:02 AM: SMB3, only because he seems to run really, really fast when he puts his arms out in an airplane formation.
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Post by: N64 Chick on November 18, 2007, 10:39:04 AM: I picked SSB. Also, am I the only one that thinks that the running style in NSMB is just...weird?
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Post by: Stem Johnson on November 18, 2007, 04:40:18 PM: Where's Super Mario World? I think he ran the best then.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Lizard Dude on November 18, 2007, 08:55:47 PM: This thread is useless without .gifs.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: PaperLuigi on November 18, 2007, 08:58:13 PM: Only to people who haven't actually seen him run.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Koopaslaya on November 22, 2007, 08:27:54 PM: Seeing Mario run for the first time on the top of the beanstalk was possibly one of my most favorite moments in all of my video gaming endeavors. SMB for sure.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Glitchy on November 22, 2007, 09:08:58 PM: Quote from: Stem Johnson on November 18, 2007, 04:40:18 PM
Where's Super Mario World? I think he ran the best then.
You can't have a poll without the awesome SMW "speeding bullet" style running. If that was here, I would vote for it.

I voted for 3D Mario games. Smash Bros. in second, but I like Galaxy's "airplane" style of running than Smash Bros. "tucked head" running.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Corleone on November 23, 2007, 08:54:17 AM: Airplane-style running? You mean like in the intro?

(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi119.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo121%2FCorleoneFR%2FAirplaneRunning.png&hash=a0c51a3543a085b41fd3e37e08c31472)
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: ShadowBrain on November 23, 2007, 09:46:38 AM: Why was he doing that, anyway? Musta been pretty happy...
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Glitchy on November 23, 2007, 10:47:21 AM: Quote from: Corleone on November 23, 2007, 08:54:17 AM
Airplane-style running? You mean like in the intro?

(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi119.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo121%2FCorleoneFR%2FAirplaneRunning.png&hash=a0c51a3543a085b41fd3e37e08c31472)

Yea...

Quote from: ShadowBrain on November 23, 2007, 09:46:38 AM
Why was he doing that, anyway? Musta been pretty happy...
Why was he happy? That he had one more star to collect?
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Rao on November 23, 2007, 11:23:16 AM: He was happy because Peach said in her letter that she had something to give him.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Corleone on November 23, 2007, 11:31:24 AM: Maybe he thought it was Bowser's head. *shrugs*
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: ShadowBrain on November 23, 2007, 02:23:41 PM: Quote from: Rao on November 23, 2007, 11:23:16 AM
He was happy because Peach said in her letter that she had something to give him.
You know, they never do say what that was...
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: Corleone on November 23, 2007, 02:35:55 PM: I'm betting it was the White Luma/Star she was holding.

Back on topic, I actually like Luigi's run in Super Mario Galaxy.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: ShadowBrain on November 23, 2007, 11:19:53 PM: Yeah, it's neat in a quirky way... he always looks like he's about to fall on his back.
Title: Re: Mario's Running
Post by: libra346 on November 25, 2007, 02:40:28 PM: can't mario run like a normal person?