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Video Games => Mario Chat => Topic started by: BP on September 02, 2007, 06:31:45 PM
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This is a pretty straightforward poll. Do you like it better when you can play as Yoshi, or when you can play as another character riding him?
While there are things you can do as Mario on Yoshi that you can't do as either... I may have to go with playing as him. I'm thinking of Super Mario 64 DS. Riding Yoshi in it just wouldn't have been as nice as playing as him.
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I like it better when you can play Yoshi because you can shoot eggs and swallow enemies.
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It's better to play as him since he doesn't go running off into a pit when an enemy hits him.
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Are there any 3D games where you can ride him?
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Super Mario Sunshine.
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Oh right. Is that all?
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Yeah.
Riding him in Sunshine was pretty cool, but glitchy. Very very glitchy. And I don't know how much I like the idea of Yoshi dissolving in water. Or spitting up endless juice. Or dying after a few minutes without fruit. Or not appearing in green. Other than these stupid things, riding Yoshi worked well in 3-D. I hope he's in Galaxy...
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I'd rather play as Yoshi. He's fun to ride, but he's got some cool individual moves.
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I rather enjoy Yoshi more when I'm riding him. I don't know, something about Yoshi being playable just doesn't feel right to me (unless it's a Yoshi's Island situation).
I know this is very narrow minded, but I just don't understand how a character that started out more or less as a power up became so famous. You hit a box and he hatches. I liked how different colored shells affected him, or even what color he was affecting what powers he got with the shells, but over all, it was more fun when Yoshi wasn't saying things like "Bling-HOP" or "Huuunnngggghhh".
I liked Yoshi better when he was the noble steed of the Mario series.
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I usually like to play as Yoshi more then ride him. In most of the time you can play as him, he can do a flutter jump. I'd don't know if you can flutter jump in SMS, since it's a long time since I played that game. Besides, Yoshi was pretty useless in SMS. He's only good for a handful of missions, has to constantly eat fruit to live and can't go in water. It just feels gimmicky :(.
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With his overlooked rocket-spin jump he is far from worthless.
Toad, one thing that fills my eyes with fire, my blood with hot soup, and my mouth with straight, un-amused seriousness is when Yoshi is called a power-up. How do you think it'd be if everyone else in the world who ate at the Burger King where you worked called you a power-up because, while not absolutely and directly necessary, you make their mission a tad easier?
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I think the "dying in water" Yoshi's may have come from the ole' SMW cartoon (GOOD YTP source nowadays)
Where in the first episode, Yoshi has aquaphobia, but what's odd that in the last episode Yoshi has no trouble swimming through water with Mama Luigi.
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It more likely comes from them not being able to work out using Yoshi underwater before it was time to release the game.
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I'm always finding myself in need of transportation, so riding Yoshi would be good for me.
Well, that's in real life, if Yoshi were real. I suppose in video games I choose riding him again, like in SMW. He always gave you a nice advantage somehow. But, there is Yoshi's Island, my favorite SNES game... I still think I'd rather ride him, both in-game and, if it were possible, in real life.
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With his overlooked rocket-spin jump he is far from worthless.
Toad, one thing that fills my eyes with fire, my blood with hot soup, and my mouth with straight, un-amused seriousness is when Yoshi is called a power-up. How do you think it'd be if everyone else in the world who ate at the Burger King where you worked called you a power-up because, while not absolutely and directly necessary, you make their mission a tad easier?
Er.. sorry. Didn't mean to offend. Of course I wouldn't like that.. -_-;;;;
It's just that I don't understand why Nintendo chose him over Toad, or why they continue to keep choosing other characters to re-invent instead of Toad. I don't know how many games in the last 15 years or so I've seen that've had DK's name on the cover, and the slogan saying that DK's been re-invented or introduced..
Not that Yoshi isn't a great character, it's just that they've got this one character that seems to be just sitting around, asking to be re-made/re-invented/re-introduced, and yet they don't. Peach has been in more adventures than Toad. It's kind of sad to me..
Yoshi is cool and all when he's not making those noises that Yoshi's Story gave him. I absolutley loved Yoshi's character in Paper Mario 2.
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So you'd rather ride Yoshi because Toad wasn't given his own spin-of franchise? :\
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Well I prefer playing as him cause more oppertunities come.
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Play as him, really. If you think about it, the fact that in some games, Yoshi is solo, but in others (actually... only two, really) he's hunched over and being ridden by Mario, it's kinda disturbing.
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I chose play, because, in general, when you play as Yoshi, you can do all the things you can do when you're riding him, plus more. Playing as him is the whole package.
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I'm very picky, so I'm not going to vote. It's just so hard to choose between the two. I mean, riding Yoshi is just so awesome, but so is playing with him. I mean, the two SMWs are great games, and they have Yoshi as ridable in one (both, sorta), and playable in the other. A 50:50 ratio of ride to play is pretty good.
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As long as it's not Yoshi's Universal Gravitation, I'd rather play as him than be able to ride him.
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^ Ya mean "Topsy-Turvy"?
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No, it was called Yoshi's Universal Gravitation everywhere but North America. (I think Universal Gravitation was a better name.)
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It was.
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So you'd rather ride Yoshi because Toad wasn't given his own spin-of franchise? :\
Well, no. I've never heard of a spin-of franchise before in my life, first off. :D
Seriously, I've always felt that Yoshi in general was a little gimicky (he can fly, but only if you find this colored shell or are riding this colored Yoshi). Why can't he throw eggs and butt slam while Mario is riding him? Why does he spit juice and die in water in SMS? Where was he during the events of Luigi's Mansion?
Of course, I do realise the same arguements could be used against Toad (if there are 3 items, how come we only get to pick one box?) but this isn't a Toad discussion.
My opinion of Yoshi has never been very high. If he was so brave to help the Mario Bros, how come he runs away at the slightest hit? If he can throw eggs in some games, why can't he throw eggs in all games*?
*I know the egg throwing idea came way after some of the games came out.
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Maybe Yoshi doesn't want to throw eggs! Perhaps he's too lazy to lay any.
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My opinion of Yoshi has never been very high. If he was so brave to help the Mario Bros, how come he runs away at the slightest hit?
I'd run, too, if an old man on by back were no good at guiding me away from enemies. I wouldn't very well want him to make me run into more!
Be glad I'm not a Yoshi. I'd stage a rebellion and have my kind eat all humans. Heh heh heh heh... If I weren't such a soft pushover...
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I am glad that you are not a Yoshi, Bird Person. Then your user name wouldn't make any sense. You'd have to change it to Bird Yoshi or Yoshi Person.
Though, if we were actually what our usernames are, I would be Toad, the world's greatest mushroom retainer (THE Toad, not one of the millions of mushroom people that live in the kingdom).
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When I was 10, I always wished I had a Yoshi.
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So did I! Then they taught us about slavery in colonial America and how important equal rights for everyone are. Now I wish I knew a Yoshi.