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Latest News / Re: Super Mario Run announced for iOS

« on: September 10, 2016, 06:35:44 PM »

Unnecessary.

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Mario Chat / Re: "Super Mario Adventures" reprint - October 11

« on: September 10, 2016, 06:32:44 PM »

Welp, that'd be me. On the other hand, now I don't have to feel guilty about the lack of a decent scanner for making debatably legal digital backups.

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Forum Games / Re: What's on your Paste?

« on: August 28, 2016, 06:23:09 PM »

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/969385-gaming

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Game Blog / Re: July 2016 - the 35th Anniversary of the Mario series!

« on: August 02, 2016, 06:50:41 AM »

Wouldn't be a bad idea.

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Mario Chat / Re: Is Shigeru Miyamoto Good for Nintendo?

« on: July 20, 2016, 07:13:12 AM »

I always pictured the Mario one being dungeons, equippable items, etc. in the Mushroom Kingdom with the comparatively grittier Smash Bros. styles of the characters/universe, while the Zelda one would be a 3D platformer (copious focus on Roc's Feather, if need be) with Wind Waker graphics.

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Mario Chat / Re: Is Shigeru Miyamoto Good for Nintendo?

« on: July 18, 2016, 06:59:15 PM »

Eh, could be an interesting change of pace. I've long dreamed of an all-in duo of games that'd be a Mario-style Zelda game and a Zelda-style Mario game.

By "other games like it," though... you don't mean the CD-i series?

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Mario Chat / Re: Is Shigeru Miyamoto Good for Nintendo?

« on: July 17, 2016, 05:12:54 PM »

At least he's not bagging on every Zelda game after Adventure of Link like Tevis Thompson. But yeah, I'm not sure what "core" of the Mario series there is to go back to besides that plot summary in the SMB instruction booklet.

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Mario Chat / Re: Paper Mario: Splatoon

« on: July 14, 2016, 07:29:38 AM »

Ouch. Yeah, that was a series that didn't get the follow-ups it deserved. Chibi-Robo is a bona fide sleeper hit in my book, but I heard that DS sequel (which was exclusive to Wal-Mart for no apparent reason) was lacking, and now Zip Lash isn't even worth a bullet point.

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Mario Chat / Re: Paper Mario: Splatoon

« on: July 12, 2016, 07:13:15 PM »

Yeah, it's an awkward feeling, playing the "New"/"3D" games (or at least trying to explain how I feel about them) -- they're fun, and polished, like a Nintendo game almost always incomparably is, but the imagination is... well, not gone, but definitely tempered.

In any case, yeah, this seemingly growing gap between what they apparently think their audience wants and what they deliver is bizarre, especially in this social media-mad, always-connected era. Obviously, they don't have to listen to what "we" want, but it's definitely impossible to ignore now.

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Mario Chat / Re: Is Shigeru Miyamoto Good for Nintendo?

« on: July 12, 2016, 07:04:45 PM »

Yeah, the term gets pretty broadly thrown around these days. At this point, I feel like it just means "not explicitly a sequel, or at least doesn't have a number in the title." Personally, I feel like a new installment in a series has to dramatically retcon a character or at least have significant tonal and stylistic differences to be a "reboot."

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Mario Chat / Re: Expect a "new kind of Mario": Miyamoto

« on: July 12, 2016, 06:58:05 PM »

Paper Mario was hands-down one of my favorite games ever for a fair amount of time when it first came out. Even now, as much as I love TTYD as well (and will defend SPM), the original's structure and flow was still always my favorite.

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Video Game Chat / Re: New Wii U details - launch date, price, and more!

« on: July 09, 2016, 06:34:32 PM »

From the sound of it, the Wii U didn't end up popular enough to warrant putting development time into several million Wii U's.

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Video Game Chat / Re: New Wii U details - launch date, price, and more!

« on: June 30, 2016, 06:00:19 PM »

Never heard that fable.

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Mario Chat / Re: Super Mario 64 turns 20 today!

« on: June 27, 2016, 07:11:41 PM »

An iconic member of the League of Unextraordinary Nintendo Peripherals.

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Mario Chat / Re: Expect a "new kind of Mario": Miyamoto

« on: June 19, 2016, 06:48:30 PM »

Whatever means less literal New Super Mario Bros.